Work-related violence and appropriation of workers' health: Suffering announced in the unified social care system

Abstract

The study aimed to research the violence at work experienced in the Unified Social Care System (SUAS) and its repercussions on the psychic health of the worker. This is a descriptive, qualitative study with a methodological framework in phenomenology. After data collection, through semi-structured interviews with SUAS workers, the analysis followed the following steps: global data reading; dividing the data into units of meaning; organization and enunciation of raw data in the language of the theoretical framework-mental health and work and synthesis of results. Reports about the violence that emerges from the place, organization and work relationships, as well as the indirect, institutional and patrimonial violence, showed repercussions on the health of the interviewed workers. Possibilities that were confirmed by the loss of sense of the work they do, psychological suffering, compromised quality of the work offered, in addition to medical leave, turnover and absenteeism. Systematic interventions by the government are recommended in order to modify and improve working and health conditions for workers at SUAS.