Stress, quality of life and work: study with urban cleaning agents

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Milena Nunes Alves de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Vieira, Tamiris Guedes, Barbosa, Ana Larissa Lopes, Almeida, Kerolayne Camila e Souza, Araújo, Luzia Vilma Pereira do Nascimento, Lima, Maria Tereza Perazzo, Bezerra, André Luiz Dantas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/4846
• topic: Saúde Coletiva; Saúde do Trabalhador; Trabalho; Limpeza urbana; Qualidade de vida; Estresse.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the presence of occupational stress, the level of quality of life of urban cleaning agents and the existence of correlation between occupational stress and quality of life with the age, income and working hours.METHODS: Descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative study with the group of workers in the city of Patos-PB. The sample of the survey was composed of 45 urban cleaning. The data were collected through the use of a demographic questionnaire and of work, the Job Stress Scale (JSS) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life – Bref (WHOQOL-Bref). Data analysis was performed from descriptive and inferential statistics.RESULTS: The quality of life presented positivity in General with average score of 75.83 points. However, between the areas, which showed the highest score was the physical (78.57 points) and the smaller the environmental domain (62.36 points). As for the occupational stress, the psychological demand was what showed lower score (2.36) and stress at work the highest score (3.45). By correlating the quality of life and the stress of workers with age, income and working hours, age correlated negatively with the physical domain (p =-0.31, p ≤ 0.05) and with the stress at work (p =-0.30, p ≤ 0.05).CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study show that the quality of life of the Group's median as well as indicated the older the worker less satisfaction with aspects of physical health and less stress at work.