Objetivo: avaliar a ocorrência da polifarmácia e sua associação com a adesão ao tratatamento farmacológico em pacientes com diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Métodos: estudo transversal realizado com 235 portadores de diabetes mellitus tipo 2 por meio de entrevista sobre os dados sociodemográficos e clínicos, a terapêutica medicamentosa prescrita e a adesão ao tratamento. Para análise dos dados foram utilizados os test...
Objective: to evaluate the occurrence of polypharmacy and its association with the adherence to the pharmacological treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. Methods: cross-sectional study conducted with 235 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 through interview about the demographic and clinical data, drug therapy prescribed and adherence to treatment. To analyze the data, we used Student t-tests ...
Objective: to evaluate the occurrence of polypharmacy and its association with the adherence to the pharmacological treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. Methods: cross-sectional study conducted with 235 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 through interview about the demographic and clinical data, drug therapy prescribed and adherence to treatment. To analyze the data, we used Student t-tests ...
Background: This study aimed to identify the conditioning factors that influence the self-care practice of heart transplant patient after discharge and relate the conditioning factors to the Engagement Profile of Self Care. Methods: Cross-sectional study, undertaken at a transplantation unit of one public hospital, in Fortaleza-Ceará. There was the participation of 63 heart transplant patients. Results: The maj...
Uncertainty is the inability of the person to deter mine the meaning of the disease-related events. This is a methodological study that aimed t o translate, culturally adapt to Portuguese and validate the Mishel Uncertainty in I llness Scale for Family Members of people with spinal cord injury and motor deficit li ke paraplegia, and also verify the reliability and validity of the Mishel Uncertainty in Illness S...
Objective: to verify the nursing diagnoses in patients affected by CVAs. Method : this is an integrative review of the literature. The search was conducted on LILACS, Scielo, Medline, CINAHL, and Scopus databases between February and March 2015, using the following keywords: “Enfermagem”, “Acidente Vascular Cerebral”, “Diagnóstico de Enfermagem”; and “Nursing”, “Stroke”, and “Nursing Diagnosis”. Results: we fou...
Objective: to analyze the care performed by nursing professionals during the peripheral venipuncture. Method: exploratory, descriptive study of a quantitative approach, carried out in a public hospital with 92 nursing professionals. The data were collected in October and November 2012, with questionnaire, analyzed and presented in charts and tables. The study had approved the project by the Ethics Committee in ...
This study aims at understanding the experience of sexuality by people with spinal cord injury. 10 people with spinal cord injury participated in this study. They were men and women, with paraplegia and tetraplegia. The data were collected by domiciliary visit, using a half-structuralized interview. The data were organized according to the steps of analyzing content of Bardin. The results show that the most app...
Objective: to analyze the knowledge of nurse working in intensive care unit (ICU) on arterial gasometry (AG). Method: a descriptive study with, quantitative, performed in a public hospital in Fortaleza-CE, from February to March 2011, with 45 nurses. We used Statistic Package for Social Sciences to analyze the data. The research was approved by ethics committee of the hospital with no. 091211/10. Results: parti...
ABSTRACT: This integrative literature review aimed to describe the scientific evidence available regarding infant cerebral palsy. The search for articles took place in the SciELO, LILACS and MEDLINE databases, in May – September 2012. The sample was made up of 25 published studies, in the Portuguese and/or English languages, between January 2006 and April 2012. The analysis of the publications identified eight ...