Infection Rate and Risk Factors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Retail Workers at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Quebec, Canada.

During the pandemic, client-facing workers were perceived to be at greater risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study investigated the risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection among a cohort of 304 retail workers in the Quebec City metropolitan area. After providing consent, participants were interviewed to gather information on demographic, socioeconomic, behavioural, and occupational variables.

["Let's assert ourselves." The activist Sister Augustine at Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital].

The history of nuns at the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital, like that of lay nurses, has remained in the blind spot of women's history. And yet, over the past 30 years, the history of nursing has clearly highlighted the important achievements of French-Canadian religious and nurses in Quebec history, as well as the real opportunities for fulfillment and self-fulfillment that these careers offered women. This is what this article aims to remind us of, by revisiting the achievements of the militant Sister Augustine.

[Saint-Jean-de-Dieu: A short history of Montreal's madhouse, 1873-1973].

Objectives The primary objective of this article is to paint an institutional portrait of the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Asylum over the first hundred years of its existence, from 1873 to 1973. The secondary objectives are as follows: 1) explore how prevention policies at the end of the 19th century had the effect of increasing the asylum population rather than reducing it; 2) discuss mental health policies that sought to "treat the social" outside the walls of the asylum in an effort to decrease the population; and 3) address the arrival of psychopharmacology that opened the doors of the asylum and turned it into a modern psychiatric hospital, soon renamed Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine. Method Since the past exists in silence, and finding data that will enable us to reconstruct a history of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu is a challenge.

[The two-way teaching approach to heart failure management in the couple context].

Self-care is best when the partner is actively involved in the whole process of managing the heart failure (HF) patient. Heart failure could be improved by educational sessions based on the teach-back approach. The aim is to equip healthcare staff, including French-speaking nurses, with the two-way teach-back approach, with a specific component on self-care for HF couples.

The impact of patient-facility language discordance on potentially inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics in long-term care home in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective population health cohort study.

Background: Appropriate use of medication is a key indicator of the quality of care provided in long-term care (LTC). The objective of this study was to determine whether resident-facility language concordance/discordance is associated with the odds of potentially inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics (PIP-AP) in LTC.

Methods: We conducted a population-based, retrospective cohort study of LTC residents in Ontario, Canada from 2010 to 2019.

[Words and views on old age, or how ageism undermines the care relationship].

Anxiety about ageing, as well as old age, is rooted in public discourse and has a negative impact on the quality of the relationship with the elderly, particularly in the context of care relationships with more vulnerable seniors. This text proposes a theoretical and empirical reflection on ageism, manifested as much in its hostile as in its compassionate forms.

[Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Psychological Distress of Intervention Workers and Managers in the Community Sector in Quebec. Portrait of the Situation During the COVID-19 Pandemic].

Objectives This article looks at emotional difficulties experienced by intervention workers and managers from three associations of community organizations (mental health, homelessness and for people with disabilities) in Quebec during the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, we document manifestations, sometimes concurrent, of burnout, secondary traumatic stress and psychological distress reported by participants, comparing participants who reported having a management role with those who did not. Method Analyses were conducted based on responses of almost 300 participants to an online questionnaire comprised of 140 items, including scales pertaining to psychosocial risks, professional life quality and psychological distress.

[Methodological and theoretical contributions of critical discourse analysis to nursing research].

Critical discourse analysis is a methodological approach that allows for the questioning of structures that relegate certain ideas and certain people to the margins. In health sciences, this approach, with its origins in the field of critical linguistics, is useful for highlighting the many societal processes that privilege certain conceptions of health and health care while labelling other perspectives as « alternative” or “fringe”. However, critical discourse analysis is still underused in nursing science despite its emancipatory potential.

A Latent Class Analysis of Reproductive Coercion Experiences Based on Victim-Survivors' Acknowledgment and Disclosure Patterns.

Reproductive coercion (RC) is a form of violence involving behavior that interferes with an individual's contraceptive and reproductive decisions. Like other forms of violence perpetrated by intimate partners, victims of RC do not necessarily identify it as such. Similarly, victim-survivors do not readily disclose their experiences or seek support and treatment.

Anticonvulsants in the Treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Dementia: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are common and impart a significant burden to patients, caregivers, and the health system. However, there are few pharmacological options for treating BPSD. We conducted a systematic review of clinical trials examining the efficacy of anticonvulsants in BPSD.

Reach, Adoption, and Implementation Strategies of a Telehealth Fall Prevention Program: Perspectives From Francophone Communities Across Canada.

. A fall may impact a person's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. Fall prevention programs are being implemented to reduce these negative outcomes.