title: Health disorders related to learning the welding trade: assessment of approaches to risk communication.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to assess the identification of health disorders as self-reported by apprentices of welding and to analyze the strength of the relationship between age and time of experience with self-reported health disorders before and after a socio-environmental nursing intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  this quasi-experimental, non-randomized, before-and-after study was conducted with 86 welding apprentices from a private entity.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the results show a significant difference for the pre- and post-test means and an increase in the post-test mean score for the cardiovascular, respiratory and cutaneous systems. There was also a negative correlation between the apprentices' ages and the identification of health disorders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the socio-environmental nursing intervention enabled obtaining information on health disorders related to welding. In turn, such information enabled the apprentices to assess information and self-report health disorders.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pampa, UruguaianaRS, Brazil, PhD, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Clarice Alves
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Bonow
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Escola de Enfermagem, Rio GrandeRS, Brazil, PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marta Regina
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Cezar-Vaz
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Escola de Enfermagem, Rio GrandeRS, Brazil, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lauro Roberto Witt da
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Escola de Enfermagem, Rio GrandeRS, Brazil, Doctoral student, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Laurelize Pereira
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.affiliation: Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia, Rio GrandeRS, Brazil, MSc, Professor, Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia, Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Turik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D065187:Controlled Before-After Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing; D018570:Risk Assessment; D057566:Self Report; D012931:Social Environment; D014896:Welding; D055815:Young Adult