Cost-Effectiveness of a Multi-faceted Workplace Intervention to Reduce Musculoskeletal Pain in Nursing Staff: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial (INTEVAL_Spain).

Purpose: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a multifaceted workplace intervention to reduce musculoskeletal pain (MSP) in nursing staff.

Methods: The study was a 1-year cluster-randomized controlled trial. The intervention combined participatory ergonomics, health promotion, and case management.

Dealing with the unknown: perceptions, fears and worries of SARS-CoV-2 infection among hospital workers.

Objective: This study explores fears and worries regarding SARS-CoV-2 risk of infection and transmission to relatives, co-workers, and patients in relation to non-pharmacological preventive interventions among healthcare workers (including physicians, nurses, aides, cleaners, maintenance, and security staff) in a healthcare institution in Barcelona (Spain), during the first and second waves of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Method: The research used an explorative qualitative approach. Six focus groups and ten individual interviews were conducted online and audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis and mixed coding.

[COVID-19: it's time for its full recognition as an occupational disease].

In a context of transition towards the end of the pandemic, we think it is time to recognize COVID-19 as an occupational disease. The steps taken to recognize it as a work accident in health workers represent progress, but it is not enough. It is a step that the European Commission has recently recommended, including it on the European list of occupational diseases, in all those activities with a clear risk of contagious.

Workplace aggression against healthcare workers in a Spanish healthcare institution between 2019 and 2021: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: Describe the incidence of first aggressions among healthcare workers (HCWs) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Spanish healthcare institution, according to workers' socio-occupational characteristics and analyze the impact of the pandemic on it.

Methods: A cohort involving HCWs who worked in the institution for at least 1 week each year from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021. Adjusted relative risks (aRR) were estimated using generalized estimating equations and negative binomial models to calculate the differences in WPA between the different time periods.

[Economic cost estimation of a sample of occupational disease cases accepted by the National Institute of Social Security and evaluated at Parc de Salut Mar, 2014-2021].

Underreporting of occupational diseases (OD) is a social and economic problem, because it has negative consequences for both the welfare of the affected workers and its impact on budgetary planning for the management of health services. We evaluated the healthcare costs of a sample of 13 cases of OD treated at a public hospital in Barcelona between 2014 and 2021, and officially accepted by the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). The total cost of care was €474,859, with an average cost of €36,528 per patient.

What Are the Dry Eye Questionnaires Available in the Scientific Literature Used for? A Scoping Review.

Purpose: Dry eye disease (DED) is a frequent chronic ophthalmic condition. Its diagnosis includes tests and patient reported outcomes (PRO) questionnaires. Although many PRO dry eye questionnaires (PRO-DEQs) are available, they differ greatly from each other and not all have been validated.

[Proposal for a summary index of the non-pharmacological preventive measures adopted against SARS-CoV-2 in companies, the case of Parc de Salut Mar (Barcelona).].

Introduction: Construct a numerical index of non-pharmacological preventive measures against Sars-CoV-2 based on the experience of Parc de Salut Mar (PSMar), a healthcare institution in Barcelona.

Method: The construction of the index was carried out in three phases. The identification and selection of the variables to be included based on semi-structured interviews with key informants and documental revision.

Waiting time from identification to recognition an occupational disease in Spain.

Objective: To estimate the waiting time since a suspected an occupational disease (OD) is identified, notified and recognized in Spain.

Method: A series of 34 patients attended at Occupational Diseases Unit (ODU) of Hospital del Mar in Barcelona were follow up since their identification until final resolution by the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). Median, and 25 and 75 percentiles (interquartile range [IQR]) were calculated in weeks by total time (n=27), ODU time (n=34), patient time (n=31) and INSS time (n=27).

Non-Pharmacological Preventive Measures Had an Impact on COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers before the Vaccination Effect: A Cohort Study.

Healthcare workers have been and still are at the forefront of COVID-19 patient care. Their infection had direct implications and caused important challenges for healthcare performance. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of non-pharmacological preventive measures against COVID-19 among healthcare workers.

[Approximation to the cost of occupational diseases treated in seven hospitals in Spain].

Objective: To estimate the hospital cost of a sample of cases treated in seven hospitals of the National Health System in several Spanish cities.

Method: Study based on 78 cases of occupational disease recognized by the social security, and previously treated in hospitals in Badalona, Barcelona, Ferrol, Gijón, Girona, Madrid and Vigo between 2017 and 2019.

Results: The healthcare activity generated by these hospitals to attend these processes involved a total cost of 282,927€.

What is meant by case management for the return-to-work of workers with musculoskeletal disorders? A scoping review.

Background: Case management interventions have shown to be effective to prevent musculoskeletal pain and disability, but a single definition has not been achieved, nor an agreed profile for case managers.

Objective: To describe the elements that define case management and case managers tasks for return-to-work of workers with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).

Methods: A comprehensive computerized search of articles published in English until February 16, 2021 was carried out in several bibliographic databases.

Process evaluation of a complex workplace intervention to prevent musculoskeletal pain in nursing staff: results from INTEVAL_Spain.

Background: INTEVAL_Spain was a complex workplace intervention to prevent and manage musculoskeletal pain among nursing staff. Process evaluations can be especially useful for complex and multifaceted interventions through identifying the success or failure factors of an intervention to improve the intervention implementation.

Objectives: This study performed a process evaluation of INTEVAL_Spain and aimed to examine whether the intervention was conducted according to the protocol, to investigate the fulfilment of expectations and the satisfaction of workers.

The mRNA-1273 Vaccine Induces Cross-Variant Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2 With Distinct Profiles in Individuals With or Without Pre-Existing Immunity.

mRNA-based vaccines effectively induce protective neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the etiological agent of COVID-19. Yet, the kinetics and compositional patterns of vaccine-induced antibody responses to the original strain and emerging variants of concern remain largely unknown. Here we characterized serum antibody classes and subclasses targeting the spike receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 wild type and α, β, γ and δ variants in a longitudinal cohort of SARS-CoV-2 naïve and COVID-19 recovered individuals receiving the mRNA-1273 vaccine.

[Outbreak study of workers with irritative symptomswoking in the microbiology and clinical analysis laboratories of a tertiary public hospital].

Background: In April 2018, an unusually high number of eye, throat and nose irritative symptoms, nonspecific gastrointestinal symptoms and dizziness were identified in workers in the microbiology (LAM) and clinical analysis (LCA) laboratories of a tertiary public hospital in Mallorca; these symptoms were also associated with perception of unusual odors.

Objective: To confirm the presence of an outbreak, identify its causes, and contribute to itsprevention and control.

Methods: Epidemiological study of the outbreak involving qualitative and quantitative methods.

Professional counseling in women with serious mental illness: achieving a shift toward a more effective contraceptive method.

Objectives: Mental disorders in reproductive-aged women have significant implications for the risk of unintended pregnancies. The objective of this study is to assess the professional counseling in clinical practice based on motivational interview in women with serious mental illness (SMI) in order to achieve a change to a more effective contraceptive method.

Study Design: A prospective observational cohort study (2012-2017) was conducted in a convenience sample of women with severe-moderate psychiatric disorders ( = 91).

Multifaceted intervention for the prevention and management of musculoskeletal pain in nursing staff: Results of a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Background: Nurses and nursing aides are at high risk of developing musculoskeletal pain (MSP). This study aimed to evaluate a multifaceted intervention to prevent and manage MSP in two hospitals.

Material And Methods: We performed a two-armed cluster randomized controlled trial, with a late intervention control group.