Quality of life and osteomuscular symptoms in workers of primary health care

Abstract

Objectives: to evaluate the quality of life and musculoskeletal symptoms in primary care workers. Methods: descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study with 85 workers using the WHOQOL-Bref and Nordic Osteomuscular Symptoms Questionnaire. Results: lower quality of life for the Environment domain and higher for Social Relationships. Workers reported pain in lower back, neck, shoulders, wrists/hands/fingers and knees. Neck pain influenced Physical (p=0.015) and Psychological (p=0.030) domains; shoulder pain (p=0.004) and dorsal region (p=0.013) influenced the Physical domain; pain in knees influenced Physical (p=0.000) and Environment (p=0.032) domains; pain in the ankles/feet influenced Physical (p=0.000), Psychological (p=0.032) and Environment (p=0.007) domains; pain in the dorsal region influenced the Physical domain (p=0.013). Conclusions: workers evaluated their quality of life as good or very good and reported to be satisfied or very satisfied with their health. They also reported pains in lower back, neck, shoulders, wrists/hands/fingers and knees. Pain has influenced the quality of life.

Career commitment and entrenchment among Primary Care nurses

“…The profile described in the literature of higher education professionals working in PHC corroborates the profile of the nurses in this study, mostly made up of married women, aged less than 40 years and graduates, with experience in PHC between two and five years (13,15,22) .…”

“…Nevertheless, knowing the levels of commitment and entrenchment relationships with the career presented by PHC nurses can favor actions directed to strengthen these professionals' personal and work development, and the consolidation of SUS health services. After all, these professionals are often under conditions of labor vulnerability, characterized by outsourced contracts, for a fixed period, with unstable employment relationships, low remuneration, and lack of staffing and compensation plans, which lead to high turnover, as well as dissatisfaction and lack of interest in workers, negatively impacting SUS's resolutive capacity (13)(14)(15)(16) . Some studies on the types of career relationships carried out with nurses show the predominance of the commitment relationship, compared to the entrenchment relationship (5) , and highlight that education, age, work sector, and length of professional performance interfere in the levels of commitment to the career (17)(18) .…”

Career commitment and career entrenchment among Primary Health Care workers

“…The workers addressed in this study compose the minimum ESF team as recommended by the Política Nacional de Atenção Básica (PNAB) (17) [Primary Health Care National Policy], and their profiles corroborate those profiles reported by studies conducted in different Brazilian regions (3)(4)(5)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22) .…”

“…In this context, the work process of PHC services has growing demand and scope of practices that incorporate new responsibilities every day, causing workers to experience overload and exhaustion. This situation may lead to job dissatisfaction, frustration, and apathy, resulting in a conflicting situation among those workers who believed they would develop and feel satisfied and fulfilled with their jobs (3)(4)(5) .…”

Impact of Recurrent Urinary Infections on the Quality of Life of Women in Outpatient Care: a Case-control Study

“…The higher the score for each domain, the better the quality of life. Values below 50.00 indicate an important impairment of quality of life [11,12]. Data analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 23.0.…”