Mental disorders in judicial workers: analysis of sickness absence in a cohort study.

Objective: To analyze risk factors for sickness absence due to mental disorders among judicial workers in Bahia, Brazil.

Methods: Retrospective cohort with follow-up from 2011 to 2016 with 2,660 workers of a judicial sector in Bahia, Brazil. The main outcome measures were survival curves estimated for the independent variables using the Kaplan-Meier product limit estimator and risk factors for the first episode of sickness absence calculated based on the Cox regression model.

Obesity in young women is positively associated with periodontitis.

Objective: This cross-sectional study was performed to investigate the association between excess body weight and periodontitis in adults, stratified by sex and age, and using different criteria for obesity.

Material And Methods: Enrolled in the study were 345 individuals with a minimum age of 18 years who had attended the Public Health Service in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. All individuals underwent a complete periodontal examination and anthropometric measurements and answered a questionnaire regarding their socioeconomic, demographic, health, and lifestyle conditions.

Major depressive disorder in detention officers.

Objective: To identify factors associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) in detention officers.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included all detention officers from the largest prison complex in the state of Bahia, Brazil. A self-reported questionnaire collected sociodemographic, occupational and health data.

Pain, psychoaffective symptoms, and quality of life in human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1): a cross-sectional study.

The objective of this study is to describe the chronic pain characteristics in individuals infected with human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) per subgroup (asymptomatic, oligosymptomatic, and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP)) compared with controls with chronic pain without HTLV-1. This is a cross-sectional study investigating associations between pain profile, psychopathological symptoms, and quality of life. Individuals infected with HTLV-1 refer high-intensity pain compared with controls, with more severe characteristics being present in oligosymptomatic and HAM/TSP individuals.

Labor, health and vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic.

This essay discusses the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the relation between labor and health, from the perspective of the workers' risk and vulnerability. The pandemic has represented a humanitarian crisis, since both the disease and the measures to contain it lead to persistent socioeconomic effects. In this context, the labor category has an important role, either because of the feasibility of maintaining the social distancing and living conditions allowed by the employment relationship, or because of the impossibility of adopting protection strategies due to job insecurity.

[Exploratory study of the validity and internal consistency of the Work Ability Index among health workers].

The objective of this study was to evaluate the validity and internal consistency of the Work Ability Index (WAI) among health workers in Bahia, Brazil. An exploratory validity study was conducted based on a cross-sectional sample of 3,084 health workers. The principal component analysis extracted three factors of the instrument with a total accumulated variance of 53.

[Measuring work-related physical demand: factorial structure and reliability of items on posture, handling of loads and repetitiveness].

This study sought to analyze the dimensionality of a set of items that measure work-related physical demand, their internal consistency and their test-retest reliability. We carried out an exploratory factorial analysis of ten physical demand items in two populations, totaling 1,070 workers from the footwear industry and from urban cleaning, using weighted least squares means and adjusted variance with Promax oblique rotation. We measure internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha.

The impact of caries in combination with periodontitis on oral health-related quality of life in Bahia, Brazil.

Background: Both dental caries and periodontal disease, as isolated conditions, can generate limitations and disabilities with negative repercussions on the individual's quality of life, but the combination of both oral diseases has not been investigated yet. This study aimed to evaluate the association between the combined exposure to dental caries and periodontitis and the impact on oral health-related quality of life.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 306 individuals seen in the public health services in Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil.

The job content questionnaire in various occupational contexts: applying a latent class model.

Objective: To evaluate Job Content Questionnaire(JCQ) performance using the latent class model.

Methods: We analysed cross-sectional studies conducted in Brazil and examined three occupational categories: petroleum industry workers (n=489), teachers (n=4392) and primary healthcare workers (3078)and 1552 urban workers from a representative sample of the city of Feira de Santana in Bahia, Brazil. An appropriate number of latent classes was extracted and described each occupational category using latent class analysis, a multivariate method that evaluates constructs and takes into accountthe latent characteristics underlying the structure of measurement scales.

Factors associated with pain in individuals infected by human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1).

Introduction: Despite the high prevalence of chronic pain in individuals infected with HTLV-1, predictive and protective factors for its development are still unclear.

Objective: To identify factors associated with chronic pain in individuals with HTLV-1.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a reference center for treatment of patients infected with HTLV-1 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

[Reporting of work-related mental disorders among workers in Bahia: a descriptive study, 2007-2012].

Objective: to describe characteristics of work-related mental disorder (WRMD) cases in the State of Bahia, Brazil, 2007-2012.

Methods: this was a descriptive study using Bahia Surveillance and Health Protection Superintendents Office data kept on the Notifiable Diseases Information System (Sinan).

Results: 211 cases of WRMD were reported, 97.

Psychosocial aspects of work and common mental disorders among health workers: contributions of combined models.

Objectives:: The objective was to evaluate the contribution of the combined analysis of psychosocial stress at work and its association with common mental disorders (CMD) among health workers.

Methods:: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a representative sample of primary care workers from five counties in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The outcome variable - CMD - was assessed by the SRQ-20.

Internal consistency of the self-reporting questionnaire-20 in occupational groups.

Objective: To assess the internal consistency of the measurements of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) in different occupational groups.

Methods: A validation study was conducted with data from four surveys with groups of workers, using similar methods. A total of 9,959 workers were studied.

[Factor structure and internal consistency of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) in an urban population].

This study focused on the psychometric properties of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) among workers, evaluating internal consistency criteria for the components scales and construct validity. Evaluation of the SRQ-20 performance used data from a cross-sectional study of a representative sample of workers from Feira de Santana, Bahia State, Brazil. The construct validity was estimated by means of an exploratory factor analysis of tetrachoric correlations and multiple correspondence analysis.