Avaliação da qualidade de vida de crianças do ensino fundamental da rede pública de São José da Barra-MG

Abstract

Quality of Life Children is understood to subjective and multidimensional concept. Its perception varies from individual to individual, it is a reflection of the dimensions that cover his life as is the case of individual parameters and socio-cultural and socioenvironmental. This study aims to evaluate the quality of life of students aged 7 to 12 years in two municipal schools in the municipality of São José da Barra in the state of Minas Gerais. One offers full-time care to their students with extracurricular activities and other school offers only the normal. For this purpose, we used the questionnaire AUQEI "Scale of Quality of Life of Children" (AUQEI, Autoquestionnaire Qualité de Vie Enfant Image). The questionnaire was administered to 232 children in the age group in question, whose parents or guardians signed a consent form allowing their participation in the research. Through this study, we observed that the proportion of children with a good Quality of Life was higher in school full time (81%), compared to the normal school hours (58%). Through the results also shows that the dimensions most relevant to the Quality of Life Children, refer to the Recreation and Family in the two schools. Therefore, it is concluded that the school offers an extended workday, is set in an area rich able to develop the maximum potential of children and their personal skills, which will reflect positively on their quality of life. Since the teaching practices developed and proposed sidewalks are the assumptions of the Promotion of Health.