THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS AND PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF STUDENTS' QUALITY OF LIFE

Admission and retention of students in universities are permeated by adjusting expectations, being a multifaceted process developed in everyday relationships between students and institution. For the World Health Organization (WHO), quality of life is "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems which they live, and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns ". Objectives: To analyze the health-related quality of life of the School of Health at the Amazonas State University; check the scores of overall quality of life and its dimensions (physical health, psychological, social relations and environmental) and compare the levels of quality of life with socio-demographic variables. Method: a cross quantitative research study, with the participation of 121 students of nursing, medicine and dentistry courses. It was used two different questionnaires: socio-demographic and WHOQOL (WHO). The project was submitted to the committee of ethics in research and approved by CEP/UEA 183/11. Results: As for the overall QOL score indicated satisfaction with life (70.4%) while the physical health, psychological, social relations and environmental scores showed respectively 59.5%, 70.3%, 67.6% and 53 1%. Conclusion: The population obtained scores of quality of life expressing satisfaction with life, presenting a loss in the physical environment when considers the scale of 0 (worst QOF) and 100 (best QOL).