IMPACTO OF LIFESTYLE ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF HEALTH SCIENCES STUDENTS

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the impact of Lifestyle on the Quality of Life of students while the first year of graduation. Method: Observational research, longitudinal, prospective and quantitative, with freshmen students in the first semester of 2017. The Fantastic questionnaire was used to assess the Lifestyle, and the WHOQOL-bref was used for the Quality of Life. Results: In the Lifestyle analysis, the total score for Fantástico and for the sleep, seat belt, stress and safer sex, type of behavior and work/school domains reduced during the first year of the course. The activity domain score increased during the year. In the analysis of Quality of Life according to the WHOQOL-bref, the scores in the physical and psychological domains were higher at the beginning of the course. Conclusion: In the first year of graduation, the better the Lifestyle, according to Fantástico, the greater the Quality of Life, according to the WHOQOL-bref domains.