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BACKGROUND: Burnout Syndrome (BS) is a response of organism against long-lasting exposure to occupational stressors. Those affected usually have comorbidities, as well as cardiovascular and metabolic problems. OBJECTIVE: Estimating the association between BS and obesity in primary health care nurses of in the state of Bahia, Brazil. METHODS: Population-analytical, cross-confirmatory, integrated and multicenter study, conducted with a random sample of primary health care nursing professionals in 43 municipalities from 07 mesoregions of Bahia, Brazil. This study was funded by the Brazilian Board for Scientific and Technological Development. The independent variable (BS) was evaluated by using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) scale, and the dependent one (obesity) was based on the Body Mass Index (BMI)≥30. Effect modification and confounding factors were verified by crude, stratified, and multivariate analysis. RESULTS: The prevalence of BS and obesity was 17.7% and 12.7%, respectively. BS was statistically associated with obesity, even after adjustment (RPa: 1.85; CI 95% 1.11-3.06) per gender, age, physical activity, healthy eating, satisfaction with occupation, another job, night shift, primary health care (PHC) time, and working conditions. Effect-modifying variables were not identified. CONCLUSIONS: The specialized literature points out a path to the association identified here. New studies on the subject are relevant and should have more robust methodologies so that the path of causality is better clarified. In addition, occupational health programs become an alternative to control stress and, therefore, its complications, such as burnout and other health aggravations.
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Burnout, Professional , Burnout, Psychological , Humans , Cross-Sectional Studies , Burnout, Professional/epidemiology , Obesity/complications , Obesity/epidemiology , Multivariate Analysis , Job Satisfaction , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Introdução: O uso abusivo de álcool e outras drogas é um problema recorrente entre adultos e adolescentes, além de ter se tornado uma questão de saúde pública que perpassam por diversos âmbitos na sociedade atual. Objetivo: A presente intervenção visa promover a educação em saúde, com prevenção ao uso de drogas entre os adolescentes e adultos da comunidade adscrita de uma Unidade de Saúde da Família. Métodos: Trata-se de um relato de experiência das atividades desenvolvidas na disciplina de Integração, Ensino, Serviço e Comunidade, sob a forma de atividades integrativas e pedagógicas, por meio de oficinas com rodas de conversas, palestras, colagem de cartazes, jogos interativos e apresentação teatral. Resultados: Evidenciou-se que os cidadãos possuem entendimento dos riscos das drogas, no entanto, não se encontravam meios viáveis para minimizar essa problemática. Com isso, por meio das atividades propostas verificou-se a importância e efetividade da educação em saúde, sobretudo em temáticas como essa, que são consideradas difíceis de serem abordadas com a população devido a ser um problema permeado de preconceitos e prejuízos em vários âmbitos da vida do indivíduo. Conclusões: Esse trabalho contribuiu para sensibilizar a comunidade, provocando questionamentos e sanando respostas acerca da temática, de forma a minimizar um problema que gera repercussões no indivíduo, na família, no trabalho e na sociedade. Além de permitir a aproximação dos acadêmicos com a comunidade, tornando a medicina mais humanizada.
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BACKGROUND: Despite the evidence that phosphate binder (PB) is associated with improved outcomes many hemodialysis patients do not adhere to prescribed PB regimen. Therefore, barriers to PB adherence should be identified and eliminated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate PB adherence among hemodialysis patients and to explore potentially modifiable factors associated with low PB adherence. METHODS: A cross-sectional study (502 patients) was performed in four dialysis units in Salvador, Brazil, using data from the second phase of the Prospective Study of the Prognosis of Chronic Hemodialysis Patients (PROHEMO). Patients were categorized as adherent or non-adherent to PB based on their responses to a semi-structured questionnaire. RESULTS: Non-adherence to PB was observed for 65.7% of the patients. After adjustments for numerous covariates, cerebrovascular disease (odds ratio (OR), 3.30; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.03-10.61), higher PTH (OR per each 300 pg/mL, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.01-1.28), lack of comprehension of the appropriate time to use PB (OR, 7.09; 95% CI, 2.10-23.95) and stopping PB use after feeling better (OR, 4.54; 95% CI, 1.45-14.25) or feeling worse (OR, 11.04; 95% CI, 1.79- 68.03) were significantly associated with PB non-adherence. By contrast, the adjusted odds of PB non-adherence were lower for patients with more years on dialysis (OR by each 2 years, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.80-0.95), with serum phosphorus above 5.5 mg/dL (OR, 0.53; 95% CI 0.34-0.82), who referred that were encouraged by the dialysis staff to be independent (OR, 0.52; 95% CI 0.30-0.90), and reported that the nephrologist explained how PB should be used (OR, 0.20; 95% CI 0.05-0.73). CONCLUSION: The results of the present study are encouraging by showing evidence that improvement in the care provided by the dialysis staff and the attending nephrologist may play an important role in reducing the high prevalence of non-adherence to PB in maintenance hemodialysis patients. A new questionnaire is presented and may help to evaluate systematically the patients regarding PB adherence in hemodialysis setting.
