QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG DENTAL PROFESSIONALS - A SURVEY

Abstract

Quality of life is the standard of physical and mental health of an individual. Quality of life is the most concerning issue among all the health professionals and life among them seems to be affected due to work life balance resulting in health issues and stress. The aim of the present study is to analyse the quality of life among dental professionals. Standardized questionnaire was used and distributed to 100 dental professionals at a private dental college. The questionnaire included domains like physical activity, psychological stress level and diet habits and smoking history. The responses are collected and tabulated. The results are analysed statistically using SPSS for descriptive and association analysis. The questionnaire is analysed using its own scoring from 0 to 8 and accordingly was graded as poor, trace, fair and good quality of life. Among 100 professionals 32 professionals are under the category of poor quality of life (0 to 2), 24 of them are under trace (3 to 4), 30 of them fair ( 5 to 6 ) and only 14 of them are under good quality of life (7 to 8). The findings of the study suggests that the majority of dental professionals are observed to have below normal quality of life.