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ALCANTARA, Vanessa Carine Gil de; SILVA, Rose Mary Costa Rosa Andrade; PEREIRA, Eliane Ramos  y  SILVA, Marcos Andrade. Life quality of bus drivers: Between health and work. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2016, n.spe4, pp.101-106. ISSN 1647-2160.  https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0148.

BACKGROUND: The bus driving job requires technical skills and emotional control. It is important to equalise the displacement needs of the population and the mental health of drivers, who are subject to the emotional condition of passengers. OBJECTIVE: To describe, under the light of the phenomenological referential of Maurice Merleau Ponty, the meaning of life quality for bus drivers and its contribution to the mental health of these workers. METHODS: A descriptive study, with the participation of sixteen (16) bus drivers was performed. Data was collected by means of a phenomenological interview with a semi-structured script that included three open questions in the period from April to November 2014. The explored question was: what means life quality for you? The bus drivers answered the questions in their own interview scripts and the data analysis followed the phenomenological method, considering four steps: suspend, intuit, analyze, and describe. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of UFF/HUAP no. 506/339. RESULTS: The quality of life of the bus drivers was threatened by dissatisfaction in terms of the ergonomic condition of the bus in which they work and the professional development by means of better wages. CONCLUSIONS: Life quality depends on internal and external factors. Family issues are directly linked to professional well-being at work. The improvements identified are the beginning of a dialogue between the employee and the organization, since work relationship does not mean rivalry, but partnership.

Palabras clave : Consciousness; Perception; Health promotion.

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