Análise das dimensões do estresse em profissionais da saúde e educação do alto sertão alagoano/baiano

Abstract

Modern society and the globalization process have made work an environment of competitive nature, guided by profit and capital buildup. This reality is introduced into daily work through quick decision-making, a high degree of responsibility, intensity, demands for satisfactory results, among other things. All this inconsistent environment induces the abdication of rest and leisure that the professionals bodies and minds need, resulting in experiencing stress. Stress has become the focus of studies because it is one of the main harmful things of the century that affects the health and quality of life of individuals. Considering the importance of professional categories for human and social development, and care provided to the community, this work aims to measure and compare the stress perceived by health and education professionals in Alto Sertão of Alagoas/Bahia. For that purpose, the stress questionnaire idealized by Shukla and Srivastava (2016) was used with a version validated for Portuguese language by Leite at al. (2021), for data collection in hospitals, health posts, and primary, secondary and higher educations institutionsn, totaling 295 participants. With the collected data, the dimensionality analysis of the questionnaire was performed, proving the unidimensionality of the instrument and later the Gradual Response Model (GRM) designed by Sumajima was applied based on the Item Response Theory (IRT) to build the stress scale perceived which ranges from minimal stress to maximum stress. As a result, in general, it was found that 45.08% of the sample is in a risk region of the scale (33.22% - moderate stress; 8.14% - high stress; 3.73% - maximum stress). In comparative terms, it was found that 41.92% of health professionals are positioned in the scale between moderate stress and maximum stress, while education professionals presented a higher risk situation, 49.22% perceives stress among the moderate level and the maximum level. Therefore, the results obtained are relevant to signal organizations about how the work is being harmful to the integrity of these workers, as well as there is relevance for the scientific environment in the study on occupational stress, opening possibilities for future research in this field.