ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the relationship between inadequate functional health literacy and inadequate blood pressure control in older people with hypertension in Primary Health Care. Method: a cross-sectional study with sample calculated at 392. SAHLPA-18 tool was used for functional health liter...
ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the meaning of sexuality by rural elderly women. Method: a qualitative exploratory and descriptive research, carried out through interview at the home with 26 rural elderly women, aged between 60 and 69 years. The data were analyzed by the thematic content analysis tec...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the development of the labor market in Gerontological Nursing in Brazil, between 1970 and 1996. Method: a descriptive-qualitative study with a historical approach that uses the oral history of 14 research nurses working in the historical period, based on the ideas of Elio...
ABSTRACT Objective: identify the occurrence of delirium in aged patients assisted in emergency services and verify its relationship with sociodemographic and clinical variables. Method: cross-sectional, prospective study with a quantitative approach. Two hundred aged hospitalized patients participated....
Brasil/epidemiología,
Distribución de Chi-Cuadrado,
Estudios Transversales,
Delirio/clasificación,
Delirio/diagnóstico,
Delirio/epidemiología,
Servicio de Urgencia en Hospital/organización & administración,
Servicio de Urgencia en Hospital/estadística & datos numéricos,
Hospitalización/estadística & datos numéricos,
Tamizaje Masivo/métodos,
Tamizaje Masivo/estadística & datos numéricos,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Estudios Prospectivos,
Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad
ABSTRACT Objective: To estimate the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and clusters of its components and to identify possible associated factors in older adults. Method: Cross-sectional and population-based study, involving 271 older people. We collected sociodemographic, behavioral, clinical, bioch...
Antropometría/métodos,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Brasil,
Proteína C-Reactiva/análisis,
Estudios Transversales,
Modelos Logísticos,
Síndrome Metabólico/clasificación,
Síndrome Metabólico/diagnóstico,
Síndrome Metabólico/fisiopatología,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Factores de Riesgo,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the prevalence and factors associated with falls in the elderly population living in rural areas. Method: this is a cross-sectional study, carried out in 2014, with 820 older adults recorded in the Family Health Strategy (Estratégia Saúde da Família). The association ...
ABSTRACT Objective: determine the prevalence and factors associated with frailty syndrome (FS) in the elderly in the rural population of Pelotas. Method: Quantitative, analytical, transversal study conducted with 820 elderly subjects registered in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in the rural area in t...
ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the quality of life related to health for heart failure patients and to relate sociodemographic and clinical data. Method: It is an observational and transversal study, with quantitative approach, carried out in a heart failure ambulatory in the state of Pernambuco. Resul...
ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the reasons that lead Brazilian and Spanish seniors to enroll in a university for the elderly. Method: A qualitative study that used Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical reference and the Grounded Theory as a methodological reference. We interviewed 44 seniors enro...
Brasil,
Participación de la Comunidad/psicología,
Participación de la Comunidad/estadística & datos numéricos,
Teoría Fundamentada,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Motivación,
Investigación Cualitativa,
España,
Estudiantes/psicología,
Estudiantes/estadística & datos numéricos,
Universidades/organización & administración
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention through cognitive stimulation associated with Taigeiko practice in memory performance and executive function of elderly women, compared to a group exposed to Taigeiko alone. Method: A quasi-experimental study was performed with 16 eld...
