The meaning of the work for the healthcare professionals in the Family Health Strategy

Authors

  • Mariana Ramalho de Farias Universidade Federal do Ceará - Campus Sobral, Brasil.
  • Jacques Antonio Cavalcante Maciel Universidade Federal do Ceará - Campus Sobral, Brasil
  • Ana Karine Macedo Teixeira Faculdade de Farmácia, Odontologia e Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brasil
  • José Jackson Coelho Sampaio Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17267/2317-3394rpds.v8i2.2350

Keywords:

Mental Health. Occupational Health. Primary Health Care.

Abstract

The aim of the study was to understand the work meaning under the perception of healthcare professionals of Family Health Strategy. It is related to a critical-analytical research with healthcare professionals who attend in Sobral’s Basic Care, Ceará. The people from the study consist of doctors, nursies, nursing assistants, dental surgeons, oral health agent aides and community health workers linked to Family Healthcare Strategy. To select the subjects, it was sought to identify, from the Job Content Questionaire applying, those exposed to mental illness related to work, in total 433 professionals. Then, these participants were classified into groups representing the highest and lowest propensity to develop illness, divided by different professional cathegories. From these groups, it was sorted eleven workers for applying the open interview,  making use of the script of the Interview of Clinical Deepening and Representation of the Work. The interviews were analysed by the discourse analysis technique and grouped into two analytical categories: The work role in the identity formation: (dis)satisfaction and professional achievement; and the meaning of work, the search for pleasure. The results show work as identity constituent and life experiences, interfering in personal and affective relationships, experienced paradoxically, highlighted as a pleasure source, satisfaction and personal fulfillment, and also characterized as lack of recognition, professional appreciation, work overload and impotence in face of the demand from the users, that not only generate dissatisfaction, but also illness.

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Author Biographies

  • Mariana Ramalho de Farias, Universidade Federal do Ceará - Campus Sobral, Brasil.
    Doutora em Saúde Coletiva. Docente do curso de Odontologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará - campus Sobral.
  • Jacques Antonio Cavalcante Maciel, Universidade Federal do Ceará - Campus Sobral, Brasil
    Doutorando em Odontologia. Docente do curso de Odontologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará- campus Sobral.
  • Ana Karine Macedo Teixeira, Faculdade de Farmácia, Odontologia e Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brasil
    Doutora em Saúde Coletiva. Docente do curso de Odontologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará.
  • José Jackson Coelho Sampaio, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brasil.
    Doutor em Medicina Preventiva. Docente da Universidade Estadual do Ceará.

Published

07/22/2019

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How to Cite

de Farias, M. R., Maciel, J. A. C., Teixeira, A. K. M., & Sampaio, J. J. C. (2019). The meaning of the work for the healthcare professionals in the Family Health Strategy. Revista Psicologia, Diversidade E Saúde, 8(2), 167-178. https://doi.org/10.17267/2317-3394rpds.v8i2.2350

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