Prevalencia del estrés laboral en trabajadores de la salud del primer nivel de atención que laboran en el Centro de Salud Tipo C Nabón y sus manifestaciones clínicas presentes en los últimos seis meses

Abstract

Health workers have been considered a risk group for work stress because of the regular contact with patient`s illnes. The main purpose of this investigation is to identify the work stress prevalence on first line of care health workers` who work in CENTRO DE SALUD TIPO C NABÓN, and their clinical signs present in the last six months. Two questionnaires were administered according to the Demand – Control Model (Karasek) and Effort- Reward imbalance Model (Siegrist), to sixty health centre employees, and their clinical manifestations were verified on their medical record. According to Karasek Model there is not a high risk of work stress at Nabon health workers, but, the dimensions with relevant values are: psychological demands, physical demands and job uncertainty, which can generate symptoms for work stress. According to the Siegrist Model, with values bellow to 1 on all of the Nabon employees, not pathological for work stress, but, the higher levels to mean value (12) in the scale of overimvolvement and extrinsic effort may cause work stress on health workers.