Adoecimento e uso de medicamentos psicoativos entre trabalhadores de enfermagem de unidades de terapia intensiva

Abstract

RESUMO: Objetivo: identificar o adoecimento e uso de medicamentos psicoativos entre trabalhadores de enfermagem de Unidades de Terapia Intensiva. Método: estudo descritivo com abordagem quantitativa, realizado em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Neonatal e Adulto de um hospital de ensino no segundo semestre de 2011, com participação de 49 trabalhadores de enfermagem. O instrumento foi um questionário autoaplicável, com análise por meio de estatística descritiva simples. Resultados: 28,5% dos trabalhadores usam medicação psicoativa; 24,4% destes referem que os medicamentos foram prescritos. 24,4% dos sujeitos tem alguma doença psíquica, sendo a mais citada a depressão com 14,2%. O turno em que mais se evidenciou trabalhadores com doença psíquica foi o noturno com 43,7%. Ainda, 63,2% dos trabalhadores referem que se automedicam, utilizando drogas antidepressivas com 12,2%. Conclusões: é necessário criar estratégias que evitem o adoecimento, o uso de medicamentos psicoativos e a automedicação por parte dos trabalhadores de saúde. Descritores: Enfermagem; Saúde do trabalhador; Unidades de terapia intensiva; Psicotrópicos. ABSTRACT: Aim: to identify the disease and use of psychoactive drugs among nursing staff of the Intensive Care Unit. Method: A descriptive study with a quantitative approach, performed in the Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Neonatal and Adult of a teaching hospital in the second half of 2011, with the participation of 49 nursing staff. The instrument was self-administered questionnaire with analysis by simple descriptive statistics. Results: 28.5% of employees use psychoactive medication, 24.4% of these reported that the drugs were prescribed. 24.4% of the subjects have any mental illness, the most cited depression

Burnout and depressive symptoms in intensive care nurses: relationship analysis

“…As for marital status, there is a higher prevalence of depression in people who do not have close interpersonal relationships, without children, or who are separated or divorced (13) . Studies carried out with nursing staff working in an intensive care unit showed that the prevalence of depressive symptoms is higher in professionals working in the night shift and that there was a significant association between depressive symptoms and work shift (13,(22)(23)(24) , a contradictory result to this (1) : using Pearson's correlation test. Burnout and depressive symptoms in intensive care nurses: relationship analysis Vasconcelos EM, Martino MMF, França SPS research.…”

Predictors of depressive symptoms among nurses of intensive care unit

“…3 It is characterized by variations of mood and perpetuation of depressive symptoms including need for isolation, despondency, sadness, fatigue, insomnia, concentration difficulties, anxiety, fear, guilt, slowness, apathy, alterations to judge the truth, alterations of appetite, and presence of negative and recurrent thoughts. [3][4][5][6] Affected individuals, family members, friends, and the community experience intense suffering. 7 This disease, 1 is considered a public health problem.…”

“…Depression is one of the three most prevalent psychic illnesses in these workers, who daily deal with human suffering, pain, Joy, sadness and need to offer help to those who require their care. 1,5,6 Understanding depression among nurses who work in intensive care unit, as well as the risk factors involved, is important for researchers working primarily in the area of worker health. 6 The literature shows the sickness of these professionals.…”

“…In the first ten years and at the beginning of the second decade of the XXI century, researchers expanded their investigations in an attempt to understand the existence of an association between depressive symptomatology and its possible predictive factors, in an attempt to elucidate the relationships between these variables. 1,[4][5][6] Most of the research published in this period on depressive symptomatology related to nursing was carried out involving all professional categories of this team (nursing auxiliaries, nursing assistants and nurses). However, it is important to investigate each professional category since the attributions are different between them and there may be differences in the presence of depressive symptomatology and in the relationships between variables according to category.…”

“…This study only addresses nursing assistants in intensive care units. 1,[4][5][6] The guiding question of this study was to analyze if in an intensive care unit work environment there are factors that can be considered predictors of depressive symptomatology in nurses. In addition to these characteristics, the study sought to identify the prevalence of depressive symptomatology in these individuals.…”