This article is an excerpt from a doctoral research and aims to understand the daily lives of fathers and mothers of transsexual people assisted at the transvestite and transsexual outpatient clinic in Paraíba. The investigation is of a qualitative nature in which the action research method was used, the empirical material was produced through the implementation and realization of 11 Systemic Integrative Commun...
Objetivo: analisar as concepções de professores sobre a transgeneridade na infância e identificar as possibilidades e os limites de trabalho com essas crianças no contexto escolar. Método: pesquisa qualitativa, realizada com 23 professores de duas escolas municipais de ensino fundamental. Para produção do material empírico, empregaram-se entrevistas semiestruturadas. Como recurso analítico recorreu-se à técnica...
Objective: to analyze the psychometric properties of the adapted version of Bakas Caregiving Outcome Scale for Brazilian Portuguese. Method: this is a cross-sectional methodological study conducted with 151 informal caregivers of people with cerebral vascular accident sequelae enrolled in Family Health Units. To assess reliability, Cronbach’s alpha was used. Construct validity was verified through exploratory f...
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 ...
Objective: to analyze the way in which the prevention of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is configured under the view of women from the Potiguara ethnic group. Method: a qualitative study involving 256 women from three indigenous villages in Paraíba-Brazil The information was collected in 2015, through the Free Word Association Test and semi-structured interviews. The corpus was analyzed fro...
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...
Objective: to understand the access of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites/transsexuals to the Basic Family Health Units. Methods: qualitative research held with 54 patients. A semi-structured interview and the free association test were used. The data were processed by the software IRaMuTeQ® and submitted to the technique of Content Analysis in the thematic modality. Results: six categories emerged: Si...
Hansen’s disease is probably the human disease that causes more damage. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the occurrence of the association of grade 1 and 2 physical disabilities in Hansen’s disease, as well as implications of joint analysis and strength of association with independent demographic and clinical variables. This is a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective, populati...