Qualidade de vida e motivação dos estudantes de fisioterapia de uma instituição de ensino que usa metodologia ativa

Abstract

The study of the quality of life in the education area is a recent interest in the field of research that seeks to understand the student's perceptions regarding the changes of life. Quality of life encompasses expectations and goals that require motivation for its realization, which can arise in different ways for each human being. Thus, this research has the purpose of analyzing the level of quality of life of Physiotherapy students of the Faculdade Pernambucana de Saúde (FPS) and the predominant type of motivation among them. The study is cross-sectional, descriptive, carried out in the FPS with 111 students from the 1st to the 8th period, duly enrolled and of legal age. Two questionnaires - EMA and WHOQOL-brief - of the Likert type were applied. The information collected was double typed in the database using the Microsoft Excel 2013 program. Typing was performed after reviewing the questionnaires. The definitive data were used for statistical analysis using the software SPSS 2010 for Windows and Excel 2010. To evaluate the responses of the EMA and WHOQOL-brief scales, the percentage frequencies of each question were calculated and the frequency distributions were constructed for each one. The results obtained revealed a high frequency of intrinsic motivation among the students and even greater of extrinsic motivation, showing that they are concerned with getting good academic preparation to achieve a good financial feedback. Regarding quality of life, most of the students reported positive responses, showing that, in general, the quality of life among them is satisfactory. It is concluded, then, that the Physiotherapy students from FPS have high levels of motivation and quality of life. As there are many factors that can interfere in the motivation and quality of life of the academic students, other research is necessary that can evaluate and optimize the life of the graduating student and, consequently, his professional future.