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Vulnerability of caregivers of the elderly with dementia: a cross-sectional descriptive study

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the sociodemographic and clinical profile of the caregivers and its relation with the overburden from the care of the elderly with dementia. Method: a cross-sectional descriptive study; the sample was non-probabilistic, developed with caregivers of elderly people with de...

Association between filial responsibility when caring for parents and the caregivers overload

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the association between filial responsibility and the overload of the children when caring for their older parents. Method: Cross-sectional study with 100 caregiver children of older adults. Filial liability was assessed by the attitudes of the responsible child (scale of...

Effects of a Health Education program on cognition, mood and functional capacity

ABSTRACT Objective: Assess the effect of a Health Education (HE) program on cognition, mood and functional capacity of participants in a University of The Third Age (U3A). Method: Controlled clinical trial. The HE Program consisted of 10 sessions with group dynamics, including orientations on disease p...

Stress and optimism of elderlies who are caregivers for elderlies and live with children

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the relation between stress and optimism of elderlies who are informal caregivers for elderlies and live with children. Method: cross-sectional study on 50 elderlies who provide care to elderlies, live with children, and are registered in the primary health care. The int...

Moral suffering among nurse educators of technical courses in nursing

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand situations of moral suffering experienced at work by nurse educators of technical courses in nursing. Method: a qualitative study with discursive textual analysis by means of semi-structured interviews with ten nurse educators at two professional educational institutio...

Religious and spiritual coping in people living with HIV/Aids

ABSTRACT Objective: evaluate the religiosity and the religious/spiritual coping of people living with HIV/Aids. Method: descriptive, cross-sectional study with quantitative approach, conducted in a reference HIV/Aids outpatient clinic in a university hospital of Recife-PE, Brazil, from June to November...

Health Conditions and Memory Performance: a study with older adult women

ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the correlation between health condition and memory performance of older adult women in the community. Method: Analytical cross-sectional study developed with 28 older adult women living in Cuiabá-MT. They answered the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and a shortened...

Validation of the adherence questionnaire for Brazilian chronic kidney disease patients under hemodialysis

ABSTRACT Objective: To validate the evaluation questionnaire on adherence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients under hemodialysis. Method: We verified the following psychometric properties of the instrument: reliability (stability and internal consistency) and validity (face, content, and construct...

Validation of the self-assessment of communication skills and professionalism for nurses

ABSTRACT Objectives: to translate, adapt cross-culturally and validate into Brazilian Portuguese the following instrument: "Self-assessment of communication skills and professionalism in residents" for the nursing professional, and to determine if personal characteristics and performance of the nurse in...

Ambiente das práticas de enfermagem e satisfação profissional em unidades críticas

RESUMO Objetivo: analisar a associação entre ambiente das práticas de enfermagem e satisfação profissional em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva (UTI). Método: estudo transversal, realizado em 8 UTIs adulto de um hospital público universitário, no período entre 2012 e 2015. Para investigar o ambien...