Transtornos mentais relacionados ao trabalho em servidores de uma universidade federal

Abstract

Mental and behavioral disorders is a group of illnesses that have been extensively studied by researchers and that have aroused interest in managers as they are among the most frequent causes of worker dismissal, generating long periods of incapacity for work and even early retirements. With this research we have as general aim to analyze the phenomenon of mental illness in the work environment of a public university in Rio Grande do Norte and as specific aims to identify how the experience of mental illness occurred; to know the ways of coping with the disease used in the context of work and propose a technical product for the prevention of illness or recovery of the sick servant. This is a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach. Initially the researcher carried out a survey of the absences whose main codes were Group F (Mental and Behavioral Disorders) in the period 2012-2019, obtained in the Federal Public Administration System. Then, she conducted semi-structured interviews with the selected participants on the relationships between their health-disease process and their work. She used thematic content analysis for the elaboration of the results, from which the following analysis categories emerged: 1. Work conditions and organization (subdivided into the subcategories: 1.1 Interpersonal relationships and 1.2 Workload) and 2. Life- work (subdivided into 2.1 Home-work interface and aspects of the individual and 2.2 Social support / reception and ways of coping). As a result of this research we have a manual for the operative group entitled "Healthy mind at work", with the aim of preventing mental illness of the worker and favoring the recovery of health. We also highlight the importance of implementing new projects that aim mental health at work.