Objective: to analyze the association between diabetes and hospital death from COVID19 in Brazil, between February and August 2020. Methods: Cross-sectional study with cases reported as flu-like syndrome in the Influenza Surveillance Information System, positive for COVID-19 and hospitalized. The magnitude of the association between diabetes and death was estimated by robust Poisson regression. Results: data fr...
Objective: to analyze the effect of an app on Nursing students’knowledge about diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic, as wellas their self-assessment and satisfaction level. Method: a quasiexperimentalstudy carried out with 40 Nursing students from theBrazilian Northeast region. The E-MunDiabetes® app was usedto assess the participants’ knowledge at the pre-test, immediatepost-test and after 15 days, as well as...
Objective: To construct and validate an instrument to assess the health vulnerability of people with heart failure. Method: Methodological study, consisting of an identification phase of vulnerability markers in the health of people with heart failure and another phase of instrument development and validation of its content by specialists. To analyze the content validity and agreement between the specialists, t...
Objetivo estimar la tasa de transmisión, el pico epidemiológico y el número de muertes por el nuevo coronavirus. Método se aplicó un modelo matemático y epidemiológico de casos susceptibles, infectados y recuperados a las nueve capitales brasileñas con mayor número de casos de infección. El número de casos para los 80 días siguientes al primer caso se estimó resolviendo las ecuaciones diferenciales. Los resulta...
Objective: to analyze the evidence of the effectiveness of Metronidazole in the treatment of odors in tumor wounds. Methods: this is an integrative review performed at the health databases and the PubMed portal. The studies were evaluated by the Jadad Scale (randomized clinical trials), Downs and Black (quasi-experiment) and the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology (observational...
Objetivo: avaliar a ocorrência da polifarmácia e sua associação com a adesão ao tratatamento farmacológico em pacientes com diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Métodos: estudo transversal realizado com 235 portadores de diabetes mellitus tipo 2 por meio de entrevista sobre os dados sociodemográficos e clínicos, a terapêutica medicamentosa prescrita e a adesão ao tratamento. Para análise dos dados foram utilizados os test...
Objective: to evaluate the occurrence of polypharmacy and its association with the adherence to the pharmacological treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. Methods: cross-sectional study conducted with 235 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 through interview about the demographic and clinical data, drug therapy prescribed and adherence to treatment. To analyze the data, we used Student t-tests ...
Objective: to evaluate the occurrence of polypharmacy and its association with the adherence to the pharmacological treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. Methods: cross-sectional study conducted with 235 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 through interview about the demographic and clinical data, drug therapy prescribed and adherence to treatment. To analyze the data, we used Student t-tests ...
Background: This study aimed to identify the conditioning factors that influence the self-care practice of heart transplant patient after discharge and relate the conditioning factors to the Engagement Profile of Self Care. Methods: Cross-sectional study, undertaken at a transplantation unit of one public hospital, in Fortaleza-Ceará. There was the participation of 63 heart transplant patients. Results: The maj...
ABSTRACT: This integrative literature review aimed to describe the scientific evidence available regarding infant cerebral palsy. The search for articles took place in the SciELO, LILACS and MEDLINE databases, in May – September 2012. The sample was made up of 25 published studies, in the Portuguese and/or English languages, between January 2006 and April 2012. The analysis of the publications identified eight ...