RESUMO Objetivo: compreender a experiência da família de crianças e adolescentes com mielomeningocele diante da descoberta do adoecimento crônico, bem como sua vivência cotidiana na realização dos cuidados necessários a essas pessoas. Método: estudo qualitativo, desenvolvido de outubro de 2013 a...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study aiming to analyze the healthcare model for children with chronic conditions in Primary Health Care. The study subjects were nurses, nurse technicians and auxiliary nurses working in 16 basic health units in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Data were collected...
Objective: to determine the incidence of falls in elderly residents of long-stay institutions of the Federal District, to identify the aspects involved in the falls, in terms of risk factors, from the application of scales and the Taxonomy II of NANDA-I, and to define the level of accuracy with its sensi...
Objective.Analyze the feelings of hospitalized children and adolescents with chronic diseases towards death. Methodology. Qualitative research, with four children and one teenager with chronic diseases, aged between 11 and 13 years old, who were admitted at a teaching hospital in Brazil, in the period fr...
Objective.This work sought to develop, validate, and determine the reliability of an instrument on Competency in Homecare of the family caregiver of an individual with chronic disease. Methodology. The test validation study was carried out in the following phases: 1) literature review; 2) analysis of res...
Objective: to understand the meanings given by women and men with sickle cell disease on the illness experience. Method: analytical study with a qualitative approach, conducted with 17 adults with sickle cell disease using the Theory Based on Data, or Grounded Theory, as theoretical-methodological refere...
Objetivo: determinar la validez y confiabilidad de la Entrevista de Percepción de Carga del Cuidado de Zarit, versión de 22 ítems en español, con cuidadores familiares de personas con enfermedades crónicas en Colombia. Materiales y métodos: estudio metodológico de corte transversal, con 652 cuidad...
A urbanização acelerada e o crescente ritmo da vida moderna têm aumentado sobremaneira as doençasrelacionadas ao estilo de vida, como a hipertensão arterial sistêmica (HAS) e o diabetes mellitus (DM). Por sualonga duração, são consideradas condições crônicas de saúde e requerem mudanças que...
O Diabetes Mellitus é uma doença crônico-degenerativa que, em geral, se acompanha de diversas complicações agudas ou crônicas, encontrando-se dentre estas últimas, a nefropatia. O objeto deste estudo fenomenológico é o sentido que a pessoa diabética nefropata atribui ao tratamento por hemodiál...
ABSTRACTthis study aimed to know the strategies of families in the care of children with chronic diseases. A descriptive and exploratory research was carried out using a qualitative approach, in a Pediatric Unit of a university hospital in the south of Brazil, during the first and second halves of 2013. ...
