This study aimed to evaluate the effect of auriculoacupuncture in promoting comfort in postpartum women. This is an experimental study, of the randomized controlled clinical trial type, carried out in the city of Fortaleza, in the sectors of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Kangaroo Unit of the Maternity School Assis Chateaubriand, developed with postpartum women who accompanied their hospitalized babies, f...
Objective: to analyze the sociodemographic, obstetric, type of delivery and professional factors that provided care that can influence the quality of life related to women’s health in the immediate puerperium period. Method: cross-sectional, correlational study conducted in a reference maternity hospital, with 272 women in the immediate puerperium period hospitalized in the rooming-in accommodation. A sociodemo...
Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of the defi ning characteristics of the nursing diagnosis for “fatigue in women with breast cancer under radiotherapy”. Method: Study of diagnostic accuracy, with cross-sectional design, performed in 130 women with breast cancer under radiation treatment. A data collection instrument was used to evaluate clinical socio-demographics and to investigate the presence or absence o...
Prolonged participation in care activities can generate in the caregivers a negative effect on their physical and emotional health, which can be intensified with the progression of the disease, the impossibility of cure and the approximation of death, socioeconomic difficulties that can diminish the well- Being / comfort of these caregivers. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the comfort of the family caregiver...
Background: On cancer, pain is one of the most frequent and distressing symptoms, being present in all stages of the disease. Knowing that, this study aimed to analyze the available evidence in the literature about chronic pain management by nurses in adult patients with cancer. Methods and Results: It is an integrative review searched in the PUBMED, LILACS, CINAHL and COCHRANE databases. Nineteen studies met t...
This study aimed to analyze the concept of nursing care to patients with breast cancer on chem o- therapy treatment, according to the perspective of the person submitted to care. The study fo l- lowed the conceptual analysis methodology proposed by Walker and Avant according to Waldow, and it was developed through consultation to SCOPUS and CINAHL databases. The selection was carried out by inclusion and exclus...