Quality of life and factors associated among public university employees retired due to disabilities

Abstract

Objective: to analyze quality of life and factors associated among public university employees retired due to disabilities. Method: a cross-sectional study conducted with a sample of public university employees retired due to disabilities. A characterization questionnaire and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Disabilities instrument were applied via telephone or online contacts from November 2019 to September 2020. The associated factors were verified through multiple linear regression. Results: of the 80 retirees due to disability, 15% were professors and 85% had a technical-administrative career. As for the factors associated with Quality of Life, continuous medication use (βadj:-0.25; p=0.02) and problems in the nervous system (βadj:-0.21; p<0.05) were associated with the Overall domain; continuous medication use (βadj:-0.23; p=0.04), to the Physical domain; smoking (βadj:-0.21; p<0.05) and mental and behavioral disorders (βadj:-0.21; p<0.01), to the Psychological domain; smoking (βadj:-0.46; p<0.01) and respiratory (βadj:-0.21; p=0.03) and circulatory (βadj:-0.21; p=0.03) problems, to the Social domain; smoking (βadj:-0.33; p<0.01) and problems in the nervous system (βadj:-0.22; p=0.04), to the Environmental domain; mental and behavioral disorders, to the Disabilities module (βadj:-0.29; p<0.01) and to the Discrimination domain (βadj:-0.21; p<0.05); and smoking (βadj:-0.32; p<0.01) and problems in the nervous system (βadj:-0.20; p<0.05), to the Inclusion domain. The Autonomy domain did not present any association. Conclusion: the retirees under study presented impaired Quality of Life.