Index of workability and effort-reward imbalance related to voice disorder in teachers in the state of Alagoas

Abstract:

PURPOSE:

verifying the association between the voice disorder and sociodemographic and organizational data (situations of violence) of teaching, between loss of workability and psychosocial stress at work.

METHODS:

participants were asked to answer the protocols: Condition of Vocal Production of the Teacher, Effort-Reward-Imbalance and Work Ability Index.

RESULTS:

there was found correlation between voice disorder and demographic and organizational work data in relation to the time that teaches (p=0.028), amount of schools that teaches (p=0,004) and to the situations of violence in the issue depredation (p=0,037). There was no significance between the voice disorder and the scores of Effort-Reward-Imbalance and Work Ability Index questionnaires (p>0,05). There was an association between sociodemographic data and Effort-Reward-Imbalance and Work Ability Index questionnaires related to age (p=0,042) and to the variable "Works in elsewhere beyond school" (p=0,011), respectively.

CONCLUSION:

it is observed that teachers who have more than 11 years of teaching teaches in two or more schools, works in schools that happens always depredations and violence against employees, are more likely to have a voice disorder. There was no association between loss of work ability and the presence of voice disorder. Psychosocial stress was not associated with the presence of voice disorder, but was associated with age, observing high Effort-Reward-Imbalance in younger teachers.

Keywords:
Quality of Life; Voice; Teachers; Occupational Health