Calidad de vida profesional de los trabajadores de Atención Primaria del área 10 de Madrid

objective: to know the professional quality of life (pql) perceived by the workers of primary health care of our area of health, identifying the main components of the same one. design: cross-sectional descriptive study. material and methods: setting: primary health care. area 10. madrid. subjects: all the professionals of primary health care (n=419). measurements: self administrated anonymous survey that includes the pql-35 questionnaire, in addition to demographic and labour variables. results: answer rate: 57,5%. average age: 39 ± 7 years; women: 172 (71,4%); staff: 116 (48,1%); morning turn: 121 (50,2%); average antiquity: 12 ± 7 years. mean pql: 5,2 ± 1,8. item less valued was "possibility of promotion" (2,34 ± 1,57) and "conflicts with other people" (3,38 ± 2,16). item more valued was "i am enabled to make my work" (8,38 ± 1,27) and "excess of work" (8,19 ± 1,28). the perception of the pql is significantly smaller between the medical personnel who in the rest of professionals (p<0,05). we did not find differences when analysing the pql by the rest of variables. conclusions: we found a mean level of pql between the workers of our area, although the valuation is worse between the doctors. one perceives excessive service load and few resources contributed by the organisation.