Quality of life of 10 to 14 year old students from Picada Cafe, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil/Qualidade de vida dos estudantes de 10 a 14 anos de Picada Cafe, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil/Calidad de vida de estudiantes de 10 a 14 anos en Picada Cafe, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

The quality of life can be considered as the result of a wide interdisciplinary and multidimensional discussion, it is directly related to the subject's satisfaction, influenced by all the events that permeate the same. In this sense, we sought to carry out a descriptive, quantitative and crosssectional study, with the objective of evaluating the health-related quality of life of children and adolescents aged 10 to 14 years, applying the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire, which is characterized as self-report applicable to healthy children and adolescents with chronic diseases between 8 and 18 years of age. In general, in the dimensions of feelings, self-perception, autonomy and free time, family and family environment, friends and social support, provocation and bullying, they presented scores above 80, the dimensions of emotional state, financial aspects, school environment and total score remained below the score of 80, drawing attention to the dimension of health and physical activity that showed the lowest average among the variables studied. It is noted that the largest standard deviation was found in the dimension of financial aspects, pointing out the greatest difference between those investigated. In conclusion, the average of the total score represents that the studied population has a good perception of quality of life, this is because when compared to the literature, the scores were high. Keywords: Quality of life, Kidscreen-52, Health, Kids, Teens. A qualidade de vida pode ser considerada como um fruto de ampla discussao interdisciplinar e multidimensional, esta relacionada diretamente com a satisfacao do sujeito, influenciada por todos os acontecimentos que permeiam o mesmo. Nesse sentido, buscou-se realizar um estudo descritivo, quantitativo e de corte transversal, com o objetivo de avaliar a qualidade de vida relacionada a saude de criancas e adolescentes de 10 a 14 anos, aplicando o questionario KIDSCREEN-52 que e caracterizado como de autorrelato aplicavel a criancas e adolescentes saudaveis e com doencas cronicas entre os 8 e os 18 anos de idade. De maneira geral nas dimensoes de sentimentos, autopercepcao, autonomia e tempo livre, familia e ambiente familiar, amigos e apoio social, provocacao e bullying, apresentaram escores acima de 80, as dimensoes de estado emocional, aspectos financeiros, ambiente escolar e escore total ficaram abaixo do escore de 80, chamando a atencao para a dimensao de saude e atividade fisica que apontou a menor media