Prevalencia de los factores de riesgo psicosocial en el personal de una institución pública del Ecuador

Abstract

Workers, within are in constant interaction with elements associated with various psychosocial risk factors, these can positively or negatively influence individuals, becoming risk factors that can cause occupational diseases that are consequently evident in the levels of performance and fulfillment of objectives as well as, in the psychic and mental state. The objective of this study was to identify and evaluate the psychosocial risks of the workers of a public institution in Ecuador, and to establish an intervention plan based on the results of the workers. The study was quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional, applied to 55 workers governed by the Labor Code of a public institution. The instrument of the Ecuadorian Ministry of Labor was used to measure psychosocial risk factors; the results: in all dimensions there are medium and high levels of exposure and the dimensions that require immediate attention are: with 45% margin of action and control, with 50.91% workplace harassment and with 56.37% conditions from work. The relationship of these factors with gender, age ranges, level of education and seniority in the institution is not significant. Once the relationship of the risk factors with the sociodemographic data was made, the conclusion was reached that in order to find more representative links, a more specific statistical analysis must be carried out that allows these results to be correlated.