Publications by authors named "Aline Bedin Zanatta"

Introduction: Workplace violence against health care professionals is a highly prevalent problem and is considered a public health concern by the World Health Organization. Yet most studies on the topic focus on its negative impact on the mental health of workers rather than the causes of these incidents.

Objectives: To describe the frequency of workplace violence and its impact on professionals working in Psychosocial Care Centers (Centros de Atenção Psicossocial [CAPS]) in a large city in the state of São Paulo.

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Background: Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) are community-based facilities designed as a substitutive model to break with asylum-based care and aligned to the principles underlying the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde-SUS); thus they promote patient-centered care.

Objective: To establish the prevalence of stress and its association with biosocial characteristics and coping strategies within the work process of healthcare providers at CAPS in a city in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Method: Cross-sectional quantitative study involving administration of three questionnaires: biosocial, Work Stress Scale and a checklist of coping strategies.

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Background: Burnout syndrome (BS) consists of a set of symptoms that appear in response to chronic interpersonal stressors at work and involve the perceptions individuals have of themselves and their work environment.

Objectives: To identify psychosocial risk and work organization factors able to predict mental suffering, and to estimate the prevalence of BS in a sample of nursing professionals from a public hospital in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Methods: Mixed methods research combining quantitative and qualitative approaches conducted at a public university hospital.

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Background: Attending work when sick for fear of losing the job is common among workers. Presenteeism is a rising problem, which has called the attention of researchers from different fields; being difficult to notice, it also raised concerns among managers.

Objective: To establish the prevalence of presenteeism at a food industrial company.

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Objective: To identify the prevalence of Burnout Syndrome in medical professionals, nurses and nursing technicians working in an Onco-Hematological Pediatric Hospital in São Paulo.

Method: An exploratory, descriptive study with cross-sectional design and quantitative approach, with a sample of 188 health professionals. Data were collected using two self-report instruments: the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-HSS) which is a biosocial data form, and a non-participant observation guide.

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