Sociodemographic and occupational influences on health professionals' quality of life.

Objective: To analyze the sociodemographic and occupational influences on health professionals' quality of life.

Method: This descriptive-exploratory, cross-sectional, analytical, and quantitative study addressed 94 health workers, including nursing technicians, nurses, and physical therapists working in Intensive Care Units in a town in the extreme south of Brazil in 2023. The student's t-test and Spearman correlation were used.

Strategies used by nurses regarding underreporting of rural work accidents due to pesticide use.

Objective: To learn the strategies used regarding underreporting of pesticide use in rural areas.

Methods: A qualitative study was carried out in eight primary healthcare units in rural areas and two emergency care units in a municipality in southern Brazil. Data collection took place in 2023 through interviews.

Hospital sustainability indicators and reduction of socio-environmental impacts: a scoping review.

Objective: To synthesize knowledge about hospital sustainability indicators and evidence of reduced socio-environmental impact.

Method: Literature scoping review using Pubmed, Science Direct, Scielo and Lilacs databases. Studies in a time frame of 10 years, addressing hospital sustainability indicators and evidence of reduced socio-environmental impact published in any language were included.

Musculoskeletal Pain in the Neck and Lower Back Regions among PHC Workers: Association between Workload, Mental Disorders, and Strategies to Manage Pain.

Unlabelled: Scientific evidence indicates that workers in the health sector are commonly exposed to work-related musculoskeletal pain.

Objectives: We aimed to identify the relationship between the presence and intensity of musculoskeletal pain in the neck and lumbar regions reported by Primary Health Care (PHC) workers with workloads and occupational risks, analyze musculoskeletal pain in the presence and absence of self-reported mental disorders based on a medical diagnosis, and identify workers' strategies to manage pain.

Method: This cross-sectional study addressed 338 health professionals working in PHC outpatient services in the extreme South of Brazil.

Occupational Well-Being of Multidisciplinary PHC Teams: Barriers/Facilitators and Negotiations to Improve Working Conditions.

Well-being at work is one of the factors determining healthy work conditions and is perceived by workers as a positive psychological state. In this study, the concept of well-being at work was used together with occupational functionality (i.e.

Domains of Physical and Mental Workload in Health Work and Unpaid Domestic Work by Gender Division: A Study with Primary Health Care Workers in Brazil.

Various studies indicate that workload metrics can be used to assess inequities in the division of labor according to gender and in the mental health of health care professionals. In most studies, the workload is portrayed in a way that does not integrate the different fields of work, that is, work in health services and unpaid domestic work. The objective was to determine the effects of the workload domains of health work and unpaid domestic work according to the gender division of health professionals working in primary health care (PHC), and to analyze the workload as an inducer of anxiety disorders and episodes of depression.

Absenteeism and associated factors: a study addressing the workers from a footwear manufacturer.

Objectives: To characterize absenteeism among the workers of a footwear manufacturer and analyze associated factors.

Method: This quantitative and cross-sectional study addressed 572 workers from a footwear company located in southern Brazil, totaling 1,902 sick leaves in 2017. Analyses considered absolute and relative frequencies, and univariate and multivariate Poisson regression models were performed.

Communication in health and inter-professional collaboration in the care for children with chronic conditions.

Objective: to understand how health communication in the care of children with chronic conditions interferes with inter-professional collaboration.

Method: a multicentric qualitative research. Data collection, carried out through interviews and observation, occurred from October 2017 to February 2018.

Meanings assigned by families about children's chronic disease diagnosis.

Objectives: to understand the meanings assigned by family caregivers about children's chronic disease diagnosis.

Methods: qualitative study, which used as theoretical framework the Symbolic Interactionism, and methodological, the Grounded Theory. It was held in a pediatric unit in Southern Brazil, in 2016, through interviews submitted to open and axial analysis, with the participation of 20 family caregivers of hospitalized children.

Work accidents with children and youth in a rural environment in southern Brazil.

Objective: to know the prevalence of occupational accidents in children and youth who work with their families in the rural environment and to identify the associated factors.

Method: exploratory, descriptive and analytical study with quantitative approach, developed in three rural areas. Participants were 211 children and young people who assisted the family in rural work.

Rural workload and factors associated with the use of medication by elderly people.

Objective: Identify the prevalence and factors associated with the use of medication by elderly rural workers and verify the association between the use of medication and rural workload.

Method: Cross-sectional, exploratory study, conducted among elderly rural workers from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The data was collected through interviews, using a structured questionnaire.

Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Dorsalgia and Associated Factors among Casual Dockworkers.

This study's aim was to analyse the relationship between musculoskeletal disorders (low back pain and dorsalgia) and sociodemographic characteristics, workload and occupational hazards among casual dockworkers. This cross-sectional study addressed casual dockworkers from the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The convenience sample was composed of 232 casual dockworkers.

Use of crack in pregnancy: repercussions for the newborn.

Objectives: To know the effects for the newborn of the use of crack in pregnancy.

Methods: This is a qualitative study conducted in a university hospital in southern Brazil, in the first half of 2014. Fifteen mothers crack users and five grandparents participated.

Use of Global Risk Score for Cardiovascular Evaluation of Rural Workers in Southern Brazil.

The objectives of the present study were to classify the cardiovascular evaluation of rural workers through the Global Risk Score and analyze the intensity of the relationship between the classification and the variables of the score. A descriptive study was developed with 38 rural workers from the extreme southern Brazil. Data collection was performed through an interview and verification of anthropometric measurements and arterial blood pressure.

[Meanings attributed by family members in pediatrics regarding their interactions with nursing professionals].

Objective: Understanding the meanings attributed by family caregivers of children in hospital environments about their interactions with nursing professionals.

Methods: This qualitative study used Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical reference and Grounded Theory as the methodological framework. It was carried out in a Pediatrics Center in southern Brazil, in the first half of 2013.

[The family in the Pediatric Unit: living with rules and hospital routines].

The study aimed to know, in Foucault's view, how the family caregiver of the child deals with the rules and routines in the hospital. Descriptive qualitative study, conducted in the second half of 2011. It had the Grounded Theory as methodological framework.

[The family revealing itself as a being of rights during hospitalization of the child].

This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out during the second half of 2011, in a Pediatric Unit in a city in the extreme South of Brazil. The study aimed to understand the situations in which families reveal themselves as beings of rights during the hospitalization of the child. Fifteen family caregivers participated, divided into three sample groups.

[Mothers of visually impaired children: difficult and easy aspects faced in care].

This study aimed to identify the difficult and easy aspects faced by mothers of visually impaired (VI) children in their care. It is a descriptive qualitative study, developed in the second semester of 2011, with ten mothers of children with visual impairment from an Educational Center for the Visually Impaired located in southern Brazil. Data were collected by means of semistructured interviews and submitted to thematic content analysis.

[Support group as a strategy of care: the importance for relatives of drug users].

The objective was to investigate the perception by relatives of drug users about the importance of the support group as a strategy of care. We conducted a descriptive study with qualitative approach, in the second half of 2010, in a psychosocial care center for users of alcohol and other drugs (CAPS AD), in a city in the extreme south of Brazil with ten relatives. Data were collected by semistructured interviews and analyzed by thematic analysis.