AMBIENTE, CAPACIDADE PARA O TRABALHO E QUALIDADE DE VIDA DOS FUNCIONÁRIOS DE UMA UNIVERSIDADE PÚBLICA.

Abstract

The dissertation was built in the scientific paper mode. The first, entitled "Quality of life and work ability of public university employees", aimed to evaluate the quality of life and the ability to work of administrative employees of a public university and compare these variables with epidemiological data .The second article, entitled "ergonomic Analysis and ability to work of employees of a public university", aimed to analyze ergonomic conditions, the ability to work and to compare them with the epidemiological profile of employees. The third, entitled "Musculoskeletal disorders and quality of work life of employees of a public university in Goiás", aimed at analyzing the musculoskeletal disorders and the quality of work life and correlate musculoskeletal disorders, quality of work life and the epidemiological profile of employees. The three articles have are the sum of the type of study, cross sectional epidemiological character, with a sample of 84 technical staff and administrative staff of the State University of Goiás the assessment tools were used: Epidemiological Survey, Economic Classification Criterion, Questionnaire Quality of Life World Health Organization Quality of Life-bref (WHOQOL - Abridged), Capacity Index for work, Ergonomic Evaluation of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health adapted, Nordic Questionnaire Musculoskeletal Complaints and the Quality of Life Questionnaire at Work. As the results of article 1, the sample was composed mostly by women aged greater than or equal to 40 years old, married, with higher education and holding a position of administrative assistant at the institution. Staff have a good overall quality of life, and the social domain was what had a higher score, and the lowest score was environmental; and have a moderate capacity for work. The male employees had higher scores in the physical, psychological and overall quality of life; married had better scores in the psychological domain. In Article 2, concerning ergonomics, it was observed that the workers of the institution have a good ergonomic space. Some variables as required attention, postures and movements, restriction in labor, noise and repeatability, respectively, had the worst rates; the best found among the data points that employees have easy and good ability to communicate with other employees, men communicate more at work and have a greater risk of an accident while the service journey, however, women do more repetitive work. When the employees was compared with administrative assistant and technical, it was concluded that those with technical positions was more exposed to accident at work. In Article 3, the occupation performed by the employee correlated with the type of musculoskeletal disorders, so it was observed that those who held administrative positions technician had higher back pain. There was a significant correlation between the pain in the lower limbs and the quality of work life, that is, the greater the pain in the lower limbs, the lower the health and worker safety. Thus, it can be seen that the implementation of a prevention program in a population of employees, may be beneficial. This program will act directly on the reduction in musculoskeletal disorders from work to improve the quality of life of employees.