Introduction:

Nursing students experience university life as an ambiguous experience, sometimes perceiving the university as a generator of suffering and sometimes characterizing it as a space for intellectual, sociocultural, affective, and political development. The COVID-19 pandemic brought other perspectives from the students to the university context, describing it as an environment of physical and emotional overload, with consequent influence on the Quality of Life, given that the pandemic potentially affected this population physically, academically, financially, and psychologically.

Objective:

To describe the quality of life of nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic using the WHOQOL-bref domains.

Material and Method:

A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with 59 nursing students, from July to August 2020, at a public university. The questionnaire covered sociodemographic characteristics and the WHOQOL-bref questions. The data were processed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 20.0 for descriptive analysis, and the weighted average of the WHOQOL-Bref domains was obtained. The study was developed following Resolution nº 466/2012.

Results:

The domains that most needed improvement were the physical (sleep and rest, energy and fatigue, and daily physical activity) and environmental domains (recreation/leisure).

Conclusion:

Questions on general quality of life and satisfaction with health demonstrated the need for improvement, possibly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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