Work in shifts, his effects in workers of the Baguanos´ health area

Abstract

Introduction: Negative consequences in the realization of work exist in shifts, you can originate or stressing, various problems of health; They exist everything a series of events and situations related principally with night work, the fact that they finish affecting all of the nuclei of the life of the worker, so much physiological like psychological, familiar and social during the realization of the aforem entioned work.

Objective: Determining the influence of work in shifts, in health and the studied workers' quotidian life and proposing actions to decrease his effects.

Methods: Descriptive study, side road in workers of the sugar company López Peña, in the period of sugar cane harvest, and to nurses of the hospital “Rolando Ricardo Estrada, all labor in shifts rotatory, I apply them to him an opinion poll, you elaborated a data base and the intervening results presented descriptive statistics with frequency distributions and percent in text and tie.

Results: The greater part of the interviewed had over 10 years on-the-job in shifts, some they presented diseases relating to that mode of work, becoming manifest in one 21.4 % of hypertensive, 11.9 % of workers with gastritis and 16.6 % with arthrosis. The majority acknowledged not to could have rested in his house after the working day, causing the appearing of upsets I eat psicofisiológicos: Stress, insomnia, digestive problems, changes of humor and fatigue.

Findings: The health of nurses and sugar workers of the locality has looked affected by night work.

The system of proposed actions allows decreasing the affectations to the health referred