ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze hand hygiene determinants of informal caregivers in a hospital environment. Methods: qualitative study conducted with 55 caregivers at a university hospital in the Northeast of Brazil. A semi-structured instrument was used, adapted from Nola Pender's Health Promotion Model, from which the deductive categories were derived. Results: the general behavior included hand hygiene befor...
Resumo Objetivo Avaliar a efetividade de intervenção educativa mediada por tecnologia impressa no conhecimento sobre prevenção de quedas em pacientes hospitalizados. Método Estudo quase-experimental, do tipo antes e depois, aplicou uma intervenção educativa mediada por cartilha. O estudo incluiu 86 pacientes hospitalizados em clínica médica-cirúrgica. Utilizou-se teste de conhecimento sobre prevenção de quedas ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze YouTube videos with information about COVID-19 in Brazilian sign language. Methods: a cross-sectional study conducted with 402 videos from the YouTube sharing platform. Chi-square, Fisher’s exact, Mann-Whitney and Spearman’s correlation tests were used. Results: the videos mainly covered COVID-19 prevention (20.6%). There was a positive correlation between video length and number ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the Brazilian Sign Language teaching in undergraduate nursing courses. Method: a cross-sectional study, carried out on the curriculum matrices of 553 higher education nursing courses. Data collection took place through access to the websites of the Ministry of Education and educational institutions. Results: the nursing courses that offered Libras were located predominantly i...
Resumo Objetivo: Analisar os modos de adaptação de autoconceito e a função do papel em pacientes em tratamento de câncer de cavidade oral. Métodos: Estudo qualitativo, realizado com pacientes de hospital de referência em câncer, em Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. Utilizou-se da entrevista como técnica de coleta de dados, a partir de instrumento semiestruturado, tendo como base o referencial teórico de Callista Roy. A ve...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the effect of prayer on religious/spiritual coping and on the hope of patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis. Method: Randomized, controlled and blinded clinical trial, carried out in a dialysis unit, with a total of 62 patients undergoing hemodialysis – 31 participants in intervention group and 31 in the control group. Intercession prayer was applied three ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the meaning and dimensionality of state of comfort from chronic hemodialysis patients’ perspectives. Method: this is a qualitative study conducted with 30 patients from a hemodialysis clinic from May to June 2018. A semi-structured interview with guiding questions was used. Data were analyzed according to Bardin’s content analysis method, supported by Kolcaba’s theoretical fram...
ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the effectiveness of educational interventions for fall prevention implemented in hospitals, at homes and nursing homes. Method: this is a systematic review, carried out based on the guiding question: what is the effectiveness of isolated educational interventions for preventing falls in adults and the elderly developed in experimental studies? The search took place in the electron...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the factors involved in nursing care that are related to the safety culture of chronic renal patients on hemodialysis. Method: Integrative literature review, carried out through the steps: problem identification, bibliographic research, data evaluation, data analysis, and report. We adopted the guiding question: “What scientific evidence is there about the factors related to the s...
ABSTRACT Objectives: To compare the relation of quality of life to occupational coping and verify the association of these indicators with sociodemographic variables of tenured and outsourced nurses. Methods: Cross-sectional study, carried out from June to November 2014, with 145 outsourced nurses and 45 tenured nurses. We applied an identification instrument (WHOQOL-bref) and Occupational Coping Scale. Student...