Objective: To prospectively evaluate the analgesic effect of self-selected music for patients with diabetic retinopathy who underwent laser retinal photocoagulation (LRP). Methodology: This is a controlled, randomized, blinded, two-period crossover clinical trial. Twenty patients (40 eyes) with proliferative diabetic retinopathy who underwent LRP was enrolled. Listening to the patient's favorite music before an...
Objective: To analyze the spatial dynamics of income inequality and its relationship with population aging in Brazil. Method: A population-based ecological study using spatial analysis techniques and data from the last two Brazilian Demographic Census. Spatial modeling presented the Global Moran Index (I) and Local Spatial Association Index (LISA) through spatial autocorrelation, and the correlation between inc...
Traffic accidents represent an important public health problem worldwide, due to the morbidity and mortality impact and quality of life of the victims, this article aimed to evaluate the predictive factors and the quality of life of victims of trauma due to traffic accidents. from an observational cross-sectional study. The sample was non-probabilistic for convenience, composed of 73 victims of trauma due to tr...
Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global public health emergency with lethality ranging from 1% to 5%. This study aimed to identify active high-risk transmission clusters of COVID-19 in Sergipe. Methods: We performed a prospective space-time analysis using confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the first 7 weeks of the outbreak in Sergipe. Results: The prospective space-time statistic d...
Objective: to analyze the epidemiological characteristics and spatial distribution of leprosy cases in an endemic municipality. Methods: epidemiological, retrospective study with spatial analysis techniques developed with data from the National System of Compulsory Notification. Leprosy cases were georeferenced using a Geographic Positioning System receiver for the spatial location of the households. Spatial an...
Schistosomiasis mansoni is a serious parasitic disease, waterborne and chronic disease, which is the etiological agent of Schistosoma mansoni. This is one of the most prevalent parasitic disease in the world. In Sergipe, the disease has expanded from rural to peri-urban areas and the causal factors of this process of expansion and urbanization from this disease have not yet elucidated, thus characterizing a pub...
A taxa de mortalidade infantil e seus componentes constituem um dos principais indicadores para avaliar o nível de saúde de uma população. Este estudo analisa a evolução temporal da mortalidade infantil em Sergipe, entre 2000 e 2005. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, exploratório e ecológico, utilizando dados secundários provenientes dos Sistemas de Informação de Nascidos Vivos (SINASC) e do Sistema de Informaç...
O presente trabalho objetivou estudar aspectos comportamentais – da sociabilidade à sexualidade – dorecuperando em um Programa para Dependentes Químicos, enfatizando o sentir-se desse ser humanoapós internação, suas dificuldades quanto aos aspectos comportamentais e seus mecanismos deenfrentamento para superar o vício. Estudo qualitativo, descritivo e com abordagem qualitativa. Aamostra, selecionada por meio do...
Este estudo objetivou conhecer os aspectos gerais da sexualidade de adolescentes escolares, fazendo uma abordagem sobre a iniciação da prática e do desejo sexual. Estudo transversal, descritivo e quantitativo. A amostra correspondeu a 91 adolescentes escolares, de ambos os sexos, com faixa etária compreendida entre 14 e 19 anos. A coleta de dados ocorreu através da aplicação de um questionário. Detectou-se que ...