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In the world there are hundreds of millions of workers who suffer any kind of occupational hazard, whether they are accidents or occupational diseases due to continuous exposure to occupational risk factors. To analyze the association between the psychosocial factors and health aspects of workers in the study population.
Methods
The study was descriptive, cross sectional and analytical. 506 workers attended in the Electric Train System of Guadalajara, Mexico. We included all workers that were available to answer the evaluation tools on a voluntary basis. To gather the information, the following assessment tools were used: 1. A questionnaire with socio-demographic, labor and health problems items, 2. The Guide to Identify Psychosocial Factors developed by the Mexican Social Security Institute.
Results
The 92% of the 506 workers participated. Less than half of workers (43.4%) reported having had an illness in the past six months. The most frequent illnesses were respiratory problems, no respiratory infections, gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal. 20% of the population reported that their illness was related to their work. The 26.9% reported the presence of adverse psychosocial factors in their work area and, by areas, the following: social interaction (34.1%), dependents of the task (33.3%), working system (24.9 %) and organizational (12%). The only negative associations were: to be man with the areas of work system, the social interaction and the total of the areas; to have a couple with the work system, to work on a mixed shift with the social interaction, to be dissatisfied at work with the organizational area, as well as the upper respiratory diseases with the total areas and the gastrointestinal diseases with the task area.
Discussion
However having more than 40 years of age and over 8 years of seniority, acted as protective variables to the dependent areas of the task and of the work system.