Quality of Life of the Plastic Surgeon in the Midwest of Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quality of life theme is much studied in the area of plastic surgery; however, there are few studies on the quality of life of plastic surgeons. The main aim of this study was to describe the quality of life of the plastic surgeon in Center-West of Brazil.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was performed of plastic surgeons in the greater state of Goias, Center-West of Brazil, registered until January 2015. A sample with power of 80%, 115 surgeons from 163 WHOQOL-BREF, and a social-demographic and professional questionnaire were used as instruments. The data were compared between qualitative variables of the questionnaire and WHOQOL-BREF using the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests.

Results

One hundred sixteen surgeons answered; for WHOQOL-BREF, domain

SUBMITTER: de Arruda FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6143319 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature