Common mental disorders in nursing technicians of a university hospital.

Objective: To verify the prevalence of common mental disorders and associated factors in nursing technicians.

Method: Cross-sectional analytical study conducted at a university hospital. A questionnaire with sociodemographic, educational and work-related variables and the Self Reporting Questionnaire-20 were used to verify the presence of common mental disorders.

Family health strategy: relevance to the functional capacity of older people.

Objective: to identify the functional capacity of older people based on their performance on basic activities of daily living.

Method: a cross-sectional study, carried out through the record of the Family Health teams working in the urban area of a city in northern Minas Gerais, in 2015. To assess the functional capacity of 373 older people, the Katz Scale was applied, which includes dimensions on the performance of daily living activities.