A avaliação de intervenções e tratamentos atualmente procura englobar variáveis subjetivas, destacando a importância da perspectiva do paciente sobre a doença e os efeitos do tratamento. Estas medidas devem ser confiáveis, satisfazendo propriedades básicas, como validade, confiabilidade, sensibi...
This study evaluated the acceptability, ceiling/floor effects, and the reliability of the instrument for measuring the Impact of the Disease on the Daily Life of Patients with Valvular Disease (IDCV) when applied to 135 patients with heart failure (HF). Acceptability was evaluated by the percentage of un...
Este estudo estimou a validade de constructo pelo teste de grupos conhecidos do Instrumento para Mensuração do Impacto da Doença no Cotidiano do Valvopata (IDCV) quanto a sinais e sintomas, função ventricular sistólica, fração de ejeção do ventrículo esquerdo (FEVE) e qualidade de vida relacio...
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...
The goal of this study was to translate and adapt The Pain Disability Questionnaire (PDQ) to Brazilian Portuguese, as well as to assess its psychometric properties and practicability. The following methodological steps were followed: translation, synthesis, back-translation, expert committee assessment a...
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...
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...