Background/Objectives: Evidence suggests that older adults who survived COVID-19 were exposed to greater functional dependence in their daily living activities. This study aims to examine the prevalence of functional dependence and associated factors among Brazilian older people with functional dependence 12 months after COVID-19 infection. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out involving people aged ...
Objective: to verify the preoperative fasting time in children undergoing elective surgical procedures. Methods: cross-sectional study, carried out with information obtained from 20 children’s medical records, submitted to descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Results: the median fasting time was 8.03 hours. The shortest time recorded was 7 hours and 45 minutes and the longest 17 hours and 30 minute...
Introduction: In Brazil, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is higher among individuals with less education, 24.5% of obesity among those with 0 to 8 years of schooling and 15.8% in the group with 12 years or more education. Objective: the objective of this study was to analyze the association between the socioeconomic profile and the nutritional status of overweight adults in the municipality of Paranava...
Introduction: The world is in a pandemic situation due to COVID-19, an infectious disease that affects humans caused by the coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2. Considering the increase in obesity during the pandemic in the Brazilian population, it is necessary to expand the capacity to assistance from the physical educator, seeking new health promotion strategies through guidelines for changing lifestyle habits. Ob...
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of patient identification in emergency room units, and to verify the adherence of the multidisciplinary team of emergency room units to the patient identification data conference. Methods: Descriptive, observational, quantitative approach and cross-sectional research, carried out in emergency rooms at three public university hospitals, between July and September / 2017. T...
Abdominal obesity is associated with an exponential increase in the risk of morbidity and mortality, since the pattern of body fat distribution is the most significant risk factor in morbid processes than generalized obesity. Estimate the prevalence of abdominal obesity and identify the associated factors. Pilot, descriptive cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. The convenience sample consisted of...
Objective: to verify the preoperative fasting time in chil-dren undergoing elective surgical procedures. Methods:cross-sectional study, carried out with information obtained from 20 children’s medical records, submitted to descripti-ve and inferential statistical analysis. Results: the median fasting time was 8.03 hours. The shortest time recorded was 7 hours and 45 minutes and the longest 17 hours and 30 minut...
Objective: to analyze the epidemiological profile of labiopalatine clefts in children cared for at a care and research center on craniofacial anomalies. Method: this is an epidemiological, documentary and cross-sectional study that assessed 116 children, aged from 0 to 12 incomplete years, with labial and/or palatine cleft cared for at a reference center in western Paraná from February 2013 to February 2017 Res...
Objetivo: analisar o comportamento sexual e estimar a prevalência de infecções sexualmente transmissíveis em mulheres de apenados. Método: estudo quantitativo transversal, com 349 mulheres parceiras de apenados. Para coleta de dados, foi utilizado o instrumento validado no Brasil, Estudo de Comportamento Sexual. Para análise estatística, utilizou-se o software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, versão...
Objetivo: analisar a tendência temporal das internações cirúrgicas pelo Sistema Único de Saúde segundo a permanência hospitalar, os custos e a mortalidade por subgrupos de procedimentos cirúrgicos no Brasil. Método: estudo ecológico de séries temporais. As variáveis internações cirúrgicas, permanência, custo e mortalidade foram obtidas do Departamento de Informática do Sistema Único de Saúde. A análise de tendê...