Influência do funcionamento ocupacional e percepção de saúde na capacidade para o trabalho de trabalhadores da assistência social.

Abstract

Objective: To analyze occupational functioning, health’s perception and work capacity of social assistance workers in the municipality of Uberaba, Brazil. Method: 41 workers were evaluated through a socio-demographic and occupational questionnaire, the self-evaluation scale of Occupational Functioning (SAOF) and the Index of Capacity for Work (ICT). A descriptive analysis was carried out as well as Spearman and Mann-Whitney-U correlations. Results: Sample with an average of 40 years (65,9 % female) and 56,1 % occupied higher level functions. The majority (70,8%) evaluated their health as good / very good; 29,2 %, as regular / bad / very bad. The ICT average was 38.88 points (DP = 6.8) with a significant association with the variables: sex (p = 0.028), higher level function (p = 0.039), pain (p = 0.004), and health perception (p = 0.008). WC and occupational functioning were correlated in the following fields: personal causality (p = 0.029), habits (p = 0.011), skill (p = 0.011), and environment (p = 0.006). Conclusion: Capacity for work was associated with pain, worse health perception, higher level functions, sex, worse personal causality, unhealthy habits and lower repertoire of skills and environment.