Qualidade de vida no trabalho: A realidade de profissionais em penitenciárias no estado da Paraíba

Abstract

Introduction: The serious problems related to the physical structure, security and human resources shortage in the prison system, when disjointed, present themselves as obstacles to the services performance and can compromise the Life at Work Quality (QVT) of professionals working in these places. Objective: To measure and identify factors associated with life quality in the health professionals and prison guards work on the Paraiba state prison system. Methods: This is an exploratory and descriptive research with quantitative and cross- methodological approach held in prisons in the Paraibastate. The study included 29 health professionals and 162 Penitentiary Security Agents (PSA) over five prisons. To collect data, it used the TQWL-42 questionnaire, consisting of sociodemographic questions and 42 questions divided among six spheres for the QVT evaluation of. The results were obtained by applying descriptive statistics (means and scores between 0 and 100), multiple linear regression and chi-square test. The research protocol was approved by the UEPB Research Ethics Committee, with the CAAE 31749014.3.0000.5187. Results: Among the Prisons health professionals, most are female (69%), is presented in the age group between 35-54 years (55.2%); claims to be married or remained stable union (58.6%), has schooling in complete graduate level (41.4%) and performs its functions in the prison system for over 6 years (31.0%). QVT overall assessment was 69.55 points. The biological / physiological and environmental / organizational spheres were statistically significant in relation to the QVT self-assessment. Among the prison guards, all are male. 55.6% are between 30 to 39 years, 68.9% say that they are married or keeping a stable union, 34% have completed higher education and 46.3% work in the prison system between 2-4 years. The QVT overall assessment was 56.22. The age and service length were statistically significant in relation to the QVT overall assessment. The sociological / relational, economic / political and environmental / organizational spheres were statistically significant with respect to QVT self- assessment. Among this group, the chi-square test showed significant association between service length and the PSA QVT. Conclusions: It was observed that, among health professionals, the QVTevaluation been satisfactory level. Sex and education were presented as factors associated with QVT and the biological / physiological and environmental / organizational spheres. In contrast, the PSA QVT evaluation was satisfactory with anunsatisfactorytendency. Among these professionals, the age and service time proved aspects associated with QVT, but also to economic / political and environmental / organizational spheres. Conducting an extensive reform in the Brazilian prison system is urgent, and should be based on the investments realization in the judiciary, to physical structure and equipment, in addition to investing in specific training for these workers, given the place specificities.