Resumo Enquadramento: Os enfermeiros na urgência desempenham um papel fundamental na investigação de crimes, colaborando com os órgãos de Polícia Criminal na colheita de evidências forenses. Esta responsabilidade exige conhecimentos, técnicas e equipamentos adequados. A articulação entre os cuidados de saúde e o sistema jurídico processual, previne a destruição desnecessária de provas, melhorando os resultados ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the perceptions of hope for people with depression in the context of a therapy group. Methods: using a qualitative case study approach, a semi-structured in-depth interview and a self-report questionnaire were conducted with seven women with depression integrated in a therapy group at a Portuguese day-care psychiatric unit. Data collection and analysis used triangulation of sou...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to validate, for the Portuguese population, the Clinical Decision-Making Nursing Scale© (CDMNS©). Methods: this methodological study involved 496 nursing students who filled in a questionnaire created using sociodemographic and academic data, and the scale to evaluate the making of decisions in nursing. Results: the confirmatory factorial analysis showed that the adjustment of the factorial...
Resumo Enquadramento: Os conhecimentos sobre suporte básico de vida (SBV) em estudantes de enfermagem requerem competências técnicas (compressões e ventilações), mas também competências não técnicas (julgamento clínico e tomada de decisão). Objetivos: Avaliar as características sociodemográficas e académicas dos estudantes de enfermagem; avaliar os conhecimentos teóricos sobre SBV dos estudantes de enfermagem e...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to describe the development and validation of the Scale of Practices of Evaluation of Fall Risk Factors during Institutionalization of Elderly People and to describe the practices of evaluation of communication of fall risks to institutionalized elderly people. Methods: methodological study, which allowed construction and determination of the psychometric properties of the Scale of Practice...
ABSTRACT Objective: To construct a scale of adolescents' attitudes towards sexuality and to determine their psychometric characteristics. Methods: Methodological study conducted with 394 students from the 8th to 12th grades of a school in central Portugal. They answered a questionnaire consisting of the Adolescent Students' Attitude Scale for Sexuality (E3AS) and socio-demographic and academic data. The project...
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the available evidence in the scientific literature about the strategies or interventions used to promote hope in people with chronic diseases. Method: An integrative literature review of literature published between 2009-2019, which was conducted in online browsers/databases: b-On, EBSCO, PubMed, Medline, ISI, SciELO, PsycINFO, Google Scholar. Forty-one studies were found, of wh...
ABSTRACT Objective: To report the experience of design and implementation of the Help2Care (an ehealth program that aims to support informal caregivers of dependent people); and to identify its structure and functionality. Methods: This is a Portuguese experience report about Help2Care, a practice-based action research project carried out between 2017 and 2019, having as a guiding axis Florence Nightingale’s co...
Enquadramento: As alterações societais conduziram ao crescendo das pessoas dependentes no autocuidado, com necessidade de apoio de um cuidador familiar/informal (CI). O desempenho deste papel pode conduzir à sobrecarga e exaustão. Objetivos: Avaliar a sobrecarga do CI da pessoa dependente e identificar fatores relacionados com essa sobrecarga. Metodologia: Estudo observacional, transversal, numa amostra de conv...
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the academic and professional background of school personnel; to assess the impact of the Diabetes + Support given by School Personnel to Children with Type 1 Diabetes Program on the school personnel’s knowledge and confidence to support students with type 1 diabetes; to compare their level of knowledge with the academic and professional variables of the school personnel. Methods A ...