A LOOK AT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OF PARANÁ

Abstract

 A work that involves a complex variety of knowledge, technical responsibilities and actions by other bodies, combined with adverse conditions such as physical, biological, climatic risks, among others. Faced with barracks and vigil situations, that occurs for a non- stoppable 24-hour period of this activity without interruption by the same team. In 2005, the Basic Law of the Military Police (LOB) was changed and SIATE became officially part of the structure of the Fire Department of the Military Police of Paraná. This feat is being rendered of extreme responsibility and importance to the needy. The methodology adopted in the present work is a retrospective bibliographic research, covering publications between 2009 to 2019 (10 years), publications in Portuguese, with manual search in books and magazines, articles available on the Internet were searched through of the databases: BIREME, SCIELO, ADOLEC and BDENF. Prehospital care professionals live with the most diverse health problems, involving pain, suffering, instability, death and life, contributing to the occurrence of anxiety, tension, for a prolonged period of stimuli. Prehospital care professionals are at the apex of the scales for the development of depressive conditions and syndromes of mental disorders. Directly, occupational stress correlates with increased levels of depression, anxiety, panic attacks and Burnout syndrome. So, mostly leading to negative consequences for the quality of life of the professional Military Fire fighter. Given the scarcity, lack of related articles and professional views of these workers' mental health, the present study aims to help the managers of these professionals in the future to seek didactics, prevention work policies, identification of risk potentials and work on how to maintain healthiness in terms of health.