Objective: to identify the prevalence of harmful alcohol consumption and its associated factors among residents of riverine communities in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. Method: cross-sectional, analytical study of 250 residents of riverine communities in Paraíba, from June to October 2019. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression was used for data analysis. Results: the prevalence of harmful alcohol consumpti...
Objective: to understand the impact of music on the intensive care for COVID-19 as an instrument to humanize assistance from the perspective of nurses who work on assistance. Methods: qualitative study carried out with seven intensive care nurses working in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit of a public state hospital. Sample reached through theoretical saturation. Data were collected using interviews through the...
Objective: to understand the impact of music on the intensi-ve care for COVID-19 as an instrument to humanize assistan-ce from the perspective of nurses who work on assistance.Methods: qualitative study carried out with seven intensive care nurses working in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit of a public state hospital. Sample reached through theoretical saturation. Data were collected using interviews through th...
Objective: to estimate the prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and associated factors in sugarcane cutters. Method: a cross-sectional, analytical study with 937 sugarcane cutters from Paraíba and Goiás, states of Brazil, respectively. An outcome variable was the positive results in some rapid tests for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C. Bivariate and multiple analyses were performed to identify ...
The aim of this study was to analyze the health-related quality of life in people infected with American TegumentaryLeishmaniasis, according to sociodemographic and clinical data. Cross-sectional study, conducted in Paraíba, Brazil, in 2019. Twenty-two patients over the age of 18 years old in hospital treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis participated. A questionnaire with sociodemographic and clinical variable...
Objective: to characterize the Brazilian scientific production on the quality of life of people living with human immunodeficiency virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Methods: bibliometric study with 20 dissertations and 18 theses available at the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. The empirical material was submitted to descriptive and inferential statistics using the R-Project softwa...
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...
Objective: to verify the comprehension, limits and possibilities faced by nurses to perform palliative care for patients in the ICU of a hospital in João Pessoa/PB. Method: qualitative study conducted in April and May 2011 with six ICU nurses. We used a questionnaire containing data characterizing the sample and two guiding questions. The data were analyzed according to the Collective Subject Discourse. Result:...