ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the association of sociodemographic and clinical variables, life habits and functional capacity with symptoms indicative of depression in chronic renal patients on hemodialysis. Method: cross-sectional study developed from February to October of 2017 with 183 patients unde...
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...
ABSTRACT Objective: To create a board game as a form of gerotechnology to promote active and healthy aging. Method: This was a qualitative, convergent care study conducted with 32 older adults. Individual interviews, creativity and sensitivity techniques, group discussions, and participant observations...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the quality of life and health of elderly in rural areas of Minas Gerais State's center-west. Method: Cross-sectional study, in four municipalities of Minas Gerais State, by interviewing elderly people. Associations between socio-demographic and quality of life variables...
ABSTRACT Objective: To develop educational technology with caregivers of older people based on the needs, difficulties and concerns related to the elderly care expressed by the caregivers themselves. Method: Research of qualitative nature, with participant observation, based on concepts used by Paulo F...
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the risk factors for foot ulceration through the tracing of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and peripheral arterial disease in individuals with type I and II diabetes, who were assisted in reference centers of the Federal District, Brazil. Method: a cross-sectional and an...
ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the seropositive elderly for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in their socio-demographic aspects; to understand how the elderly take care of themselves from the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS. Method: Qualitative, descriptive,...
ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the prevalence of physical aggression and neglect and abandonment in the hospitalizations of Brazilian elderly people for violence and assault from 2008 to 2013 and the association of these causes with socio-demographic variables related to hospitalization. Method: quant...
