Qualidade de vida dos agentes comunitários de saúde

Abstract

There are three health care models present in Primary Care in Brazil, has been strengthened through the Family Health Strategy and Program of Community Health Agents this first level of care of the Unified Health System, the work on these two models mentioned is accomplished by a collective of workers and the Community Health Agent is highlighted, being involved in a variety of situations that can compromise their quality of life, as it represents a bridge between the community and health services, thus justifying, directed research about these professionals. In this sense, this study aimed to analyze the quality of life of Community Health Agents who work in primary health care. It is a descriptiveanalytical study with cross-sectional and quantitative approach, with a random sample of 212 Community Health Agents. Data collection was carried out between July and October 2015, we used a questionnaire containing demographic information, occupational, and related evaluation of the Quality of Life through the instrument World Health Organization Quality of Life - Bref. The data were subjected to the estimates of prevalence ratios gross and adjusted, with 95% confidence interval, from the Poisson regression model. The sample was predominantly composed of women (91.5%), mean age 44, married or in a stable relationship (55.5%), Catholic (57.8%) with children (76%) and whose working time is 11 to 15 years (47.6%). What refers to the areas of the instrument used to assess the quality of life, the psychological domain had the highest mean score (73.7), followed by the social relationships (72.0), and physical (69.0), with the environment domain (57.82) showed the lowest score. The correlations between variables the physical domain showed statistically significant for children and age (p = <0.001), the psychological domain to age (p = <0.001), Social Relations domain to education (p = <0.001) and the Middle area environment for gender (p = 0.002), age (p = <0.001) and weekly working hours (p = <0.001), the others showed to be independent. It is hoped that this research may fidget and wake up to improvements in working and living conditions of this population, seeking conditions that allow the Quality of Life. Therefore, we think that besides the development of specific policies for these workers, it is necessary to promote dialogue spaces. These professionals need to have a voice and feel safe, in addition to having specific knowledge of the risks inherent in their work activities. We believe that this way this professional can actually be a mediator.