Dor e desconforto osteomioarticular em trabalhadores do setor de transporte em João Pessoa/PB: um estudo de prevalência

Abstract

Introduction: Pain is a common event in the various scenarios involving health care, from birth to death, whether in or out of hospital. In Brazil, work-related musculoskeletal disorders, known as osteoarticular disorders, currently represent the main group of health problems among the occupational diseases in the modern world. Objective: To identify the prevalence of pain and musculoskeletal disorders in the various body segments of workers in the transportation sector in the city of João Pessoa, PB. Materials and Methods: This is a documental, observational, descriptive, transversal, quantitative study, developed at Transport Social Service (SEST) in Johoão Pessoa/Paraíba/Brazil, from January to February 2022. The universe of the study consisted of individuals from the transportation industry of both sexes, with ages ranging from 25 to 74 years, whose sample totaled 152 subjects chosen randomly and by convenience. The variables gender, weight, age and height, body mass index (BMI), clinical and health data, and lifestyle were studied. The data were grouped in a database in the EXCEL® application, the descriptive statistics performed in the SPSS software, with the respective absolute and percentage frequencies, risk ratio, as well as, the weight of evidence (WoE) binary classification model was used to determine the influence of factors. We also applied the multivariate model of simple Correspondence Analysis. The study was previously approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Paraiba, under Opinion number 5,156,893. Results: It was verified that 82.0% of the workers of the analyzed transportation categories reported some type of musculoskeletal symptom, located mainly in the lumbar region (41.0%). An association was observed between symptoms and sociodemographic factors, lifestyle, age group, as well as BMI. Conclusions: The prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in transport workers is significant, requiring health promotion actions.