Del riesgo psicosocial a la ética del cuidado. Concepciones y prácticas de un equipo de profesionales que atiende a población en situación de movilidad humana en Quito.

Abstract

This work presents a research study about the psychosocial risks, care ethics, team care, and self-care factors thought of by a group of professionals serving a population that is in a human mobility situation in Quito. The main objective of the study was to identify the conceptions and perceptions about the psychosocial risks and the care practices of the aforementioned group. The approach for this study was a mixed methodology of both quantitative and qualitative data. Researchers used different types of instruments for data collection and production. The results of the quantitative component, the evaluation of the psychosocial risk, identifies that medium and low risk exists in most indicators of the investigated institution. However, the qualitative component shows discrepancies and discomfort associated with the care of team and self-care. Finally, it is important to mention the need to evaluate the psychosocial risks but also essential to engage the gaze from the care ethics, team care, and self-care that allow the institution to provide resources for the development of strategies that attenuate the effect that the work has that the collaborators develop. Likewise, from social psychology, a contribution can be generated to expand the approaches that are carried out at the institutional level and to be able to generate care policies.