Approaches to workload in psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Objective: to investigate approaches to workload in psychiatric and mental health nursing in Brazilian and international production of knowledge Methods: integrative literature review using six databases, covering January 2005 to March 2019. Articles in full in English, Spanish and Portuguese were included.

Results: the sample consisted of 23 original articles classified as quantitative or emotional.

Caregiver burden and stress in psychiatric hospital admission.

Objective: to evaluate the relation between sociodemographics factors, stress and burden of care of family caregivers of patients at a psychiatric hospital admission.

Method: quantitative study, with a cross-sectional correlation design. A total of 112 family caregivers participated, older than 18, in a Brazilian psychiatric hospital.