The first contact of pregnant women with the health service should be based on actions based on the reception and attention to health demands, with a contribution to humanized and qualified care. The work aims to identify the meanings and perceptions of puerperal women about humanized childbirth according to the literature. It is an integrative review, this method allows to unite and summarize results of resear...
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) have become increasingly frequent worldwide, so they have become a major public health problem. The study aimed to describe the feelings experienced by women regarding the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS in a Serological Reference Center. It was a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and explanatory research. As for the main results, the discovery of the HIV / AIDS diagnosis was se...
This study aimed to investigate music and its effects on anxiety control in elderly people who were in long-term care facilities. It is a research with a quantitative and qualitative approach. Eight elderly people cared for at a Long-Term Care Institution, located in the city of Caxias - Maranhão, were surveyed. For data collection, observation techniques, semi-directed interviews, sociodemographic characteriza...
Adolescence is defined chronologically by the World Health Organization (WHO) to characterize individuals who are between 10 and 19 years old. This study aimed to carry out a narrative review on the dietary profile of adolescents. This is a qualitative research, using a bibliographic analysis of a narrative character carried out by consulting online research databases: Scielo (Scientific Electronic Library OnLi...
A literature is of the importance of the cultural point of view in the formation of the cultural identity of Surdos within the scope of social coexistence. This perspective, or knowledge of Culture Surda and its dynamics of influence in the acquisition of the Sinais Language, characterizes the knowledge acquired, not that it refers to years of historical and social history. Therefore, this study has the objecti...
Biological tissues of animal origin, such as pig skin, frog skin, bovine pericardium and pig intestinal submucosa have been used in bioocclusive dressings (xenotransplantation) for burns. The present study aimed to analyze the use of xenograft therapy in the treatment of burns. This is an integrative literature review, in which the following clinical question was formulated: “What is the scientific evidence on ...
Labor is a set of physiological changes, uterine contractions of increasing intensity and frequency that result in progressive dilation of the cervix and descent of the fetal presentation that occur within a period of time and aim at the birth of the fetus. Thus, the pain that the mother feels during childbirth can be influenced by several factors, including: culture, anxiety, fear, preparation for childbirth a...
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is defined as a blood loss ≥ 500 mL that occurs within 24 hours after delivery, when this loss is greater than 1,000 mL it is considered severe. PPH is among the leading causes of severe maternal morbidities, accounting for about 25% of all deaths of pregnant women worldwide, especially in low-income countries. In Brazil, it is the second leading cause of maternal death. This study a...