Percepção de qualidade de vida de futuros professores de educação física

Abstract

Quality of life is the individual's perception of their insertion in life, in the context of culture and value systems. It is complex and covers various areas and points of view, which mainly recognizes the health area. Future physical education teachers, being health professionals, must seek healthy habits and routines, as they will be responsible for disseminating the precepts and conception of quality of life among their students, for whom they will be a reference. Objective: To identify the perception of quality of life of future physical education teachers and verify whether there is a difference in this perception between males and females. Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study, carried out with 90 future physical education teachers of both sexes. Quality of life assessment was carried out using the WHOQOL-Bref instruments and the Medical Outcomes Study 36 - Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). Results: There was a statistically significant difference between the sexes, with higher scores for men in the fields related to physical and psychological aspects, functional capacity, general health status, vitality, social aspects, limitations of emotional aspects and mental health (SF-36), and in the physical and psychological domains (WHOQOL-Bref). Conclusion: The future teachers evaluated presented a favorable perception of quality of life, with better scores in the physical aspects and social relationships (WHOQOL-Bref) and functional capacity (SF-36) domains, although females demonstrated lower scores in all domains in relation to men.