ABSTRACT Objectives: to cross-culturally adapt the short version of the Informal Caregiver Burden Assessment Questionnaire to the Brazilian culture and test its psychometric properties. Methods: the questionnaire was translated, adapted, and applied to a sample of 280 informal caregivers. The psychomet...
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify factors associated with cognitive, emotional, psychomotor, and relational skills of informal caregivers in home care. Methods: A cross-sectional study carried out with a sample of 216 informal caregivers residing in a municipality in the state of Paraná. Data collection...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to understand the meanings attributed to the changes experienced after bariatric surgery by people with obesity. Methods: this is a study with a qualitative approach, with a theoretical framework in Symbolic Interactionism; and methodological, in the Grounded Theory. There were 12 ...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to build and validate educational self-care technology for informal caregivers. Methods: methodological study, anchored in the Delphi technique, carried out in a municipality in the state of Paraná, Brazil, between September 2018 and November 2019. It was developed in three stage...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze factors associated with the use of potentially inappropriate medications by elderly people with hypertension. Method: a cross-sectional study, conducted in the first semester of 2016, with elderly people undergoing treatment for hypertension, living in the city of Maring...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the conicity index in people with hypertension followed in the Brazil's Family Health Strategy. Methods: cross-sectional study conducted in a medium-sized municipality located in the state of Paraná. Data collection took place in the first semester of 2016. using an ada...
Objetivo: avaliar a adesão/vínculo e associar ao controle pressórico e ao acompanhamento de pessoas com hipertensão arterial na Estratégia Saúde da Família. Método: estudo transversal, realizado com 417 pessoas em tratamento da hipertensão arterial, residentes em um município localizado no noro...
