This study presents the attitude of workers in different activities (bank workers, checkout workers and industrial workers) with chronic pain related to the Repetition Strain Injures (RSI) diagnosed in an occupational outpatient clinic - Centro de Estudos da Saúde do Trabalhador (CESAT), in the State of Bahia, Brazil. Sixty five workers from a convenience sample were interviewed, using the short version of the Survey of Pain Attitude, adapted to the Portuguese language. This questionnaire contains seven domains: control, emotion, disability, physical impairment, medication, solicitude, medical cure. Student's test and Mann-Whitney test were used for comparing two and more than two means, respectively. Physical impairment was more important among male industrial workers with less limitation to work. The emotion and control domains were more favorable among people who practice a religion. These results suggest the utilization of this approach to better understand the complexity of the chronic pain among workers, and the necessity of expanding the concepts of assistance and rehabilitation in the field of Occupational Health, through an integral care model.
Chronic pain; Repetition strain injuries; Popular believes; Occupational health
