Occupational damage to nurses in Primary Health Care

• Main Authors: Célia Regina da Silva Medeiros (Author), Viviane Brasil Amaral dos Santos Coropes (Author), Karla Gualberto Silva (Author), Shino Shoji (Author), Norma Valéria Dantas de Oliveira Souza (Author), Maria Helena do Nascimento Souza (Author), Sheila Nascimento Pereira de Farias (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

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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10.15253/2175-6783.20212260056
2175-6783