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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Perceived stress by mototaxi drivers and its relationship with sociodemographic and occupational characteristics
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2023;76(4):e20220505
10-09-2023
Resumo
ORIGINAL ARTICLEPerceived stress by mototaxi drivers and its relationship with sociodemographic and occupational characteristics
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2023;76(4):e20220505
10-09-2023DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2022-0505
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Objective:
To investigate the association of sociodemographic and occupational characteristics with a high level of perceived stress in motorcycle taxi drivers.
Method:
Cross-sectional study carried out with motorcycle taxi drivers who answered instruments on sociodemographic and occupational variables - Perceived Stress Scale, Job Content Questionnaire and Effort-Reward Imbalance. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s chi-square test and Poisson regression with robust variance were used. Statistical significance was 5%.
Results:
Of the 800 motorcycle taxi drivers, 46.8% had a high level of perceived stress. In the multivariate analysis, a high level of stress was associated with low control over work (PR=7.76; 95%CI=5.19-11.61), low social support at work (PR=3.87; 95%CI =2.95 5.08), working hours longer than eight hours a day (RP=1.47; 95%CI=1.21-1.78) and monthly income less than or equal to two minimum wages (PR=1.34;95%CI=1.13-2.58).
Conclusion:
Long working hours, occupational stressors and low income were associated with a high level of perceived stress. Public policies and interventions to minimize occupational stressors are essential.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Work overload and risk behaviors in motorcyclists
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72(6):1479-1484
10-21-2019
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ORIGINAL ARTICLEWork overload and risk behaviors in motorcyclists
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72(6):1479-1484
10-21-2019DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0279
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Objective:
to analyze the association between work overload and risk behaviors adopted by motorcyclists.
Method:
a cross-sectional study of injured motorcycle drivers hospitalized at the Hospital da Restauração Governador Paulo Guerra in the city of Recife, PE, from May to September 2016. A questionnaire was applied containing sociodemographic variables related to work overload and risk behaviors adoption. Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% Confidence Interval were used to analyze the association between the variables.
Results:
there was a predominance of males (97.6%), mean age 31.44 years (SD = 9.50). There was an association of sleep/fatigue at the accident time with difficulties carrying out work tasks (OR = 3.7), feeling tired during work (OR = 4.6) and feeling under pressure to carry out work tasks (OR = 3.5).
Conclusion:
work overload was associated with risk behaviors adoption. It is believed that this fact can have an impact on the occurrence and severity of accidents.
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PESQUISA
Prevalence and factors associated with traffic accidents involving motorcycle taxis
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):382-388
01-01-2016
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PESQUISAPrevalence and factors associated with traffic accidents involving motorcycle taxis
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):382-388
01-01-2016DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690223i
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Objective:
to determine the prevalence of motorcycle accidents involving motorcycle taxi drivers and associated factors.
Method:
this is a cross-sectional and exploratory study, with application of questionnaires to motorcycle taxi drivers of 32 regions of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (N=420).
Results:
motorcycle taxi drivers have a high level of daily working hours (12 hours on average), and it was found that 63.6% were involved in at least one motorcycling accident. The occurence of motorcycling accidents was significantly associated only to level of education (p<0.001), with no significant association with the other variables, such as age (p=0.132), time of service (p=0.744) and working hours (p=0.830).
Conclusion:
it is necessary to implement preventive and educational actions with motorcycle taxi drivers and users of this service concerning accidents and emergency measures, due to constant exposure to accidents during work routine.