ABSTRACT Family Health Strategy Workers deal with situations that eventually lead to psychological distress. The objective of the present study was to understand these workers’ process of becoming mentally ill and the triggering factors. This qualitative study is founded on social epidemiology, and was performed with 36 workers of 17 Family Health Units of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, between May and July 2009...
OMS points that 45% of lesser mental upheavals attack about 30% of busy workers and serious mental upheavals, 5 until 10%. This research aims to identify the risk, the sociodemographic profile and the risk factors for depression, anxiety and alcoholism among 86 informal workers in João Pessoa - PB, in the period of august of 2006 to october of 2007. It is an individual, observational, transversal cut study. The...