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Health disorders related to learning the welding trade: assessment of approaches to risk communication 1 1 Paper extracted from doctoral dissertation "Perception and risk communication: assessment of nursing environmental intervention on process of training welders", presentd to Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil

OBJECTIVE:

to assess the identification of health disorders as self-reported by apprentices of welding and to analyze the strength of the relationship between age and time of experience with self-reported health disorders before and after a socio-environmental nursing intervention.

METHOD:

this quasi-experimental, non-randomized, before-and-after study was conducted with 86 welding apprentices from a private entity.

RESULTS:

the results show a significant difference for the pre- and post-test means and an increase in the post-test mean score for the cardiovascular, respiratory and cutaneous systems. There was also a negative correlation between the apprentices' ages and the identification of health disorders.

CONCLUSION:

the socio-environmental nursing intervention enabled obtaining information on health disorders related to welding. In turn, such information enabled the apprentices to assess information and self-report health disorders.

Welding; Occupational Risks; Occupational Diseases; Occupational Health Nursing; Health Communication


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