Factores de riesgo psicosocial en el personal operativo de salud que trabaja en un hospital rural público de difícil acceso geográfico ubicado en el cantón Taisha, durante el año 2020

Abstract

Psychosocial risk factors are currently present in all work areas, their prevalence is high and is associated with a negative or positive impact for the worker, taking special relevance in the health sector. Objective to identify the psychosocial risk factors in operational health personnel working in a public rural hospital with difficult geographic access located in the Taisha canton, in 2020. Methodology the research is descriptive and cross-sectional, the universe is made up of 46 operational workers (54% women and 46% men). The ISTAS21 questionnaire, medium version, was used. Results the most unfavorable jobs in health personnel are laboratory workers, nursing assistants and biochemists, while the most favorable are clinical psychology and social work; Regarding the areas of work, the most unfavorable are pharmacy, emergency and clinical laboratory, while the most favorable is external consultation; finally women have more unfavorable situations than men. Conclusions the health posts, areas and personnel present a higher percentage of unfavorable situations than favorable situations, for which the implementation of an Epidemiological Surveillance Program on Psychosocial Risk is required to prevent and control stress responses and associated diseases.