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Prevalence of non-communicable chronic diseases: arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and associated risk factors in long-lived elderly people

ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the prevalence of non-communicable chronic diseases: arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and associated risk factors in long-lived elderly people from three Brazilian regions. Methods: This is a multicenter, cross-sectional, and comparative study conducted with eld...

Performance of Family Health Strategy Nurses in LGBT+ Healthcare

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the role of Family Health Strategy (FHS) nurses in the health care of LGBT+ individuals. Methods: This qualitative study is based on Institutional Analysis. Data was collected in August 2021 through semi-structured interviews with 14 Family Health Strategy nurses from mun...

Standard Operating Procedure validity on intramuscular vaccine administration in adults: a methodological study

ABSTRACT Objective: to validate a Standard Operating Procedure on the intramuscular vaccine administration technique in adults using high frequency vibration associated with cryotherapy. Methods: a literature review on intramuscular vaccination practice using a vibration device associated with cryother...

Intestinal parasitic infections: telephone health literacy with men in areas of poverty in the syndemic

ABSTRACT Objectives: to assess Popular Health Education practices on intestinal parasites, carried out by telephone contact with men living in urban communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the COVID-19 syndemic. Method: a quasi-experimental, quantitative and descriptive study, carried out with me...

Nursing, history, and orthopedics in manuals (1875-1928)

ABSTRACT Objectives: to discuss the content of manuals, with emphasis on orthopedics, in support of the development of nursing care culture. Methods: cultural-historical method articulated with document analysis technique. The sources were nursing manuals - Portuguese, French, English, and Spanish - fr...

Focus group in the development of concepts for a Nursing model: experience report

ABSTRACT Objective: To communicate the experience of developing concepts for the construction of a care model through focus groups. Methods: An experience report on the development of concepts through remote focus groups with members of a research group from a public university in southern Brazil. Res...

Spirituality in the uncertainty of illness: the perspective of oncology patients

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze spirituality in the process of illness uncertainty in cancer patients. Methods: This is a qualitative study, in which Merle Mishel's Theory of Uncertainty of Disease was used as a theoretical framework; and as a methodological reference, the stages of Bardin's Content Ana...

Expansion of Psychosocial Care Centers and their relationship with health and human rights

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the factors associated with the expansion of the number of Brazilian Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) considering aspects related to the general health scenario and the institutionalization of human rights. Methods: An analytical document-based study, developed between Fe...

Validity study of the Three-Dimensional Work Fatigue Inventory among higher education nursing faculty

ABSTRACT Objective: to adapt and validate the Three-Dimensional Work Fatigue Inventory (3D-WFI) for Brazil's cultural reality and assess the psychometric properties. Methods: a methodological study developed in six stages: initial translation; synthesis of translations; back translation; review by expe...

Learning strategies of undergraduate nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the learning strategies used by nursing students from a public university, in remote teaching, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: a cross-sectional study developed with nursing students who attended remote teaching classes. The sample was obtained by convenience and ...