BackgroundAs general population life expectancy has increased, the need to investigate the quality of life has arisen, especially because it is important that people have a healthy long life and with good quality. Studies are done with specific populations, and in the case of this investigation, the target studies are the ones done with women. Female population is growing demographically and professionally. Women have shown increased levels of stress and higher number of illness. It is known that many practices can be used to improve the level of quality of life and that one of them is the dance. Dance is an activity which combines physical and psychosocial aspects. Moreover, it promotes self-expression, self-esteem, and self-confidence. It relieves women of stress. And it also helps in a variety of aspects such as group interaction, motivation, and positive emotions. In this systematic review, the main objective is to assess the effect of dance on quality of life of adult women.MethodsOnly quantitative studies will be included. Studies will be accepted with any amount of dance practice time. They will have been published in the following bibliographic databases: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), Portal da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane from inception until June 30, 2018. There will be no restrictions for geographical location. It will be included studies published in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Only published ones will be included in the review.DiscussionThere is a variety of systematic review studies with men and women on quality of life and dance, but this is the first one focused exclusively on adult female audience. It is expected that this review will be useful to promote the discussion about quality of life of adult women and the interest of this population for dance practice. In order to summarize and to explain the characteristics and findings of those studies, tables and information from texts will be used in a systematic narrative synthesis.Systematic review registrationPROSPERO CRD42016039961Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13643-018-0750-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

BackgroundIn this article, conceptualization of well-being is a starting point. According to Diener, subjective well-being refers to all kinds of evaluation, both positive and negative, people make about their own lives. It includes cognitive assessments, such as satisfaction with life and satisfaction with work, as well as affective reactions to life events, such as sadness and contentment. Low levels of health and well-being in workers lead to many consequences. Sick leave, low productivity, and absenteeism are some examples. In this systematic review, the main objective is to assess workers’ subjective well-being.MethodsThe studies should include workers, whether they are paid or volunteers. Also, they must assess workers’ subjective well-being. Observational peer-reviewed studies will be included. Qualitative studies will be excluded. The primary outcomes to be considered are the subjective well-being indicators described. Only studies that used six (6) instruments, developed by Diener, will be included. The instruments are Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE), Positive Thinking Scale (PTS), Flourishing Scale (FS), Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT), and Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT). The studies will come from Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), Portal da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, and Global Index Medicus databases. The studies must be written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish.DiscussionAs far as we know, this is the first systematic review related specially to workers’ subjective well-being. We hope that this study contributes to the “well-being at work” discussion and also to the development of effective interventions, used outside and inside organizations, that could improve well-being scores and increase correlate variables scores such as general health, social relations, and quality of life.Systematic review registrationPROSPERO CRD42016039520Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13643-018-0903-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Background: Palliative care aims to improve life quality of patients and their families, preventing and relieving people's suffering in coping life-threatening diseases. Many challenges are linked to palliative care, such as the lack of specific disciplines in doctors training; the scarcity of services and specialized programs in palliative care in public and private health systems and the lack of training for resident doctors. Objective: To identify knowledge of resident doctors regarding palliative care. Method: A systematic review according to PRISMA (2009), with searches carried out in Cochrane Library, MEDLINE / PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science databases and gray literature of Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), with the acceptance of articles in English, Portuguese and Spanish, without delimitation of publication date, geographic location and type of study. Only studies with resident doctors were included. Results: During the search, 931 articles were found. Of these, 363 were discarded because they were duplicated and 568 were discarded after reading titles and abstracts, leaving 24 articles for complete reading, which after reading and consensus of the three researchers, only 07 of these articles were included in the comparative synthesis. Three intervention studies, two cross-sectional and two qualitative studies were found. In the observed data, all the analyzed studies had a sample of less than 100 subjects, with a total of 442 subjects, of which 137 (30.99%) were women and 111 (25.12%) men, with average age ranging from 26.6 to 32.1. Conclusions: The studies analyzed in this review indicate that the knowledge of resident doctors was limited and insufficient related to palliative care, what indicates the need of greater investments in training, through teaching-learning methods based on rotation, simulation and others, thus improving not only knowledge, but also the practice in palliative care. PROSPERO record: CRD42020159428