ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the therapeutic itinerary of elderly people with diabetes mellitus registered at Family Health Strategy units. Methods: qualitative and descriptive study carried out with 15 elderly people with diabetes mellitus between February and April 2019 by applying semi-structured interviews with the participants. Data were submitted to analysis of Minayo’s operational proposal. Results: i...
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the influence of institutional routines on interpersonal conflicts among institutionalized elderly women. Method: A qualitative study, with an ethnographic framework, performed with 17 elderly women in a Long-Term Care Facility. The field immersion occurred from August 2017 to May 2018. The data were produced by participant observation and fieldnotes and analyzed through the soci...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the predictive dimensions of clinical-functional conditions and the cognitive capacity of elderly people living at home. Method: Cross-sectional, population-based, analytical, quantitative study was utilized. For data collection, an instrument with sociodemographic and behavioral variables, the Functional Clinical Vulnerability Index; and, to assess cognition, the Mini-Mental Sta...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the knowledge and practices of nursing professionals in caring for people with colostomy bag. Method: a qualitative and descriptive study conducted with 21 nursing professionals from a General Surgery Unit. Data collection used triangulation of techniques, based on non-participant observation, analysis of nursing records, and semi-structured interviews. Analysis followed the spira...
Resumo Objetivo Analisar as evidências da literatura sobre a prática da contenção em idosos. Métodos Revisão integrativa de literatura, com busca dos estudos primários publicados de 2013 a 2017, realizada nas bases de dados eletrônicas LILACS e MEDLINE, nos meses de maio e junho de 2018. As buscas foram obtidas pelo cruzamento, nas bases de dados, dos seguintes descritores e palavras: contenção; restrição; rest...
ABSTRACT Objective: produce and validate an educational technology in the form of video for people and families who experience colostomy and cancer. Method: educational technology development study conducted in two phases: production and validation of audiovisual technology, which includes the stages of construction and validation of the script, video production and audio-visual validation. Twelve people partic...
ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the seropositive elderly for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in their socio-demographic aspects; to understand how the elderly take care of themselves from the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS. Method: Qualitative, descriptive, exploratory research conducted at a Voluntary Counseling and Testing Center with 10 elderly people receiving t...
Resumo Objetivo Avaliar a eficácia da intervenção telefônica realizada por enfermeira na diminuição dos escores de ansiedade de pacientes em tratamento radioterápico. Métodos Ensaio clínico randomizado realizado em ambulatório de radioterapia com seguimento de 15 dias. A amostra foi composta por 39 pacientes em tratamento radioterápico (20 no Grupo Intervenção e 19 no Grupo Controle). As intervenções foram real...
RESUMO Objetivo: Analisar como a equipe de enfermagem atua frente à sexualidade no cotidiano das idosas institucionalizadas. Método: Estudo qualitativo e descritivo, realizado em uma Instituição de Longa Permanência, na região sul do Brasil. Os dados foram coletados nos meses de abril a julho de 2016, por meio de entrevista semiestruturada e submetidos à Análise de Discurso Francesa Pecheutiana. O estudo respei...
Abstract Objective: To describe the stressful factors experienced by hospitalized elderly from the perspective of the Neuman Systems Model (NSM). Method: A descriptive qualitative study performed with 12 elderly hospitalized in a medical clinic of a teaching hospital in Rio Grande do Sul. Data production occurred from March to June 2016, through narrative interviews, subsequently transcribed, organized and subm...