QUALITY OF LIFE: STUDY IN THE COMPANIES OF MAKINGS OF SANTA HELENA-PR

Abstract

This study had as objective to identify the possible influence of Laboral Gymnastics practice in the levels of Life Quality of the employees’ of the making companies of the municipal district of Santa Helena. The study had traverse character with a sample of the convenient type, composed by 67 dressmakers of four making companies of the Santa Helena City. Methodology: For the collection of the data the instrument was used proposed by the World Organization of Health, specifically, WHOQOL - ABBREVIATED, and the version in Portuguese was developed in the Centro WHOQOL to Brazil, in the Department of Psychiatry and forensic medicine of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. For the analysis of the data, initially, the averages of the domains were quantified in agreement with the criteria proposed by the Australian team of WHOQOL, later, Kruskall Wallis’s test nonparametric was used to compare the results obtained by the dressmakers investigated in relation to making company , using the statistical program SPSS 13.0 goes WINDOWS. Results: It was verified, firstly, that differences existed in the referring aspects to the quality of the investigated dressmakers’ life. When computing the medium values of the domains physicist, psychological, social relationships, environment and quality of total life, the presented results revealed that the dressmakers of the company 1 presented the best averages referring domains to the life quality in relationship the investigated dressmakers on the other companies. On the other hand, the investigated dressmakers belonging to the company 4, that it presented the program practice of Laboral Gymnastics, they presented the lowest averages in the levels of life quality, except, in the domain of the social relationships. Conclusion: The investigated dressmakers presented levels of life quality satisfactory, except, the referring results to the social domain, of the investigated dressmakers from the companies 2 and 4 presented the smallest averages found them in the gender. However, Laboral Gymnastics practice, seemingly, doesn’t have influence on the levels of quality of the investigated dressmakers’ life.