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The retirement of work from musculoskeletal disorders: work organization relations

Grant number: 11/20682-3
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Start date: December 01, 2011
End date: November 30, 2012
Field of knowledge:Health Sciences - Collective Health
Principal Investigator:Maria Do Carmo Baracho de Alencar
Grantee:Camila de Freitas
Host Institution: Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade (ISS). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Baixada Santista. Santos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The numbers of people retired of work by musculoskeletal diseases still a worry related to the occupational health area. The objective of this study, that is a part of a bigger study, is to investigate about the retirement of work process related to work related to musculoskeletal disorders, from subjects attended in the Reference Center of Occupational Health in Santos/SP, and the relations in between work conditions and organizational aspects from work. The study is exploratory and descriptive and there will be two phases, in the first, it will be obtained a list of the file´s numbers of the subjects opened and attended from January 1st to December 31 of 2010. It´s estimated that there are about 220 files. It will be obtained the following data: sex, age, school degree, professional category, clinical diagnostics and classifications, time of retirement, and other that might be interesting for the study. The clinical diagnostics will be organized and categorized by the International Classification of Diseases of Health - CID-10. The data will be analyzed by proper statistic program with levels of significance in associations (pd0,05). In the second phase it will be selected subjects from the same professional category, with criteria of selection: living in Santos city, and have affections related to diseases in soft tissue (M60-M79), as clinical diagnostics. A script for the questions will be used for semi opened interviews that will be recorded and translated for content analyses. For the interviews it will be investigated: profession, questions of health and work before the retirement, time of work (in the last employee), anterior functions, exigencies of the last work, how the disease started, when the subject felt the first symptoms, how they leaded with the symptoms at work, about the relations at work, fillings at work, and others, from subjective perceptions of the subjects. The interviews will have a time around 60 to 80 minutes and will be used the technic of categorical thematic analyses, proposal by Oliveira (2008). The technic of content analyses also contains phases defined by Bardin (2010). It´s expected that the results will be divulgated in scientific events, and also published in scientific magazines. (AU)

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