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Boosting nonverbal physician-patient communication in medical education
Valadares,Emiliana dos Santos; Catani,Renata Rodrigues; Lacombe,Julianni Bernardelli; Mendonça,Tânia Maria da Silva; Silva,Carlos Henrique MartinsAbstract: Introduction: Nonverbal communication is an important part of the medical interview. However, nonverbal skills are still underestimated in medical education and instruments for their teaching and assessing in medical schools are scarce. Objective: We aimed to translate and culturally adapt the Relational Communication Scale for Observational measurement of doctor-patient interactions (RCS-O) to Brazil...
Parents' perception of health-related quality of life in children and adolescen...
Nascimento,Melissa Maria Romero; Melo,Tatiana Rocha; Pinto,Rogério Melo Costa; Morales,Nívea Macedo Oliveira; Mendonça,Tânia Maria SilvaABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the perception of parents or caregivers on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children/adolescents with overweight/obesity and possible factors associated with this perception. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study involving 297 caregivers of children and adolescents with normal weight (n = 170) and with overweight/obesity (n = 127), from public and private schools...
Immunoglobulin E-rheumatoid factor in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Ferreira,Rosa Aparecida; Ferriani,Virgínia Paes Leme; Sopelete,Mônica Camargo; Silva,Deise Aparecida Oliveira; Mineo,José RobertoOBJECTIVES: To determine the presence of immunoglobulin E-rheumatoid factor in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and to correlate it with clinical and laboratory parameters. METHODS: A multicenter prospective study was carried out from January 1993 to January 1999 with the enrollment of 3 centers of pediatric rheumatology. Ninety-one children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed according to t...