Abstract
Analysing the level of psychic health in health workers from public hospitals in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. This was a descriptive, traverse cohort (stratified proportional) study of a sample of 95 health workers; a socio-demographic and work-based questionnaire and the Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire (GGHQ) were used. 82% of the subjects were female, 60% were married, 81% catholic, 48% were aged more than 45, 73% had a workload of 40 hours per week and 63% worked at other places. 64% presented a good level of overall psychic health, the psychic health of 31% of them was becoming affected and 5% were in extreme danger. The need for preventative action should be stressed, even with psychically healthy professionals, being, to avoid future damage or more serious worsening of these workers' psychic health.
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