Health mediation does not reduce the readmission rate of frequent users of emergency departments living in precarious conditions: what lessons can be learned from this randomised controlled trial?

Background: Severe overcrowding of emergency departments (EDs) affects the quality of healthcare. One factor of overcrowding is precariousness, but it has rarely been considered a key factor in designing interventions to improve ED care. Health mediation (HM) aims to facilitate access to rights, prevention, and care for the most vulnerable persons and to raise awareness among healthcare providers about obstacles in accessing healthcare.

Health mediation: an intervention mode for improving emergency department care and support for patients living in precarious conditions.

Background: Severe overcrowding of emergency departments (EDs) impacts the quality of healthcare. One factor of this overcrowding is precariousness, but it has rarely been considered a key factor in designing interventions to improve ED care. Health mediation (HM) aims to facilitate access to rights, prevention, and care for the most vulnerable persons and to raise awareness among healthcare providers about obstacles in accessing healthcare.

Social representations of nursing students on the rights of health users.

Objective: To identify the social representations of undergraduate nursing students in the third and eighth term of the course on the rights of health users.

Methods: Qualitative research using the framework of the structural approach to the Theory of Social Representations. A total of 92 students participated.

Evidence for indirect loss of significance effects on violent extremism: The potential mediating role of anomia.

Psychological research suggests that violent extremism (e.g., terrorism) stems partly from existential motives, such as individuals' need to achieve significance in life after experiencing failure, ostracism, or humiliation (Significance Quest Theory; SQT).

Time perspective and associated factors in Brazilians living with HIV.

Background: a person's time perspective can be an important variable for the understanding of behaviours that interfere with the quality of life of people living with HIV.

Aims: to analyse the relationships between socio-demographic, clinical, and behavioural variables and the time perspective in Brazilians living with HIV.

Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of 281 people living with HIV in Brazil.

[The study of social representations of alcohol within French Navy].

Introduction: The misuse of alcohol has harmful social and health impacts within a population. The French military must be particularly vigilant with alcohol, due to specificities linked with weaponry. This study was designed to explore social representations of alcohol based on a sample of the French Navy in order to prioritize prevention focuses on alcohol misuses in a military environment.

Emotional Labour of Caregivers Confronted With Aggressive Brain-injured Patients.

Background: Aggressive behaviours are common with people who have suffered brain injuries and induce difficult emotions among certified nursing assistants and medical-psychological assistants who take care of them. These caregivers carry out emotional labour whose content and strategies are little known.

Aim: The study explores the emotional labour of certified nursing assistants and medical-psychological assistants faced with the aggressive behaviours of brain-injured patients.

Explain the 'unexplainable': A qualitative enquiry of the representations of the caregivers of brain-injured people.

The aim of our research is to highlight the role of social representations of the traumatic brain-injured person in the adjustments made by caregivers in building and maintaining quality of care. Twenty-three semi-structured interviews were conducted with nursing assistants and medico-psychological assistants, working in a long-term care facility. The interviews were the subject of a thematic content analysis.

A conceptual framework of clinical nursing care in intensive care.

Objective: to propose a conceptual framework for clinical nursing care in intensive care.

Method: descriptive and qualitative field research, carried out with 21 nurses from an intensive care unit of a federal public hospital. We conducted semi-structured interviews and thematic and lexical content analysis, supported by Alceste software.

[Styles of nurses' caring in Intensive Therapy mediated by technology].

The objective was to identify the social representations of the intensive therapy nurses about the care practices in face of the technology. Participant observation and interviews were conducted with twenty one nurses of an intensive therapy center, at a Rio de Janeiro public hospital. Lexical analysis was applied, using the Alceste 2010.