Background/Objectives: The prevalence of people with incurable and progressive diseases in primary health care is high. Family doctors and nurses must be active agents in the early identification of palliative needs and the implementation of palliative approaches in cases of low to intermediate complexity. While there is a need for early referral of more complex palliative care (PC) cases to specialized teams, ...
Background/Objectives: Hypodermoclysis has gained increasing recognition as a safe, effective, and minimally invasive method for administering medication and fluids in palliative care. Despite its advantages, its adoption remains limited, primarily due to a lack of structured training resources for healthcare professionals. This study aimed to develop and validate an educational tool for training clinical nurse...
Background/Objectives: Hypodermoclysis has gained increasing recognition as a safe, effective, and minimally invasive method for administering medication and fluids in palliative care. Despite its advantages, its adoption remains limited, primarily due to a lack of structured training resources for healthcare professionals. This study aimed to develop and validate an educational tool for training clinical nurse...
Objective: to verify the association between sociodemographic characteristics and the performance of actions for early detection of breast cancer. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out in six primary health care units, with 400 women considered a target population for actions for early detection of breast cancer. The Chi-square test of independence (2x2) was used for inferential analysis. Results: mo...
Objective: to verify the association between sociodemogra-phic characteristics and the performance of actions for early detection of breast cancer. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out in six primary health care units, with 400 wo-men considered a target population for actions for early de-tection of breast cancer. The Chi-square test of independence (2x2) was used for inferential analysis. Results:...
Objective: to report the experience of a health team in restructuring service at a mastology outpatient clinic. Methods: an experience report in a public university service mastology outpatient in Ceará between March and April 2020. Service in this outpatient clinic is exclusively for women and who have breast changes for surgical treatments ranging from nodulectomies to mastectomies with oncoplastic. Results :...
Objective: To evaluate the effect of Raja yoga meditation on the level of distress and anxiety in women with breast cancer. Method: A randomized, controlled, clinical trial was carried out in a specialized center between February and December 2019. The patients in the intervention group (n = 25) participated in four group meditation sessions for one month, and the participants in the control group (n = 25) were...
Introdução: Insônia é a dificuldade de iniciar ou manter o sono ou ainda a percepção de um sono não reparador, com prejuízo na atividade social e/ou profissional. A insônia na gravidez é normal e acredita-se que ela se deve a alterações hormonais típicas desta fase, mas como nem todas as grávidas apresentam insônia na gestação, acredita-se que haja outros fatores envolvidos. Objetivos: Relatar a experiência de ...
Este manual foi criado pelo Grupo de Estudo em Câncer de Mama (Gecam) pensando em mulheres como você, para juntas entendermos o que é preciso saber e o que pode ser feito para se cuidar após uma experiência de câncer de mama. Compreendemos que, ao ser acometida por esse tipo de câncer, você poderá passar por diversos tratamentos: a cirurgia, a quimioterapia e a radioterapia. Sabemos que, para algumas mulheres, ...
Introduction: Health education as the health promotion strategy should be a social practice focused on the daily questioning, appreciation of life experiences, adapted to different realities. Objective: The study has the general objective to describe the development of educational activities for prevention and early detection of breast cancer in older women through crop circles. Methods: This is an exploratory ...