Resultados: 7

Difficulties and motivations for physical exercise in women older than 65 years. A qualitative study

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify difficulties and motivations for the practice of physical exercise in women older than 65 years. Method: qualitative study based on the phenomenological theory, with focus groups and in-depth interviews. The nursing staff selected 15 women by intentional sampling using t...

Perceptional gaps among women, husbands and family members about intentions for birthplace: a cross-sectional study

ABSTRACT Objective: women are more likely to give birth at a health facility when their families agree with the birthplace. However, in rural areas of Tanzania, women are often marginalized from decision-making. This study predicted birthplace intention and identified factors to reduce perceptional gaps...

Strategies for coping with family members of patients with mental disorders

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the coping strategies of family members of patients with mental disorders and relate them to family member sociodemographic variables and to the patient's clinical variables. Method: this was a descriptive study conducted at a psychiatric hospital in the interior of th...

Effectiveness of a nursing intervention in decreasing the anxiety levels of family members of patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial

ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the effectiveness of nursing orientation provided to families of patients in the immediate post-operative following cardiac surgery before the first visit to the post-anesthesia care unit, in decreasing anxiety levels, compared to the unit's routine orientation. Method: ...

Experiencing organ donation: feelings of relatives after consent

Objective: to identify experiences and feelings on the organ donation process, from the perspective of a relative of an organ donor in a transplant unit.Method: this was exploratory research using a qualitative approach, performed with seven family members of different organ donors, selected by a lottery...

The family's experience of the child and/or teenager in palliative care: fluctuating between hope and hopelessness in a world changed by losses

OBJECTIVES:

to understand the family's experience of the child and/or teenager in palliative care and building a representative theoretical model of the process experienced by the family.

METHODOLOGY:

for this purpose the Symbolic Interactionism and ...

Cochlear Implant: the complexity involved in the decision making process by the family

OBJECTIVE: to understand the meanings the family attributes to the phases of the decision-making process on a cochlear implant for their child. METHOD: qualitative research, using Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory as the theoretical and methodological frameworks, respectively. Data collection i...