Direct action helpers at home care services: Consequences to the health of workers

The way work is organized and psychosocial risk factors also contribute to the development and worsening of WRMSDs (HSE, 2002).

2 METHODOLOGY

To develop this work, data was collected from questionnaires made to the direct action helpers from Institutions with Domiciliary Services, Portuguese Union of Mercy (PUM) and Private Institutions of Social Solidarity (PISS).