ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the self-care activities of elderly people with diabetes mellitus and its correlation with the nurse-patient interpersonal relationship. Methods: Cross-sectional quantitative study, with 144 elderly people followed up in Family Health Units, with data collected by the Diabetes Self-Care Activities Questionnaire and Interpersonal Relationship Questionnaire in Nursing Care, being an...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify factors associated with specific health-related quality of life in cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, survivors. Methods: cross-sectional study, carried out with 160 cerebrovascular accident survivors. Data were collected using the Barthel Index, Cerebrovascular Accident Specific Quality of Life Scale, and semi-structured instruments for sociodemographic and clinical data, ana...
Resumo Objetivo Correlacionar a capacidade funcional e o estresse percebido com a qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde de sobreviventes de acidente vascular encefálico. Métodos Estudo analítico transversal, realizado com 160 sobreviventes de acidente vascular encefálico cadastrados em Unidades de Saúde da Família. Os dados foram coletados mediante a utilização de um instrumento semiestruturado para obtenção do...
Resumo Objetivo: Realizar a validação semântica e de conteúdo da Bakas Caregiving Outcome Scale para o português do Brasil. Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo metodológico, em que se realizou a adaptação transcultural segundo recomendações internacionais, a validação de conteúdo por meio de um comitê de juízes. Após essas etapas, o instrumento foi aplicado em 151 cuidadores informais de pessoas com sequela de acide...
ABSTRACT Objective to correlate health-related quality of life and adherence to treatment of patients with breast and prostate cancer. Method an exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, conducted with 305 patients with breast and prostate cancer, in a state oncology hospital in Paraíba, Brazil, between June and November 2019. For data collection, a semi-structured instru...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to associate pleasure and suffering indicators with aspects related to nursing work in hospitals. Methods: This is a cross-sectional quantitative study conducted with 152 nurses from a university hospital in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba State, Brazil. Data were collected through interviews, using a tool to obtain sociodemographic data, work characteristics and the Pleasure and Suffering...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate the burden and its relationship with the sociodemographic characteristics of caregivers of people with sequelae of stroke. Methods: a cross-sectional, exploratory, and quantitative study was conducted with 151 caregivers of people with sequelae of stroke, through home interviews between September and December 2017. Results: there was a general mean of low burden. The items that ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to correlate pleasure and suffering at work with nurses' interpersonal communication in the hospital environment. Method: a cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive and correlational study, with a quantitative approach, conducted from October to November 2017, with 152 nurses working at a University Hospital in Northeast Brazil. The data were collected through interviews, using an instrumen...
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the impact of work on nursing professionals’ health. Method: This is a cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted with nurses from a university hospital in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Data were collected through interviews using an instrument to obtain sociodemographic data and health conditions and the Pleasure and Suffering Indicators at Work Scale (PSIWS). Results: The...
ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the functional capacity and its relationship with the level of social support to people affected by cerebrovascular accident. Methods: Cross-sectional and quantitative research, conducted with 108 individuals with sequelae of cerebrovascular accident in João Pessoa/PB. Data were collected through interviews, using a sociodemographic instrument – the Barthel Index and the Socia...