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:10.15253/2175-6783.20212260056

Authors

Célia Regina da Silva Medeiros Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5203-3379
Viviane Brasil Amaral dos Santos Coropes Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0799-3466
Karla Gualberto Silva Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7870-0600
Shino Shoji Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8987-2291
Norma Valéria Dantas de Oliveira Souza Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2936-3468
Maria Helena do Nascimento Souza Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2230-3048
Sheila Nascimento Pereira de Farias Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5752-265X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.20212260056

Keywords:

Disease; Work; Occupational Health; Primary Health Care; Nursing.

Abstract

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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