Health-related quality of life of medical students in a Brazilian student loan programme

Liliane Lins; Fernando Martins Carvalho; Marta Silva Menezes; Larissa Porto-Silva; Hannah Damasceno

doi:10.1007/S40037-016-0283-3

Health-related quality of life of medical students in a Brazilian student loan programme

Perspectives on Medical Education

Volume 5 (2016): Issue 4

By: Liliane Lins, Fernando Martins Carvalho, Marta Silva Menezes, Larissa Porto-Silva and Hannah Damasceno

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|Jul 2016

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the health-related quality of life of medical students participating in a large Brazilian government loan programme for undergraduate students in private schools.

A cross-sectional study in a stratified sample of students from a private medical school in Salvador, Brazil, evaluated their health-related quality of life by using a Brazilian Portuguese version of the 36-item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire (SF-36).

Students supported by the loan programme consistently presented lower mean scores in all SF-36 domains and in the physical and mental component summary scores than those who were not in the programme. Students supported by the loan programme presented systematically lower physical and mental component mean scores, after stratification by age, gender, school year, physical activity, sleepiness, headache, having a car, having a housemaid, living with family, and living in a rented house.

The loan programme has enabled less wealthy undergraduate students to attend private medical schools in Brazil. However, this support is insufficient to improve students’ health-related quality of life during medical school, as compared with students who do not participate in the programme. Because of a poorer health-related quality of life, students supported by the loan programme deserve special attention from private medical schools.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/S40037-016-0283-3 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X

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Language: English

Page range: 197 - 204

Submitted on: Jul 13, 2015

Accepted on: May 30, 2016

Published on: Jul 20, 2016

Published by: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Quality of life,

Medical students,

Government financing,

Medical education

© 2016 Liliane Lins, Fernando Martins Carvalho, Marta Silva Menezes, Larissa Porto-Silva, Hannah Damasceno, published by Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
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