title: [The psychological wellbeing of health personnel working in public hospitals].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Analysing the level of psychic health in health workers from public hospitals in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Hospital de Pediatria Professor Heriberto Bezerra, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. lucianacarla.psi@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Luciana C Barbosa
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: Eulália M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Chaves-Maia
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires