The quality of life of health professionals working in the prison system

Barbosa, Mayara Lima; Menezes, Tarciana Nobre de; Santos, Sérgio Ribeiro dos; Olinda, Ricardo Alves; Costa, Gabriela Maria Cavalcanti

doi:10.1590/1413-81232018234.09292016

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Free Themes • Ciênc. saúde colet. 23 (4) • Apr 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232018234.09292016 copy

The quality of life of health professionals working in the prison system

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Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the Quality of Work Life (QWL) of health professionals in prisons and identify QWL-associated factors. This is an exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional survey conducted in five prisons. The study included 29 health professionals, who answered the TQWL-42 questionnaire. Results were obtained through descriptive statistics and multiple linear regressions. QWL was higher among women, younger workers, professionals with incomplete higher education or who have been working at the prison for 4 to 6 years. QWL overall assessment was 69.55 points. We observed that variables gender and education and biological/physiological and environmental/organizational spheres are associated with the overall assessment of QWL.

Key words
Job satisfaction; Quality of life; Work; Health professionals; Prisons

Variables		n	%	Bio/Physio	Psic/Behav	Socio/Rel	Eco/Pol	Amb/Org	Self-assessment	Overall assessment
Variables		n	%	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Assessment^* * S = satisfactory; VS = very satisfactory.
Gender
	Male	9	31.0	69.00	75.50	59.25	56.25	52.75	62.50	63,57	S
	Female	20	69.0	76.75	78.00	69.25	65.25	66.25	76.25	71,91	S
Age group (years)
	25 to 34	7	24.1	81.50	83.75	77.50	71.25	63.75	78.50	76,17	VS
	35 to 44	8	27.6	68.75	71.25	59.75	58.50	65.25	65.75	64,80	S
	45 to 54	6	20.7	75.50	77.00	66.50	65.50	60.00	70.75	69,27	S
	>55	8	27.6	73.00	77.50	62.50	56.50	61.00	73.50	67,38	S
Schooling
	Secondary school complete	3	10.3	88.25	77.25	72.50	76.50	81.00	87.50	60,24	S
	Incomplete higher education	4	13.8	68.75	64.50	56.25	43.75	65.75	62.50	79,77	VS
	Higher education complete	10	34.5	70.75	77.00	60.25	56.75	56.25	65.00	65,46	S
	Post-graduation complete	12	41.4	74.00	80.50	71.50	67.50	60.50	75.00	70,68	S
Length of service
	< 2 years	6	20.7	71.25	78.50	60.25	57.25	56.75	66.75	66,92	S
	3 to 4 years	8	27.6	73.75	76.00	71.00	68.25	62.00	70.25	70,31	S
	5 to 6 years	6	20.7	80.50	86.75	80.00	75.00	75.25	83.25	79,74	VS
	> 6 years	9	31.0	72.75	71.00	56.50	52.75	57.50	69.50	62,11	S
MEAN SPHERES				74.46	77.37	67.07	63.38	63.05	71.99	69.55
ASSESSMENT SPHERES ^* * S = satisfactory; VS = very satisfactory.				S	VS	S	S	S	S	S

Coefficients	Estimated	Standard Deviation	t-test	p-value^* * Significant at p < 0.10.
Intercept (β0)	3.0726	0.3092	9.937	< 0.001
Female Gender (β1)	0.3374	0.1874	1.800	0.0844
Incomplete higher education (β2)	0.8125	0.3254	2.497	0.0198
Higher education complete (β3)	0.3367	0.2957	1.139	0.2660
Post-graduation complete (β4)	0.5658	0.2820	2.006	0.0562

Coefficients	Estimated	Standard Deviation	t-test	p-value^* * Significant at p < 0.10.
Intercept (β0)	0,037	0,643	0,057	< 0,001
Sphere A – Bio (β1)	0,619	0,191	3,235	0,003
Sphere E – Env (β2)	0,391	0,148	2,633	0,014

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[1] Collaborations

ML Barbosa has contributed substantially to the design and planning, or analysis and interpretation of data; has contributed significantly to the drafting or critical review of content; and participated in the approval of the final version of the manuscript. TN Menezes has contributed significantly to the drafting or critical review of content; and participated in the approval of the final version of the manuscript. SR Santos, RA Olinda and GMC Costa has contributed substantially to the design and planning, or analysis and interpretation of data; and participated in the approval of the final version of the manuscript.