Objective: to analyze the psychometric properties of the adapted version of Bakas Caregiving Outcome Scale for Brazilian Portuguese. Method: this is a cross-sectional methodological study conducted with 151 informal caregivers of people with cerebral vascular accident sequelae enrolled in Family Health Units. To assess reliability, Cronbach’s alpha was used. Construct validity was verified through exploratory f...
To analyze the validity of empirical indicators of basic human needs contained in a nursing assessment for individuals hospitalized with infectious diseases. Methodological study developed in two stages: content analysis and clinical validation. A total of 37 specialist nurses participated in the first stage, and in the second stage there were 65 individuals admitted to the infectious disease clinics of two uni...
Estudo quase experimental realizado com quinze idosos, desenvolvido na Clínica Escola de Fisioterapia da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, em 2011. Objetivou-se avaliar o desempenho da marcha de idosos praticantes de atividades psicomotoras. Foi realizada uma entrevista estruturada centrada em dados sociais, clínicos e funcionais, com o intuito de poder correlacionar diversas informações que sustentassem o objet...
The increase in elderly population with changes in functional ability has led to the emergence of the phenomenon of stress in family caregivers. In our context, this is not well discussed in the gerontological research and health care. Taking these aspects into consideration, this study, developed in 2003 and based on the method proposed by Schwartz-Barcott and Kim for the Hybrid Model of Conceptual Analysis, a...
Objective: to investigate the association between foot pain and functional disability in the elderly. Methods: descriptive study conducted among the elderly attended in a geriatric outpatient clinic of a university hospital. The sample consisted of 114 elderly who reported foot pain. Data was collected through subsidized interview, using structured instrument, covering demographic variables and the Manchester F...
This is a case study based on the Theory of Basic Human Needs of Horta, with the aim to operationalize the nursing process to a postpartum anemia. For collect data, we used a script adapted to psychobiological, psychosocial and psycho spiritual needs. For the identification of nursing diagnoses was used to ICNP®, establishing nursing outcomes and interventions that were implemented and evaluated. From psychobio...
This exploratory study aims to identify the prevalence and determinant of depression symptoms in aged people attended in primary health attention. Its effectiveness was in a Family Health Unit in the city of João Pessoa – PB, from February to June of 2006, involving a population of 91 aged people. The collection of data was accomplished by an interview, with the use of a structured instrument. The empirical inf...
The nursing process constitutes an essential tool for guiding the individual hemodialysis treatment. In this study, the aim was to identify nursing diagnoses of the activity/rest domain of NANDA International evidenced by elderly patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment and set the defining characteristics and the risk factors or those related to the nursing diagnoses. This is a descriptive research with a qu...
This systematic review study had as objective to identify determinants, consequences and nursing diagnosis in elderly women with urinary incontinence. Considering the determinants, it was identified: mobility restriction, multiple childbirths, estrogen deficiency, neurological alterations, coexistence sickness, urinary infection, obesity, intestinal constipation, the excessive use of caffeine, use of multiple m...
As transformações ocorridas na sociedade atual refletem diretamente em escolhas alimentares não saudáveis. Como consequência desse padrão alimentar, surgem o sobrepeso e a obesidade, e também doenças crônicas não transmissíveis. O Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (o PNAE) configura uma importante estratégia do Governo Federal para o enfrentamento desse problema alimentar. Desde suas primeiras resoluções...