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Published on: December 19, 2016
Pleasure and distress in health professors' work practice
Ariane da Silva Pires1, Eugenio Fuentes Pérez Júnior1, Francisco Gleidson de Azevedo Gonçalves1
1Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Objectives:
to analyze situations that generate pleasure and/or distress in teaching.
Methods:
this is a qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study conducted at a public university in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Thirty faculty members from five health programs at the Biomedical Center participated. The data were analyzed using thematic content analysis, resulting in two categories.
Results:
the most prominent pleasure-generating circumstances were: interpersonal interactions with students and coworkers; the relevance of training as a means of personal and social change; and knowledge production. In contrast, issues related to distress refer to: a lack of public investment in education; overload due to a high workload; competitiveness among peers; insufficient infrastructure; and inadequate working conditions.
Conclusions:
experiences of pleasure and distress have both positive and negative impacts on professors' psychophysical well-being, potentially promoting health or leading to illness.
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