This study aimed at assessing beliefs about the benefits and barriers to adherence to daily self-monitoring of weight/edema in patients with heart failure, and the influence of demographic and clinical variables on those beliefs. 105 patients were interviewed. The mean of the subscales Benefits and Barri...
OBJECTIVE: to validate the content of persuasive messages for promoting walking among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). The messages were constructed to strengthen or change patients' attitudes to walking. METHOD: the selection of persuasive arguments was based on behavioral beliefs (determinan...
OBJECTIVE: to analyze the action and coping plans related to the behavior of adhering to drug therapy, developed by coronary heart disease (CHD) outpatients, and to identify the barriers perceived to adopting this behavior. METHODS: the participants (n=59) were invited to formulate action plans and copin...
This cross-sectional study, based in implementation intention theory, describes action plans developed by women with hypertension (n=49) to add no more than 4g of salt per day to food and to reduce consumption of salty foods, as well as describing the barriers perceived and the coping strategies adopted ...
Trata-se de um estudo retrospectivo, descritivo-exploratório, com objetivo de formular os diagnósticos de enfermagem (DE) mais frequentes no subgrupo de pacientes portadores de doenças isquêmicas do coração, internados em unidade de cardiologia e verificar sua associação com características soci...
OBJETIVO: Apresentar o desenvolvimento e a validação de um instrumento para caracterização de pessoas, com 50 anos ou mais, portadoras do Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana/Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida. MÉTODOS: O conteúdo do instrumento, elaborado com base na literatura consultada e ex...
This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, ceiling and floor effects, reliability, and convergent construct validity of the Brazilian version of the Mini Cuestionario de Calidad de Vida en la Hipertensión Arterial (MINICHAL). The study included 200 hypertensive outpatients in a univers...
OBJETIVO: Avaliar a qualidade de vida relacionada à Saúde em idosos com insuficiência cardíaca. MÉTODOS: Estudo transversal realizado em dois hospitais universitários. Foram entrevistados 170 idosos com insuficiência cardíaca em seguimento ambulatorial. Para avaliar a qualidade de vida, foi utili...
The aim of this study was to identify the cardiovascular risk factors related to physical activity and/or nutrition of hypertensive patients (n=99) seen at a public health care center of a large city in the southeastern part of Brazil. These factors included, diabetes mellitus (36.4% of patients, more fr...
This study aims to present the cross-cultural adaptation process of the Modified Dyspnea Index to the Brazilian culture and to investigate its content validity and reliability. This process included the steps of translation, back translation and review by two experts to assess semantic, conceptual, idiom...
