ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate the measurement properties of the Advanced Practice Nursing Competency Assessment Instrument - Brazilian version, in the hospital environment. Methods: a methodological study conducted in a hospital with 238 nurses. Three instruments collect the data: sample characteriz...
Resumo Objetivo Adaptar e validar a The Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale para a cultura brasileira. Métodos Estudo metodológico, que seguiu, para a adaptação transcultural, os estágios de tradução, síntese, retrotradução, avaliação por especialistas, pré-teste e avaliação pela autora do instr...
Introdução:As feridas de difícil cicatrização incidem em uma problemática de saúde devido a sua elevada prevalência e etiologias multifatoriais. O tratamento se inicia na prescrição do agente terapêutico apropriado, sucedido do uso de instrumentos que permitam ao profissional do...
Objetivo: desenvolver um instrumento para Consulta de Enfermagem às pessoas com hipertensão arterial e/ou diabetes mellitus tipo 2 em seguimento na Atenção Primária à saúde. Método: estudo metodológico, composto por duas etapas, desenvolvido em Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBS) no interior do Esta...
Abstract Objective: to psychometrically test the Brazilian version of the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication - TSQM (version 1.4), regarding ceiling and floor effect, practicability, acceptability, reliability and validity. Methods: participants with coronary heart disease (n=190) we...
OBJECTIVE: to compare the general and specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) between the Intervention (IG) and Control (CG) groups of coronary artery disease patients after the implementation of Action Planning and Coping Planning strategies for medication adherence and to verify the relationshi...
METHOD: one hundred (n=100) elderly outpatients with diabetic retinopathy taking antihypertensives and/or oral antidiabetics/insulin were interviewed. Adherence was evaluated by the adherence proportion and its association with the care taken in administrating medications and by the Morisky Scale. The Na...
OBJECTIVE: to identify salient behavioral, normative, control and self-efficacy beliefs related to the behavior of adherence to oral antidiabetic agents, using the Theory of Planned Behavior. METHOD: cross-sectional, exploratory study with 17 diabetic patients in chronic use of oral antidiabetic medicati...
This was a systematic review aimed at identifying and characterizing measuring instruments, developed in the context of cardiology, which were adapted into Portuguese language of Brazil. Systematic searches were performed in six databases. Information extracted included cultural adaptation process and me...
This study evaluated the acceptability, ceiling/floor effects, and the reliability of the instrument for measuring the Impact of the Disease on the Daily Life of Patients with Valvular Disease (IDCV) when applied to 135 patients with heart failure (HF). Acceptability was evaluated by the percentage of un...
