Self-evaluation of health and chronic disease among nurses from Pelotas/RS

Authors

  • Adrize Rutz Porto Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Enfermagem
  • Sabrina da Silva Rodrigues
  • Leandro Rauber Joner
  • Patrícia Tuerlinckx Noguez Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Faculdade de Enfermagem
  • Maira Buss Thofehrn Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Faculdade de Enfermagem
  • Daiane Dal Pai Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Enfermagem

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v15i3.18008

Keywords:

Quality of Life, Occupational Health, Nursing

Abstract

ABSTRACT

To describe the self-evaluation of health and the prevalence of chronic diseases among nurses. This cross-sectional study was performed with 240 nurses, who answered a structured questionnaire. Data treatment performed using descriptive statistics and association with the chi-square test. The sample consisted of nurses, mostly women (90.8%), young adults (69.6%), unmarried (55.4%) and with children (53.4%). In the sample, 35.4% reported working more that 40h, 40% worked the night shift, 31.2% had chronic diseases, and 37.1% evaluated their health as being between average and bad. A significant association was obtained between chronic diseases and age above 39 years (p<0.001), and a self-evaluation of health between average and bad (p<0.001). The findings reveal it is necessary to invest in nurses’ health care, mainly regarding their living with chronic diseases, which, in turn, will affect the self-evaluation that these professionals make of their own health and of the care that is delivered.

Descriptors: Quality of Life; Occupational Health; Nursing.

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Author Biographies

Adrize Rutz Porto, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Enfermagem

Enfermeira, Mestre em Enfermagem. Discente do Programa de Pós-Graudação em Enfermagem, nível Doutorado, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. E-mail: adrizeporto@gmail.com.

Sabrina da Silva Rodrigues

Enfermeira. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. E-mail: sabrinasrod@hotmail.com.

Leandro Rauber Joner

Enfermeiro. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. E-mail: canigia.joner@hotmail.com.

Patrícia Tuerlinckx Noguez, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Faculdade de Enfermagem

Enfermeira, Mestre em Enfermagem. Professora Assistente da Faculdade de Enfermagem (FEn) Universdidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL). Pelotas, RS, Brasil. E-mail: patriciatuer@gmail.com.

Maira Buss Thofehrn, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Faculdade de Enfermagem

Enfermeira, Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora Adjunta da FEn/UPEL. Pelotas, RS, Brasil. E-mail: mairabusst@hotmail.com.

Daiane Dal Pai, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Enfermagem

Enfermeira, Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora Adjunta da Escola de Enfermagem/UFRGS. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. E-mail: daiadalpai@yahoo.com.br.

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Published

2013-09-30

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2013)

Section

Original Article