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Quality of life of the Brazilian speech therapist facing the covid-19 pandemic

PURPOSE: To describe the quality of life (QoL) of Brazilian speech therapists and relate it to sociodemographic and professiographic aspects, and to their role in the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: Population-based, cross-sectional epidemiological study. The research involved speech therapists from Bra...

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Autores principales: Nasciutti Neto, Rubens, Mourão, Ýleris de Cássia de Arruda, Araújo, Fernanda Cardoso de Oliveira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9769421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35019085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212021034
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author Nasciutti Neto, Rubens
Mourão, Ýleris de Cássia de Arruda
Araújo, Fernanda Cardoso de Oliveira
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Mourão, Ýleris de Cássia de Arruda
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description PURPOSE: To describe the quality of life (QoL) of Brazilian speech therapists and relate it to sociodemographic and professiographic aspects, and to their role in the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: Population-based, cross-sectional epidemiological study. The research involved speech therapists from Brazil, who were invited to answer, online, the WHOQOL-bref form about their health and QoL, in addition to sociodemographic and professional questions. RESULTS: 609 speech therapists aged between 21 and 65 years, average age of 34 years, participated in the study. Lower scores in the physical domain of QoL were given by female speech therapists, providing outpatient care, who did not work in private clinics, acted indirectly in the pandemic, were absent from work due to psycho-emotional aspects; in the psychological domain, they were female, without a partner, working in a private clinic or elsewhere and acted directly or indirectly in the pandemic; in the social relations domain, they had no partner, worked in outpatient care, but not in private clinics; and in the environment domain, lower scores were in black and brown race/color, without a partner, attending home care, but not in a private clinic or management/administrative or other. CONCLUSION: Brazilian speech therapists had the lowest QoL scores in the psychological and environmental domains; their QoL is related to factors such as sex, color/race, presence of a partner, council region, service environments, direct action with COVID-19 patients and COVID-19 diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-97694212023-02-01 Quality of life of the Brazilian speech therapist facing the covid-19 pandemic Nasciutti Neto, Rubens Mourão, Ýleris de Cássia de Arruda Araújo, Fernanda Cardoso de Oliveira Codas Original Article PURPOSE: To describe the quality of life (QoL) of Brazilian speech therapists and relate it to sociodemographic and professiographic aspects, and to their role in the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: Population-based, cross-sectional epidemiological study. The research involved speech therapists from Brazil, who were invited to answer, online, the WHOQOL-bref form about their health and QoL, in addition to sociodemographic and professional questions. RESULTS: 609 speech therapists aged between 21 and 65 years, average age of 34 years, participated in the study. Lower scores in the physical domain of QoL were given by female speech therapists, providing outpatient care, who did not work in private clinics, acted indirectly in the pandemic, were absent from work due to psycho-emotional aspects; in the psychological domain, they were female, without a partner, working in a private clinic or elsewhere and acted directly or indirectly in the pandemic; in the social relations domain, they had no partner, worked in outpatient care, but not in private clinics; and in the environment domain, lower scores were in black and brown race/color, without a partner, attending home care, but not in a private clinic or management/administrative or other. CONCLUSION: Brazilian speech therapists had the lowest QoL scores in the psychological and environmental domains; their QoL is related to factors such as sex, color/race, presence of a partner, council region, service environments, direct action with COVID-19 patients and COVID-19 diagnosis. Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia 2022-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9769421/ /pubmed/35019085 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212021034 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9769421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35019085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212021034
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