ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: As pain is subjective, a personal and unique experience, professionals cannot ignore it or even underestimate it, especially thinking about the pediatric cancer patient. The objective was to apprehend the social representations of the nursing technicians on pain assessment in oncological children. METHODS: Qualitative research, based on the Representation Theory. Collection w...
ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the process of validating a multimedia application on a mobile platform to promote foot care for people with diabetes. Method: a technological production and methodological type study. Content and appearance were validated by 39 judges (29 nursing judges and ten information and communication technology judges and 15 people from the target audience). Results: nursing judges made i...
ABSTRACT Objective: Analyze the occurrence of dyslipidaemia and associated factors in children aged 2 to 9 years. Method: Cross-sectional study, carried out with 700 children, in a region of Northeast Brazil. For comparison of means, Student’s t test was used; and, for the comparison of medians, the Mann-Whitney test. Results: A prevalence of dyslipidaemia of 68.4% was found. In isolation, the majority had a le...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to describe the process of construction and validation of an educational booklet on care for children with gastrostomy, directed to caregivers. Methods: a methodological study developed in five stages: bibliographic survey; situational diagnosis; illustration, layout, design and text construction; expert validation and Flesch-Kincaid Readability calculation; validation with the target audie...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to describe the process of construction and validation of an educational booklet to promote bonding between mothers and newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Methods: methodological study developed through data collection in the literature and with the target audience; construction of the booklet; qualification of the material through validation by judges (health and communication exp...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Venipuncture is considered a painful procedure, often performed in the neonatal intensive care unit. The objective of this study is to describe the behavioral and physiological responses of newborns undergoing venipuncture, with and without the use of non-pharmacological measures for the relief of pain. METHODS: A total of 84 newborns participated in this research. It was obs...
ABSTRACT Objective: to develop and validate instructional design for clinical nursing care to neonates with congenital heart defects in maternities, using distance education. Method: applied methodological research which consisted of an online course for nurses in neonate units. During the development of the instructional design, the selection and creation of the virtual didactic content were carried out and su...
ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the experience of motherhood during the hospitalization period of the newborn in a neonatal intensive care unit. Method: a descriptive and exploratory research, with a qualitative approach, based on the Maternal Role Attainment Theory. A semi-structured interview was conducted in June 2018 with 23 mothers of newborns in a neonatal therapy unit of a public teaching hospital in the...
Abstract Objective: To understand how the primiparous mother exercises maternal care of the child under six months of age at home. Method: Descriptive research with a qualitative approach. A research was carried out at the Primary Health Care Unit in Fortaleza/CE, between the months of May and June 2017, with 20 primiparous mothers. It was used thematic content analysis to analyze the data. Results: Through the...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the preoperative use of antibiotics in children and adolescents requiring appendectomy. Data source: Integrative review was performed in the MEDLINE, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS) and Cochrane databases and the PubMed portal, with no time limit. The keywords used were: appendicitis, child, adolescent and antibacterial with Boolean AND. The articles included...