title: [Self-esteem in formal care providers and quality of life indexes in users of support facilities for the institutionalized elderly, in Portalegre].
abstract: It is a transversal and descriptive study, and the main meaning was to measure the Self-concept of formal caregivers in elderly institutions, and also the life quality of internally users in the same institutions. To the development of the study were selected two of the elderly institutions of Portalegre, Portugal. The population was composed by internally users (N=113) and formal caregivers (N=81) of both elderly institutions, being used respectively the WOHQOL-bref Questionnaire and the Self-concept Inventory (Vaz Serra, 1986). Based on the distribution of the self-concept of formal caregivers by mean point, we verify that 97.67% (n=42) have a high self-concept and 2.33% (n=1) have a low self-concept. We can conclude that generally formal caregivers have a high self-concept. About life quality value, we verify that most of internally users have values above the average point that identify the life quality. That suggests the internally users have a life quality above the medium point.
authors.affiliation: Alunos da 3a Licenciatura B 3o Ano/2o Semestre, no Ambito do Ensino Clínico de Saúde no Adulto, Mental e Psiquiatria.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Graça
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaspar
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cunha
authors.forename: Anatilde
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.forename: Andreia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cruz
authors.forename: Bruna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Galveias
authors.forename: Carina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Cátia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bastos
authors.forename: Célsia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ramalho
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Paz
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carpinteiro
authors.forename: Edite
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lourenço
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011174:Portugal; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept