Rev Rene (Jan 2021)

Occupational damage to nurses in Primary Health Care

  • Célia Regina da Silva Medeiros,
  • Viviane Brasil Amaral dos Santos Coropes,
  • Karla Gualberto Silva,
  • Shino Shoji,
  • Norma Valéria Dantas de Oliveira Souza,
  • Maria Helena do Nascimento Souza,
  • Sheila Nascimento Pereira de Farias

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.20212260056
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22
p. e60056

Abstract

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Objective: analyze the prevalence and types of occupational injuries among nurses working in the Family Health Strategy. Methods: cross-sectional study with 116 Family Health Strategy nurses. The Work-Related Damage Assessment Scale was used. For the analysis, Pearson’s chi-square test was performed, with a significance level of 0.05. Results: the prevalence of physical damage of 70.7% was associated with the risk of critical illness, the most serious symptoms of which were: sleep or appetite alterations, circulatory disorders, body aches (head, arm, back, legs). Social damage (21.6%) and psychological damage (11.2%) were classified as bearable risk. Conclusion: showed high prevalence of illness manifested by physical damage classified as critical risk: arm pain, changes in appetite and circulatory disorders and, classified as serious risk: headaches, leg pain, sleep changes, back and body pain.

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