Abstract
Objective: to examine the relationship between working context and quality of life of nursing professionals of the FamilyHealth Strategy. Methods: observational, cross-sectional study with quantitative approach accomplished with 50 nursingprofessionals from urban and rural areas. Participants answered a questionnaire of socio-demographic and professionalcharacterization, the Work Context Assessment Scale and WHOQOL-brief. Data were submitted to exploratory and bivariateanalysis. Results: predominance of women, married, belonging to economic classes C/D and with only one employmentbond. The factor Work Organization and the Social domain had higher mean scores, while Socio-professional relations andthe Environmental domain, lower scores. Descriptively, there was a negative correlation between all the factors of the workcontext and the Physical, Psychological and Social domains. Conclusion: inadequate conditions to work practice, lack oforganization and the difficulty in social relationships negatively impact the quality of life of nursing professionals.
Highlights
In face of the need to transform health services and envisaging an integral model of care to replace the individual model, the Ministry of Health established several initiatives aiming to seek for a change in the health care model over the past ten years
The study belongs to a larger project and all nursing professionals were selected resulting in a sample size among nurses and nursing technicians (n = 50)
With regard to professional category, 26 (52.0%) professionals from the nursing team had the position of Nursing Technician and 24 (48.0%) were nurses
Summary
In face of the need to transform health services and envisaging an integral model of care to replace the individual model, the Ministry of Health established several initiatives aiming to seek for a change in the health care model over the past ten years. Among these are the Family Health Program, in place since 1994, the National Policy on Basic Care, since 2006, and the Centers of Support for Family Health, since 2008. Even after implementation of these programs, the Health System yet find barriers to be overcome in order to concretize them. The implementation of FHS may denote the revaluation of techniques, valuesand knowledge of each one of them, because this work requires greater complexity of activities to be undertaken in pursuit of biopsychosocial well-being of users(2)
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