Aspectos psicossociais do impedimento laboral por motivos de saúde em trabalhadores de cozinhas industriais

• Autor(a) principal: Aguiar, Odaleia Barbosa de
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4580
• topic: Occupational health; Stress psychological; Collective feeding; Reproducibility of results; Saúde ocupacional; Absenteísmo; Estresse psicológico; Alimentação coletiva e reprodutibilidade; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

This study aimed to investigate the work/health relationship among industrial kitchen workers, focusing on the socio-economic aspect and other dimensions of the ocial life (stress at work and stressing life events), including morbidity (obesity, chronic diseases and common mental disorders), job conditions (environmental discomfort and accidents at work) and health-related behaviors (feeding habits, smoking and alcohol consumption). Using data collected in nine Rio de Janeiro State Popular Restaurants, three papers have been produced. The first one describes the study population considering three occupational groups: administrative; cooks and kitchen assistants; and general services assistants. The second paper investigates the association between psychosocial characteristics and health-related work absence, considering a hierarchical analysis; finally, the third paper deals with reproducibility certification of the DCQ (Demand-Control Questionnaire) used to measure job stress. Men were 62.7% of all workers. The average age of workers was 35.1 years old (DP=10.3). Net family income was up to 2 minimum wages for 60% of workers. The prevalence of diseases with medical diagnosis was 15.0% for Workrelated Osteomuscular Diseases (DORT); 14.3% for Systemic Arterial Hypertension; 12.7% for Gastritis; and 2.1% for Diabetes Mellitus II. The work accident cut was reported by 20.2% of workers, followed by contusion, with 16.0%. Prevalence of work accidents was most expressive among general services assistants. Prevalence of absence from work for health reasons was 10.8%. The models resulting from multivariate analysis of association among labor activity impediments and the variables that remained in the final model after variables adjustments showed that those who reported regular and bad health general states had a prevalence ratio of three for labor activities impediments, as compared to the ones who reported very good and good health general states (PR: 3.59; CI: 1.44-8.97). Workers whose activities were conducted at restaurants in area 2 (Bangu, Central do Brasil, Maracanã and Niterói) showed PR: 2.38; CI: 1.15-4.91) for absences from work, as compared to the ones in area 1 (Barra Mansa, Campos, Itaboraí, Duque de Caxias and Nova Iguaçu). The reliability, test-retest, concerning the DCQ scale produced Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for the dimensions: psychological demand, job control and social support at work of: 0.70, 0.68 and 0.80, respectively, all considered good. This study reinforces the importance of psychosocial aspects in the occurrence of absence from work for health reasons and contributes for the awareness of such relations. Further development should include longitudinal studies that allow deepening the knowledge on psychosocial determinants of work and sickness of absence.