Psychosocial factors at work and mental health workers in a primary care unit in Tepic Nayarit, Mexico

Introduction
Psychosocial factors include aspects of the job and work environment, work roles, interpersonal relationships at work and the design and content of tasks .

Objetive: To establish association between psychosocial factors at work and mental health workers of IMSS UMF No. 24

Methods
cross-sectional analytical design and through census, we studied 147 workers of all categories of base was applied during working hours, the validated instrument with Cronbach's alpha of .88 for psychosocial factors at work composed by 39 items that evaluate workplace conditions, workload, content and task characteristics, social interaction and organizational aspects, Goldberg health questionnaire of 60 items consisting of 4 dimensions somatic complaints, social dysfunction, depression and anxiety with alpha Cronbach's of 0.72 in addition to demographic data questionnaire. Informed consent was applied. For statistical analysis SPSS 15.0 was applied, measures of distribution and association (?2), considering significant p <0.05.

Results
33% male, 67% female, 70% married, 41% undergraduate, negative psychosocial factors related to workload conditions and no significant association with mental health only in the content and characteristics of the social interaction task and repost a significant association with p = 0.000 in all dimensions related to mental health.

Discussion
Ansoleaga & Toro (2010) found subjects with high psychological demand showed increased risk of having depressive symptoms, we found a significant correlation of high stress and anxiety, depressive symptoms, and other significant changes such as social dysfunction, somatic symptoms and a high risk of depression and anxiety in the worker with a high stress.