Sintomas musculoesqueléticos em motoristas de ônibus: prevalência e fatores associados / Musculoskeletal symptoms in drivers of bus: prevalence and associated factors
Verificar a prevalência dos sintomas musculoesqueléticos em motoristas de ônibus urbano e investigar fatores associados.
MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS:
Realizou-se um estudo transversal com 55 motoristas de uma empresa de uma cidade do estado de São Paulo, com a utilização de questionário muldimensional composto de variáveis demográficas, ocupacionais e hábitos de vida, assim como o Índice de Capacidade para o Trabalho e o Questionário Nórdico de Sintomas Osteomusculares.
Mass transit workers labour activities involving large number of risk factors for musculoskeletal and performing different, knowledge of them is essential in order to have a good quality of life of these workers.
Objectives:
To check the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms in urban bus drivers and investigate factors associated with. MATERIALS AND
Descriptive analysis was performed, multivariate and bivariate by binary logistic regression. It was found that 65.7 workers reported some form of musculoskeletal symptoms in the last twelve months, located above the lumbar region (17.0), and shoulders and knees (13.3). There was association between symptoms and the low level of education, the high demand, the sedentary and the low level of ability to work.