Resultados: 41

Association of salivary alpha-amylase with anxiety and stress in nursing professionals

Objective: to assess if changes in salivary alpha-amylase activity are associated with anxiety and stress among hospital nursing professionals and whether anxiety and stress are associated with sociodemographic, epidemiological, and occupational factors. Method: cross-sectional, quantitative study, carr...

Women and leprosy: interferences and experiences

Objective: to know the interferences of leprosy in women's lives and how they reinvent themselves in coping with the disease. Method: a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The theoretical-methodological framework adopts an approximation to the cartographic method and some concepts of schizoa...

Coping with COVID-19 in an international border region: health and economy

Objective: to analyze how the social isolation measures and closed borders affected the health and economy in an international border region. Method: descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in the western region of Paraná, Brazil, using an electronic form created using Google® forms. A sample of 2...

Validity and reliability of the Brazilian version of the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI - Br)

Objective: to perform the psychometric validation of the Brazilian version of the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI - Br) in patients with advanced diseases in palliative care. Method: a methodological study to verify the psychometric properties of the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI - Br) instrument, throu...

Workaholism among stricto sensu graduate nursing professors in Brazil

Objective: to identify the prevalence and factors associated with workaholism among stricto sensu graduate nursing professors. Method: a cross-sectional study with 333 professors of master's/doctorate degrees from 47 Brazilian public universities. Participants answered a characterization questionnaire a...

Protective and risk factors for women's mental health after a spontaneous abortion

Objective: to examine personal and contextual protective and risk factors associated with women's mental health after a spontaneous abortion. Method: a cross-sectional study was carried out where 231 women who had experienced spontaneous abortions in the past 4 years answered a self-reporting online q...

Psychometric properties of the questionnaire on threat perception of chronic illnesses in pediatric patients

Objective: the objective of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire in a sample of adolescents with chronic endocrine or pneumological conditions and to analyze the dimensionality and reduce the scale elaborating scales by sex and medical diagnosi...

Association of preoperative anxiety and depression symptoms with postoperative complications of cardiac surgeries

Objective to investigate the associations of preoperative anxiety and depression symptoms with postoperative complications and with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients submitted to the first coronary artery bypass graft. Method observational, analytical and longitudinal study. A ...