Ecología ocupacional y su influencia en la adaptación ocupacional de los agricultores del municipio de Pamplonita.

Abstract

The following research aimed to analyze the occupational ecology and its influence on the occupational adaptation of farmers in the Municipality of Pamplonita who infer that the Occupational Therapist must be present in the period of recovery, rehabilitation, restructuring or transformation where routines, Lifestyles are rebuilt, that is, in the adaptation process, which will allow maintaining satisfactory and significant occupational behaviors, when performing occupations that are friendly to the environment, the person and their occupational performance Simó (2012). The study was carried out on 40 farmers, taking up the population between 18 and 70 years of age, the occupational ecology checklist and the OPHI II were applied, the research was quantitative and descriptive methodological type, finding alteration in the areas of occupational performance with a predominance in the "competence and environment of occupational behaviors", and in the ecological component aspects such as "negative actions that directly impact the environment and health, no healthy lifestyle habits, no handling of personal protection elements, use of agrochemicals among others". In the results it is concluded that any alteration originating in the components and performance areas, interfere in the adaptation process, generating demotivation, carrying out occupational activities without ecological awareness, which directly limits the occupational performance and therefore the farmer's quality of life. , affecting the occupational behaviors of the population, which is what indirectly structures the establishment of satisfactory habits and routines.