Gynecology | Obstetrics | Reproductive Health & Medicine | PCOS

The aim of this study was to understand the relationship between aspects of the work organization and the health of nutrition workers affected by RSI/WRMSD. Throughout the process, absenteeism statistics related to RSI/WRMSD were obtained from a Public Hospital in Porto Alegre/Brazil, from 06/01/2015 to 06/30/2016, and a section of such hospital was selected for further study. A selection of the food distribution section and its nutrition attendants for the research occurred because of having a high absenteeism level related to the sickness of RSI/WRMSD. A structured questionnaire with sociodemographic and professional data and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) were used to investigate the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD), and collective interviews were conducted with nutrition attendants affected by RSI/WRMSD, recorded and transcribed for content analyses, and using the theoretical reference of the work psychodynamics. Participated in the questionnaires and SRQ-20 application 113 nutrition attendants, most of the female gender (97.3%) and 74.3% aged above 40 years and 48.6% with a common mental disorder (CMD). The low back pain was the most common body region affected (62.8%), among others. Results include the collective interviews a total of 19 nutrition attendants participated in eight meetings. Qualitative results obtained pointed to ways of organizing and managing work which included excessive pressure, moral harassment and lack of recognition, generating suffering and influencing the processes of illness