Fatores causais do adoecimento mental ocupacional: análise das decisões dos tribunais regionais do trabalho do Estado de São Paulo

Objective: to analyze the judicial decisions handed down by the regional labor courts of the state of São Paulo, between 2019 and 2020, with the aim of identifying the symptoms related to the mental disorders alleged in the labor lawsuits, as well as associating such symptoms with clinical diagnoses, also investigating the relationship between the symptoms presented and the causality recognized in the judgments. Identify mental disorders and symptoms related it, associate sociodemographic and work data with symptoms and mental disorders, as well as associate mental disorders and their causality with the symptoms. Method: retrospective, descriptive, investigative study with a quantitative and qualitative approach from decisions published by the Regional Labor Courts in the period from 2019 to 2020 regarding occupational mental disorders. Document analysis was carried out using univariate descriptive statistics, including frequencies for nominal variables and measures of position (mean and median) and dispersion (standard deviation and maximum and minimum values) for ordinal variables. Fisher's Exact Test was applied to verify the association between two categorical variables when frequencies were less than 5. A significance level of ρ < 0.05 was used. Results: the main causes of occupational mental disorders were related to bullying practices, excessive demands on goals and results and work overload. Conclusion: it is important to understand the work processes, the causal factors related illness and psychological suffering, in order to raise awareness among workers, employees and society regarding promotional and preventive intervention, from an organizational, individual and collective perspective. Submitted: 10/25/24| Revision: 07/09/25| Approved: 07/14/25