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Sleep duration and quality of Brazilian nursing staff who work in shifts

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze sleep duration and sleep quality in nursing professionals who work in shifts. Method: this is a cross-sectional, analytical research, carried out between September 2017 and April 2018, at a public hospital in southern Brazil, with the nursing team. A socio-occupational an...

Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the LYMPH-ICF Instrument for Lymphedema into Portuguese/Brazil

ABSTRACT Objective: The aim of this study is to cross-culturally adapt the Lymphoedema Functioning, Disability and Health Questionnaire Lymphoedema (LYMPH-ICF) instrument into Brazilian Portuguese and conduct a pilot application (n = 10), without psychometric pretensions. Method: Methodological researc...

Cardiovascular Risk and Lifestyle: comparison between teaching workers in Portugal and Brazil

ABSTRACT Objective: Compare Cardiovascular Risk between workers in Brazil and Portugal who work in the teaching context and its relationship with Lifestyle and Common Mental Disorder. Methods: Cross-sectional study that compared the cardiovascular health conditions of teaching workers in Manaus (Brazil...

Nursing care protocol for critical users with tracheostomy under mechanical ventilation

ABSTRACT Objectives: to develop and assess a nursing care protocol for critically ill users with tracheostomy under mechanical ventilation. Methods: a methodological study, developed through two phases, guided by the 5W2H management tool: I) target audience characterization and II) technology developme...

Fall Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety Brazil Program: an evaluability study in a teaching hospital

ABSTRACT Objectives: to present the theoretical model, logic model, and the analysis and judgment matrix of the Fall TIPS Brazil Program. Methods: a qualitative, participatory research approach, in the form of an evaluability study, encompassing the phases (1) problem analysis; (2) program design, deve...

Assessment of educational technology in lactation physiology by health students

ABSTRACT Objectives: to assess the suitability, facilitators, and barriers of using a video clip for teaching lactation physiology to health students. Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted with online data collection at a higher education institution, using the Assistive Technology Assessment ...

Mid-range theory of the nursing diagnosis Overweight

ABSTRACT Objective: To build a mid-range theory for the nursing diagnosis Overweight in adolescents and young adults. Methods: A methodological study in the light of the theoretical frameworks of Roy and of Lopes, Silva and Herdman. A total of 3,925 articles were retrieved and assessed using the State ...

The (in)visibility of fibromyalgia through its symptoms and the challenges of its diagnosis and therapy

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the social representations of fibromyalgia based on its symptoms and their influences on diagnosis and therapy. Methods: Qualitative research with the application of the Theory of Social Representations and snowball sampling method. Semi-structured interviews were conduct...

Social protection in areas vulnerable to tuberculosis: a mixed methods study in São Luís, Maranhão

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the risk areas for tuberculosis and the influences of social protection on the development of treatment for the disease in the municipality of São Luís, Maranhão. Methods: this is explanatory sequential mixed method research. In the quantitative phase, the data were o...