Objective:

The aim of this study was to show the relationship between adverse conditions of psychosocial work of origin, situations and behaviors of violence and mobbing at work and self-perceptions on the mental health status of a group of professional teachers of medicine and nursing.

Materials and methods:

This study was conducted with a quantitative design non-experimental, cross-sectional, analytical and explanatory. They participated 68 university teachers, doctors and nurses with at least one year of seniority.

Results:

No relationship was found for age and sex with exposure to adverse conditions of work. Negative psychosocial conditions (average level, 66 per cent) was associated with, both groups, a high probability of presence of situations and behaviors of violence p<0.000. Teachers of nursing proved to be more likely to suffer from any form of violence and mobbing and referred a perception of your general state of health more under [p<0.039], in opposition the group of teachers from the medicine program.

Conclusions:

It is concluded that, despite having worked with a small sample size, the presence of adverse conditions of psychosocial work of origin, made them more susceptible to the workers to the exposure to situations of violence and mobbing at work and effects that this can result in the level of perception of state of mental health. It is suggested that associate adverse conditions of origin of psychosocial work with the current state of economy and ways to produce.

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