A dedicação para o exercício profissional vem, cada vez mais, ocupando parte significativa na experiência existencial, sendo meio de desenvolvimento do ser humano e componente importante de sua identidade pessoal. Este estudo tem o objetivo de trazer as percepções a respeito da especialidade escolhida pelos médicos do trabalho da região sul do Brasil. É uma pesquisa exploratória, descritiva e transversal realizada com médicos do trabalho da região sul brasileira por meio de um formulário formatado em plataforma eletrônica. Como resultado, obtiveram-se informações sobre as percepções e sentimentos que os médicos do trabalho têm a respeito: da especialidade que escolheram, as dificuldades que envolvem a área de atuação, a satisfação com o trabalho, salário e qualidade de vida.

Suicide rates have taken on alarming dimensions with catastrophic consequences. This study aims to understand the perceptions of occupational medicine specialists about suicide prevention and describe what actions work organizations are taking to prevent suicide among their workers. This is an exploratory, cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative study, carried out with 24 occupational medicine specialists with experience in workers’ mental health, using online forms. The analyses were performed using Excel and SPSS software. In the results, the indicators that most appeared among specialists as prevalent in the development of controls for suicide risk were: (1) to control the reasons for social security leaves (n = 23, 95.8%); (2) to train leaders for people management (n = 23, 95.8%); and (3) to have an official means of communication within the company to report violence at work (n = 20, 83.3%). There were 42 recommendations described by the specialists. They were grouped into 8 categories and are part of 4 different dimensions of suicide prevention. Suicide is a complex phenomenon of multifactorial nature, which involves all the dimensions of life and influences the people close to it directly and indirectly. Therefore, there is no single way to approach this issue in work organizations, nor a single way to promote prevention, given the fact that the practical experiences of the physicians expand the approach of health services.

A mensuração da força muscular de preensão palmar através da dinamometria manual é uma das variáveis para estimar a capacidade funcional dos membros superiores. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar os resultados dos exames de dinamometria de preensão palmar em funcionários de uma empresa eletromecânica de Curitiba. O estudo foi retrospectivo, transversal e descritivo, com os dados da dinamometria de preensão palmar em 2004 funcionários sadios e acima de 29 anos. As variáveis avaliadas foram submetidas ao teste de Kolmogorov-Smirnov com correção de Lilliefors, classificados conforme os pontos de corte indicados por Heredia et al. ( 2005) considerando-se a faixa etária de cada indivíduo. Como resultado, verificou-se que existem tabelas de referência de dinamometrias palmares com ampla variabilidade de valores e que a comparação entre valores de referência com a proposta de percentis, é em geral, de baixa concordância para a população de funcionários do setor eletromecânico, mostrando a necessidade de se desenvolver uma proposta com maior concordância à população avaliada.

Quality of life is an eminently human condition that informs the perception of how the individual is in his life values, while spirituality and religiosity represent the connection with the sacred, the transcendental practices in the search for existential causes. Bringing these concepts to the academic environment can help in promoting health and better training for future medical professionals. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between quality of life and spirituality of medical students at a private university in the state of Paraná, Brazil. One hundred eighty-nine medical students answered three questionnaires (socio-demographic, WHOQOL-bref on quality of life, and DUREL spirituality) during the first and last year of graduation. In this study, we found that the general quality of life of medical students, according to the WHOQOL-bref scale, is regular (3.78), and there was no statistically significant difference in the general quality of life between the first and the last year of medical school. (p = 0.156). The social and environmental domains leveraged the scores more than the physical and psychological domains in both groups. On the Durel scale, intrinsic religiosity (IR) stood out more than organized (OR) and non-organized (NOR) religiosity, with statistically significant differences (p = 0.018), which may imply that these students prefer to seek more in themselves, a harmony of life between their beliefs and their particular needs, internalizing existential and spiritual reflexes that are reflected in their behaviors and decisions.