With the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV infection has become a chronic health condition, and care previously directed only to opportunistic infections has also started to focus on Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases (CND), making the practices of health promotion relevant to People Living with HIV (PLHIV). The general objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the educational booklet...
Objectives: to verify the prevalence of arterial hypertension and its risk factors among people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome under antiretroviral therapy. Method: crosssectional study with 208 patients. Data collection was conducted through interviews using a form containing data on sociodemographic, clinical and epidemiological aspects, hypertension risk factors, blood pressure, weight, height, body...
This study had as objective to verify the prevalence of systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) and its risk factors among people living with HIV/aids (PLWHA) during outpatient follow-up, and to investigate the association between time of diagnosis of HIV/aids and duration of antiretroviral therapy (ART) with a prevalence of SAH and its risk factores. It is a cross-sectional, descriptive study and with quantitativ...
Objective: To analyze the insulin therapy waste disposal produced in the households of people with diabetes mellitus (DM). Method: Cross-sectional study with 105 Primary Care patients. Socio-demographic and clinical variables and insulin therapy practice were analyzed through the absolute and relative frequencies, Fisher’s exact test and prevalence ratio (PR). Results: The association between types of insulin (...
Objective: Identify nursing diagnoses in patients with myocardial infarction in hospital emergency situations, according to Orem´s self-care theory. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted from February to August 2016 with 50 infarcted patients who were able to participate in the research. Data collection was done through an interview, using a questionnaire pursuant to the self...
Objetivo: analisar o perfil dos óbitos de pessoas com síndrome da imunodeficiência adquirida. Métodos: estudo transversal, realizado com 106 prontuários de pessoas que foram a óbito em unidade de terapia intensiva, obtendo-se variáveis sociodemográficas e clínicas. Análise realizada através do teste qui-quadrado de Pearson, teste de Fisher e teste de Mann-Whitney. Resultados: maior parte dos pacientes era do se...
Objective: to analyze the profile of the deaths of people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out with 106 medical records of people who died in an intensive care unit, obtaining sociodemographic and clinical variables. Analysis made using Pearson’s chi-square test, Fisher’s test and Mann-Whitney test. Results:most of the patients were male (80.2%), in the age g...
Objective: to analyze the profile of the deaths of people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out with 106 medical records of people who died in an intensive care unit, obtaining sociodemographic and clinical variables. Analysis made using Pearson’s chi-square test, Fisher’s test and Mann-Whitney test. Results: most of the patients were male (80.2%), in the age ...