Resumo:
CAPS are health services intended for the treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation of
individuals with severe and persistent mental disorders and those derived from the abuse of
alcohol and other drugs. Through the complexity of the work in these institutions, due to various
factors, it is verified that this activity has impacted the health of its professionals. In this sense,
Ergology emerges as a proposal to better know and intervene in work situations, aiming to
transform them. This approach focuses on the worker who is not exclusively concerned with
prescriptions, and makes uses of himself, discusses norms and values, promotes
renormalizations to achieve the objectives of his work and, mainly, to continue his life and
maintain his health. It is noteworthy, however, that as CAPS and Ergology are recent
phenomena, arising in the 1980s and, consequently, the association between them is still very
little explored in the scientific field, this study aimed, through a integrative review, to
contextualize the use of ergology in various work contexts, directing the look to the field of
Brazilian mental health, CAPS. And from this, analyze the contributions of Ergology to unravel
the relationship between work and health. The search for studies occurred in the Google
Scholar, Scielo and PubMed databases, through the use of the descriptors ergology, mental
health and psychosocial care centers, in English, French and Spanish, together with the
establishment of inclusion and exclusion criteria, in which 59 field research articles were
identified, included in this review. The results indicated a strong presence of ergological
analysis in the work contexts related to the service sector and a lower incidence of such
approach in empirical studies associated with the primary and industrial sector, as well as a
limited incidence of ergological analysis in mental health and CAPS work. The contributions
of Ergology to unveil the relationship between work and health in the various work contexts,
including caps, are precisely in the ability of this approach to highlight human activity at work,
its choices, debates of norms and values, renormalizations and, from this, discover the
experiences and problems that workers are submitted to. In general, research shows that in all
work contexts, from the primary sector to the service sector, workers are subjected to numerous
conflicting situations that can impact their health, whether through the existence of labor risks,
precarious working conditions, high demands and labor loads, among others, reflecting the
strong influence of social and economic antecedent norms, work environment and the choices
made by workers. It is expected that this study will enable a greater discussion about the work health relationship, specifically in the CAPS environment, as well as to promote greater
knowledge and dissemination of Ergology and an incentive to conduct more empirical research
supported by this approach, especially in the contexts of mental health services and CAPS.