QUALIDADE DE VIDA EM TRABALHADORES DE UMA CONSTRUÇÃO CIVIL EM GOIÂNIA

Abstract

Work has an important role in the conditions of life and health of the workers. It has importance on the well-being and quality of life through the adequate accomplishments of the day-to-day tasks. The quality of life associated with the health and physical well-being was assessed. The workers showed good perception of their quality of life, even submitted to a heavy work in the building sector, once some factors related to the quality of life in the work were pointed as satisfactory, while other ones were not so satisfactory, i.e., failed in some aspects. This study aimed to research the quality of life and possible correlations with occupational diseases, such as locomotor system chronicle diseases, and hypertension in the workers of the building sector in Goiânia, GO, in 2016. A field research, in an exploratory and quantitative disposition, has been done with 49 (forty-nine) volunteers, in the building sector in Goiânia. In the sample, from the 49 workers, 97,96% were males and they work with installations, including assemblers, attendants, attendants and mason auxialiars. From those workers, only 2,04 are females. For data collect, was applied the following instrument: profile of the workers and social-economic aspects, requiring process and organization of the work, arising, thus, musculoskeletal complaints of the participants of the research, and the World Health Organization Quality of Life/Bref (WHOQOL-BREF) Q&A, as well. The conclusion of this study shows that it utrned possible thoughts on the activities, behaviour and daily life of the workers of the building sector. It also concluded that the workers of the building sector feel satisfied with their activities and that they are aware tha they must do compensatory activities to avoid, thus, occupational deseases, such as osteomuscular disorders, increase of the arterial pressure related to the their activities which could affect their quality of life. The study suggests that other researches can be done to clear the relations of the activities that disturb the productivity and the personal life of the workers, pointing out possible ways of improving these activities, in relation to the condion and organization of the work.