To evaluate the knowledge of companions about the use of support techniques during childbirth. Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional quantitative study undertaken at the Assis Chateaubriand Maternity Hospital with a sample of 62 companions. Data collection was undertaken from May to November 2011, throu...
Aim: To investigate the causes of maternal death in a regional health jurisdiction of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. Method: This is a retrospective study exploring the maternal deaths from 2007 to 2011. The maternal deaths analyzed were of women between 10 and 49 years old during the pregnancy-puerpe...
This study aimed to evaluate the process of behavioral changes of caregivers of children of preschool age, from an activity of Health Education regarding the prevention of intestinal parasitosis. Descriptive study, conducted with eight caregivers of children from a public nursery in Fortaleza, whose step...
The Instruments of Development Improvement (IDI) of PROQUALI consists of evaluation protocols of the service structure and actions given from the Family Health Strategy (FHS), including the Family Planning (FP) program. The research objectives were to evaluate the welcome and quality of the subsequent co...
Problem: Adolescent pregnancy is one of the main problems of public health concerning the health of Brazilian teenagers, being the pregnancy on this population often unplanned and sometimes unwanted by the young girl, her partner and/or family. Objective: Observe the rate and risk factors for unwanted an...
The participation of the parturientïs companion of choice during the birth process was pointed as one of the factors that contribute for a humanized childbirth. The aim of this study was to identify the nursing team?s perceptions regarding the presence of the companion during childbirth. This descriptiv...
We tried to verify the puerperals' understandment on breastfeeding e its caracteristics. Descriptive in nature with quantitative aproach, realized between november of 2006 and january of 2007 at a reference maternity, with 252 puerperal interns. Most women were between the ages of 19 and 25 (123; 48,8%),...
Objetivamos identificar o perfil epidemiológico das crianças vítimas de queimaduras no processo da dor e avaliar a dor da criança queimada utilizando uma Escala Visual Analógica EVA (escala de faces). É de natureza epidemiológica descritiva, desenvolvido em um Centro de Tratamento de Queimados ...
