Protective strategies against occupational stress among health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The purpose of this study was to investigate which protective strategies against occupational stress were developed for health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was an integrative literature review conducted in 2021. The Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online and the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences databases were searched using the Boolean operator AND and the controlled vocabularies "health professionals" AND "occupational stress" AND "COVID-19", both in English and Portuguese.

Hospitalization for malaria in the indigenous population of Roraima, in Brazil's Northern Amazon, 2008-2022.

Objectives: To examine the epidemiology of hospitalized cases of malaria in indigenous people living in the municipalities of Roraima in the northern Brazilian Amazon from 2008 to 2022.

Methods: Ecological study using secondary data and spatiotemporal analyses based on thematic maps. Average rates were calculated per study period and spatiotemporal clusters were estimated from spatial statistics.

Health Promoting Universities and the salutogenic theory: contemporary challenges in the Latin American reality.

The objective is to reflect on the existing articulation between Aaron Antonovsky's salutogenic theory and Health Promoting Universities, highlighting the challenges for the operationalization of health promotion actions in the Latin American university scenario in the contemporary world. The visible adherence of the ideas of the salutogenic theory to the guiding components of the Health Promoting Universities movement was identified, which has contributed to successful experiences around the world. Practices in the light of salutogenic theory can be considered effective strategies for improving the quality of life in the university setting; however, it is necessary for those involved to detach themselves so that the logic of acting based on a pathogenic process is broken.

Occupational cancer illness in Brazil: an integrative literature review.

The present study aimed to investigate data from the scientific literature on patterns of illness due to occupational cancer in Brazil. An integrative literature review was conducted in July 2020 and reviewed in June 2021, with no time restriction, using the Health Science Descriptors "Neoplasms," "Occupational Risks," "Occupational Cancer," and keywords related, which were searched on the following databases: Latin American Literature in Health Sciences, SciELO, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. The search and selection flow followed that recommended by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Statement - 2020.

Content validity evidence of the Brazilian version of the Cognitive Symptom Checklist-Work-21.

Objective: to cross-culturally adapt and assess the content validity evidence of the Cognitive Symptom Checklist-Work-21 for the Brazilian context.

Method: a psychometric study of cross-cultural adaptation, covering the stages of translation, reconciliation, back-translation, intercultural equivalence assessment and content validity evidence analysis, considering Content Validity Ratio parameters in breast cancer survivors.

Results: the translations were equivalent to the original version.

COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of Health Effects on Emergency Service Nursing Workers via a Qualitative Approach.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, longstanding issues involving nursing work, which has always involved significant risks of illness and infection, were intensified. It is necessary to acknowledge the risks and nurses' perceptions about the risks qualitatively during the period of the health crisis. The aim of this study was to examine the health repercussions perceived by nursing workers in emergency services during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities.

Among healthcare workers, nurses are at exceptionally considerable risk for contracting COVID-19. Regardless of professionals' level of education, Brazilian nursing is one of the healthcare occupations shouldering the highest levels of responsibility and workload. Social support networks to health and nursing can be a strategy to reduce workload and stress and may contribute to implementing the activities and protecting workers' health.

Management of resources in a federal emergency hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To describe actions taken by the organizational management of an emergency service due to the COVID-19 pandemic, determined according to the prevalence of cases of infection by the coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and flu-like illnesses.

Methods: Experience report based on a retrospective analysis of the attention for respiratory syndromes in the first semester of 2019 and 2020, in addition to an analysis of documents from the institutional protocols of a federal emergency service.Development: An increase in the number of attendances was observed, representing 7.

Virtualization of the Brazilian Nursing Week in the COVID-19 pandemic: the novelty and the tangible.

Objective: to report the virtualization experience of the 81st Brazilian Nursing Week of a public university in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Methods: an experience report with descriptive approach on the planning and virtual operationalization of a traditional nursing event, which took place in May 2020.

Results: the event had 543 entries and 39 activities were offered, 3 panels with the presence of international guests, 1 national conference, 3 thematic roundtable discussions, 9 roundtable discussions involving projects and extension leagues, 5 cultural activities and 17 activities in social networks (lives and videos).

Occupational psychosocial stressors and mental distress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To analyze the factors associated with mental distress among health workers who cared for patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study of national scope, carried out between in the second quarter of 2020. A total of 437 health professionals, who filled out an electronic form about sociodemographic data, occupational aspects, psychosocial characteristics of work and mental distress.

Prevalence of COVID-19 testing among health workers providing care for suspected and confirmed cases.

Objectives: To describe the prevalence of testing among health workers providing care for suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Methods: This quantitative, cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2020, using a convenience sample. An online questionnaire was used for collecting sociodemographic, occupational, and clinical data, which were analyzed descriptively.

Infection and mortality of nursing personnel in Brazil from COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Health care personnel (HCP) worldwide are at-risk for contracting the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Among health care personnel, nurses are at a particularly high risk due to the physical proximity and duration of time spent providing direct care. Documenting accurate rates of COVID-19 infection and deaths among nurses worldwide has been problematic, and many countries such as the USA have no systematic mechanism for collecting this information.

Contributions of the health-promoting universities' movement: An integrative literature review.

The objective was to identify the existing links between the conceptual proposal of the movement of health-promoting universities (HPU) and the activities carried out to increase the health of workers in higher education institutions. An integrative literature review was conducted in October 2020 in the following databases: LILACS, Scientific Electronic Library Online, Web of Science, and CINAHL and with the Boolean phrase citing, University AND "health promotion." In the initial review, 5351 studies were found, and after removing the repetitions, applying the inclusion criteria, and making the qualitative analysis, a sample of 9 articles was obtained.

Pedagogical mediations for non-formal nursing teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to report the experience of developing pedagogical mediations in a Virtual Learning Environment implemented in a nursing faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: an experience report on the construction of a distance course aimed at graduates and residents of a nursing faculty at a public university located in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Results: the course's conception, operationalization and implementation were the result of a collective work that culminated in a non-formal, virtual and problematic teaching process, which reached a participation rate of 82% of enrolled students.

No place to shelter: ethnography of the homeless population in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to analyze how homeless people live, in times of COVID-19 pandemic, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Method: an ethnographic research that used interviews and observations and articles published in newspapers and magazines of great circulation, using domain analysis.

Results: the results tell how the COVID-19 pandemic emerged for the homeless population.

Implementation of the Street Outreach Office in the perspective of health care.

Objective: To report the experience of implementation of a clinical equipment of health care production to homeless people, denominated Street Outreach Office.

Method: Experience report in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Results: The Street Outreach Office implementation resulted from a demand for health care practices for homeless people.