Aim

To analyze the Quality of Life at Work (QLW) of nurses in public hospitals.

Method

Quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study, conducted in public hospitals located in Maceio/AL from February to April 2020, which where 78 nurses answered self-fulfilled questionnaires, first sociodemographic and other structured questionnaire related to its evaluation QLW (TQWL-42). The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics.

Results

Female sex predominated (93,6%), total workload of 60 hours or more (56,4%), working hours, afternoon and night (41%), type of public contract (74.4%), the aspect of positive attitude significance (4,34) and the aspect of health services and social assistance as negative (2,35). The psychological/behavioral scope predominated with a mean of (3,69) and according to the graphical representation of the subject according to TQWL-42, the aspect of task significance obtained a satisfactory result (83,49).

Conclusion

The QLT of the sick was evaluated as neither positive nor negative, requiring the expansion of new studies about the importance of aspects in order to solve the problems in question.

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