Análise do estresse e seus efeitos na saúde de motoristas de aplicativo em Maringá-PR

Abstract

JUSTIFICATION: Due to the negative repercussions related to work stress and its direct impact on people's quality of life, research has been carried out to relate work stress to its consequences, but there is still no research related to the drivers of informal work application in the increase in last years. Alongside an exponential growth of workers, this stress will bring new demands to the health system.OBJECTIVE: To identify the stress level of people transport app drivers and relate it to the impacts on quality of life.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a descriptive exploratory study with a quantitative approach. Data collection was carried out through a questionnaire based on the extended Perceived Stress Scale (EEP-14), which has 14 questions, applied to a sample of 66 drivers of people transport applications in Maringá through an electronic form. The signing of the Free and Informed Consent Term (ICF) was requested and the participants were free to decide whether or not they wanted to participate and that their renunciation would not cause any harm. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of occupational stress averaged 27 points out of a possible 56, or approximately 48%. The women evaluated obtained an average score of 34.4 points (61.5%) and the men, 25.8 points (46.1%).CONCLUSION: Professional activity with strenuous working hours and with many stressors associated with exercise as application drivers directly and indirectly affects the quality of life of workers, but the instrument for collecting information on stress is self-reported and, therefore, has a bias subjective that may not be concomitant with the actual stress level. This way, it’s necessary the association with serum or salivary cortisol dose, indicative of trustworthy cortisol secretion troubles, which is directly related to stress