Evaluation of psychosocial risks in the central sterile supply department of northern brazil

1Master in Health Sciences Teaching at Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR). Professor at the Nursing Department at UNIR – Porto Velho (RO), Brazil. 2PhD in Production Engineering by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Professor at the Department of Medicine at UNIR – Porto Velho (RO), Brazil. 3PhD in Health Sciences by Universidade de Brasília. Professor at the Nursing Department at UNIR – Porto Velho (RO), Brazil. 4Master in Experimental Biology by UNIR. Professor at the Nursing Department at UNIR – Porto Velho (RO), Brazil. 5Academic of the Psychology course at UNIR – Porto Velho (RO), Brazil. *Corresponding author: valeria.moreira@unir.br Received: 06/21/2020 – Approved: 08/01/2020 https://doi.org/10.5327/Z1414-4425202100010002 ABSTRACT: Objective: To analyze the level of psychosocial risks of workers at the Central Sterile Supply Department of a large hospital in Rondônia. Method: Cross-sectional study, including assistants, nursing technicians, and nurses, using the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire. Descriptive analyses were performed using the Stata® statistical package, version 11. Results: 35 workers took part in the study, most of them women, aged over 40 years old, and nursing technicians. Of the six dimensions assessed, four had a medium risk. The dimension of justice and respect presented a high psychosocial risk, and the dimension of work organization and content, low risk. Conclusion: The workers considered their work important and significant, but they experienced a high psychosocial risk with regard to the demand for attention and emotional demand of the activities carried out in the unit. Few were satisfied with the work, the environment, and the use of individual skills by the service. Information about psychosocial relationships is an important indicator for analyzing work situations, generating information that supports safe interventions in the work process.