Ganho de peso em trabalhadores de um hospital privado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The worker's health seeks to understand the relationship between work and health and disease process. Worker s health surveillance process has as main characteristic the transformation that it does on work to promote health, and one of the necessary instruments for this promotion is the occupational health examination. Through periodic medical examinations the workers' health can be investigated. The monitoring of body weight measurements over the years of work can be a subsidy to avoid injuries caused by weight gain. The weight gain in workers has been addressed, although it has no clinical consensus on health problems related to this measure. This paper aims to evaluate the weight gain in workers at a private hospital located in Rio de Janeiro through periodic medical examinations, and to analyze the association between weight gain and associated factors. This is a cohort retrospective of 686 workers from a private hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro, wich performed at least two occupational health examinations between the years 2010 and 2015. The weight gain was evident among the hospital workers. The age groups of 31-40 years and above 40 years had respectively 33% and 35% less risk (p<0.001) to gain weight compared to workers up to 30 years. The risk of weight gain was higher in all educational levels compared to the graduated level with magnitude of up to 61% (p<0.001). The risk of weight gain in semi-intensive sector was 57% higher than the base category (Intensive Care Unit), while the risk of weight gain in service support for diagnosis and therapy (SADT) was 53.5% less (p<0.001). Further studies are needed in order to better understand how weight gain occurs among the health workers