Qualidade de vida e saúde postural de agricultoras familiares, Belterra, Pará, Brasil

Abstract

In agriculture, women are more prone to illness not only because of their physical structure, but also because of the accumulation of productive and reproductive functions. The objective was to identify the most painful region of the body; assess static posture; measure quality of life (QoL) and correlate postural changes found with pain complaints; QOL and productive and reproductive activities. The initial sample consisted of 14 women associated with AMABELA, aged 18-55 years, who worked in agriculture and performed household chores. The brief pain inventory was applied to these women; sociodemographic questionnaire and the WHOQOL-bref. The stage of postural assessment and analysis of movements performed during the activities performed by them had only 10 women and only 9 answered the questionnaire on productive and reproductive activities. The result showed an average of 41 years; most with 4 children, with a predominance of natural childbirth; predominance of complete secondary education; and 5 more years of work in the field; the majority living on less than one minimum wage and only from agriculture; 28.5% reported back pain, with the lumbar region being the most affected with moderate pain; The working day in the field of 4-8 h/day and 3 h of domestic activity; The standing posture was the most adopted and cleaning the most expensive reproductive activity. As for QOL, the social relationships domain was the one that had the highest satisfaction and the physical domain the worst satisfaction index, the others were regular. As for the postural assessment, 100% of the women presented moderate to severe postural changes. There was the presence of inadequate postures during the tasks performed. However, there was no significant correlation between postural changes with pain and productive and domestic activities. However, a positive correlation was observed with the psychological domain of QOL. It is concluded that family farmers have as main complaint back pain, which is moderate, especially the lumbar region. No significant correlation was found between the postural changes found with the reported pain and the activities performed by the participants, but there was a reduction in their quality of life, interfering with their self-reported general QoL. Further research on the subject is suggested in order to unravel the possible causes of musculoskeletal pain found in this public, generating more knowledge about the health of women farmers and the influence of their multiple functions.