Sleep disorders are common in patients with Alzheimer's disease. These disorders are highly related to the cognitive impairment and have as main risk factor the time of disease. Additionally, they can damage the patient’s quality of life, as well as their family’s and caregivers’. The aim of this study was to clarify which changes in sleep patterns occur in patients with Alzheimer's disease and how they occur. ...
As redes sociais on-line são, hodiernamente, grandes ferramentas de comunicação e entretenimento, responsáveis por otimizar diversas tarefas. Apesar de seus benefícios, esses ambientes virtuais são constantemente correlacionados com a piora da saúde mental. O objetivo desta pesquisa bibliográfica foi investigar a influência das redes sociais on-line com o aparecimento de comportamentos depressivos entre os jove...
Hearing impaired people face numerous obstacles when seeking health services, especially related to communication barriers with attending physicians. The purpose of this literature review was to identify the main challenges encountered worldwide during the medical care of deaf people. A bibliographic search was carried out in the LILACS, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus and ScienceDirect databases. After applyin...
Breast milk is the main source of nutrition, composed of elements essential to the body, such as proteins, lipids, vitamins and immunological factors. When considering this important function, it is considered that breastfeeding is an essential practice for the health of the child, in order to be naturally sufficient to meet the nutritional needs of newborns. Contradictory to the assertion, early weaning is sti...
In December 2019, the increase in the number of cases of respiratory syndromes in Wuhan, (China), alarmed a local doctor about the symptoms that started as those of a simple flu and quickly evolved to severe pneumonia and death. In March 2020, a new virus pandemic (SARS-CoV-2) broke out, and measures to control the spread of the infection needed to be instituted around the world, such as wearing masks, frequent...
Medical Genetics (GM) plays an important role in public policies for the prevention, control and treatment of diseases. The establishment of a minimum GM curriculum by the Brazilian Society of Medical Genetics and Genomics (SBGM) was a milestone for medical training. The present study aimed to list the main knowledge, skills and attitudes in GM that medical graduates must have for the correct management of pati...
In Brazil, schistosomiasis is caused by the helminth Schistosoma mansoni, being directly associated with poverty and inadequate living conditions, representing a serious public health problem in the country, where it is a compulsory notification disease. This study aimed to understand the nursing actions in the care of patients with schistosomiasis mansoni that, due to the different clinical manifestations duri...
A leucemia linfoide aguda (LLA) é uma neoplasia hematológica caracterizada pela produção exacerbada de linfoblastos pela medula óssea. Alguns fatores estão diretamente relacionados ao prognóstico adverso da doença. O objetivo desta revisão de literatura, foi realizar um levantamento dos fatores relacionados a prognóstico reservado da leucemia linfoide aguda e como eles influenciam neste prognóstico. Para isso, ...
As metodologias ativas de ensino-aprendizagem são estratégias para integração de saberes e promoção de atitude crítica e reflexiva no ensino superior, podendo ser utilizadas em atividades de monitoria acadêmica, constituindo-se como um instrumento facilitador da compreensão e produção do conhecimento. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo relatar a experiência de monitores de um programa de monitoria acadêmica ...
As metodologias ativas vêm sendo utilizadas no ensino superior como estratégias de transformação do processo de ensino-aprendizagem colocando o aluno com protagonista deste processo, bem como auxiliando a formação de atitudes mais críticas e reflexivas nas universidades. A monitoria acadêmica se constitui como um importante instrumento dentro do processo de ensino-aprendizagem, promovendo e ampliando a rede de ...