Manual de recomendações ergonômicas para docentes no teletrabalho

Abstract

The main challenges of teleworking for teachers are the intensification of work, the need to develop new skills and the emergence of new occupational illnesses. In view of this, we can see the rise of diseases related to posture and the lack of ergonomics in teachers' daily health. The aim of this study is to develop a manual of ergonomic recommendations for the working day, based on the identification of risk and usability factors affecting teachers. Online forms were used on Google Forms, aimed at teleworking teachers. The forms were used to collect data for the ergonomic recommendations manual, including information on the area of pain and time of onset. This was a cross-sectional, qualitative, descriptive and developmental study, as well as a literature review. The study had a population of 304 teachers and a sample of 47 participants who met the inclusion criteria for this study. The data was stored and processed in SPSS version 24 for Windows and displayed in graphs and tables. Descriptive statistics were used to show absolute and relative values, means and standard deviations. The association was made using Fisher's test (for the association of variables) and Chi-square (to analyze observed frequencies and expected frequencies in categorical variables). The conclusion is that there is an association between health status and the ergonomics of the teleworking environment. In addition, the study shows that the lack of ergonomics in the teleworking environment directly interferes with the health and appearance of chronic musculoskeletal diseases of the teachers analyzed in this research.