Autopercepção das condições de trabalho por professores de ensino fundamental

Abstract

Purpose: to investigate the perception of environmental and psychosocial aspects of the work of public school teachers of primary and relate to the symptoms of vocal discomfort. Methods: cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample of public schools teachers. The study included 90 subjects (18 men and 72 women) distributed in the age groups 24-65 years. The research instrument was a questionnaire with 40 questions consisting of 5 blocks of questions. They were carried out: descriptive analysis and linear regression analysis univariate and multivariate to verify the associations between the number of vocal symptoms and working conditions of teachers. Results: approximately one third of teachers (34.4%) reported the presence of eight vocal symptoms (mean=5.6/SD= 2.4). Regarding the characteristics of the work environment, most teachers regard high or unbearable noise as sound competition to voice use, and (43.3%) of the classroom, and (41.1%) of school. Regarding the psychosocial aspects of work 54.4% of teachers reported low psychological demand and low social support 55.6%. In the final multivariate model, the variable that was associated with number of symptoms was the noise inside the classroom. Conclusion: primary school teachers have a high number of symptoms of vocal discomfort. The vocal discomfort associated significantly with the presence of noise in the classroom. The relationship between psychosocial aspects of work and voice problems, despite not having been differentiated in the number of vocal symptoms in this study, needs to be.