ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate the completeness of nurses’ records on the execution of the nursing process in assistance of tuberculosis patients at Primary Care. Methods: this was a retrospective documental study, with 190 records in Family Health Units of a city in the state of Paraíba. The data were analyzed according to descriptive statistics, Pareto Diagram, and trend analysis. Results: the overall mean ...
Abstract Objective: To estimate the prevalence of syphilis and associated factors in riverine communities. Method: This is a cross-sectional and analytical study carried out with 250 riverside dwellers living in five communities in the city of João Pessoa, state of Paraíba. Data were collected through interviews and rapid screening tests to investigate syphilis. Bivariate, logistic regression and weight of evid...
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...
RESUMO Objetivo: Avaliar a prática do uso de máscaras pela população paraibana durante a pandemia da COVID-19. Método: Estudo transversal descritivo-analítico realizado com adultos residentes no estado da Paraíba via instrumento online, no período de abril a maio de 2020, por meio da escala da prática do uso de máscaras das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas da Paraíba. Resultados: Participaram do estudo 1.307 (1...
ABSTRACT Objective: to identify scientific evidence on the effectiveness of using cloth masks as safe protectors against COVID-19. Method: an integrative review of articles available in full obtained at PubMed, CINAHL, and Web of Science. Controlled, non-controlled descriptors and keywords such as “mask”, “home-made” and “cloth” or “cotton” and “infection control” or “infection prevention” were used. Results: t...
Abstract Objective: To analyze the way AIDS is configured in the eyes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. Method: A descriptive study implementing a mixed approach, conducted in three indigenous villages and in a surrounding municipality. A semi-structured interview script was used, with identification data and questions related to the disease perception, the way of seeing and feeling AIDS. The corpus was p...
OBJECTIVE To identify the main factors of the physical domain modified after kidney transplantation and analyze the influence of those aspects in the perception of Overall quality of life (QOL). METHOD Longitudinal study, conducted with 63 chronic kidney patients, evaluated before and after kidney transplant, using the quality of life scale proposed by the World Health Organization. RESULTS We observed signific...