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Social support at work: a cohort study with civil servants from a public university
Marluce Rodrigues Godinho1, Aldo Pacheco Ferreira2, Denise Cristina Alves de Moura3
1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Pública, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brasil.
Introduction:
Social support at work - related to the interaction between co-workers and supervisors in cooperation toward work achievement - can contribute to reducing the strain on workers and health risks. Therefore, the present study aimed to analyze the social support at work and associated factors among the technical-administrative staff in education from a public university.
Methods:
This is a cohort study with 328 active civil servants, who answered a questionnaire providing information about the social support at work and the independent sociodemographic variables related to work and health. We used Student's t-test, the χ2 test, and logistic regression to analyze the prevalence of and factors associated with social support at work.
Results:
The workers were predominantly males, with a mean age of 47 years, married, with children, had higher education and beyond, showed good working conditions, health status, and high social support at work (85.7%). Factors associated with social support at work included work shift, depression, and work ability.
Conclusion:
The factors associated with social support should be properly analyzed in order to maintain this positive interaction in the work environment.
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