ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze hand hygiene determinants of informal caregivers in a hospital environment. Methods: qualitative study conducted with 55 caregivers at a university hospital in the Northeast of Brazil. A semi-structured instrument was used, adapted from Nola Pender's Health Promotion Model, from which the deductive categories were derived. Results: the general behavior included hand hygiene befor...
Abstract Introduction: The potential for emerging infectious diseases is a major global health problem. Among the viruses that cause emerging diseases are coronaviruses. Epidemiological and etiological investigations detected in 2019 a new coronavirus, which dramatically increased the workload in health facilities. Aim: To identify constructs that trigger Burnout syndrome in nurses at the front line of COVID-19...
Resumo Objetivo Avaliar a efetividade de intervenção educativa mediada por tecnologia impressa no conhecimento sobre prevenção de quedas em pacientes hospitalizados. Método Estudo quase-experimental, do tipo antes e depois, aplicou uma intervenção educativa mediada por cartilha. O estudo incluiu 86 pacientes hospitalizados em clínica médica-cirúrgica. Utilizou-se teste de conhecimento sobre prevenção de quedas ...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to create and validate a serial album for Pressure Ulcer prevention in the hospital environment. Methods: a methodological study with the production of the serial album and validation by 22 judges and 22 patients. The content was based on the integrative review and the reports of the World Health Organization. It was considered a Content Validity Index equal to or greater than 80% in the it...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze YouTube videos with information about COVID-19 in Brazilian sign language. Methods: a cross-sectional study conducted with 402 videos from the YouTube sharing platform. Chi-square, Fisher’s exact, Mann-Whitney and Spearman’s correlation tests were used. Results: the videos mainly covered COVID-19 prevention (20.6%). There was a positive correlation between video length and number ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the Brazilian Sign Language teaching in undergraduate nursing courses. Method: a cross-sectional study, carried out on the curriculum matrices of 553 higher education nursing courses. Data collection took place through access to the websites of the Ministry of Education and educational institutions. Results: the nursing courses that offered Libras were located predominantly i...
Resumo Objetivo: Analisar os modos de adaptação de autoconceito e a função do papel em pacientes em tratamento de câncer de cavidade oral. Métodos: Estudo qualitativo, realizado com pacientes de hospital de referência em câncer, em Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. Utilizou-se da entrevista como técnica de coleta de dados, a partir de instrumento semiestruturado, tendo como base o referencial teórico de Callista Roy. A ve...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the effect of prayer on religious/spiritual coping and on the hope of patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis. Method: Randomized, controlled and blinded clinical trial, carried out in a dialysis unit, with a total of 62 patients undergoing hemodialysis – 31 participants in intervention group and 31 in the control group. Intercession prayer was applied three ...
ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the effect of virtual reality in pain relief during chronic wound dressing change. Method: This is an experimental study carried out with 17 participants, in a stomatherapy clinic in Ceará, Brazil, from June to December 2019, using the virtual reality glasses Oculus Go®. Sociodemographic and clinical information, as well as of lifestyle, and characteristics of the lesions were coll...
ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the effectiveness of educational interventions for fall prevention implemented in hospitals, at homes and nursing homes. Method: this is a systematic review, carried out based on the guiding question: what is the effectiveness of isolated educational interventions for preventing falls in adults and the elderly developed in experimental studies? The search took place in the electron...