Avaliação da qualidade de vida e prevalência de fatores de risco cardiovasculares modificáveis em caminhoneiros ante rota nos estados do nordeste brasileiro.

Abstract

The truck drivers are professionals who perform a function of realizing the terrestrial transport of production goods in the country, aiming at economic, political and social development. They have an intense work routine, with work overload, long hours, bad feeding times, little time off, stress, fatigue, short periods of sleep, etc. cardiovascular, cardiovascular and traffic accidents. With this, the aspects related to the work activity of the man have direct relation with the quality of life and health, interfering in the physical, mental and social conditions. The present study was to evaluate the quality of life and to indicate the prevalence of modifiable risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases in truck drivers in Northeastern Brazilian states. The questionnaire SF-36, in English, with general modifiable risk factors, was the research instrument used to evaluate truckers' quality of life, with quantitative, descriptive and transversal quantitative. For a Statistical Analysis the Software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 25.0. The 114 truck drivers who participated in the survey, all males and with a mean age of 43.07 years, received low schooling, were married and had a family of 1 to 3 places minimum. The most prevalent risk factor was alcohol use, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, alcohol consumption, hypertension, smoking, and diabetes. In addition, 57% of the truck drivers were the coexistence of 2 or more factors. As for the quality of life, the domain that the highest average was for social aspects, functional capacity, physical issues, emotional dimensions, mental health, general health and vitality. Hypertension, diabetes and sedentary lifestyle prevail in obese people and low schooling. At 20 years of age, 20 years of age, 20 years of age, 20 years of age and 20 years of age 1 to 3 minimum places. The risk factors that most influenced the impact on quality of life, hypertension and diabetes, scored scores of averages of interest were those that presented the factor. Alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyle, BMI classification and travel time not applied to all domains of quality of life, but only in some of them. Therefore, investigations of the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and assessment of quality of life have utility in the development of preventive actions, health care practices and health promotion aimed at the class.