Docent malaise and absenteeism: A work and health relation of the primary education teachers.

Abstract

This text presents a research partials results about the primary school teachers work and health at the municipal schools at the south zone of the Rio Grande do Sul state with respect to the health licenses taken by docents and auxiliaries between 2012 and 2014. The data were collects for two instruments: a questionnaire about the work matter (Job Content Questionnaire- JC1) and an complementary questionnaire. The data from the first instrument analysis reveals that 25,7% of the teachers affirm to develop a high psychological requirement work and low control, while the second instrument reveals that 40,95% of the respondents took license during the mentioned period whose the main reasons are the emotional and viral infection problems. The data also reveals that 46% of the responds uses medicine in the work process. Those results indicate that part of the category is sick and that there are countless factors that bring the teachers and auxiliaries to becoming sick.