Qualidade de vida no trabalho dos policiais militares da Bahia: avaliação pelo WHOQOL-BREF

Abstract

The objective of the study was to analyze the Quality of Life at Work (QLW) of the military police in Bahia. The research problem was to verify if there is a relationship between personal attributes and the QLW of these professionals. From the understanding that these individuals carry out activities with a high level of stressors, the study is relevant. This is a quantitative study that used multiple linear regression to evaluate the factors that are related to the quality of life of these respondents, having as independent variables the personal attributes of race, gender, age, education and income. Data collection took place through the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire from the World Health Organization, which uses questions related to the physical, psychological, social relations and environmental. The total of respondents were 545 police officers, where the predominance was male, who declare themselves as non-white, married, with an income greater than 3 minimum wages and with higher education level. The result showed that in the relationship between the attributes used and the applied domains, black, female, single and non-university police officers have a lower quality of life at work.