Dor crônica e qualidade de vida em trabalhadores do setor de higienização de uma instituição de ensino superior.

Abstract

Introduction: chronic pain is a condition with high prevalence among workers, which has repercussions on the quality of life, however, there is little information in those whose work activity is hygiene. Objective: to characterize the presence of chronic pain and the level of quality of life in sanitation workers. Methodology: a cross-sectional study, which includes cleaning assistants community higher education institution in the interior of southern Brazil. A questionnaire elaborated with sociodemographic, clinical and labor questions was applied. The presence of chronic pain was measured using the Graduated Scale of Chronic Pain Brazil, which is composed of 8 questions related to the last 6 months and quality of life by the WHOQOL-bref questionnaire, which consists of 26 questions divided into 4 domains, physical, psychological, social relationships and environment. An interview was conducted digitally. Results: The sample consisted of 26 cleaning assistants, with an average of 12 years of experience at the university and a workload of 40 hours per week. The graduated chronic pain scale identified that of the 26 workers who answered the questionnaire, 8 had chronic pain, 6 had non-persistent pain and the others had no pain at the time of the survey. Low interference pain was identified in 3 workers and high interference in 7. Mostly low quality of life was observed in all domains, that is, for the physical (n=15), psychological (n=17), social relationships (n=16) and environment (n=23) domains. Conclusion: pain Chronic disease is a frequent condition in workers who work as cleaning assistants at a higher education institution, as well as negative perceptions about their quality of life, expressed by scores below the cutoff point in all disciplined domains.