ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the effects of acupuncture in the treatment of perceived stress in pregnant women. Method: A before-after intervention study, carried out in a primary health unit in Fortaleza-Ceará, with 56 pregnant women. The pregnant women underwent six acupuncture sessions, with two 30-minute sessions per week. Before the first session, an instrument to collect sociodemographic, clinical, and ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the individual and social vulnerabilities of women deprived of their liberty for violence suffered before entering the prison system. Method: an analytical crosssectional study, carried out with 272 inmates of a female prison unit, in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza, Ceará. We applied two instruments: a form to analyze sociodemographic information and the violence suffered pr...
Objetivou-se investigar as relações de gênero e poder no contexto das vulnerabilidades de mulheres às infecções sexualmente transmissíveis. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa, desenvolvido com oito mulheres em fase reprodutiva e com histórico de contaminação por infecção sexualmente transmissível. Os dados produzidos por entrevistas estruturadas foram submetidos à análise temática proposta por Bardin...
ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the effects of “Piss off, HPV!”, an educational intervention to increase adolescents’ knowledge, attitude and compliance with human papillomavirus vaccination. Method: a randomized clinical trial by cluster, carried out in six schools in two municipalities in Ceará, with 238 girls. The control group (n = 120) received routine instructions, and the intervention group (n = 118), prin...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the impact of the Colombian Peace Agreement on the structural social determinants of health. Methods: a descriptive, ecological study, based on documentary data from 2008 to 2018. The records of victims, epidemiological indicators, and structural social determinants of health in Colombia were analyzed. Results: there was a correlation between the period in which the Peace Agreeme...
Resumo Objetivo Identificar a influência dos fatores sociodemográficos, obstétricos e comportamentais na qualidade de vida de gestantes. Métodos Trata-se de um estudo transversal, correlacional, realizado entre os meses de setembro a janeiro de 2015, em quatro locais distintos de saúde: três unidades básicas de saúde e um serviço privado de imagem obstétrica e ginecológica. A amostra foi composta por 261 gestan...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze, in the light of the social-ecological theory, the temporal progression of gestational syphilis and its relationship with the implementation of the rede cegonha in Ceará. Method: This is a retrospective documental study, based on the information system of notifiable diseases about gestational syphilis in the perspective of the social-ecological theory. The sample consisted of all ...
ABSTRACT Objective to analyze the sociodemographic, obstetric, type of delivery and professional factors that provided care that can influence the quality of life related to women's health in the immediate puerperium period. Method cross-sectional, correlational study conducted in a reference maternity hospital, with 272 women in the immediate puerperium period hospitalized in the rooming-in accommodation. A so...
Resumo Objetivo Analisar a percepção de mulheres quanto à sua vulnerabilidade às infecções sexualmente transmissíveis. Método Trata-se de um estudo exploratório e descritivo com abordagem qualitativa, desenvolvido entre os meses de agosto de 2018 a outubro de 2019, em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde. Participaram do estudo oito mulheres, na faixa etária de-21 a 44 anos com histórico prévio de infecções sexualmente ...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to assess the sexual function of pregnant women and the influence of sociodemographic, obstetric, and behavioral factors on sexual dysfunction. Methods: cross-sectional study conducted with 141 pregnant women attended by the Single Health System and 120 by one private service, totaling 261 participants. A questionnaire containing sociodemographic, obstetric, and behavioral variables was app...