PERCEPÇÃO DA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE PROFESSORES DAS REDES PÚBLICAS E PRIVADAS FRENTE À PANDEMIA DO COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 virus had its origin in the city of Whuan - China. This virus has a clinical picture ranging from asymptomatic infections to severe respiratory conditions. Through this virus it was decreed by the World Health Organization as being a pandemic, with it routine aspects were compromised, causing new solutions to be proposed. Quality of life was one of the factors affected by this virus, especially when we relate to teachers, as they had to adapt to new teaching methods, moving from classroom to virtual teaching. This study aimed to assess the perception of quality of life of teachers from public and private schools through the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample consisted of 35 volunteers, being teachers from public and private schools, of both sexes. As a research instrument, the WHOQOL-BRIEF - an instrument that proposes to evaluate the Quality of Life, applied in a virtual way through the Google Forms platform, is composed of 26 questions subdivided into four domains: Domain I - Physical; Domain II - Psychological; Domain III - Social Relationships and Domain IV - Environment. Descriptive statistics for the results were performed. The level of significance adopted for this study was 5% (P≤0.05). The results found show the physical domain with 70.71 points; psychological domain 68.21 points; social domain 64.52 points and environment domain 64.91. It is concluded that the teachers evaluated in most part have suffered with the aspect involving the quality of life.