Guimarães, JacileideCosta, Danielle Loren2017-02-092017-02-092016-08-26COSTA, Danielle Loren. Análise da relação entre saúde mental e trabalho de docentes universitários. 2016. 114f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Saúde Coletiva) - Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2016.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/21921Mental health and work have been issues of great relevance in studies and research, since the mental illness of the worker is increasingly present in the everyday life of work, entails withdrawals for long periods and provokes losses to both the employer and to the worker itself and its network of relationships. The teaching practice is regarded as a profession with mental and physical risk and therefore deserves a special attention geared towards the health of these professionals. Accordingly, this study is intended to analyze the relationship between the work and the mental health of teachers of a federal public institution of higher education. It is an exploratory and descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, which was divided into two stages. In the first stage, we performed a documentary research with the survey of withdrawals due to leave for health treatment in the UFRN servants, by ICD-F (mental and behavioral disorders), between 2010 and 2014, through a management report obtained from the Federal Public Administration System (SIAPE-SAÚDE, as per its acronym in Portuguese). In the second stage of this study, we performed a field research with the teachers, through a semi-structured interview with guiding questions about pleasure and suffering at work. In order to analyze the interviews, we used the content analysis technique, in its thematic analysis modality, proposed by Minayo (2013), and the theory of Psychodynamics of Work, according to Dejours (1992), as theoretical benchmarks. The data collection period encompassed between November/2015 and June/2016. The results of the first stage showed that mental and behavioral disorders have filled the first places of causes for withdrawing the work because of health reasons in UFRN servants (technical-administrative and teaching staff), and even reached, in 2014, 25% of occurrences of leave for health treatment. The most frequent diagnoses in the withdrawals were the mixed anxiety and depressive disorder (F 41.2), the severe depressive episode without psychotic symptoms (F 32.2) and the recurrent depressive disorder, current episode severe without psychotic symptoms (F 33.2). Regarding the second stage, we extracted two of analytical categories: suffering and pleasure in the teaching work, with three subcategories corresponding to each, namely: Academic productivism – “Publishing or perishing”; Teacher: is it an omnipresent being?; Wear in work relationships; The enchantment of the classroom; The recognition and Experiences that promote quality of life in the work place. Faced with the results, one can realize that teachers, despite the suffering experienced at work, the uncomfortable conditions, malaise, which occasionally even culminates in illness, recognize their work as a stimulant, as a propelling force, that gives their existence a meaning, and that the simple fact of being a teacher and the exercise of teaching could be considered by them as promoters of pleasure and quality of life in the work place.Acesso AbertoSaúde mentalTrabalhoDocentesSaúde do trabalhadormasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA