Presenteeism in multiprofessional team workers in the Adult Intensive Care Unit

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the occurrence of presenteeism in multiprofessional team workers of an Adult Intensive Care Unit, relating it to sociodemographic and labor characteristics. Method: It is an analytical cross-sectional qualitative study, which used a questionnaire for sociodemographic data collection, and Stanford Presenteeism Scale(SPS-6) to assess presenteeism. Results: There was predominance of women (75.9%), nursing workers (66.7%), mean age of 39.81 years, and 6 to 10 years (31.6%) of experience in the labor market. Regarding presenteeism, 48.7% presented work impairment and 31.8% presentedperformance and completion of tasks altered by this phenomenon. Conclusion: Expressive numbers of general presenteeism were identified, with results indicating impairment in completing work. When connecting presenteeism to sociodemographic and labor characteristics, the variables sex, dependent children and absence from work presented values with statistical significance among the studied workers.

Structural empowerment of nurses in the hospital setting

“…The ICUs have an intense activity, they are dynamic environments, constantly changing, that attend complex patients and those at risk, demanding a lot of responsibility and commitment from the professionals. In addition, in these units, assistance must be provided through teamwork, in which multiple knowledge and skills need to come together to plan, organize, and define strategies that bring better results to the patients ( 23 ) .…”

Barreiras e facilitadores do trabalho multiprofissional em saúde na Pandemia da COVID-19/ Barriers and facilitating factors of multiprofessional health work in the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Resultados semelhantes são descritos na literatura, com um percentual de residentes do sexo feminino variando de 78,26% a 92% (ROTTA et al, 2016;CAVALCANTI et al, 2018;ROCHA et al, 2018;FELTRIN et al, 2019). Essa condição está ligada ao processo histórico e cultural da prática do cuidado realizado pelas mulheres, como sendo uma característica e qualidade feminina o cuidar da casa, da família e dos doentes, associada à intensificação da participação delas nas atividades econômicas nas últimas décadas, principalmente nos Brazilian Journal of Development, Curitiba, v.7, n.4, p. 33998-34016 apr 2021 serviços de saúde, onde é expressivo a presença da mão de obra feminina (MACÊDO et al, 2018;ROCHA;CASAROTTO;SCHMITT, 2018;SILVA et al, 2019).…”

Relationship between workloads and presenteeism among nursing workers

“…It was identified that, when the psychological burden of nursing workers increases, the limitation of production demand among them decreases, since the production demand is described as being able to complete all activities linked to work. is related to the sociodemographic and labor characteristics of workers, such as gender, age, having dependent children, performing another professional activity, working hours, performing overtime and having already left work (9) .…”

“…Presenteeism was evidenced in a study that indicates that nurses working in hospitals and Primary Health Care in Brazil, Portugal and Spain develop their work even though they have some disease (8) . Similarly, presenteeism was presented among a multidisciplinary team of an Intensive Care Unit, resulting from physical and psychological health problems (9) . Considering that presenteeism occurs in different contexts, it is necessary to deepen this theme in university hospitals, due to its characteristics that involve patient care along with the demands of teaching, research and extension linked to the University.…”