Enders, Bertha CruzSilva, Marcela Paulino Moreira da2017-04-112017-04-112016-12-19SILVA, Marcela Paulino Moreira da. Características de trabalho e fatores de risco para doença cardiovascular em enfermeiros de um hospital universitário. 2016. 70f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Enfermagem) - Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2016.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/22610Cardiovascular diseases stand out as the leading causes of death worldwide, representing the most relevant public health problem today. The study and prevention of these diseases in the population are of particular interest to nursing, and especially to the health surveillance of the worker to the extent that the work context and the cardiovascular risk factors present in nurses can contribute to the risk of development Of these diseases The objective of this study was to identify the work characteristics and personal risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in hospital nurses. Cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach developed at the University Hospital Onofre Lopes. The study population consisted of 256 nurses who worked at the institution, with a sample size of 148 nurses, selected in a simple randomized manner. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to evaluate the sociodemographic variables, work characteristics, cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular risk, in addition to the Bianchi stress scale. The analysis of the data was based on descriptive and bivariate analyzes to associate the categorical and continuous variables. The nurses were predominantly female (85.1%); Whites (52%); With an average age of 35.2 years; Training time between 5 and 10 years (42.6%); They worked in the wards (48.6%); In the evening shift (36.5%); With a weekly workload of 36 hours (45.9%); The majority had another work link (55.4%); With working time in the institution between 1 and 3 years (40.5%) and average daily workload of 8 hours. Regarding the presence of cardiovascular risk factors: 51.4% of the nurses were overweight and 51.4% were sedentary. The cardiovascular risk for the ankle-brachial index was estimated with an average of 1.2, being set as low. Participants with a Bianchi score for Stress rated as moderate presented a cardiovascular risk 3.27 times higher than those who presented Bianchi low stress score. Nurses who worked more than 40 hours per week had higher cardiovascular risk than the others. It is concluded that the majority of the nurses in the study presented low cardiovascular risk for cardiovascular diseases by the ankle-brachial index. The association of cardiovascular and cardiovascular risk factors with ABI was not statistically significant. However, the relationship was significant (p = 0.013) when the association between risk factor and cardiovascular risk was analyzed. Despite the low association found, it is suggested that policies in favor of worker health in health services should be routinely planned and implemented in order to provide improvement to the subjects studied and other health professionals.Acesso AbertoFatores de riscoDoenças cardiovascularesSaúde do trabalhadormasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM