Introduction: Preeclampsia (PE) is a disease of great clinical and social relevance; and to study its prediction is a challenge for contemporary obstetrics. Developing an assistance app with an algorithm to predict PE will facilitate the individualized risk evaluation process, furthering clinical decision in adequate time, and will serve as an investigation resource, promoting the implementation of intervention...
Objective: Evaluate the available mobile applications (Apps) about preeclampsia (PE) in the main operating systems for the health promotion of pregnant women. Methods: Evaluative study of available mobile Apps on platforms (iOS and Android). A systematic search was performed in the virtual stores of the main operating systems: Play Store (Android, Google) and App Store (iOS, Apple), from April to June 2018, del...
Objective: To evaluate the effect of educational intervention in the adherence to self-care activities and functional health literacy and numeracy in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study conducted in two units of the Brazilian Family Health Strategy, involving people with diabetes. Educational interventions occurred in three meetings, weekly, lasting 60 minutes on a...
Objective: to investigate maternal characteristics and risk factors for development of preeclampsia in pregnant women. Methods: documentary and retrospective study based on medical records of pregnant women of six Family Health Strategy teams. Information of 94 pregnant women was collected through a form and used in the study. Results: the pregnant women were aged between 15 and 47 years. The risk factors for d...
The aim of the present study was to identify the best evidence concerning health education strategies used in teaching-learning for people with diabetes mellitus who are at risk for foot neuropathy. An integrative review was conducted in the databases PubMed, LILACS, CINAHL and SCOPUS in January 2015; a total of 14 papers was analyzed in detail. The results are shown in a summary table and categories are discus...