Objective: to analyze the psychic suffering among nursing students in the context of academic life. Method: descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, carried out with 20 university students from the last semester of nursing, from a public university in the Northeast, Brazil. The data were produced by open-ended questions, between March 2016 and February 2017, and evaluated by content analysis. Results...
Aim: to understand the practices of nurses in urgent and emergency service for people experiencing psychic crisis resulting from drug abuse. Method: this is a descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, performed with 19 nurses who work in the emergency room of a general hospital in the countryside of Rio Grande do Norte. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, and then submitted to conte...
The present study aimed to understand the health requirements of families of psychoactive substance (PAS) users. It is a descriptive study carried out with family members of users at a Center for Psychosocial Care, whose data was produced through interviews. After content analysis the following categories were identified: health requirement as a disease located in a biological body, health requirement as social...
One aimed to identify the risk factors associated to falls in the elderly, which reflect on their quality of life. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study. A questionnaire was used to collect data from older adults of an active living group from Russas-CE during the period from August to December 2011. The data were inserted in electronic spreadsheets, analyzed by the descriptive statistics and submitted t...
Objetivou-se identificar os fatores de risco relacionados às quedas em idosos, que repercutem em sua qualidade de vida. Estudo descritivo, transversal. Foi usado formulário para coletar os dados de idosos do grupo de convivência de Russas-CE, no período de agosto a dezembro de 2011. Os dados foram inseridos em planilhas eletrônicas, analisados pela estatística descritiva e submetidos aos testes de odds ratio e ...
One aimed to identify the risk factors associated to falls in the elderly, which reflect on their quality of life. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study. A questionnaire was used to collect data from older adults of an active living group from Russas-CE during the period from August to December 2011. The data were inserted in electronic spreadsheets, analyzed by the descriptive statistics and submitted t...