Abstract OBJECTIVE Evaluating and understanding the resilience process of the health team in caring for people with mental disorders in a psychiatric hospital. METHOD A mixed-method study with concomitant triangulation of data from a cross-sectional study, with health professionals, and Grounded Theory...
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the quality of life (QOL) of elderly people with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in conservative treatment, correlating it with sociodemographic and health-related aspects. Method: This is a quantitative, cross-sectional, and descriptive study that used: a previously valida...
Actitud Frente a la Muerte,
Comorbilidad,
Tratamiento Conservador/psicología,
Estudios Transversales,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Psicometría/instrumentación,
Psicometría/métodos,
Calidad de Vida/psicología,
Insuficiencia Renal Crónica/complicaciones,
Insuficiencia Renal Crónica/psicología,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the association between socio-demographic and clinical factors and the functional capacity of older adults with leprosy. Method: cross-sectional analytical study conducted in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, with 77 older adult patients with leprosy in a referral service, t...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the relationship between spiritual well-being, sociodemographic, economic, religious, and health variables and the quality of life of older adults undergoing hemodialysis. Method: This was a cross-sectional and correlational study conducted with 169 older adults undergoin...
Brasil,
Costo de Enfermedad,
Estudios Transversales,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Psicometría/instrumentación,
Psicometría/métodos,
Calidad de Vida/psicología,
Diálisis Renal/efectos adversos,
Diálisis Renal/psicología,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Espiritualidad,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
ABSTRACT Objective: to know the prevalence and factors associated with frailty in elderly assisted by the Centro Mais Vida de Referência em Assistência à Saúde do Idoso (Mais Vida Health Reference Center for the Elderly) in the North of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Method: cross-sectional study, with samp...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the safety of hospitalized older adults as for the risk of falls according to the parameters of the Morse Fall Scale. Method: Epidemiological, cross-sectional, prospective and descriptive study with n=75. Results: Average age of 71.3 years (SD±8.2); 58.7% male; 44% wit...
ABSTRACT Objective: Identifying prevalence of frailty in elderly caregivers inserted in a high social vulnerability context and its correlation with sociodemographic and health aspects. Method: Descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study. Forty elderly caregivers were evaluated with: questionn...
Cuidadores/psicología,
Cuidadores/normas,
Cognición,
Estudios Transversales,
Fragilidad/psicología,
Fragilidad/terapia,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Prevalencia,
Psicometría/instrumentación,
Psicometría/métodos,
Factores Sexuales,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the relation between stress and optimism of elderlies who are informal caregivers for elderlies and live with children. Method: cross-sectional study on 50 elderlies who provide care to elderlies, live with children, and are registered in the primary health care. The int...
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the sociodemographic and clinical profile of the caregivers and its relation with the overburden from the care of the elderly with dementia. Method: a cross-sectional descriptive study; the sample was non-probabilistic, developed with caregivers of elderly people with de...
Brasil,
Cuidadores/psicología,
Costo de Enfermedad,
Estudios Transversales,
Demencia Vascular/complicaciones,
Demencia/psicología,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Psicometría/instrumentación,
Psicometría/métodos,
Investigación Cualitativa,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios,
Poblaciones Vulnerables/psicología
ABSTRACT Objective: Identify the rate and predictive factors of the hospitalization of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), aged 50 years or older. Method: A quantitative, cross-sectional study was conducted at two inpatient units specialized in infectious diseases in a teaching hospital. Data were gath...
