Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the Environmental Protectors Against Hospital Work Stress (ENPROS) Scale to Brazilian Portuguese.

Occupational stress and workplace violence are highly prevalent risk factors among healthcare professionals and can affect not only the psychosocial well-being of workers but also that of patients and healthcare organizations. The objective of this study is to translate and cross-culturally adapt the ENvironmental PRotectors against hOspital work Stress scale to facilitate future psychometric validation of the instrument. A methodological study was conducted at the School of Medicine of São Paulo State University (UNESP) in São Paulo, Brazil.

Impact of Care Interventions on the Survival of Patients with Cardiac Chest Pain.

Background: Chest pain is considered the second most frequent complaint among patients seeking emergency services. However, there is limited information in the literature about how the care provided to patients with chest pain, when being attended to in the emergency room, influences their clinical outcomes.

Aims: To assess the relationship between care interventions performed on patients with cardiac chest pain and their immediate and late clinical outcomes and to identify which care interventions were essential to survival.

Scale of Adherence to Good Hospital Practices for COVID-19: Psychometric Properties.

To avoid hospital transmission, all COVID-19 prevention measures should be followed. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of a novel scale developed to assess adherence to good practices for COVID-19 in the hospital setting. A methodological cross-sectional study was conducted at a public hospital in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with 307 healthcare providers.

Creation and content validity of a scale for assessing adherence to good practices for COVID-19.

Objective: to create a scale for assessing the adherence of healthcare providers to good practices for COVID-19 in the hospital setting and determine its content and face validity.

Methods: A methodological study was developed in three sequential phases: creation of items and domains based on a literature review and administration of the questionnaire to 16 nursing professionals; assessment of content and face validity by experts; and semantic analysis.

Results: The 51-item scale was submitted to the evaluation of seven experts.

Psychometric analysis of the comfort scale for family members of people in critical health condition.

Objectives: to assess the reliability and validity of the 46 items version of the comfort scale for family members of people in critical condition.

Methods: a methodological study, carried out with 278 family members of critically ill patients, admitted to adult and pediatric intensive care units, in a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, in Brazil. The analyzes were based on the Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory.

TuCASA questionnaire for assessment of children with obstructive sleep apnea: validation.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to validate The Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study (TuCASA) questionnaire for use in the Brazilian population.

Methods: Of the total 62 children who participated in the present study (27 girls), aged 4 to 11 years, 45 (72.6%) had sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) diagnosed by polysomnography, while 17 (27.

Symptoms of sleep disorders and objective academic performance.

Objective: We aimed to compare the academic performance of children with and without symptoms of sleep disorders (SSD).

Methods: We distributed 5400 questionnaires (Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children [SDSC], Brazilian version) to 7- to 10-year-old children at public elementary schools in São Paulo, Brazil. We analyzed the academic grades of Portuguese (Port) and Mathematics (Math) in 2384 children (1224 girls; 51%).

Use of albumin as a risk factor for hospital mortality among burn patients in Brazil: non-concurrent cohort study.

Context And Objective: among burn patients, it is common to use colloidal substances under the justification that it is necessary to correct the oncotic pressure of the plasma, thereby reducing the edema in the burnt area and the hypotension. The aim here was to assess the risk of hospital mortality, comparing the use of albumin and crystalloid solutions for these patients.

Design And Setting: non-concurrent historical cohort study at Faculdade de Medicina de Marília; within the Postgraduate program on Internal and Therapeutic Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo; and at the Brazilian Cochrane Center.

Restless legs syndrome during pregnancy in Brazilian women.

Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) among pregnant Brazilian women, with individual diagnostic clinical interviews during the trimesters of pregnancy, and to determine the severity.

Methods: It was a cross-sectional study. We interviewed 524 pregnant women (18-45 years old) who came to the prenatal outpatient clinic to consult an obstetrician.

Sleep disturbance scale for children: translation, cultural adaptation, and validation.

Introduction: The Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children (SDSC) is a 26-item instrument for evaluating sleep among children aged 3-18 years. It differentiates among conditions such as disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep, sleep breathing disorders, disorders of arousal, sleep-wake transition disorders, excessive somnolence, and sleep hyperhydrosis. The aim of this study was to translate, culturally adapt, and validate it for Brazilian Portuguese.