Objetivo: avaliar os efeitos do uso do álbum seriado como intervenção educativa na melhoria da autoeficácia materna na amamentação. Métodos: estudo quase experimental com 41 puérperas: Grupo Intervenção (n=20) e Grupo Controle (n=21) de uma maternidade pública. A intervenção consistiu na aplicação do álbum seriado “Eu posso amamentar o meu filho” no pós-parto imediato e contato telefônico após 15 dias. Para amb...
Objective: evaluating the effects of using a flipchart as an educational intervention in improving maternal self-efficacy in breastfeeding. Methods: a quasi-experimental study with 41 postpartum women: Intervention Group (n = 20) and Control Group (n = 21) of a public hospital. The intervention consisted of implementing the flipchart “I can breastfeed my baby” in the immediate postpartum and were contacted by t...
Objective: evaluating the effects of using a flipchart as an educational intervention in improving maternal self-efficacy in breastfeeding. Methods: a quasi-experimental study with 41 postpartum women: Intervention Group (n = 20) and Control Group (n = 21) of a public hospital. The intervention consisted of implementing the flipchart “I can breastfeed my baby” in the immediate postpartum and were contacted by t...
Randomized controlled trial that aimed to evaluate the effect of an intervention program with guidance on the disease via phone calls made by nurses in clinical and laboratory control of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The study population comprised 31 participants recruited in a Health Center of Fortaleza-Ceará, Brazil, from October 2013 to May 2014. Of these, 15 composed the control group (CG), receiv...
The anthropometric measures of 295 workers of a hospital of Fortaleza-CE were analyzed in order to accomplish the present research. It was made a transversal study on the basis of form, contemplating social-economic information and the following parameters: Body Mass Index (BMI), waist-hip relation (WHR) and Abdominal circumference (AM). It was verified that 63.4% of the sample was composed by women; the ages v...
Nowadays overweight is a condition that prepares adolescents to several chronical diseases in the future. Thus, the objective was to fi nd out overweight and obesity cases in private schools’ adolescents from Fortaleza. 307 students between 12 and 17 years of age were investigated in the months of March and June of 2007, by means of a form application in which socio-demographic features, weight, height, Body Ma...
The objective of the study was to assess breastfeeding self-efficacy among lactating adolescents. A quantitative study involving 172 lactating adolescents, conducted in 14 Basic Health Units in the northeast cities of Brazil. For data collection, we used a form and the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale – Short Form. Data were analyzed with a statistical software. Results showed high breastfeeding self-efficacy ...
ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of telephone interventions as a strategy for glycemic control in adult Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients. An integrative literature review was undertaken in April and May 2011 through surveys in the Cochrane, PubMed/Medline, Lilacs and Cinahl databases. Nine studies complied with the inclusion criteria, mainly randomized controlled clinical ...
The current study inves gated the correla on between anthropometric indicators and sleep quality among Brazilian university students using the Pi sburgh Sleep Quality Index. A cross-sec onal assessment with 702 university students was conducted between March 2010 and June 2011. Results showed that cases of obesity were more frequent among students who were good sleepers. On the other hand, overweight and high c...
A quantitative study with the objective to identify the profile of blood pressure and glycemic levels of Family Health Strategy users in Itapipoca, state of Ceará, Brazil. We included 419 users, which provided us with sociodemographic and clinical data (capillary glycemia and systemic blood pressure). Participants ranged from 20 to 59 years; 88.1% were women; 8.3% had glycemia > 140mg/dl; 7.4% were pre-hyper...