Introduction: In a chronic condition perspective, living with HIV and AIDS infection changed the illness experience and required health practices redirection in order to qualify the care and detached the need to search strategies that corroborate for the epidemic confrontation as the clinic risk stratification. Objective: build an instrument for people living with HIV and AIDS clinical risk stratification. Meth...
Objective: to understand the existential experience of children undergoing chemotherapy on the importance of playing. Methods: qualitative research performed in the outpatient clinic of a teaching hospital with five children undergoing chemotherapy. Data were collected through the interviews and analyzed in the light of the Humanistic Nursing Theory. Results: the discourses revealed the children’s understanding...
The care to people living with HIV/Aids requires adequate and ongoing clinical management to ensure a resolutive assistance, meeting the main needs of these clients. Thus, ensuring continuity of outpatient clinical follow-up is crucial for the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and consequently, to improve the clinical statusof these patients. The present study aimed to build predictive models from t...