Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Risks, demands, and health damages faced by nursing workers in confronting Covid-19. |
| Authors: |
Souza, Diego de Oliveira1 (AUTHOR) diego.souza@arapiraca.ufal.br, Rosales-Flores, Roselia Arminda2 (AUTHOR), Magalhães, Ana Paula Nogueira de1 (AUTHOR), Pereira-Abagaro, Camila3 (AUTHOR), Cruz, Sabrina Ângela França da Silva1 (AUTHOR), Ericson, Sóstenes1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science. Mar2025, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p217-228. 12p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Risk assessment, *Focus groups, *Personal protective equipment, *Research funding, *Hospital nursing staff, *Interviewing, *Work environment, *Needs assessment, *COVID-19, *Industrial hygiene, *Employees' workload, Mental illness risk factors, Occupational disease risk factors, Noise, Skin diseases, Fatigue (Physiology), Muscle diseases, Surveys, Thematic analysis, Research methodology, Medical needs assessment, Sleep disorders, Disease risk factors |
| Geographic Terms: |
Brazil |
| Abstract: |
This article aims to analyze how nursing work processes have impacted the health of workers, taking into consideration the risks, demands, and potential damages. Nursing work is characterised by a demand for care that affects workers on various levels: physical, emotional, and psychological during the pandemic, there has been an exacerbation of labor precarity, increased exposure to risks and demands stemming from their work processes, and consequently, health damage. A mixed-method approach was employed, using the triangulation strategy of three data collection techniques: questionnaire surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews. It was found that the majority of participants are women, aged between 30 and 39, identify as having a brown skin color, work as nursing technicians, and have been employed in hospitals specialising in severe Covid-19 cases. The thematic categories identified were workload overload; lack of breaks or facilities for physiological needs; absence, improvisation, or inadequacy of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE); noise; health damage: fatigue and illness. These categories have corresponding variables that, in turn, were statistically associated with health damage, such as muscular disorders, sleep disturbances, mental health issues, and dermatological problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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