OBJECTIVE: to compare the effectiveness of two educational interventions used by a healthcare provider in the monitoring of individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), regarding knowledge of the disease, impact on quality of life and adoption of self-care actions. METHODS: comparative, longitudinal...
OBJECTIVE: to identify the prevalence of arterial hypertension and its association with cardiovascular risk factors among adults. METHOD: cross-sectional, population-based, descriptive study conducted with 408 adult individuals. Data were collected through a questionnaire and measurements of weight, heig...
OBJECTIVE: characterize the hospital morbidity of adults living in the city of Maringá, PR, Brazil, between 2000 and 2011, focusing on the differential between men and women. METHOD: this descriptive study was developed based on data from the Hospital Information System of the Unified Health System in o...
This study characterizes the family ties of crack cocaine users cared for in a psychiatric emergency department in southern Brazil. It is a qualitative study with a series of cases carried out in the city of Maringá, PR, Brazil from April to June 2010. Data were collected through semi-structured intervi...
This ecological study was developed to evaluate the patterns in hospital morbidity due respiratory diseases among people over 60 years old residing in the State of Paraná, before and after the implementation of vaccination campaigns against influenza. The data about hospitalizations in the 1995-2005 per...
This study was carried out to evaluate the risk factors of type 2 diabetic patients through sociodemographic data, habits of health, anthropometric and biochemist profiles, assisted at a basic public health care unit in Maringá, Paraná. Sixty-six patients, 56 women aged over than 50 years-old were inte...
This study aimed to learn the nurses' opinion concerning the work they perform with families in the context of the Family Health Program and which are the necessary competences to accomplish it. This is an exploratory-descriptive study, of qualitative nature, carried out with 20 nurses who worked at a Fa...
Este é um estudo descritivo-exploratório, que objetivou conhecer as concepcões, atitudes e comportamentos relacionados ao trabalho, de 16 indivíduos portadores de insuficiência renal crônica (IRC) e seus familiares. Os dados foram coletados no período de abril a agosto de 2000, por meio de entrevi...
Este artigo foi extraído de um estudo desenvolvido com o objetivo de compreender e caracterizar a assistência pré-natal prestada à gestante no ambulatório de um hospital universitário (MARCON, 1990). Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo que adotou como linha metodológica básica a etnografia, mais es...
Este artigo apresenta os resultados de um estudo qualitativo, que adotou como linha metodológica a "Groundel Theory", e como método de coleta de dados a observaçäo participante. O objetivo foi explorar e compreender o período da gravidez, a partir da perspectiva de mulheres em estado de gravidez. Os...
