Background In Brazil, cancer patients and caregivers of cancer patients seek judicial intervention for free access to medications from the public health system. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic potentially affected the health-related quality of life of cancer patients and caregivers of cancer patients. This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic profile and assess the health-related quality of life of patien...
Objetivo: avaliar a efetividade de um programa cognitivo-comportamental para controle de sintomas do trato urinário inferior pós-prostatectomia radical. Método: estudo de ensaio clínico randomizado, com 41 participantes aleatorizados em intervenção (n=20) e controle (n=21), durante três meses. O grupo intervenção recebeu o programa cognitivocomportamental, enquanto o grupo controle recebeu orientações de rotina...
Objetivo: analizar los indicadores de calidad y contenido técnico de los videos publicados en la plataforma YouTube, para legos, sobre reanimación cardiopulmonar en adultos y su producción audiovisual según los principios de la alfabetización digital en salud. Método: estudio descriptivo, exploratorio, que seleccionó videos grabados entre diciembre de 2015 y abril de 2021. Fueron analizados ...
Objective: to investigate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the health literacy questionnaire European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short-short form (HLS-EU-Q6) in Brazilian adults. Method: the instrument was translated and pre-tested in a sample of 50 individuals. Subsequently, it was applied to a sample of 783 adult individuals. The data went through an appropriate pro...
Objective: To evaluate health literacy conditions among professionals enrolled in a Multiprofessional Residency Program in Health. Method: Analytical cross-sectional study, conducted with 88 resident professionals, using the Brazilian version of the Health Literacy Questionnaire. The reliability of the mean scores on the scales and their correlation with sociodemographic variables were evaluated. Results: The r...
The aim of this paper was to evaluate the satisfaction of users of municipal health units who underwent Reception with Risk Assessment and Classification (“AACR”). Cross-sectional, quantitative, descriptive study conducted in four services with AACR provided by nurses, in a capital city of Central-Western Brazil. Data were collected in 2017 with 101 users, using a formwith 44 objective questions about five dime...
This study analyzes the knowledge and conduct of nursing professionals regarding hospital fire prevention, combat and escape. A descriptive study conducted in a public teaching hospital in Goiânia/GO, Brazil, with 109 nursing professionals. Data was collected in 2011 using structured interviews with questionnaires, and descriptive statistics for analysis. Most subjects were female, nursing technicians/assistant...
doi: 10.5216/ree.v12i3.10555The prehospital care service plays important role in public health, as cardiovascular disease and events related to external causes such as emergency situations are increasing in the general population. The reunion of historical information enables the reader to know how the creation and structuring of prehospital care services happened. The objectives were to describe the historical...
The different claims of chronic renal failure patients under hemodialytical treatment about daily life alterations motivated questioning about what had been modified and influenced their quality of life after the treatment. The present study main objective was to evaluate the quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure under hemodialytical treatment, using an instrument called Kidney Disease and Qual...
It is a descriptive exploratory study with the purpose to identify similarities and differences among various Informative Bulletins (IBs) of Intensive Care Unity (ICU) and the information routine to the family members in the ICUs; to describe the family members and health professionals’ perception about the IB as an instrument to communicate the ICU patient clinical state ; to identify the communication aspects...