Violence against nursing workers: repercussions on patient access and safety.

Objectives: to analyze the repercussions of violence against nursing professionals, in the access and safety of patients in Family Health Strategy.

Methods: a mixed study, with 169 nursing professionals. We used a socio-labor questionnaire, Survey Questionnaire Workplace Violence in the Health Sector, a patient safety instrument and interviews.

Shift work schedule and damage to nursing workers' health at Brazilian public hospital.

Objective: to compare work-related damage between the day and night shifts of nursing workers in at a public hospital.

Methods: a cross-sectional, and correlational study, conducted with 308 nursing workers from a Brazilian public hospital. Data collection took place from September 2017 to April 2018 using self-administered questionnaires that investigated socio-occupational variables and the effects of work (Work-Related Damage Assessment Scale).

Health symptoms and impacts of work on nursing professionals in a public hospital.

Objective: To relate self-reported health symptoms and the impacts of work in terms of physical, social, and psychological illness in nursing professionals.

Method: Cross-sectional, correlational study carried out in a public hospital in the southern region of Brazil. A sample of nursing professionals who worked in direct care participated in the study.

Recyclable waste pickers: life and work in light of the social determinants of health.

Objectives: to know how the social determinants of health relate to the context of life and work of recyclable waste pickers.

Methods: a qualitative study, derived from Convergent-Care Research, conducted with waste pickers from two recycling associations in the South of Brazil. We used systematic participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and convergence groups.

Risks of illness of nursing professors working in in post-graduation courses.

Objective: To identify the risk of illness related to the work context of nurse professors of stricto sensu nursing post-graduation programs of public institutions.

Method: Mixed study (convergent and parallel) carried out in federal universities in Rio Grande do Sul, with nurse professors, from November 2015 to October 2016. As data collection techniques, the Work Context Assessment Scale and a semi-structured interview were used.

Workplace violence types in family health, offenders, reactions, and problems experienced.

Objective: to identify the types of violence that affect the health team in Family Health Units, their offenders, reactions and problems experienced by workers.

Method: a cross-sectional, concurrent mixed-type research. The Survey Questionnaire Workplace Violence in the Health Sector was applied to 106 workers from Family Health Units.

Chronotype and work shift in nursing workers of university hospitals.

Objective:: To identify the predominant chronotype in nursing workers who work in surgical clinics of university hospitals and to verify the association with work shift.

Method:: Cross-sectional study, performed in surgical clinics of university hospitals in the Southern region of Brazil. The sample of 270 nursing workers answered questions of socio-occupational characterization, of health and the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire of Horne and Östberg.

Strategies used by nursing staff in situations of workplace violence in a haemodialysis unit.

Objective: To identify strategies that nursing staff use at a haemodialysis unit in situations of violence by patients during care.

Method: Qualitative descriptive and exploratory research with focus groups and the participation of eight workers of the nursing staff of a private haemodialysis unit in southern Brazil. The data were subjected to thematic content analysis.

Satisfaction and dissatisfaction in the work of recyclable solid waste segregators: convergent-care research.

Objectives: describe elements that promote satisfaction and dissatisfaction in the work of recyclable solid waste segregators and conduct a nursing action focused on these elements.

Method: qualitative research, convergent-care, conducted with members of the cooperative. Data production occurred during 2015 through participation observation, semi-structured interviews, and a convergence group.

History of the Journal of Nursing of the Federal University of Santa Maria.

Objective: To report the history of the Journal of Nursing of the Federal University of Santa Maria.

Method: This is an experience report based on information from secondary materials, such as websites and documents. Data were grouped and presented according to the time sequence.

A Physical Activity Intervention for Brazilian Students From Low Human Development Index Areas: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Promoting physical activity (PA) in low- and middle-income countries is an important public health topic as well as a challenge for practice. This study aimed to assess the effect of a school-based intervention on different PA-related variables among students.

Methods: This cluster-randomized-controlled trial included 548 students in the intervention group and 537 in the control group (11-18 years-old) from 6 schools in neighborhoods with low Human Development Index (0.

Women waste pickers: living conditions, work, and health.

Objective: To know the elements of work, health, and living conditions of women who pick recyclable waste and are members of a waste cooperative in a town of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Method: This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study with seven subjects. Data were collected through participative observation, semi structured interview, and a focus group from July to August of 2013.

The effects of work on the health of nurses who work in clinical surgery departments at university hospitals.

Objective: to analyze the effects of work on the health of nurses who work in clinical surgery departments at university hospitals in relation to physical, social and psychological suffering and pain.

Methods: a quantitative transversal study was carried out between 2012 and 2013 in four institutions in a state located in the south of Brazil. We studied 65 nurses who responded to questions on their habits.

[Managerial nursing competencies in the expansion of the Family Health Strategy].

Objective: To relate the managerial competencies required of nurses with the process of change experienced in the expansion of the Family Health Strategy (FHS).

Method: A qualitative research conducted in primary health care in a southern Brazilian city, through interviews with 32 managerial and clinical nurses. The interviews were processed by IRAMUTEQ software.

Health problems among nursing workers in a haemodialysis service.

Objective The aim was to measure work-related health problems among nursing workers at a haemodialysis unit in southern Brazil and associate these issues with the socio-occupational characteristics of the workers. Method This is a qualitative study conducted with 46 nursing workers. Data were collected using a general health questionnaire with socio-occupational information and a work-related health assessment scale.

[Suffering and pleasure in the process of forming multidisciplinary health residents].

Objective: to identify situations of pleasure and suffering in the process of training multidisciplinary health resident.

Method: qualitative research, developed in the Multiprofessional Residence Program in Health at a university from the south of Brazil. Data was collected in 2013 through focus groups with nine residents, and analyzed according to a thematic analysis.

[Pleasure-suffering indicators of nursing work in a hemodialysis nursing service].

Objective: To measure the pleasure and suffering indicators at work and relate them to the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of the nursing staff in a hemodialysis center in southern Brazil.

Method: Quantitative research, with 46 workers. We used a self-completed form with demographic and labor data and the Pleasure and Suffering Indicators at Work Scale (PSIWS).

Dissatisfaction with body image among adolescent students: association with socio-demographic factors and nutritional status.

This article seeks to determine the prevalence of dissatisfaction with body image and its association with socio-demographic factors and nutritional status among adolescents. The following socio-demographic data, anthropometric variables, and perception of body image (n = 660) were collected. The prevalence of dissatisfaction with body image was 71.

Work ability in nursing: relationship with psychological demands and control over the work.

Objective: to evaluate the association between psychological demands, control over the work and the reduction of work ability of nursing professionals.

Method: this cross-sectional study involved 498 nursing professionals of a university hospital in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data collection was carried out in 2009 using the Brazilian versions of the Work Ability Index and Job Stress Scale, with logistic regression models used for the data analysis.

[Job stress in agents at the socio-educational service centers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul].

The study was both to understand the association of work stress, socio-demographic and labor characteristics, habits and working conditions of the Socio-educational agents in the state of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil. It was a cross-sectional study with 881 agents of the Socio-educational Service Centers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian version of the Job Stress Scale for assessment of work stress has been applied.

[Level of physical activity in the prevention of excess visceral fat in postmenopausal women: how much is needed?].

Objective: To analyze the level of physical activity (kcal/week) needed to prevent excess visceral fat in postmenopausal women.

Subjects And Methods: The sample included 239 women with a mean age of 57.2 years.

[Community health agents and their experiences of pleasure and distress at work: a qualitative study].

The objective of this study was to identify the situations that cause pleasure or distress at work among the Community Health Agents (CHA) in a city in Rio Grande do Sul state/Brazil. A qualitative study was performed with 24 agents as the participants. Data collection took place in 2009 through the use of focal groups, using the thematic analysis technique.

Minor psychiatric disorders among nurses university faculties.

This cross-sectional study addresses 130 nursing faculty members in federal universities from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It investigated the psychological demands and decision latitude (the Demand-Control Model by Karasek) and their association with Minor Psychological Disorders (MPDs). The Brazilian versions of the Self-Report-Questionnaire-20 and the Job Stress Scale were used.