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. 2016 Aug;5(4):197-204.
doi: 10.1007/s40037-016-0283-3. Epub 2016 Jul 20.

Health-related quality of life of medical students in a Brazilian student loan programme

Liliane Lins  1   2 , Fernando Martins Carvalho  3 , Marta Silva Menezes  4 , Larissa Porto-Silva  4 , Hannah Damasceno  4
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Health-related quality of life of medical students in a Brazilian student loan programme

Liliane Lins et al. Perspect Med Educ. 2016 Aug.

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the health-related quality of life of medical students participating in a large Brazilian government loan programme for undergraduate students in private schools.A cross-sectional study in a stratified sample of students from a private medical school in Salvador, Brazil, evaluated their health-related quality of life by using a Brazilian Portuguese version of the 36-item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire (SF-36).Students supported by the loan programme consistently presented lower mean scores in all SF-36 domains and in the physical and mental component summary scores than those who were not in the programme. Students supported by the loan programme presented systematically lower physical and mental component mean scores, after stratification by age, gender, school year, physical activity, sleepiness, headache, having a car, having a housemaid, living with family, and living in a rented house.The loan programme has enabled less wealthy undergraduate students to attend private medical schools in Brazil. However, this support is insufficient to improve students' health-related quality of life during medical school, as compared with students who do not participate in the programme. Because of a poorer health-related quality of life, students supported by the loan programme deserve special attention from private medical schools.

Keywords: Government financing; Medical education; Medical students; Quality of life.

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