ABSTRACT Objective: To develop and evaluate an educational primer to promote healthy lifestyles in people with HIV. Methods: Study of technological development in three stages: Development of the booklet, with bibliographical review, illustrations, layout, diagramming, adopting as reference the trans-theoretical model of behavior change; Analysis of content and appearance by 22 judges; Semantic analysis by 22 p...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze mortality, survival and prognostic factors of patients with AIDS in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: Retrospective cohort study with a sample of 202 patients with AIDS in ICU, whose sociodemographic, epidemiological, and clinical characteristics were obtained from medical records and assessed. Results: Patients were mostly male (73.8%) and drug users (59.4%), with no regular hea...
RESUMO Objetivo Analisar a insulinoterapia realizada por pessoas com diabetes na Atenção Primária em Saúde. Método Estudo transversal, descritivo e quantitativo. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de entrevista, utilizando-se formulário com variáveis sociodemográficas, clínicas e etapas da insulinoterapia. Foram calculadas frequências absoluta e relativa, razão de prevalência e foi usado o teste de qui-qu...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze scientific productions about the relationship between HIV and Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH) in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Method: Integrative literature review in six databases, held in March 2016. “AIDS” and “hypertension” were the keywords used in Portuguese, English and Spanish languages. We found 248 articles and selected 17. The categories formulated were “pr...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the insulin therapy waste disposal produced in the households of people with diabetes mellitus (DM). Method: Cross-sectional study with 105 Primary Care patients. Socio-demographic and clinical variables and insulin therapy practice were analyzed through the absolute and relative frequencies, Fisher's exact test and prevalence ratio (PR). Results: The association between types of ...