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Ccuro, L., Montoya, H. (2019). Factores de salud asociados a la calidad de vida en el Cuerpo General de Bomberos Voluntarios del Perú [Tesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)]. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626468
Ccuro, L., Montoya, H. Factores de salud asociados a la calidad de vida en el Cuerpo General de Bomberos Voluntarios del Perú [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC); 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626468
@misc{renati/369131,
title = "Factores de salud asociados a la calidad de vida en el Cuerpo General de Bomberos Voluntarios del Perú",
author = "Montoya Espinoza, Hector",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)",
year = "2019"
}
Quality of life is perceived as the physical, mental and emotional balance of the person, which can be influenced by different factors such as the presence of pain due to musculoskeletal disorders, obesity, level of physical activity, and smoking habits. In the population of the General Volunteer Fire Department of Peru these factors can be favorable or can decrease the quality of life. Objective: Verify the association between health factors and quality of life in the General Volunteer Fire Department of Peru. Methods: A cross-sectional, observational and analytical study was carried out on the staff of the General Volunteer Fire Department of Peru from Lima-Peru, XXV Departmental Lima-North, XXIV Departmental Command Lima-South, and the IV Departmental Command Lima. The SF-36 version 1 questionnaire was used to measure the quality of life. The standardized Nordic questionnaire was used to measure the presence of pain due to musculoskeletal disorders, the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) to measure the level of physical activity, and abdominal circumference was measured to determine the presence of obesity. A power analysis was performed for the sample studied. The T-Student was used for the analysis of the numerical variables. Anova was used for the analysis of variances and comparing the means of the response variable. Results: 167 people participated, the average age was 37.5 ± 11.3 years, 140 (83.8%) were male. It was found that 31% smoke cigarettes. 141 (83.9%) have abdominal obesity, but more than half had a high level of physical activity (57.7%). Within the 8 dimensions of quality of life on the SF-36, no scores below 70% were observed. 159 (95.2%) reported to have had musculoskeletal pain at some time in their life, while 122 (73.9%) reported having pain during the last year and 99 (61.1%) during the last four weeks. Age was associated with the fatigue dimension (p = 0.014) and emotional well-being (p = 0.002). The sex variable was associated with the dimension limitation due to physical health (p = 0.031); fatigue (p = 0.040); and general health (p = 0.047) and the male group was the one with the highest scores. The service time as a firefighter affected dimensions such as physical functioning (p = 0.013); limitation due to physical health (p = 0.007); social functioning (p = 0.006) and pain (p = 0.012). Having had pain at some time in life was associated with the dimensions of fatigue (p = 0.003), social functioning (p = 0.044), and general health (p = 0.010). While pain reported in the last year was also associated with those same dimensions and with the pain dimension in the SF-36 (p = 0.001). Finally, the pain report in the last month was associated with all the mentioned dimensions and with the physical functioning (p = 0.009). The variables of obesity, smoking and physical activity had no association with any of the 8 dimensions of quality of life. Conclusions: The present study was able to determine the relationship between health factors and with quality of life. An association was found between presence of pain due to musculoskeletal disorders, time as a firefighter, age and sex. No association was found in factors of obesity, smoking and level of physical activity.
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