INTRODUCTION: Accidents in chilhood are an important theme for Public Health due to what they represent and also to the repercussions children and their family may present. To investigate the association between risk factors and the occurrence of domestic accidents involving children under the age of five in a municipality in the countryside of northeastern Brazil. METHOD: Analytical, cross-sectional study.Prim...
Objective: to understand the perception of nursing staff professionals and legal guardians of children and adolescents with cancer regarding Assisted Therapy with dogs. Method: qualitative study based on participant observation conducted with 16 participants in a reference hospital of child cancer. We applied an in-depth interview and interpreted the data according to a content analysis technique. Results: the ...
Introduction: The kangaroo-mother care method is an approach adopted in Brazil as a public police, which has helped in the reduction of neonatal mortality rate. Premature birth and its vulnerabilities can trigger, especially in mothers, feelings of fear and insecurity related to taking care of newborns. Objective: Investigate care continuity of preterm newborns from a kangaroo-mother care method unit in primary...
Primary Health Care (PHC) deals with the user's first contact with the health system. In this sense, a broad concept was proposed and directed to the presence and the extension of essential attributes and derivatives in the primary care service. In child health, hospitalizations that are sensitive to primary care are identified as preventable diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhea. OBJECTIVE: To know the attri...
Objective: To develop and validate an educational technology venous ulcers care. Method: Methodological study conducted in five steps: Situational diagnosis; literature review; development of texts, illustrations and layout; apparent and content validity by the Content Validity Index, assessment of Flesch Readability Index; and pilot testing. Results: The developed technology was a type of booklet entitled Book...