Acidentes de trabalho em Mato Grosso – Brasil : características, deficiências e incapacidades

Abstract

Introduction Work accidents are considered a serious problem for Public Health, occurring by the exercise of work causing bodily injury or functional disturbance that causes death, or loss, or reduction, permanent or temporary, of the capacity for work and traffic accidents during the trip to work. Objective Analyze the characteristics of the victims of work accidents treated in urgency and emergency units and the deficiencies and disabilities resulting from them in the municipalities of Mato Grosso, 2014. Methods Two-stage cross-sectional tudy: i) data of VIVA-Inquiry for 2014, with a sample of 1,842 work accidents recorded in 16 urgency and emergency units in 14 municipalities in Mato Grosso; ii) data on the application of an instrument based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) were used for the evaluation of disabilities and disabilities due to work and traffic accidents, with a sample of 99 individuals from 13 municipalities. Statistical processing and analysis of the data were performed using the statistical program STATA, with absolute and relative frequencies, 95% confidence interval, prevalence ratio and Pearson's Chi-square test (X2) to verify significant associations (P <0.05). Results Predomintad of male population (81.0%), of brown color (54.4%), aged between 20 and 39 years (57.6%), mean educational level (42.8%) and worker in property production and industrial services (discrete form) (39.6%). Accidents were of the type of transport accidents (37.8%) occurred on public roads (41.2%). In traffic accidents, the driver was involved (88.0%) and the motorcycle was the main means of locomotion (73.4%). The lesion was cut/lacerated (42.1%) in the upper limbs (37.3%) or lower (28.1%). The clinical course was discharged immediately after entry into the service (73.1%). Working in the occupations of property production and industrial services was associated with male sex, cut/laceration and illiteracy or elementary school, and inverse association for ages between 15 and 29 years and traffic accident. Being male was associated with brown color, cut lesion/laceration and illiteracy or elementary school education, and inverse association for non alcohol consumption and traffic accident. Functional deficiencies of the body were pain (52.8%) and neuromusculoskeletal (41.5%) with severe and mild extension. Deficiencies in body structure were related to movement (88.1%) and skin (8.3%), with moderate and mild extension. Activity and participation limitations were of the mobility type (43.6%) and personal care (15.0%), with moderate and mild extension. (59.4%) and products and technologies (25.0%), with full magnitudes, and as facilitators support and relationships (42.3%) and products and technologies ( 31.8%), with full extensions. There was association between part of the body affected of lower limbs and deficiency of body structure. Conclusions The profile of the worker who suffers an accident and is disabled and/or incapacitated represents the magnitude of the problem, reaching a significant portion of the young-adult population, being necessary the guarantee of health policy.