Quality of life of road transport workers

Road transport professionals may be exposed to inadequate conditions and long working hours, poor diet, accidents and sedentary lifestyle. These conditions often result in damage to their health and diminished quality of life. This study aimed to evaluate and identify quality of life levels of road transport workers in a municipality in South Brazil. This is an exploratory, descriptive and quantitative study carried out with 50 road transport workers who answered the QVS-80 questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Science program version 17.0. As results, quality of life levels were identified according to the domains evaluated by the instrument. The health domain obtained excellent score; physical activity and occupational environment domains, regular level; and the quality of life domain, excellent level. The mean total quality of life score was good. Although the participants classify their quality of life as “good”, one can infer that they are not aware of the broad meaning of this term. Road transport professionals lack differentiated service by the professionals, mainly in actions of health promotion and prevention.