Advanced Practice Nursing: "Training" Pillar in Supporting the Proposal in Brazil.

Objectives: to present the pillars that support what has been called Advanced Practice Nursing and discuss the necessary training for its implementation.

Methods: elements contained in assessment documents for graduate programs proposals, reports of presentations by international professors in countries and selected scientific publications were gathered to compose the argument.

Results: practice/competency (adds broad and in-depth knowledge about health processes and scientific evidence, clinical reasoning and clinical skills for therapeutic indications); 3) professional regulation (corresponding legislation and monitoring); and 4) funding (broad training and professional practice policy).

Minor psychiatric disorders among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To identify the prevalence and factors associated with the manifestation of Minor Psychiatric Disorders (MPD) among university students in southern Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: Cross-sectional study, conducted in August and September 2020, with 464 university students. The Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) was used with a cut-off point ≥ 7, and associated factors were identified through crude and adjusted analyses using logistic regression.

Intention to leave Nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to investigate the percentage of professionals with an intention to leave Nursing during the COVID-10 pandemic, as well as the factors associated with this outcome.

Method: a cross-sectional study conducted by applying questionnaires to 890 Nursing professionals from the municipality of Pelotas (RS). The outcome was identified by means of self-reports obtained from the question itself.

Prevalence and factors associated with poor sleep quality among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to identify the prevalence and factors associated with poor sleep quality among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: a cross-sectional study, conducted in June and July 2020, with 890 nursing professionals. To screen the outcome, question 3 of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire was used, assessing poor sleep quality 30 days preceding the application of the questionnaire.

The (mis)government in the COVID-19 pandemic and the psychosocial implications: discipline, subjection, and subjectivity.

Objective: to analyze the psychosocial implications arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, reported in online service, from the perspective of Michel Foucault's concepts of biopower, biopolitics and governmentality.

Method: qualitative documental research, with analysis of medical records of users assisted in a therapeutic listening chat, between April and October 2020.

Results: the data were organized into two themes: Governmentality in the COVID-19 pandemic and the production of psychosocial implications of anxiety and fear and Discipline and subjection in the COVID-19 pandemic: subjectivities marked by sadness and anguish.

Online mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: Identify users, services, and reasons for seeking online mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A descriptive, retrospective study, with documentary analysis of medical records of users served between April and July 2020.

Results: Of the 258 accesses, 159 were complete, and 99 were offline messages.

[Communicative Action: an overview of the management processes of a Psychosocial Care Network].

This paper is a qualitative evaluation of the main results of an evaluation study on management processes of a Psychosocial Care Network, in the light of the Theory of Communicative Action. The data collection included 19 individual semi-structured interviews with participants of the Management Collegiate and 20 hours of participant observation in eight meetings of this collegiate, from May to September 2015, with analysis using a hermeneutic-dialectic approach. The results showed a complex network of psychosocial care with management processes related to instrumental and communicative actions.

[Use of psychotropic drugs and its association with overburden on family caregivers of psychosocial care center users].

The scope of this study was to investigate the prevalence of psychotropic drug use and its association with the overburden felt by family caregivers of Psychosocial Care Center users. This is a cross-sectional study performed with 537 family caregivers in the 21st Health Region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The prevalence of psychotropic drug use was calculated with a 95% confidence interval (95%CI) and the heterogeneity tests were performed between the strata of each independent variable.

Gender differences in the manifestation of burden among family caregivers of people with mental disorders.

This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 537 family caregivers of people with mental disorders. The objective was to quantify the degree of burden experienced by men and women, and identify the most affected dimensions of their lives and the factors associated with burden manifestation by gender. The Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) scale was used to assess burden.

Nursing practices in a psychological care center.

Objective: To analyze the practices developed by nursing professionals in a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS).

Method: A qualitative and evaluative research based on the Fourth Generation Assessment and conducted in a CAPS II of Santa Catarina State in 2014. For data collection, semi-structured interviews, field observation, and data recycling group were used with workers.

Minor psychiatric disorders among family caregivers of users of Psychosocial Care Centers: prevalence and associated factors.

This study aimed to identify the prevalence of the manifestation of Minor Psychiatric Disorders and its associated factors among 537 family caregivers of people living with psychological distress attended at 16 Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) located in the 21st health region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Considering a hierarchical theoretical model, the analysis adopted a Poisson regression to calculate the adjusted prevalence ratios. The prevalence of Minor Psychiatric Disorders found in the studied population was 42.

Evaluation of elderly care dynamics in an emergency care unit.

Objective: understand elderly care dynamics of an emergency care unit.

Method: this is a case study evaluation, using a qualitative approach and the theoretical-methodological reference of a fourth generation evaluation. Data collection was conducted between February and September 2017, through 460 hours of participant observation, interviews with 33 social actors among health professionals, elderly people and their relatives of an emergency care unit located in a municipality in the northwest of Paraná, as well as negotiation meetings with participants.

Mental health in children and adolescents: vision of the professionals on challenges and possibilities in building up intersectoral networks [corrected].

Objective: To analyze the possibilities and challenges in building intersectoral networks in mental health in the professional's view involved in the care for children and adolescents treated at the Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Care Center.

Methods: A qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, held from May to June 2014, performed a town in southern Brazil. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 26 workers intersectoral networking and submitted to thematic analysis.

Operation of a hospital palliative care service: a fourth-generation evaluation.

Objective: Qualitatively evaluate the operation of a palliative care service in oncology.

Methodology: Qualitative study conducted in a service in southern Brazil based on a fourth generation evaluation. Between September 2014 and June 2015, 460 hours of operation were observed, and 45 semi-structured interviews and five negotiation meetings were conducted; data were analyzed using the constant comparative method.

[Open Dialogue and the Challenges for its Implementation - an analysis based on a review of the literature].

Method: The Open Dialogue Method was developed in Finland in order to deal with severe psychotic crises using dialogue and social network inclusion. By means of a review of the literature on the Open Dialogue Method, this article sought to identify the principles and contributions for deinstitutionalization.The PubMed (365), PsycInfo (134), Lilacs (no articles found) databases and 2 books were consulted.

Being autonomous: what do mental health services indicate?

Objective: To build qualitative outcome indicators in psychosocial care regarding autonomy from the perspective of users and their families.

Methodology: This is an evaluative case study based on the dialectical hermeneutics theoretical framework, conducted at a mental health community service, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The first stage of data collection occurred between February and July 2014, and consisted of constructing indicators based on qualitative data analysis of the two evaluative studies conducted at this same service.

Minor psychiatric disorders and their associations in family caregivers of people with mental disorders.

This study aims to analyze the occurrence of minor psychiatric disorder and their associations in relatives of people with mental disorders. This is a cross-sectional study of 1164 relatives. For the tracking of minor psychiatric disorders the Self-Reporting Questionnaire Scale (SRQ20) was used, adopting 6/8 as cut-off point.

Satisfaction with mental health community services among patients' relatives.

Objective:: This study aims to assess the satisfaction of family members of patients of mental health community services through a tested, validated and previously applied scale in order to allow comparison of results.

Methods:: The results were obtained by applying the scale SATIS-BR to 1242 relatives of patients of 40 mental health community services in Brazil. The average scores of the three subscales of the SATIS-BR scale were compared using the Wilcoxon test.

[Factors associated with perception of improvement by users of Centers for Psychosocial Care in the South of Brazil].

This study aimed to investigate factors associated with perceived improvement among users of Centers for Psychosocial Care. This was a cross-sectional study of 1,493 users of Centers for Psychosocial Care in the South of Brazil. Users' perceived improvement was assessed by Perceived Change Scale - Patients (PCS-Patients).

Mental health care network: the views of coordinators of the Family Health Strategy (FHS).

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the opinions of the coordinators of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) on the mental health care network in the city of Pelotas/RS.

Method: Descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, carried out with six FHS coordinators, in 2012. Semi-structured interview was used in data collection, and the results were evaluated using the thematic analysis.

Interfaces between services and actions of the psychosocial care network for children and adolescents.

Objective: To ascertain the actions and partnerships that make up the psychosocial care network for children and adolescents assisted at the CAPSi.

Method: Qualitative research conducted with twenty-six workers of the intersectoral network of São Lourenço do Sul/RS, Brazil through semi-structured interviews, from May to June in 2014. The data were analysed using the operative proposal of Minayo.