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Atividade física e qualidade de vida de operadores de caixa de supermercado

2008; UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

2237-9002

Heloisa Helena Battisti, Adriana Coutinho, Augustto de Paula Guimarães, Joseani Paulini Neves Simas,

Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces

Objective: to investigate the practice of physical activity and the quality of life perception of cashier of supermarket . Descriptive research of field, being 40 cashier of a net of supermarket of the Great Florianopolis. For the collection of data a questionnarie with 28 closed questions and 2 open questions was used. Results: 95% of the interviewed ones judge to exist repetitive movements and about 65% of these they feel some type of pain or discomfort during the work, 61% feel pais in the body during the proper service, the activity that more cause pain is to raise the arm. The majority received some type of orientation or training how much the positions or positions to be adopted during the work. How much the practical one of physical activity 54% adepts are, being that the most cited she was the walked one, in a regularity of 2 the 3 times per week, with superior duration the 30 minutes. It more enters the cited reasons than they had taken the searched ones to practise physical activity are the promotion of the health and improvement of the physical aptitude. How much the quality of life in the conception of the operators of cashier of supermarket the majority of them, judges to possess a good quality of life. Conclusions: the great majority of the interviewed ones the activity of work feels pains when carrying through, practises some type of physical activity and considers its quality of good life.