Intersections between quality of life of and resilience of rural women: a mixed methods research
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Women. Rural population. Resilience, psychological. Quality of life. Rural health.
BACKGROUND: historically, the Brazilian rural scenario is surrounded by social inequalities that influence the people's life trajectories. Rural women suffer with these inequalities due to their class and gender condition and there is a need to consider the processes that lead these women to resist daily adversities, like resilience as well their quality of life. AIM: to analyze the influence and association between resilience and quality of life in rural women. The general aim of this study was to analyze the influence of resilience on the quality of life of rural women. METHOD: mixed methods study of convergent parallel type (QUAN + QUAL), in which two studies were conducted: a quantitative seccional study, whose sample consisted of 87 rural women; and a qualitative study, guided by the oral life history method, in which seven women participated. Data were collected simultaneously from July to November 2020, in the rural area of the municipality of Nazarezinho, Paraíba. In the quantitative study were applied a sociodemographic formiulary, the Resilience Scale, and the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). Qualitative data were collected through open interviews, which were recorded. The processing of quantitative data was performed using SPSS software version 25.0® in which descriptive and inferential statistical analyzes were performed. For qualitative data, they were initially transcribed, textualized and transcrieted, when they were then submitted to the thematic analysis proposed by Braun and Clarke (2006). The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte under CAAE number 29253420.3.0000.55373. RESULTS: After parallel analysis, the data were integrated, and it was found that the degree of resilience has a positive linear relationship with the domains of quality of life obtained from the application of SF-36, and, while the degree of resilience increases, they increase the domains of quality of life of rural women, which was corroborated by the very narratives of these women's lives, which denote that, despite the difficulties and difficulties experienced, they are able to see their daily lives with satisfaction, and reinforce that contact with work was important to your current physical health. CONCLUSION: based on the understanding that resilience influences the quality of life of rural women it is expected that this study will contribute to subsidize future interventions and public policies that make it possible to increase the quality of life and reduce inequalities in the rural environment, and contribute to the health promotion of women who (re) exist in this context.