The high morbidity and mortality rates for Cervical Cancer (CC) in Brazil may be due to the low population coverage of Oncotic Colpocytology (OC), as well as insufficient and/or inadequate therapeutic and diagnostic conducts. This study aimed to evaluate the practices and knowledge of primary care nurses about CC and visual inspection. This was a cross-sectional descriptive correlational study in a higher educa...
Aim: Analyze the acceptability of digital cervicography as a complementary method to Papanicolaou cytology for diagnosing cervical cancer. Method: An exploratory-descriptive study, quantitative approach. The survey had 63 participants and data was collected between June and August 2012. For data evaluation we used the results of cytologic collection and digital cervicography. Result: 100% of acceptance verified...
The objective was to compare the blood pressure (BP) levels of pregnant women, measured in a preparation room of a Family Health Center and verified in the consultation room following the Brazilian Guidelines for Hypertension. This comparative and quantitative study was performed with 94 pregnant women. Data collection was conducted between September and November of 2011 in two phases: the first consisted of co...