Open AccessFatigue levels among Family Health Strategy professionals in the Brazilian countryside
Author(s) -
Fernanda Bernardeli Pereira,
Núbia Fernandes Teixeira,
Vanessa Cristina Bertussi,
Maria Cristina de Moura Ferreira,
Carla Denari Giuliani,
Marcelle Aparecida de Barros Junqueira
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-2933
DOI - 10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss9.2628
Subject(s) - compromise , health professionals , descriptive research , sample (material) , nursing , rural area , descriptive statistics , rest (music) , psychology , medicine , health care , sociology , social science , chemistry , statistics , mathematics , cardiology , chromatography , pathology , economics , economic growth
This research addresses fatigue within the team of nursing professionals of the Family Health Strategy (FHS). Objectives: To describe the fatigue levels of FHS nursing professionals. Identify the presence of fatigue among nursing professionals. Method: The research has a descriptive-analytical, quantitative character. Questionnaires were applied to a sample of 112 professionals at basic family health units in the city of Uberlândia, Brasil. Simple and applied statistics were used in order to collect the data. Results: The study showed that the sample had a greater predominance of females, aged between 30 and 49 years, with a greater number of nurses and who have only one job. It was identified with the DUFS questionnaire that 20, 8% say that they always need extra energy to handle their daily tasks and that 36.9% of professionals have had the need to rest more. Thus, this research shows the presence of fatigue in 70.8% of professionals. Conclusion: Evaluating the projections of fatigue on the body, this research shows self-reported signs that are already present signs, which can be recognized as symptoms and that translate signs of compromise, at some level, of the well-being of the workers in question, certainly reflecting on daily life, which may also compromise the health of these workers and their performance.