Construction and validation of an educational game on biosafety in the central sterile supply department.

Objectives: to construct and validate an educational game on biosafety in the Central Sterile Supply Department of a hospital in Curitiba, PR.

Methods: the study was conducted using a quantitative approach, employing applied and technological research with an exploratory design. The process was divided into six stages, from the definition of the theme to the validation and application of the game.

Generalized Resistance Deficits in inmates with hypertension: missing resources that limit health.

Objective: to understand the Generalized Resistance Deficits of people deprived of liberty with hypertension in a Brazilian prison unit.

Method: qualitative research, anchored in Salutogenesis, carried out with 38 people with hypertension from a Brazilian prison unit, from February to July 2022, with a semi-structured interview with open-ended questions, whose analysis was thematic, explaining the limitations to health in prison.

Results: 13 Generalized Resistance Deficits were reported, mostly related to the prison environment and, to a lesser extent, to the social group and the individual, respectively.

Trait and state anxiety in healthcare professionals of intensive care unit.

Objective: To estimate trait and state anxiety levels among intensivecare professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Method: Cross-sectional, analytical study, conducted from April to July 2022, in a teaching hospital in southern Brazil, using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory scale.

Results: Trait and state anxiety were present in more than half of the sample, being associated with gender, age group, having children, weekly workload, time working in the hospital and ICU (p<0.

Factors associated with the SARS-CoV-2 infection among health professionals from university hospitals.

to investigate factors associated with the SARS-CoV-2 infection among health professionals from university hospitals. a multicenter, mixed approach study with concomitant incorporated strategy, carried out with 559 professionals in the quantitative stage, and 599 in the qualitative stage. Four data collection instruments were used, applied by means of an electronic form.

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).

Occupational dermatoses in the Brazilian South region recorded in a reporting system (2007 to 2016).

Background: Occupational dermatoses must be mandatorily reported in Brazil.

Objective: To characterize the reporting of occupational dermatoses in the Brazilian South region, and describe the profile of the involved workers.

Method: Retrospective and descriptive study of 396 cases of occupational dermatoses reported from 2007 through 2016 via the Information System for Notifiable Diseases.

Psychosocial risks and the health of health workers: reflections on Brazilian labor reform.

Objective: to reflect on the psychosocial risks and their impacts on the health of health workers in light of the Brazilian economic context and Labor Reform.

Method: reflective study on the Brazilian Labor Reform and its impacts on health of health workers.

Results: although the changes observed in the labor sphere have contributed to improvements in health and safety policies for, these changes have also contributed to the emergence of new risks arising from work activities, including psychosocial risks, which affect all occupational categories.

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.

Matrix of strategic recommendations for immunization of health workers.

Background: Health workers are at high risk of exposure to contagious diseases, many of which might be prevented through vaccination. According to the Brazilian labor legislation, vaccination is a right of workers and an obligation for employers.

Objective: To develop a matrix of strategic recommendations relative to the vaccination status of health workers as a function of the risks to which this occupational group is exposed.

Profile of Brazilian workers victims of occupational accidents with biological fluids.

Objective:: To characterize the Brazilian workers victims of occupational accidents with biological fluids.

Method:: Epidemiological and descriptive research, in which 284,877 notifications of the Notifiable Diseases Information System were analyzed between 2007 and 2014. We used Stata 13 for data analysis.

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.

Health indicators of workers of the hospital area.

Objective: to analyze the health indicators of workers of hospital area for exposure to workloads, wear processes and its consequences.

Method: a retrospective, descriptive and exploratory study performed in a hospital in southern Brazil. The population consisted of 1,050 workers notifications of registered in the Monitoring System of Nursing Workers Health, in 2011.

[Description of workloads and fatigue experienced among health workers in a teaching hospital].

This is an exploratory, descriptive and quantitative study, based on the following categories: work process, workloads and fatigue in a teaching hospital in Curitiba in the southern region of Brazil. The article characterizes the load and stress experienced in a university hospital, based on a previous study entitled "System for monitoring the health of nursing workers" (SIMOSTE). The results show that females were the most affected (85.

[Characteristics of victims and fatal accidents at the workplace].

This is a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective documental study on fatal accidents occurred during the period from o2006 to 2010, in which workers were treated at Hospital do Trabalhador, located in Curitiba/Parand. We selected 25 notifications for the outcome death. This study aimed to characterize victims and fatal occupational accidents.

[A contribution to occupational health: a guide on the exposure to biological fluids].

Health workers are exposed to occupational hazards at the workplace, among which we highlight the biological risk. Information and orientation should be provided regarding the conduct that workers are expected to follow in the case becoming exposed. Thus, this guide is intended to provide the elements to orient workers' conduct in cases of biological exposure, improving adherence to the monitoring protocol.