Saúde Geral e Qualidade de Vida de Modelos de Moda em Goiânia

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the understanding of General Health and Quality of Life (QL) of the fashion models in Goiânia. It focuses on identifying, describing and analyzing the perception of fashion models about the QL related to their work and their General Health, describing their sociodemographic profile, assessing the participants' QL in their physical, social, family and psychological aspects, as well as evaluating general health indicators such as: stress or psychic stress, death wish, lack of confidence in performance or self-efficacy, sleep disturbances, psychosomatic disorders, and absence of mental health or mental illness severity. Thus, being able to correlate QL and General Health of fashion models, evaluating the meaning of QL for each one in order to understand the senses produced relative to the aspects of General Health and QL of professional fashion models. This study is justified by the fact that Brazilian research on QL and General Health of fashion models is scarce, as well as the fact that information produced on workers' QL is usually made when they present health problems, with few studies of QL with population without clinical diagnosis. The dissertation is organized in two articles, the first of which is quantitative, descriptive, exploratory and transversal. The study was carried out with 45 models affiliated with a fashion agency in the city of Goiânia through the Whoqol Bref and the General Health Questionnaire (QSG). The correlations between QSG and WHOQOL Bref were significant and negative between General Health satisfaction in relation to stress and psychic stress, self efficacy and psychosomatic symptoms. The psychological domain showed a significant correlation with most of the relationships, except for the sleep disorder. The physical domain also showed a significant correlation with self-efficacy. It is concluded that when there is QL satisfaction the model is in good psychological and physical state. In article two, the qualitative methodology of content analysis of Bardin was used to understand and evaluate the meaning of QL and the senses produced related to the aspects of General Health and QL of professional fashion models, using as instrument the semi interview Structured. Eight fashion models from the city of Goiânia participated in a larger study that answered an interview conducted through a semi-structured script. There were four thematic categories produced: Quality of Life, Health, Professional Fashion Model and Coping Strategies. Through these categories, the production of several dualities was observed: to succeed in the professional area means a good QL, even if General Health, affectivity and social are not. With regard to General Health, the constructed meanings are reduced to affirmation or denial of physical illness. It is concluded that the biased view of General Health negatively impacts the Quality of Life conditions associated to the work of fashion models.