[The organization of work and the mental health of nurses aides.]

The aim of this article is to focus on the problems encountered by auxiliaries collecting data within the frame work of a certain organization of work. A questionnaire was distributed to two big groups in the public sector. It was answered by three hundred and fifty auxiliaries with a 92% rate of response. In comparison with other jobs occupied by women, these auxiliaries present a much higher incidence of depressive or anxious symptoms and of drug abuse. The recourse to a regressive model helps to explain the results by the combined effect of two factors amongst others: first, by a strong pressure to perform and then by the monotony of piecework. It is possible that the alienation symbol of the last two decades is not the worker at the assembly line but, with the preponderance of computerised office, is now the woman reducing to the collection of date.