Return to work of workers with fingers amputation in Curitiba, PR, Brazil, PR, Brazil.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-6149.v27i2p138-145Keywords:
Occupational health, Occupational therapy, Workers, Accidentes, occupational/rehabilitation, Return to work/psychology, Finger injuries/rehabilitation, Amputation, traumatic/psychology, traumatic/rehabilitation.Abstract
Return to work in upper limb amputees is influenced not only by the physical and biomedical condition of the worker but by psychosocial factors, occupational and organizational aspects as well. The aim of this paper is to investigate the return to work of 15 patients, victims of
occupational accidents with fingers trauma, after rehabilitation in the Hospital do Trabalhador in Curitiba in 2012. A questionnaire was applied searching data from: demographic information, trauma characteristics, employment status before accident and after return, and difficulties after return. It was observed that, even if the majority of the 15 workers returned to the same job, many reported difficulties in doing their activities sex months after their return to work. It reveals the need to support workers in the return to wok process aiming to adjust working conditions or to build strategies for the search of other kind of job.
