MOTTA, Georgina Maria Véras    BORGES, Livia de Oliveira. Mining and mental health - the effects of the Fundão dam collapse. Rev. Psicol., Organ. Trab. []. 2021, 21, 2, pp.1502-1510. ISSN 1984-6657.  https://doi.org/10.5935/rpot/2021.2.22096.

We compared the living and working conditions and mental health between miners who worked in Mariana when the Fundão dam broke, to other miners who worked in another city. We based our work on the ecological, social causation, biopsychosocial models, and other contributions. We applied the General Health Questionnaire-12, Rosenberg's self-esteem scale, and the Work-Family Conflict scales to 164 miners, interviewing 25 of them. We observed that the living and working conditions of the miners of Mariana differ unfavorably and are more prone to common mental disorders. The impoverishment of the social environment, the loss of social support, the increasing conflicts in families , the attribution of guilt for the dam collapse, and the economic decline of the city contributed to accentuating feelings of malaise, depression, and anxiety.

: mining; mental health; occupational accident.

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