Analysis of the quality of life of nursing students in a university of northeast Brazil

International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
8
Article ID: 
12350
3 pages
Research Article

Analysis of the quality of life of nursing students in a university of northeast Brazil

Francisco Rosemiro Guimarães Ximenes Neto, Francisco Diogenes dos Santos, Luiza Jocymara Lima Freire, Vitória Ferreira do Amaral, Eliany Nazaré Oliveira, Maristela Inês Osawa Chagas Vasconcelos, Izabelle Mont’ Alverne Napoleão Albuquerque, Carmen Elizabeth Kalinowski and Isabel Cristina Kowal Olm Cunha

Abstract: 

The process of university training of Nursing students requires a workload that involves numerous face-to-face classes, hours of individual study, besides the involvement with research and extension activities, which can be inferred in their quality of life. However, this study aimed to analyze the quality of life of Nursing students of a university in the Northeast of Brazil, based on an exploratory-descriptive study, under a quantitative approach, carried out with 106 Nursing students of the Undergraduate Nursing Course of the State University of Vale of Acaraú (UVA), Sobral-Ceará - Brazil, during the period from September 2014 to April 2015. The data collection was performed using the Quality of Life Index of Ferrans and Power. The results show that students present a good quality of life, having seen the high degree of satisfaction, with high averages in all domains, mainly in the family domain. However, there is a need for university spaces that welcome students' cultural diversity in a holistic and cross-cultural way.

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