Perfil dos pacientes com hipotese diagnostica de disturbio osteomuscular relacionado ao trabalho atendidos no Ambulatorio de Medicina do Trabalho/Hospital das Clinicas - UNICAMP

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

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The aim of this study is to examine the profile of workers with diagnostic hypothesis of work-related musculoskeletal disorder - WRMD - which were outpatients of the occupational medicine ambulatory in the Unicamp General Hospital in the period ttom January 1992 to December 2001. It is a descriptive study based on data collected ttom the data base at the ambulatory and &om patients clinica1 records. The variables investigated were related to gender, age, area of economic activity, occupation, time worked, present working situation, clinical diagnosis, duration of sickness absence, last clinica1 status, and relation of the disorder with work performed. In order to better organize and support the study a standard form was created to collect the information. Out of a population of 880 patients with a diagnostic hypothesis of WRMD, 214 individuais of both genders were selected by simple random sampling to participa te in the study. Statistica1 software packages MINIT AB and SAS System were used for the statistical ana1ysis of the data. Association among categorical variables was ana1yzed employing Pearson s chi-square test (X2) and the leveI of significance adopted was 5% (p<0.05); descriptive ana1ysis of data was obtained through ttequency distribution tables for categorica1 variables and measures of central tendency and of dispersion for continuous variables. The mean age of the individuais in this study was 35, the youngest being 16 and the oldest 61. As to the other variables, one may say that more than ha1f of the sample was employed at the time of the first appointment and was engaged in industrial activity; 46.01 % of the workers were referred to the ambulatory by the union. Among the most &equent diagnoses, whether diagnostic hypothesis or final diagnosis, we found carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis of the supraspinatus, rotator cuffsyndrome and tenosynovitis ofthe carpal and fingers extensors

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lesões por esforços repetitivos saude e trabalho epidemiologia

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