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Objective: To analyze the levels of Quality of Life in Compulsory Telework during the coronavirus pandemic, of Brazilian public servants from the perceptions between women and men and in segmented profiles: women and men with and without children;women with and without children.Theoretical framework: Quality of Life in Compulsory Telework, whose theoretical model is composed of five dimensions: Teleworker Activities;Telework Management;Technological Support;Physical Conditions of Work;and Overload resulting from Compulsory Telework.Methodology: Data were obtained through electronic form with 5,695 servers from nine Brazilian public institutions and analyzed through descriptive and variance analysis.Results: The results showed satisfactory levels of Quality of Life in Compulsory Telework, with the exception of issues related to work overload. When comparing the perception between the groups, significant differences were identified between women and men with and without children related to the management of telework, more specifically, regarding interruptions and the conflict between work, rest and leisure. Th e group of women with and without children showed significant differences in terms of telecommuting activities.Originality: This article presents an innovative perspective, as it reveals, in addition to the different perceptions between genders, results with expressive variances between the same gender and, also, arising from the family configuration, with regard to Quality of Life in Compulsory Telework in organizations public services.Theoretical and practical contributions: In addition to the gender perspective, the perception of Quality of Life in Compulsory Telework may differ according to the configuration of the family structure, expressed by less satisfactory levels in families with children, which requires managers to propose practices to promote Quality of Life in Telework that reduce or eliminate the sources of perceived discomfort, observing the specificities between genders and within the same gender.
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Credit unions are exposed to credit risk like any other financial institution and this risk is defined as the possibility that the borrower does not fulfill his obligations with the cooperative, that is, of not honoring the commitment to pay his debts. To mitigate this risk, cooperatives make provisions for loan losses (PCLD), in order to cover this type of risk that is inherent to their operations. At the beginning of 2020, a strong public health crisis, caused by a seriously contagious pandemic with a high degree of mortality, which became known as the COVID-19 pandemic, impacted the entire economy, with serious social and economic consequences. These events caused a financial crisis that spread quickly, affecting the income of people, companies and the government, the latter having to help the first two through social and financial programs. Based on this context, this study aimed to analyze whether PCLD increased after the onset of the economic and health crisis in the 99 largest credit unions in Brazil, and these organizations were selected according to their total assets. The credit portfolios and PCLD of these organizations were analyzed from 2018 to 2021. This research is of a quantitative nature and its data collection took place through the BACEN database. The results pointed out that during the economic crisis, there was a significant and accentuated change in the PCLD of the cooperative institutions analyzed, but this change has been noticed since 2018, the beginning of the observations of this study.
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Objetivos: O objetivo do estudo foi determinar a incidencia de possiveis reinfeccoes por SARS-CoV-2 em doadores de sangue de um hemocentro publico referencia da Organizacao Pan-Americana de Saude, localizado no estado de Sao Paulo. Material e Metodos: O presente trabalho utilizou os dados de um estudo de coorte prospectivo, com a coleta de amostras de sangue e saliva de 152 doadores de sangue, no periodo de julho de 2021 a janeiro de 2022. Desse total, 107 sao casos que tiveram sorologia previa positiva para SARS-CoV-2 e 45 sao controles negativos. Os participantes foram acompanhados em quatro visitas ao hemocentro, a cada dois meses, para a coleta de amostras e relatos de sintomas e vacinacao. Posteriormente, foram realizados testes sorologicos e RT-PCR em tempo real para deteccao de SARS-CoV-2 em todas as amostras. Resultados: Dos 152 participantes, 13 (8,6%) apresentaram resultados de RT-PCR positivos para SARS-CoV-2, sendo observado 7 casos de possiveis reinfeccoes e 6 casos recem-infectados. Avaliando apenas os participantes positivos, 8 (61,5%) sao do genero feminino e 5 (38,5%) do genero masculino. 100% dos participantes positivos alegaram estarem vacinados com ao menos duas doses da vacina para COVID-19, 2 (15,4%) declararam sintomas de COVID-19 durante a coleta de amostras, enquanto 11 (84,6%) negaram a presenca de sintomas. Com relacao a faixa etaria dos participantes infectados, 2 possuiam de 19-28 anos, 4 de 29-38 anos, 3 de 39-48 anos, 3 de 49-58 anos e 1 doador de 62 anos. Discussao: Foi evidenciado a possivel reinfeccao por SARS-CoV-2 em 7 participantes, como tambem 6 novas infeccoes nos casos controle. Tal achado, associado com o fato de que todos os participantes positivos estavam vacinados no periodo em que as amostras foram coletadas, sugere a tendencia de que mesmo com a vacinacao ainda e possivel infectar-se pelo virus, alem de que a infeccao previa nao confere imunidade duradoura, o que foi constatado tambem em outros estudos. Todavia, e interessante destacar que a maioria dos participantes infectados foram assintomaticos (84,6%), o que propoe que a vacinacao promove a diminuicao da gravidade dos casos. Os nossos achados tambem demonstraram que nas faixas etarias de 29 a 59 anos houveram mais participantes infectados, sendo justamente as faixas etarias expostas a situacoes de risco, possivelmente devido a necessidade de locomocao e trabalho. Ademais, o numero apresentado de casos positivos pode ser em razao da diminuicao das restricoes de distanciamento social. Conclusao: As nossas analises, apesar de apontarem para o surgimento de novos casos de SARS-CoV-2 na populacao estudada, confirmaram o importante papel da vacinacao, visto que foi observado a diminuicao de individuos sintomaticos e casos graves. Por fim, em nossos resultados preliminares foram constatadas provaveis reinfeccoes pelo virus, nas quais serao necessarios testes adicionais para confirmacao desse achado. Copyright © 2022