Impact on health and well-being of working at home during the SARS CoV 2 pandemic

Ogata, Alberto José Niituma; Malik, Ana María; Lourenço, Viviane; Savia, Valena; Pinto, Ana Claudia; Rodrigues, Yohana

doi:10.47626/1679-4435-2022-791

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“…This study also indicates that those employees who only worked from home during the pandemic had lower psychological well-being, replicating what had been found by Xiao et al 68 and Ogata et al 60 Gaspar et al 67 offer some plausible explanations for decreased well-being among those WFW: individuals were confined to their homes, with less or no opportunity to socialize, sedentarism, obscure work-life boundaries, and long hours of screen exposure. Regarding this last factor, overexposure to COVID-19 information has been associated with emotional distress 69 …”

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confidence: 86%

“…65,66 Younger employees also had lower odds of psychological wellness, and literature points to some possible predictors: their exposure to the media for a longer period, which is associated with increased COVID-related anxiety, the closure of recreational facilities, and future uncertainties. 62,65 This study also indicates that those employees who only worked from home during the pandemic had lower psychological well-being, replicating what had been found by Xiao et al 68 and Ogata et al 60 Gaspar et al 67 offer some plausible explanations for decreased well-being among those WFW: individuals were confined to their homes, with less or no opportunity to socialize, sedentarism, obscure work-life boundaries, and long hours of screen exposure. Regarding this last factor, overexposure to COVID-19 information has been associated with emotional distress.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…The main finding of our study is that 63.15% of the participants presented adequate subjective well-being. This estimate is higher than that observed by Ogata et al 60 in their study with a sample of Brazilian employees working from home assessed with the same instrument, the WHO-5 (63.15% vs 54.37%, respectively). One possible explanation for this difference is that our sample included employees working in different modalities.…”

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The Well-being of Brazilian Industry Workers on Returning to the Physical Workplace During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Matos

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J Occup Environ Med

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Objective: Our aim was to assess the prevalence and predictors of well-being among Brazilian industry workers on returning to the physical workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Two thousand two hundred forty-one participants completed an online survey between October and November 2021. Well-being was assessed with the World Health Organization Well-being Index, and the questionnaire also addressed sociodemographic and occupational characteristics and the health of workers and their contacts. Associations were estimated with logistic regression models. Results: The prevalence of adequate well-being was 63.15%. The predictors of poor well-being included being female, younger, working exclusively from home or on a hybrid model, having comorbid disorders, and living with someone with any comorbidity. Conclusions: The identification of vulnerable groups with poor well-being may help organizations to direct efforts to the unmet psychological needs of these employees and develop well-being programs during this transition.

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Work intensity and work modification amid implementation of anti-epidemic activities

Shur,

Lir,

Alekseev

et al. 2023

Hygiene and Sanitation

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Introduction. Assessment of work intensity (WI) is challenged by several methodical complications. It may involve certain underestimation of an actual hazard category of working conditions and fails to consider work modification. Materials and methods. The study relies on using analytical, sociological, and statistical methods. To test the selected approach, a sample was created from workers with mostly mental work (n=137, 77% females). Their average age was 43.9±8.0 years; average work experience was 14.5±3.7 years. Results. In this article, we suggest certain approaches to assessing WI. They include self-assessment of a factor using a specifically designed questionnaire; they clarify indicators that describe WI; when assessing working conditions, they rely on matrices of interrelated indicators. This procedure makes it possible to estimate levels of individual components and create an integral WI profile as well as identify contributions made by various intensity types to its overall structure. When testing the procedure, we established workers with mostly mental work to tend to have harmful working conditions as per WI factor (the hazard category 3.1 in 24.8% of the cases; 3.2, 56.9% of the cases; and the hazard category 3.3 in 17.5% of the cases). Mental (28.6±6.1%) and sensory (24.0±7.0%) loads are limiting components. Amid implementation of anti-epidemic activities, work regime was established as the most sensitive WI component (its contribution grew from 11.1±6.0 to 16.0±5.7%, p<0.05). Working conditions moved to a higher hazard category for 35.8% workers. Limitations. Assessment of working conditions uses threshold values introduced more than 30 years ago and can be adjusted for the existing employment conditions. The testing was accomplished on a rather small sample, which was biased as per gender and included workers with different occupations and positions. Conclusion. The suggested approaches offer wider opportunities to assess working conditions as per WI with respect to some occupations. This may substantiate a list of indicators that should be regulated by the existing sanitary legislation. Investigation of possible modification of factors during the pandemic makes it possible to describe eligibility of anti-epidemic activities without any deterioration of working conditions.

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Saúde do trabalhador: análise dos afastamentos dos servidores públicos no ambiente educacional do ifsp (de 2019 a 2021)

Mousessian,

Polizio,

Teixeira

2023

Cuad. Ed. Desar.

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O presente estudo traça a trajetória da saúde do trabalhador público federal, em especial dos servidores do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo, apontando os marcos legais sobre saúde, saúde do trabalhador federal e política de promoção da saúde e qualidade de vida desses trabalhadores. O objetivo principal foi investigar como se encontra a saúde física e mental dessa população correspondente aos anos de 2019, 2020 e 2021 e o que está sendo feito pelo órgão federal em prol desses trabalhadores. Através de análise estatística foi possível identificar a elevada incidência de desordens mentais e sua distribuição por sexo e faixa etária dessa população. O estudo destaca também as iniciativas do órgão federal em ações de prevenção e promoção da saúde e qualidade de vida dessa classe de servidores federais. Sites do Ministério da Educação, da Saúde, do Trabalho, do Governo Federal e da OMS foram amplamente consultados, bem como livros, dissertações e artigos, os quais fundamentam este conteúdo.

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Impact on health and well-being of working at home during the SARS CoV 2 pandemic

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The Well-being of Brazilian Industry Workers on Returning to the Physical Workplace During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Well-being of Brazilian Industry Workers on Returning to the Physical Workplace During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Work intensity and work modification amid implementation of anti-epidemic activities

Saúde do trabalhador: análise dos afastamentos dos servidores públicos no ambiente educacional do ifsp (de 2019 a 2021)

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