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Assessment of Social Interaction Behaviors
Published on: February 25, 2011
Social, health, and working conditions among hospital workers
Márcia Regina Alves Rocha1, Maria José Sanches Marin2, Juana Macias Seda3
1Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho. Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil.
Objectives:
to compare social, health and working conditions among nursing, nutrition and hospital cleaning service workers.
Methods:
a quantitative cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational study carried out in a public hospital in the countryside of São Paulo, including workers from nutrition, cleaning and nursing services. Data collection occurred during working hours. Validated questionnaires and Karasek's Demand-Control model were used to assess psychosocial dimensions and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20 to measure the common mental disorder. As dependent variable, the groups professionals and chi-square test were used for associations with p≥ 0.05.
Results:
227 workers participated. Positive associations were found between professional groups and socioeconomic, health and work characteristics.
Conclusions:
social, health, and working conditions differ between the professional groups studied.
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