Background Only a few anxiety assessment tools that nurses may administer are validated forthe Portuguese population exist in the literature. Thus, this study aimed to translate and culturally adapt the Hamilton Anxiety Scale for the Portuguese population and assess its psychometric properties in a sample of adult people with mental health disorders. Methods This psychometric study uses a convenience sample of ...
Introduction: The therapeutic relationship (TR) is essential to providing psychiatric and mental health nursing care. Nevertheless, no assessment tools exclusive for assessing nursing TR were found in the literature. Aim: To describe and evaluate the psychometric properties (reliability and construct validity) of a scale that allows assessing the quality of TR established between the nurse and the patient. Meth...
A systematic review was conducted. So, electronic database including CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, Pubmed, Scopus and Cochrane-Central were explored in January 2017 and in October 2017. The aim of this systematic review is to identify, appraise and synthesize the best evidence for the effectiveness of programmes of positive mental health in adults. Mental health is regarded as an ideal functioning state of the human...
A esquizofrenia caracteriza-se por uma diversidade de sintomas, que abrangem o funcionamento psíquico humano, desde o pensamento ao comportamento. Diz respeito a uma síndrome heterogénea que afeta um grande conjunto de capacidades do individuo, tal como a linguagem, perceção, afeto e a vontade. O autocuidado é uma área central nos cuidados de Enfermagem sendo muitas vezes negligenciado nos indivíduos com esquiz...