Qualidade de Vida e Nível de Atividade Física de Trabalhadores com Diferentes Tempos de Serviço Life Quality and Physical Activity Level of Workers with Different Working Times

Objective: To describe workers' life quality and physical activity level. Complementarily, the employees' working time in the company was associated to their physical activity level and compared to their life quality. Materials and Methods: The sample was composed by 375 workers of both genders from a national company of electrical energy in Pernambuco. Then, those workers were subdivided into two groups according to their working time in the company: up to 15 years (n=166) with age mean of 36.08±6.80 years and more than 15 years (n=209) with age mean of 55.37± 5.17 years. Statistical analysis was made using Mann Whitney and Chi-square tests with p <0.05. Results: The employees having more working time presented better levels in the physical (p<0.05), psychological (p<0.01) and environmental (p<0.05) domains. The associative analysis between the physical activity level and the working time has revealed that the workers having more working time were more physically actives (X 2