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Transition to exclusive palliative care for women with breast cancer

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the perspectives that affect the transition to exclusive palliative care for women with breast cancer. Methods: qualitative, descriptive study, carried out in a public health institution in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between December 2018 and May 2019. 28 health professiona...

Dialogic educational practices in the context of child intoxication: an approach based on Paulo Freire

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the knowledge and practices of education of Family Health Strategy professionals regarding child intoxication for the autonomy and empowering of the families. Methods: Qualitative research, carried out through semistructured interviews with 50 professionals from the Famil...

Effects of clown activities on patients eligible for palliative care in primary health care

ABSTRACT Objective: Evaluate the effects of clown activities on quality of life, depression, stress, anxiety, aid, and social support in patients eligible for palliative care (PC) attended in Primary Health Care (PHC). Method: A quasi-experimental study, with pre-intervention and post-intervention eval...

Disabilities in leprosy: construction and validation of instrument on knowledge and attitude of professionals

ABSTRACT Objective: To develop and test the content validity of the "Knowledge and Attitudes on Assessing Degrees of Physical Disability in Leprosy" instrument. Methods: Methodological study carried out between January and May 2019 in three stages: item generation, analysis of aggregated redundancy to...

Correlation of facial anthropometry data of late preterm newborns and oral feeding readiness

ABSTRACT Objective: To correlate nine facial anthropometric measurements with the readiness for oral feeding of late preterm newborns using an orogastric tube. Methods: Observational study, carried out in two institutions in Maceió, Alagoas. Fifty-two newborns participated. A single measuring of nin...

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: reflection in the light of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

ABSTRACT Objective: To reflect on the environment of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the light of the Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory. Methods: A theoretical-reflexive essay of constructs originated from the final work of a discipline related to the Florence Nightingale's Environmental...

Fatigue due to compassion in health professionals and coping strategies: a scoping review

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify the current state of knowledge on compassion fatigue in the work context of healthcare professionals; and how coping strategies are established in this scenario. Method: a scoping review with search applied to the databases: MEDLINE, LILACS, CINAHL, Scopus. Temporal lim...

Factors associated with the homicides of women who are victims of violence

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify factors associated with homicides in women who had prior notification of violence in the state of Pernambuco, 2011 to 2016. Methods: a transversal, quantitative and observational study, guided by the STROBE tool, with data of homicides of women obtained from the Mortali...