Prevalence of mental and behavioral disorders among nursing workers and associated factors.

Objective: to identify the prevalence of mental and behavioral disorders among nursing workers in the context of COVID-19 and its associated factors.

Method: cross-sectional web survey carried out between October 2021 and January 2022, with 1.073 nursing professionals.

Occupational characterization of workers exposed to asbestos: an integrative review.

Asbestos is a mineral fiber abundant in nature and classified as a carcinogen since 1987. The present study aimed to identify, in the scientific literature, what are the occupation and activities developed by sick workers and which categories would be affected with asbestos-related diseases. Through a literature review performed in the following databases: PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Web of Science, and Regional Portal of the Virtual Health Library, 23 studies published from 2015 to 2020 were selected and evaluated.

Lung cancer and occupational exposure: hospital-based case-control study.

Objective: To analyze the relationship between occupation and lung cancer in patients at a national referral hospital for cancer care in southern Brazil.

Method: Hospital-based case-control study conducted between February and October 2019. Occupational histories were coded according to international classifications and translated into occupations associated with lung cancer (List A and B).

Lung cancer related to occupational exposure: an integrative review.

Objective: To identify in the literature the carcinogenic agents found in the work environment, the occupations and the risk for lung cancer.

Method: A descriptive and analytical study of the Integrative Literature Review type was carried out in national and international databases from the last ten years in the period from 2009 to 2018, concerning 32 studies referring to association between carcinogenic substances to which the worker is exposed and lung cancer.

Results: Nine (28.

Absenteeism due to mental disorders in health professionals at a hospital in southern Brazil.

Objective To describe the health profile of mental and behavioral disorders in health professionals at a teaching hospital in southern Brazil. Methods This was a quantitative, retrospective cross-sectional epidemiological study whose data were collected through institutional documents used to feed the Health Monitoring System for Nursing Professionals and involved all absenteeism occurred in 2011. Results We found 55 records of absenteeism due to mental and behavioral disorders, a total of 317 days absent.