Publications by authors named "Augusto Maciel da Silva"

Article Synopsis
  • This study examined how the ethical climate in healthcare affects the health of workers, focusing on moral distress and job satisfaction.
  • A systematic review analyzed 2644 studies but ultimately included only 20 for evaluation, with a majority rated as regular quality.
  • Results showed a moderate negative correlation between a poor ethical climate and increased moral distress, while a better ethical environment was linked to higher job satisfaction among healthcare professionals.
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Adapting cross-culturally the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey to Brazilian nurses. A methodological study comprising translation, back translation, multidisciplinary committee, expert panel, pilot test and validation of the instrument. The validation was carried out with 269 nurses of a university hospital in the South of Brazil.

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Background: Ethical climate can be defined as the healthcare professionals' perceptions of the ethical treatment of healthcare issues and human interactions in their work environment. A number of studies on ethical climate are being carried out in several countries. In Brazil, however, research on the matter is still incipient, especially among hospital nurses.

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Objective: To verify relations between moral distress and work satisfaction in nursing work in the hospital context.

Method: A cross-sectional study carried out in a university hospital with nurses by applying a sociodemographic questionnaire, the "Index of Work Satisfaction" and the Brazilian Version of the "Moral Distress Scale". Descriptive statistics and Spearman's correlation were used for the analysis.

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