Objective: to analyze the relationship between occupational stress and sleep quality in health professors. Methods: this is a cross-sectional study using a sociodemographic, occupational and Occupational Stress Scale and Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index. Results: male professors (57.9%), married (47.4%), and children (52.6%), living with the family (89.5%) and with a mean age of 34.7 years old predominated. In the sample, 63.2% had low-stress level and 57.9% had poor sleep quality, which was more affected by daytime sleepiness, sleep disturbances, and sleep duration. There was a significant and positive correlation between general stress level and use of sleeping medication. Conclusion: there was low level of stress and low quality sleep. Daytime sleepiness, sleep disturbances, and sleep duration are the factors that contribute most to the poor quality of sleep of health professors.
Objective: Describe the experience of extension activities in the prevention of COVID-19 with children from public school system. Methods: Experience report of critical and reflexive approach on the extension experience of the project “Healthcare at School” (Atenção à Saúde na Escola), in the COVID-19 pandemic context, in a countryside town in the State of Goias, in March 2020. Results: It is carried out five hand sanitizing workshops as a prevention for COVID-19 with 57 children from 2 to 5 years old in the State of Goias. Final Considerations: The playful approach in a low-cost workshop format was a strategy to meet an emergency requirement of the Community in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aim: To evaluate the level of knowledge of the students of the Higher Education in the health area of an IES (Higher Education Institution) of a city in the interior of the State of Goiás, about penile cancer and to identify the strategies adopted by the population to prevent carcinoma penile. Method: This is a field-based, evaluative, exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative approach. Results: we found the predominance of students with high level of knowledge (72.5%) on penile cancer, followed by those with a medium level of knowledge (26.1) on the subject. The most frequent attitudes for penile cancer prevention were: cleaning the penis daily with soap and water, using condoms in sexual relations; performing penis hygiene after sexual intercourse and masturbation; trying to have good hygiene habits, taking medical consultation when they felt something and inspect the penile in the shower. Conclusion: we found a high level of knowledge regarding the penile cancer prevention. Early detection of condom use, daily hygiene and non-promiscuity of sexual partners are relevant points in the prevention and detection of the disease.
Objetivo: verificar as características sociodemográficas e ocupacionais e a qualidade do sono de docentes da área de saúde de uma faculdade privada do estado de Goiás. Método: trata-se de um estudo transversal, descritivo e quantitativo realizado entre novembro e dezembro de 2017 por meio de um questionário sociodemográfico e ocupacional e do Índice de Qualidade de Sono Pittsburg. Resultados: predominaram docentes do sexo feminino (61,5%), casados (61,5%), sem filhos (61,5%), que atuam no curso de fisioterapia (46,2%), como horistas (58,3%), com outros vínculos empregatícios (76,9%) e que atuam nos três turnos do dia (76,9%). 53,8% dos docentes apresentam baixa qualidade do sono, sendo essa qualidade mais afetada pelos distúrbios do sono e pela sonolência diurna. Conclusão: os docentes estão expostos a fatores laborais e demográficos que podem contribuir para a baixa qualidade do sono. Necessita-se repensar os aspectos salariais, de carga horária e didáticos para modificar esse panorama.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.