DESDOBRAMENTOS DA DEFICIÊNCIA FÍSICA ADQUIRIDA POR ACIDENTE DE TRABALHO E SUAS RELAÇÕES COM O RETORNO AO TRABALHO
Pessoas com deficiência; Acidentes de trabalho; Reabilitação profissional; Capacitismo; Inclusão social.
This doctoral thesis sought to investigate psychosocial and organizational aspects related to the return to work of people with physical disabilities acquired as a result of an accident at work. The research consisted of threestages and is presented innine chapters/articles. The first stage, based on a qualitative perspective, sought to articulate different personal and professional experiences relevant to the subject, which is presented in four articles. The first article, based on interviews with 20 workers who had acquired physical disabilities as a result of accidents at work, discusses the psychosocial aspects that mobilize their return (or not) to work, as well as their perceptions of the rehabilitation support and reinsertion into work actions carried out by organizations. The second article, also based on the accounts of participants with acquired disabilities, articulates aspects in common between the life stories shared by the study participants. The third article discusses the perspectives of 21 Human Resources professionals interviewed about organizational factors that support and reintegrate workers after accidents at work. The fourth article presents the analysis of the interviews with 23 Occupational Health and Safety professionals, in which accident prevention actions are linked to subsequent support and reintegration practices after accidents. The results found in thisfirst part of the research formed the basis for the second stage, which aimed to identify quantitative evidence related to the issues that stood out most in the qualitative analysis. These issues were grouped into three main themes: 1) support offered to injured people by organizations; 2) reintegration into work after disabilities acquired as a result of accidents at work; and 3) overlapping stereotypes attributed to people with disabilities and also to people who are injured at work. To this end, a diagnostic inventory was drawn up on each of these topics, which was applied to 181 Human Resources and Occupational Health and Safety professionals, and the presentation of the statistical results is divided into four articles. The fifth article of the thesis discusses the constructionand identification ofevidence of the validity of the Inventory of Support for Workers after Accidents at Work. The sixth article presents evidence of the validity of the Inventory of Reintegration into Work of People who have Acquired Disabilities due to Accidents at Work. The seventh article presents evidence of the validity of the Inventory of Stereotypes Attributed to People Who Have Been Injured at Work. The eighth article discusses the influence of support actions and the attribution of stereotypes on organizational reintegration policies and practices and allocation actions focused on the profile of injured workers. The third stage of the research, presented in the ninth article, refers to a narrative literature review carried out during a sandwich period at the University of Greenwich, in the United Kingdom. This article discusses the mechanisms and conditions under which contact with people with disabilities leads to a reduction in prejudice in people without disabilities. The set of results presented in the nine articles shows, on the one hand, the attention that should be paid to the psychosocial aspects of workers with disabilities acquired as a result of accidents at work and, on the other, the importance that support actions and the return of rehabilitated workers should have in the organizational context. It is considered that these practices should be integrated and based on inclusive principles, which can be helped by the adoption of the diagnostic instrumentsdeveloped during this study.