Marcela Amaral Daoud’s research while affiliated with Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and other places

Objective To analyze the sociodemographic and occupational influences on health professionals’ quality of life. Method This descriptive-exploratory, cross-sectional, analytical, and quantitative study addressed 94 health workers, including nursing technicians, nurses, and physical therapists working in Intensive Care Units in a town in the extreme south of Brazil in 2023. The student’s t-test and Spearman correlation were used. Results A significant positive correlation was found between being a woman and the psychological domain and between income and the social and environmental domain while working hours were inversely related to general QoL. Additionally, workload negatively impacted the physical, psychological, and general QOL, furniture negatively influenced the psychological domain, and equipment was negatively associated with the physical and psychological domain. Conclusion The characteristics of the work environment interfere with several areas of quality of life. Descriptors: Quality of Life; Health Personnel; Intensive Care Units; Working Conditions; Work.

Objective To analyze the sociodemographic and occupational influences on health professionals’ quality of life. Method This descriptive-exploratory, cross-sectional, analytical, and quantitative study addressed 94 health workers, including nursing technicians, nurses, and physical therapists working in Intensive Care Units in a town in the extreme south of Brazil in 2023. The student’s t-test and Spearman correlation were used. Results A significant positive correlation was found between being a woman and the psychological domain and between income and the social and environmental domain while working hours were inversely related to general QoL. Additionally, workload negatively impacted the physical, psychological, and general QOL, furniture negatively influenced the psychological domain, and equipment was negatively associated with the physical and psychological domain. Conclusion The characteristics of the work environment interfere with several areas of quality of life. Descriptors: Quality of Life; Health Personnel; Intensive Care Units; Working Conditions; Work.

Objective. To analyze the repercussions of neck pain on the quality of life of health professionals in intensive care units. Methods. Cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational study, carried out with 94 health professionals (21 nurses, 13 physical therapists and 60 nursing technicians) in Intensive Care Units of two medium-sized hospitals in a municipality in the far south of Brazil. An instrument containing variables of sociodemographic and work environment characterization was applied; the Neck Bournemouth Questionnaire (NBQ) and the WHOQOL-Bref were applied. Results. There was a predominance of female professionals (88.3%), white (78.8%), aged 30 to 39 years (34.1%), with family income between one and two minimum wages (31.9%) and weekly workload between 31 and 40 hours (67%), night shift (54.3%), time of professional experience of one to five years (38.3%) and one job (73.4%). Neck pain and disability showed significant negative correlations with quality of life. The relationship was weak with the physical (r: -0.218; p=0.035) and psychological (r: -0.280; p=0.006) domains, and moderate with social relationships (r: -0.419; p<0.001), environment (r: -0.280; p<0.001) and general quality of life (r: -0.280; p<0.001). Overall quality of life showed a moderate correlation with the feeling of anxiety (r: -0.431; p<0.001) and depression (r: -0.515; p<0.001) of professionals in the last week. Conclusion. Neck pain caused repercussions in the physical, psychological, social, environmental and general quality of life of health professionals in intensive care units.

Objetivou-se conhecer as facilidades e dificuldades enfrentadas pelas famílias para o cuidado à criança com doença crônica. Pesquisa qualitativa realizada em um hospital no sul do Brasil com 20 familiares cuidadores de crianças com doenças crônicas. Teve como referencial metodológico a Grounded Theory. Os dados foram coletados por entrevistas e submetidos à análise aberta e axial. Como facilidades para cuidar os familiares referiram não achar difícil cuidar; valorizar as habilidades da criança; ter o carinho da família; ser bem atendido nos serviços de saúde; receber auxílio da rede de apoio para cuidar e receber auxílio financeiro para cuidar. Como dificuldades para cuidar referiram sentir-se sobrecarregada para cuidar; conviver com as internações hospitalares da criança; vivenciar dificuldades financeiras para cuidar; vivenciar desestruturação familiar; ter dificuldades para cuidar os outros filhos; vivenciar o preconceito contra a criança; ter que parar de trabalhar para cuidar à criança; conviver com as limitações impostas pela doença; faltar de acesso aos insumos e serviços necessários ao cuidado à criança; conviver com a revolta da criança por ter doença crônica; conviver com a necessidade de adaptação dos aparatos tecnológicos para o cuidado e vivenciar a falta de apoio para cuidar. Concluiu-se que o cuidado familiar à criança com doença crônica é complexo e que a família necessita de auxílio para realizá-lo. O diagnóstico da criança deve ser dado ao familiar por profissional habilitado, transmitindo-lhes informações acerca da doença e apoio emocional para o enfrentamento cotidiano do cuidado.