Objective: to develop a theoretical model about the care of children with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome in the family context. Method: the Straussian Grounded Theory and the theoretical/philosophical framework of Callista Roy and Leonardo Boff were used. It was carried out in northeastern Brazil, with 19 participants, in four sample groups. The data were collected and analyzed simultaneously, using the constan...
Contemporary society lives in an epistemologic transition in which the paradigm of modern science has been surpassed. Various paradigms emerged since the revolution within the natural sciences prompted by physics during the 20th century. Based on the ideas of Capra and Santos, in this essay we analyze the innovations proposed by the scientific paradigms that emerged as a result of the crisis in the new world or...
Aim: to analyse the contextual aspects that involve the care of elderly patients with venous ulcers. Method: theoretical and reflective study, from the context analysis framework, which presents four interactive aspects: Immediate Context, Specific, General and Metacontext. Results: in the Immediate Context, there was an approach of the elderly with venous ulcers and the search for the health professional; in t...
The study objective was to assess nursing consultation for tuberculosis patients. A descriptive, quantitative study, conducted in a Brazilian northeast city, with 60 from primary health care nurses. A questionnaire based on the nursing consultation protocol was used with tuberculosis patients from the Health Ministry. Data collection elements were more addressed, in case of overvaluing complaints during anamnes...
The objective was to analyze the Nursing Diagnosis low weight and related factors in adolescents. A cross-sectional study developed in 2013, with 372 adolescents from state schools in Natal/RN, who were submitted to physical examination and completeness of a form. Three groups were created: adolescents with the Diagnosis low weight (n=52), eutrophics (n=247) and overweight (n=73). The data from the third group ...
This is a qualitative and descriptive study which aims to describe the experience of mothers who face the Kangaroo-Mother Method (KMM) in rooming-in and identify the family relationship in this process, using as a data-collection technique the focus group with recorded interviews, in two groups of kangaroo-mothers puerperas in a rooming-in of a public maternity in Natal / RN, within a week period. It was used f...
The objective of this study was to assess the nutritional status and dietary and physical exercise habits of caregivers of overweight children and adolescents in multidisciplinary care. An exploratory, descriptive, crosssectional and quantitative study with a sample of 109 caregivers of children and adolescents assisted in the Center for Childhood Obesity, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. A structured questionn...
The objective was to know the evaluation of patients with tuberculosis regarding the access to health care and the diagnosis of the disease. It is a cross-sectional quantitative study made in Natal, RN, Brazil, from February to September 2012, with 60 patients diagnosed with tuberculosis. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Access to health care was considered ea...
The objective of the study was to investigate the perception that caregivers of octogenarians have regarding the quality of life and aspects of life that are more harmful to this quality. A cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative study conducted in 2010 with 52 subjects of the Family Health Units in Campina Grande-PB, Brazil that responded a socio-demographic questionnaire and the WHOQOL-Bref. Data were a...
The objective of the study was to identify the knowledge that physically disabled women have about breast cancer and self examination. An action research study with a non-probability sample composed of 15 women enrolled in the Association of Disabled Persons of the Compartment of Borborema, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil, using Questionnaires I and II, an educational folder, and a breast demonstration kit. This stu...