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Psychosocial factors at work and occupational performance in the firemen

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  • Elieser Bastidas Universidad Central de Venezuela
  • Mariam Leal Universidad Central de Venezuela
  • Rossy Montilla Universidad Central de Venezuela
  • Mary Angelys Ramos Universidad Central de Venezuela
  • Gisela Blanco Universidad Central de Venezuela
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014): Diciembre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2014.35720

Abstract

The diverse activities that a fireman makes during his work are very ample, and they as well expose it to all type of dangerous situa- tions. Conditions related to the organization, the content of the work, the accomplishment of the task, interpersonal relationships, the health of the worker can affect so much to the development of the work like a; it is what it is known like labor psycho-social factors. In such sense, the present is an investigation where it was tried to determine the influence that has the labor psycho-social factors on the occupational performance of the firemen. The sample: 47 professionals, to those who the questionnaire was applied to them to evaluate labor psycho-social factors, ISTAS 21, in its adapted short version for Venezuela, and a semi-structured inter- view to evaluate Occupational performance (CMDO) Results: The firemen who reflected high and intermediate levels of risk in the questionnaire, reported in the interview that its execution in some areas of the Occupational Performance like car-care, accessibility, productivity, handling of the instrumental activities of the daily life, academic activities, active recreational activities and socializa- tion, turned out to be unsatisfactory, due to the lack of time, difficult access to their place of work, and others factors.

Keywords:

Firemen, occupational health, psychosocial factors

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Bastidas, E., Leal, M., Montilla, R., Ramos, M. A., & Blanco, G. (2014). Psychosocial factors at work and occupational performance in the firemen. Revista Chilena De Terapia Ocupacional, 14(2), Pag. 173–181. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2014.35720
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Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional
Facultad de Medicina
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