OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to correlate the QOL domains of the civil servants to the type and number of chronic health conditions. METHOD: A transversal, quantitative study, conducted at the Department of Civil Servant Assistance of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte with 215 civil se...
OBJECTIVES To validate an instrument to assess quality of mobile emergency pre-hospital care. METHOD A methodological study where 20 professionals gave their opinions on the items of the proposed instrument. The analysis was performed using Kappa test (K) and Content Validity Index (CVI), considering K&g...
Objective: To validate an instrument for assessment of knowledge of nursing students about the blood pressure measurement. Method: methodological study conducted with 27 judges nurses, teachers of the discipline of semiology and/or semiotics, with at least 1 year of experience in the disciplines, in thre...
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to present the process of construction and validation of an instrument for evaluating the care provided to people with wounds, to be used with undergraduate nursing students. METHOD Methodological study, with quantitative approach, using the Delphi technique in two rou...
OBJECTIVE To identify the main factors of the physical domain modified after kidney transplantation and analyze the influence of those aspects in the perception of Overall quality of life (QOL). METHOD Longitudinal study, conducted with 63 chronic kidney patients, evaluated before and after kidney transp...
Objective: To identify the causes for the discards of corneas in the ocular tissue bank from Rio Grande do Norte. Method: This was an exploratory descriptive study, with retrospective data and quantitative approach, conducted in the ocular tissue bank from Rio Grande do Norte. The information was collect...
This study aims to ascertain the influence of the structure and process on the effectiveness of donation of organs and tissues. It is an evaluative, longitudinal study, with a quantitative approach, undertaken in six hospitals of Natal-RN, with 65 potential donors. The data collection instrument was a st...
The aim of this study was to describe the harnessing of corneas captured and processed for transplantation in an ocular tissue bank in north-eastern Brazil. This was a transverse and retrospective study, with a sample group of 612 individuals whose corneas were donated and captured between January/2007 a...
The aim of this study was to identify the influence of social networks in the therapeutic itinerary of people affected by venous ulcers. Qualititative research was conducted in the outpatient clinic of a public hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data were collected from January to February 2013 by me...
Objective To validate the content of two instruments used to evaluate nursing care for people with skin lesions. Methods Content validation study comprised of two stages: the first was the development of the instruments, beginning with a literature review; the second, content validation by means of an ev...
