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Quality of life in a sample of physical educators

OBJECTIVE: To assess the QOL of physical educators. METHOD: A quantitative and cross-sectional study. A sample of 200 teachers completed the informed consent term, the sociodemographic questionnaire and the MOS (SF-36). The Nonparametric Mood's Median Test was used, with a 95% reliability. RESULTS: The areas that were significantly associated with sex were pain, functional capacity and mental health. The dimensions correlated with age were the functional capacity and mental health. CONCLUSION: The square presence was a positive and teaching time a negative QOL predictor.

Quality of life; SF-36; physical educator


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