Introduction: Several viruses, including CoVs, can affect the nervous system, causing neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms. Because this is an unknown disease widely spread, there are few studies that deal with the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 on the nervous system. Objective: To describe the relationship between neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms and SARS-Cov-2 virus infection. Methods: integrative review conduct...
Studies assessing the degree of satisfaction with nursing outcome for Personal Well-being in elderly patients with chronic diseases remain incipient. The aim of this study was to evaluate nursing outcome for Personal Well-being of elderly patients with systemic arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus. This was a cross-sectional study, carried out with 103 elderly outpatients receiving follow-up care at a Pr...
Objective: to present the knowledge produced on nursing interventions for the prevention of falls in patients with stroke. Methods: integrative review of the literature. The search of the works happened in five databases of the health area. We read the 500 papers and we select 63 for addressing the research topic. Results: the interventions we grouped into three thematic categories: Interventions on Risk Assess...
Objective: to present the knowledge produced about the Nursing interventions directed at patients with stroke in rehabilitation. Method: integrative review, with a qualitative approach, carried out from April 2015 to May 2016, from the online access in Medline, Lilacs and Cochrane, with the controlled descriptors Nursing Care and Stroke and Rehabilitation. The studies were analyzed according to the checklist fo...
Objective: to conduct the clinical validation of nursing diagnosis “Willingness for improved infant development”. Method: a cross-sectional study, conducted in a Centro de Saúde da Família (Family Health Care center), with 45 healthy breastfed infants. The instrument for collecting the data was prepared based on the literature and validated by nurses. It contained the following variables: sociodemographic, gest...
Objective: To clinically validate the nursing outcome Mobility in patients with cerebrovascular accidents Methods: Descriptive study, conducted in July 2011, with 38 outpatients, in northeastern Brazil. Data collection took place by evalu - ating two pairs of specialist nurses, where one pair used the instrument containing the constitutive and operational definitions of the indicators and magnitudes of the Mobi...
Purpose: To review the nursing outcome, Fall Prevention Behavior, and clinically validate its indicators in people with stroke. Methods: A methodological study performed with 106 patients in two outpatient clinics, from July to September of 2013. Two pairs of trained nurses applied the NOC scale, one with and one without the use of operational definitions. The internal consistency, stability and difference betw...
Studies about risk indicators cardiovascular in scholars are importants. The objective of this study was to associate systolic blood pressure (SAP), diastolic blood pressure (DAP) with anthropometric measurement values, sedentarism, smoking and drinking of scholars who presented altered arterial pressure in three evaluations. Follow-up study, performed from 2004 to 2006, at a public school in Fortaleza. Four hu...
Objetivo: Validar clinicamente o resultado de enfermagem Mobilidade em pacientes com acidente vascular cerebral. Métodos: Estudo descritivo, desenvolvido em julho de 2011 com 38 pacientes em tratamento ambulatorial, no nordeste do Brasil. A coleta de dados aconteceu por meio da avaliação de duas duplas de enfermeiras especialistas, sendo que uma dupla utilizou o instrumento contendo as definições constitutivas ...
The objective of this study was to investigate the width of cuffs that would be more adequate for the measuring of arterial pressure of children and teenagers, taking into account the proportion recommended, which means 40% of the circumference of the arm. This study was carried out in Fortaleza and involved 166 children and teenagers from both sexes between 6 and 18 years old. Most of them were females (53%). ...