Psychiatric Reform is an issue which is discussed internationally. Its greatest challenge is to rethink means for caring people suffering from psychic disorders. In view of this, this study set out to anaylze and discuss the process of residential life for people discharged from a psychiatric hospital. T...
This study set out to understand the experiences and perceptions of women from the practices of episiotomy during labor. This is a qualitative descriptive approach, performed in a school hospital in São Paulo, which data were collected through interviews with the participation of 35 women, who experienc...
This article seeks to add to the understanding of changes women in the puerperium experience after giving birth for the first time. This is a qualitative study in which six women whose children were born by natural birth, without untoward events in a maternity hospital accredited to the Brazilian Public ...
With a view to identifying new knowledge on nursing care that will give additional support to nurses, this qualitative study sets out how final year nursing students conceive of the meaning and value of touch as a therapeutic instrument. Data was gathered from workshops on awareness-raising, expressivene...
In seeking to build new knowledge so as to transform patient service practices performed in the of mental health, as laid down in the Psychiatric Reform guidelines, this study has set out to gather statements from professionals and residents of half-way houses providing therapy in order to understand wha...
