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Vive Revista de Salud
Print version ISSN 2664-3243
Abstract
REYES NARVAEZ, Silvia Elizabet et al. Teleworking in the context of Covid-19 and its impact on the health of university teachers. Vive Rev. Salud [online]. 2021, vol.4, n.12, pp.166-178. ISSN 2664-3243. https://doi.org/10.33996/revistavive.v4i12.117.
Teleworking is a work modality promoted during the Covid-19 context. It implies the execution of work from a place other than the organization making use of information technologies, with this the state protects and guarantees labor law, but at the same time, constitutes a source of health risks.
Objective.
To evaluate the occupational risks of teleworking in the framework of the Covid-19 health emergency in teachers of a public and private university.
Material and methods.
Basic research of non-experimental descriptive-comparative design. It was carried out in a sample of 277 teachers from the Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo National University and the San Ignacio de Loyola University of Peru. The data was collected through a Telework Occupational Risks Questionnaire applied online and had 34 items. The instrument evaluated: musculoskeletal risks, psychosocial risks, visual fatigue and locative risks.
Results.
48.2% (54) teachers who teleworked in public universities and 44.2% (73) of teachers from private universities presented some occupational risk (musculoskeletal risk, psychosocial risk, locative risk or visual risk). 37.9% (105) presented musculoskeletal occupational risks, 22.4% (62) locative risk, 19.5% (54) psychosocial occupational risk and 8.7% (24) visual risk.
Conclusions.
There is no significant difference in occupational risks between teachers from public and private universities during the development of telework in the framework of the health emergency caused by Covid-19.
Keywords : Occupational risks; Occupational health; Working conditions; Professor.
