Afastamento por problemas de saúde de militares do exército em serviço no estado do Amazonas, 2001 - 2011

Abstract

Objective:To describe cases ofabsence due to illness of the Military personnel in the state of Amazonas and test if these medical leaves in the period of 2001 and 2011 are associated to their professional military category. Method:epidemiological study of retrospective data from medical leaves of the military personnel in the state of Amazonas, registered at the medical inspection section. All the data was organized by leave causes, according to CID-10 causes and year of occurrence. The variables were: age, sex, place of birth and medical leave motive which are presented annually (number and percentage, stratified according to military ranks and the time of sick leave). The association between the categorical variables and military ranks (officersand non commissioned officers) was tested by chi-square Fisher test; the variance in means were tested by the t-Student test, considering significance <= 5%. The percentage difference was calculated by the percentage variation by chapter according to the first and the second half of the period(2001-2006 and 2007-2011) and the total (2001-2011). Results:Among the 4146 cases reported of medical leave, 3455(83,3%) were non commissioned officerswith a time leave average of 26,9 days (standard deviation = 0,31) and 691 (16,6%) officers with an average of 29,7 days (standard deviation = 0,9). Most of the leaves among the non commissioned officersoccurred between ages of 18 and 29 (52,5%), naturalness of Amazonas (50,3%), 1 to 30 days in males (97,5%) and > 30 days in females (5,4%). Most of the officers leaves occurred between ages of 30 and 39 (38,9%) followed by those with age above 50 (31,7%), natural from Rio de Janeiro state (20,8%) and medical leave time > 30 days. The main causes of sick leave among sergeantswere musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders (41,4%) and among officers were mental and behavioral disorders (23,3%).The percentage variation shows a growth of the leave s causes from musculoskeletal and connective tissue disordersand summarizedconvalescence. Conclusion:The results of this study allow us to visualize the profile of the cases of sick leave among military personnel and the association that exists between illness causes and military ranks, confirming the hypothesis that particular characteristics from each groupactivities are related to specific correlated illness occurrences.