Sociodemographic, labor, and health characteristics of workers from popular foodservices in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa de AGUIAR, Odaleia
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Gonçalves VALENTE, Joaquim, Mendes da FONSECA, Maria de Jesus
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Nutrição
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/9437
• topic: Collective feeding; Working environment; Working conditions; Workers; Alimentação coletiva; Ambiente de trabalho; Condições de trabalho; Trabalhadores

ObjectiveThis study described a population of foodservice workers, focusing on their sociodemographic, labor and health characteristics. MethodsThis sectional study included 426 (98%) workers of popular foodservices of the state of Rio de Janeiro who answered a questionnaire administered by trained interviewers. Associations were investigated with the Pearson’s chi-square test or the Fisher’s exact test for small samples. ResultsMost of the workers were males (62.7%). The mean age of the workers was 35.1 years (SD=10.3). Very few workers (11.3%) had had less than 4 years of formal education and 42.2% had had from 5 to 8 years of formal education. The following environmental stressors were mentioned with decreasing order of importance: temperature (90.1%), noise (51.2%), physical effort (36.2%) and luminosity (10.5%). The medical diagnoses included work-related musculoskeletal disorders (15.0%), hypertension (14.3%), gastritis (12.7%) and diabetes mellitus type II (2.1%). The most common work accidents in the 12 months prior to the interview were cuts(20.2%) and bruises (16.0%). ConclusionThe data showed that although different jobs are affected by the work environment, wages and qualification, these factors had a greater impact on the general service assistants.