title: Quality of life at sea in Polish seafarer's evaluation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Work at sea is highly burdening, hazardous and stressful. Environmental, physical, and psychosociological factors have a great impact on the seafarer's quality of life and work. The research is a part of a broader psychological project performed on people working at sea in Poland during a period of 2011-2014.
  
  
  METHODS
  This report presents the self-evaluation of life quality conducted by a total of 1,700 Polish seafarers who took part in the study. The average age of the group was 45. Following methods were used: WHOQOL-BREF and the "Survey for people working at sea".
  
  
  RESULTS
  Polish seafarers gave the highest rates to their social relationships (16.27), then the psychological functioning (15.62), and environment (15.51). The physical domain gave the lowest rates (14.63).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results have shown that quality of life of Polish seafarers is quite high.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Occupational and Internal Diseases, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland. mariajez@gumed.edu.pl.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jeżewska
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grubman-Nowak
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moryś
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003132:Commerce; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000208:ethnology; D011044:Poland; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D057566:Self Report; D012767:Ships; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: psychosocial factors; quality of life; work at sea; work quality