Resultados: 11

Development and validation of quality of life scale for people living with HIV

ABSTRACT Objective: to develop and validate a scale to measure the quality of life of people living with HIV in Brazil. Method: methodological study conducted in a Brazilian care service specialized in sexually transmissible infections/AIDS between 2017 and 2019 addressing people living with HIV. The s...

Effect of parental mutuality on the quality of life of mothers of children with special health needs

Objective: to analyze the effect of parental mutuality on the quality of life related to the health of mothers who care for children with special health needs. Method: an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. The following instruments were applied to 181 careg...

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...

Brazilian transgender children and adolescents: Attributes associated with quality of life

Objective: to describe attributes associated with the Quality of Life of Brazilian transgender children and adolescents according to their own perception. Method: descriptive study conducted with 32 participants between eight and 18 years old, who were either interviewed or participated in focus groups....

Quality of life assessment in chronic wound patients using the Wound-QoL and FLQA-Wk instruments

Invest. educ. enferm; 38 (3), 2020
Objective: To evaluate changes in the quality of life of patients with chronic wounds. Methods: Quantitative research with a cross-sectional design performed with 100 patients with chronic wounds from a university hospital and a Basic Health Unit in southern Brazil. The mean values of the domains of the ...

DISABKIDS® in Brazil: advances and future perspectives for the production of scientific knowledge

Objective: to map the Brazilian scientific production related to the stages of the methodological process for the use of DISABKIDS® instruments and/or forms adapted to Brazil. Method: scoping review, with searches conducted on10 electronic databases, plus Google Scholar and contacts with researchers, w...

Effect of Yoga on the Quality of Life of Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units. Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Invest. educ. enferm; 37 (3), 2019
Objective. The work, herein, sought to determine the effect of yoga on the quality of life of nurses working in intensive care units (ICU). Methods. This was a randomized controlled clinical trial of a preventive intervention of three weekly sessions of yoga exercises, which included aspects of meditatio...

Quality of life, pain and anxiety in patients with nephrostomy tubes

Objective: to evaluate the impact on the quality of life as well as anxiety and pain in patients with nephrostomy tubes. Method: this is a longitudinal descriptive study performed on a sample of n=150 patients. To evaluate the quality of life, the EuroQol-5D questionnaire was used; anxiety was quantifie...

Avaliação da qualidade de vida de indivíduos com carcinoma bem diferenciado de tireoide pelo whoqol-100*

Cogit. Enferm. (Online); 22 (3), 2017
Este estudo objetivou avaliar a qualidade de vida de pacientes em acompanhamento clínico por carcinoma bem diferenciado de tireoide, por meio do questionário WHOQOL-100. Trata-se de estudo quantitativo realizado entre março de 2015 e março de 2017 em São Carlos, SP, Brasil, descritivo e transversal,...

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Freiburg Life Quality Assessment - Wound Module to Brazilian Portuguese

Objectives: to adapt the Freiburg Life Quality Assessment - Wound Module to Brazilian Portuguese and to measure its psychometric properties: reliability and validity. Method: the cultural adaptation was undertaken following the stages of translation, synthesis of the translations, back translation, comm...