ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the self-care activities of elderly people with diabetes mellitus and its correlation with the nurse-patient interpersonal relationship. Methods: Cross-sectional quantitative study, with 144 elderly people followed up in Family Health Units, with data collected by the Diabetes Self-Care Activities Questionnaire and Interpersonal Relationship Questionnaire in Nursing Care, being an...
ABSTRACT Objective to assess health-related quality of life in people with chronic wounds and its association with sociodemographic and health characteristics. Method a cross-sectional and analytical study conducted with 85 individuals with chronic wounds in a university hospital from Paraíba, Brazil. The data were collected from June to September 2019 through interviews guided by the Medical Outcome Study 36-i...
ABSTRACT Objective: to clinically validate the nursing diagnosis of NANDA-I Frail Elderly Syndrome in hospitalized elderly. Method: a methodological study, guided by the STROBE instrument, composed of 40 elderly people admitted to a teaching hospital in Paraíba, Brazil. The last phase of Hoskins’ Nursing Diagnostic Validation Model: clinical validation was adopted. Data collection took place from August to Dece...
ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the validity of indicators’ content referring to the instrument for data collection in children aged 0 to 5 years hospitalized in a pediatric clinic. Method: a cross-sectional methodological study was carried out with 11 experts between January and May 2018. For data collection, the steps for validating the instrument’s content were respected. For data analysis, Content Validity In...
ABSTRACT Objective to correlate health-related quality of life and adherence to treatment of patients with breast and prostate cancer. Method an exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, conducted with 305 patients with breast and prostate cancer, in a state oncology hospital in Paraíba, Brazil, between June and November 2019. For data collection, a semi-structured instru...
ABSTRACT Objective: Describe the construct validation process of the instrument “Nursing care for the assessment, prevention and treatment of cutaneous xerosis in the elderly”. Method: Methodological study carried out with 101 nurses in four hospitals in the great João Pessoa, between July and September 2018. Construct validation was performed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, in addition to...
ABSTRACT Objective: To reveal the Comfort needs as perceived by hospitalized elders, using Kolcaba’s theory. Methods: Descriptive and qualitative study, with 11 elders hospitalized in a university hospital, aiming to identify their needs for Comfort. Results: Discourses were categorized in four thematic units: Physical, Environmental, Sociocultural, and Psychospiritual. In the Physical context, several subcateg...
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the impact of work on nursing professionals’ health. Method: This is a cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted with nurses from a university hospital in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Data were collected through interviews using an instrument to obtain sociodemographic data and health conditions and the Pleasure and Suffering Indicators at Work Scale (PSIWS). Results: The...
ABSTRACT Objective: To report the development of a nursing consultation software for hypertensive users of the Family Health Strategy. Method: Applied methodological research based on Roger Pressman's Software Engineering, developed in three cycles: planning, composed of the definition of the database prototyping and modelling; development of the navigation interface; and development of functional expressions a...
RESUMO Objetivo: refletir sobre a formação em Enfermagem levando em consideração os princípios do pensar complexo proposto por Morin. Método: reflexão fundamentada nos princípios da Teoria da Complexidade de Edgar Morin. Resultados: a aplicação da complexidade no ensino propõe uma educação emancipadora pautada no questionamento e na transformação social. Compreende a formação de enfermeiros que tenham como cara...