Qualification of pain in women workers of a textile factory in the south of Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Cauz, Marina
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Cassol, Jussara, Vanderlei, Franciele Marques, de Almeida, Josiane Schadeck
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.unifor.br/RBPS/article/view/3933
• topic: Occupational Health; Textile Industry; Physical Therapy Specialty; Women; Pain.; Salud Laboral; Industria Textil; Fisioterapia; Mujeres; Dolor.; Saúde do Trabalhador; Indústria Têxtil; Fisioterapia; Mulheres; Dor.

Objective: To analyze and qualify pain in women workers of a textile factory in the south of Brazil. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study, with quantitative approach, in which 15 women workers were interviewed on a single day in May 2012. The assessments for pain qualification and analysis were performed by means of three instruments: multidimensional adapted questionnaire, Wisconsin Pain inventory (pain analysis) and McGill Pain questionnaire (qualification). For data analysis, descriptive statistics was employed, by calculating the average, standard deviation, percentage and absolute numbers. Results: The participants’ mean age was 33.4 (± 14.9) and they worked 9 hours a day. As for the painful posture in the workplace, the major complaint regarded abducted shoulders and flexed elbows (n=7, 46.6%). The most commonly painful anatomic sites were shoulders (n=8, 22.2%), cervical spine (n=7, 19.4%) and elbows (n=7, 19.4%). Pain analysis through the Wisconsin inventory, classified by the Visual Analogue Pain Scale (VAS), demonstrated moderate interference with work, sleep, mood, enjoyment of life and general activity. According to McGill questionnaire, the sensory level stood out, with highest frequencies to throbbing pain (n=10, 50%), needled (n=4, 20%) and tingling pain (n=4, 20%). Conclusion: The sample showed high frequency of pain in shoulders, elbows and cervical spine, in addition to painful symptomatology regarded moderate in most of the evaluated items, which might lead to significant interference with the labor activities and daily life.