RELAÇÃO QUALIDADE DE VIDA E EMPATIA EM ESTUDANTES DE MEDICINA EM DOIS MOMENTOS DISTINTOS DO CURSO

Abstract

MOURA, Raíssa Josefa Pereira. Relação qualidade de vida e empatia em estudantes de medicina em dois momentos distintos do curso. 2021.Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Medicina) - Centro de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, 2021. The relationship between doctor-patient is one of the pillars of medical practice. Among the factors that enable the success of this relationship, empathy stands out as one of the most important. Empathy is defined as a cognitive attribute of the doctor that integrates the ability of understanding experiences of the interior world of the patient, and the capacity of communicating that understanding. The objective is measuring the empathy of medical students at two moments of the major; verifying if there is a correlation to Quality of Life (QOL). It is an analytical transversal study, held with 280 medical academics, from Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), at preclinical stages, that embrace students from 1° to 3° terms; and pre graduated training, students from 7° and 8° terms. They were applied socio-economic data questionnaires, Quality of Life Questionnaires (WHOQOL-BREF) and the Jefferson Student Empathy Scale - JSE-S. Statistical analysis were made in a software called Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 23 (SPSS - 23). Descriptive analysis of the data was carried out and applied the Mann Whitney and Correlation of Spearman’s tests. The Significance level was 0,05. Global level of empathy between the population analyzed was 117,17 (± 11,11) with the biggest scores to female gender (119,63 ±9,54 / p=0,002), compared to male gender (115,04 ± 11,94). Between the preclinical stages and pre-graduate training stage, there was a significant statistical difference (p = 0,02), where students from pre-graduate training showed up a bigger empathy level (119,29 ± 10,38), comparing to students from the preclinical stage (115,80 ± 11,38). The rate of general QOL was 3,50 (70,02%), showing regular, and there was not a correlation between empathy level and rate of QOF in the population studied. The medical students evaluated showed satisfactory empathy levels. Data indicated significant differences between empathy general scores in both analyzed stages, showing that students from pre-graduate training are more empaths. Female gender also was a predictor with more empathic capacity in the relationship with patients. besides there was no correlation between QOL and empathy level in the students surveyed.