Suffering and defense mechanisms: an analysis of the work of Primary Health Care nurses.

Objective: To analyze the suffering and coping strategies of nurses working in Primary Health Care considering the psychodynamics of their work.

Methods: Descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out with 11 nurses working in Primary Health Care. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, systematized, and interpreted using Bardin's content analysis method applied to recurrent themes.

Association between family dynamics and use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by adolescents.

Objectives: to analyze, in the light of systemic thinking, the association between family dynamics and the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by adolescents throughout life.

Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in nine public schools in the city of Recife. Three hundred and sixty-four adolescents aged 14 to 19 years participated.

Feelings of pleasure of nurses working in primary care.

Objective: identify the sources that generate feelings of pleasure at work in the perception of primary care nurses.

Methods: this is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, developed with eleven nurses working in Primary Health Care Units. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, systematized and analyzed using Bardin's content analysis technique and based on the theoretical framework of Psychodynamics of Work.