AVALIAÇÃO DA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE PESSOAS SUBMETIDAS À PSICOTERAPIA BREVE EM SERVIÇOS DE SAÚDE SUPLEMENTAR.

Abstract

This work aims to identify, describe and analyze the effects of brief psychotherapy and the quality of life of the users of a supplemental health service within a private institution of Goiânia, in the state of Goias, Brazil. The study presents a cross-sectional prospective, quantitative and qualitative research design. For the quantitative analysis, the quality of life of 31 (thirty one) participants of both genders between the ages of 18 and 60 was evaluated, in both pre- and post brief psychotherapy, by means of the WHOQOL- BREF instrument. Within this analysis all participants reported increased scores in at least one of the domains regarding the quality of life after psychotherapy, and all rated their current quality of life as better than that previous to psychotherapy. Thus, we observed statistically significant differences between pre- and post intervention scores that confirm improvement regarding the quality of life of patients after brief psychotherapy. The qualitative analysis that was carried out by means of semi-structured interviews, extracting 12 (twelve) participants from the total, of whom were evaluated from what they spoke about, analysed by the Bardin method in a brief post psychotherapy situation. In this analysis, we observed that the concepts of psychotherapy and brief psychotherapy of the participants , which they identified as inhibitors and facilitators of the psychotherapeutic process experienced, and their assessment of the results of brief psychotherapy. This study therefore comprises that brief psychotherapy allows the perception of improvement in the quality of life of the participants, therefore this should be considered as a possible intervention for the rescue and promotion of health.