As redes de apoio ao trabalhador adoecido

Abstract

Workers sickened rely on support networks as a way of coping in the health production process, represented by instances such as family, friends, community groups, health professionals and services, work groups and union and religious organizations. The objective of the research was to analyze the role of networks in the health production process and ways of interactions, actions and effects promoted by them. With this, it is expected to understand how this interaction is established in the health production process, especially in a scenario of great affective weaknesses, produced by the condition of illness linked to work. It is a qualitative research, whose study participants were ten workers sick from work. The inclusion criterion was the very statement of the worker against the disease and availability for the time of the interview, via video conference, using an online platform. During the collection, we used the “snowball” strategy, from July to December 2020, including some job categories (engineer, bank, teacher, psychologist, telemarketing operator, IT technician). The interviews covered the following thematic axes: a) The worker's life history and illness process; b) Analysis, by the worker, of the importance and effects of each point of the support network on the work-health relationship. Parallel to the interview, a diagram of the networks mobilized by each worker was drawn up in this illness process, in which the networks were measured using intensity arrows – Strong connection; Distant or conflicted. The analyzes of the interviews were carried out via meaning cores, the pre-indicators and indicators were articulated and systematized, constituting the meaning cores: 1) What is harmful in work relations; 2) support networks as lines of health care; 3) the fragility of work organization: threads that do not make up the networks. It was concluded that what we have is a context of violent and sickening work, combined with a support network centered on the subject's social ties. The importance of the community in health recovery is highlighted, especially in the networks that make up the primary sphere, such as family and friends, through the absence of support from the State and companies, configuring deficit networks. Self-care resources were shown as self-care practices, mobilized by most workers as an autonomous way of seeking recovery, applied in their routine.