Objectives: to identify the main causes for hospital admissions and deaths related to systemic arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus (DM), and to analyze morbidity and mortality trends, in a municipality in São Paulo's countryside, by comparing two three-years periods, 2002 to 2004 and 2010 to 2012. Methods: cross-sectional study which used secondary data regarding deaths from the Information System on Mo...
AIMS: to evaluate the quality of life in severe sepsis survivors, using specific QoL questionnaires: the EuroQol-5 Dimensions and the Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS). METHOD: This case-control study was performed in patients discharged from a teaching hospital after being admitted to the ICU with severe sepsis. Medical records from 349 patients were retrieved from the hospital sepsis registry. Each patient with ...
This study identifies the socio-demographic and clinical factors of patients with irreversible colostomy secondary to colorectal cancer and correlates them with quality of life (QOL). It is a cross-sectional study. Socio-demographic and clinical data were collected through interviews and the WHOQOL-bref to assess QOL. The sample comprised 60 patients. Most of the patients were male, elderly individuals, half we...
This study aimed at understanding the experience of taking care of a family member who has incurable cancer. It consists of a study using a qualitative approach. Participants were five family caregivers of cancer patients with incurable disease, hospitalized in a center located in the interior of São Paulo. Data were collected in the period between October and January of 2009/2010, through interviews and the us...
This descriptive study with a quantitative approach was performed with 75 individuals with arterial systemic hypertension following ambulatory treatment. The objective was to obtain the blood pressure measurements and relate them to sociodemographic, anthropometric, and life style variables. Data collection was performed between September of 2008 and April of 2009 through individual interviews and measurements....
OBJETIVO: O estudo teve como objetivo conhecer o processo de preparo do paciente para a alta hospitalar e a atuação do enfermeiro de um hospital de grande porte do interior do Estado de São Paulo. MÉTODOS: Estudo descritivo, no qual foi realizada uma entrevista semi-estruturada com 43 clientes que se encontravam com alta hospitalar. RESULTADOS: Segundo os relatos dos clientes, 83,72% receberam orientações para ...
The greatest challenge posed by Systemic Hypertension (SH) is related to patients' compliance with treatment. Thus, this study aimed to determine attendance of these patients to medical appointments and the percentage of adherence to medication and non-medication regimens, and also identify the main reasons hypertensive patients report for non-adherence. This is a descriptive study with 68 hypertensive patients...
Este estudo descritivo objetiva avaliar a qualidade de vida de pessoas em tratamento de hemodiálise (HD) e identificar as atividades cotidianas que podem comprometer sua qualidade de vida. Foram pesquisadas 125 pessoas com insuficiência renal crônica (IRC) em tratamento de hemodiálise, mediante o Questionário Genérico de Qualidade de Vida SF-36 e as atividades cotidianas por uma entrevista semi-estruturada. Os ...
O objetivo deste estudo foi contribuir para o conhecimento da atividade educativa do enfermeiro com paciente renal crônico em tratamento hemodialítico, proporcionando uma melhoria da sua qualidade de vida, através da educação conscientizadora. Os sujeitos desse estudo eram oito pacientes renais crônicos, sendo quatro do sexo feminino e quatro do sexo masculino, com idade variando entre 17 a 63 anos de idade. A ...