abstract：:Unblinded randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational program in nursing (educational meetings, home visits, telenursing and a printed book) in the improvement of self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure was evaluated. Thirty-three people participated in the intervent...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Rodríguez-Gázquez Mde L,Arredondo-Holguín E,Herrera-Cortés R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of crack can constitute in an inauthentic form of the existence that leads a person to live improperly the being-toward-death. Given this reality, this study aimed to comprehend the significance of death and dying for the user of crack and to unveil the meanings attributed to this significance. This qu...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Silva Júnior FJ,Monteiro CF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purposes of the study were to get to know conceptions on tuberculosis and health needs and to describe the care provided to people with tuberculosis, according to health professionals' perspective. Qualitative study developed at family health units in Capão Redondo, São Paulo. The data were collected through open ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Hino P,Takahashi RF,Bertolozzi MR,Villa TC,Egry EY

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to understand the experience of adolescents with cancer, family and the health team regarding death in the healthcare context, in the light of Edgar Morin's proposed theoretical framework of complexity. Participants were 12 adolescents, 14 relatives and 25 health professionals. The interview was used f...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Menossi MJ,Zorzo JC,Lima RA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to characterize aspects of Primary Health Care in the Amazon Region of Brazil, considered as the main endemic area for malaria in the country. The Ministry of Health recommends the expansion of Primary Health Care in endemic areas for malaria. A survey focusing on patients infected with malaria was con...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Ferreira AC,Suárez-Mutis MC,Campos MR,de Castro CG

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify risk factors associated with surgical site infections in orthopedic surgical patients at a public hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil, between 2005 and 2007. A historical cohort of 3,543 patients submitted to orthopedic surgical procedures. A descriptive analysis was conducted and surgical si...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Ercole FF,Franco LM,Macieira TG,Wenceslau LC,de Resende HI,Chianca TC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to characterize the views of nurses about factors modulating smoking cessation. Results of this study will allow us to design helping interventions with the maximum specificity for nurses. A qualitative study through a semi-structured interview of 15 Primary Health Care nurses who were smokers...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Bennasar Veny M,Pericas Beltrán J,González Torrente S,Segui González P,Aguiló Pons A,Tauler Riera P

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early isolation of patients possibly colonized by multi-resistant microorganisms can minimize their spread, reducing cases of hospital infection and the related costs. This study aimed to identify the sensitivity and specificity of the criteria for isolation of patients admitted to a specialized cancer hospital. Cross...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Cataneo C,Canini SR,e Castro Pde T,Hayashida M,Gir E

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The research aims to analyze the caregivers' work developed with psychiatric patients in assisted living facilities. The research used the ethnographic method and is theoretically based on Interpretative Anthropology for the analysis of the meanings of practices related to the caregiver's work in these residential dev...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Sprioli N,Costa MC

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This exploratory-descriptive study was carried out in the Surgical Center Unit of a university hospital aiming to measure time spent with concurrent cleaning performed by the cleaning service and turnover time and also investigated potential associations between cleaning time and the surgery's magnitude and specialty,...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Jericó Mde C,Perroca MG,da Penha VC

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge of patients before outpatient diagnostic cardiac catheterization after viewing an explanatory Digital Video Disc, in a cardiology reference hospital. This cross-sectional study was carried out with patients undergoing their first cardiac catheterization and was performed...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Torrano SK,Veiga VB,Goldmeier S,Azzolin K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study, based on medical anthropology and oral reports, analyzes the meanings attributed by thalassemic adults to their experiences with the treatment. Interviews were used to collect data, which were analyzed through inductive thematic analysis. Eleven young adults, six of whom were men, at different ages, with d...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Ganzella M,Zago MM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Job satisfaction consists of a feeling of wellbeing, resulting from the interaction of several occupational aspects, and may influence the worker's relationship with the organization, clients and family. Hence, it becomes important for the quality of nursing care to reflect on this topic in depth. Therefore, this stud...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Melo MB,Barbosa MA,Souza PR

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitative research inquiring into the university world about the values of young people's life to successfully offset the danger of alcohol consumption. Discussion groups were implemented in workshops with 46 university students. The results show that that Bolivian society is very tolerant and permissive towards alc...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Balda-Cabello N,da Silva EC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to analyze the Secondary School Managers' response to the availability of a physical and psychological space at school to work on drug addiction prevention. A semi-structured questionnaire was applied to a sample of 15 high school managers in the Argentinean Education System (public and pr...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Segovia NS,Gonçalves MF

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study identifies the perceptions of undergraduate nursing students concerning their education to provide transpersonal care. This qualitative study was conducted in four public universities in Bahia, Brazil with 16 seniors (non-probabilistic sampling) through semi-structured interviews, analyzed through the Colle...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Nunes EC,da Silva LW,Pires EP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective and descriptive study with a quantitative design aimed to evaluate occupational accidents with exposure to biological material, as well as the profile of workers, based on reporting forms sent to the Regional Reference Center of Occupational Health in Florianópolis/SC. Data collection was carried ou...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Vieira M,Padilha MI,Pinheiro RD

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study mapped the movements of Permanent Health Education in the region of Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil, begun by the Permanent Health Education Facilitators program, promoted by the Ministry of Health and the National School of Public Health. This qualitative study was grounded on the theoretical framework of in...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Fortuna CM,Franceschini TR,Mishima SM,Matumoto S,Pereira MJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to reconstruct Perroca's patient classification instrument; and to assess the content validity of the new version. A group of experts comprising ten nurses appraised the instrument, using the Delphi technique. Data collection took place from March 2008 to February 2009 by means of structu...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Perroca MG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of alcohol and drug users requires an extended reflection on the influence of the family and other social network groups of these individuals. Thus, this study, results of a qualitative study, aimed at investigating the presence of drug users in the social network of individuals undergoing treatment and ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Souza Jd,Kantorski LP,Vasters GP,Luis MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the effects of alternating shift work in the daily life of grain processing workers. A quantitative data collection research was carried out at a grain processing company in Goiás--Brazil. Research participants were 53 alternating shift workers. A questionnaire was developed and used fo...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Simões MR,Marques FC,Rocha Ade M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study aimed to describe the prescription of non-pharmacological management of patients with heart failure attending the emergency care of a hospital and the effectiveness of the practice. 256 patients aged 63 ± 13 years, 153 (60%) men, participated in the research. The most commonly prescribed non...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Linhares JC,Aliti GB,Castro RA,Rabelo ER

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined how health professionals signify the religiosity and faith of patients under cancer treatment and how they themselves experience such phenomena. This is a qualitative-descriptive study, using the phenomenological framework as set out by Stein and Ales Bello, as a way of understanding the human bein...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Espíndula JA,Valle ER,Bello AA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to characterize the sociodemographic profile of sibling bone marrow donors and to describe how they perceive the donation. This was a descriptive, exploratory and longitudinal study. Participants were 20 related bone marrow donors, between 18 and 42 years of age (mean=30.5 years, sd=7.47). Interviews ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： de Oliveira-Cardoso EA,dos Santos MA,Mastropietro AP,Voltarelli JC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative investigation, based in Foucauldian analysis with approximations to the post-structuralism theoretical framework, explores iatrogenesis as one of the tensions in the nursing to do/to know which can be discursively articulated to bioethics and to technobiomedicine. The documentary sources and intensive...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： de Oliveira Vargas MA,Ramos FR

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine how women deal with sexuality and bodily changes during the puerperium. A qualitative methodology was used and a semi-structured interview with a leading question script was chosen as the research tool. Six puerperas from the west area of São Paulo (Brazil) took part in this stud...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Salim NR,Araújo NM,Gualda DM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify factors related to smoking during pregnancy. The sample included 267 puerperae hospitalized in the maternity unit of a university hospital in Porto Alegre/RS. The data were collected through a self-applied instrument and statistically analyzed. The majority of the ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： da Motta Gde C,Echer IC,Lucena Ade F

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the study were to describe the differences in alcohol consumption by sex, education and occupation and to understand the effects of the socio-demographic characteristics on alcohol consumption, in 120 emergency room patients. The results showed significant differences for sex (t=-3.570, p <.01) and educati...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Rodríguez NN,Dalrí MC,Alonso Castillo MM,García KS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to characterize the predominant causes and the types of drugs consumed among young people between 10 and 18 years old at an institution that receives young lawbreakers in an Ecuadorian city. A descriptive and qualitative study was carried out, using individual and semi-structured interviews as the mai...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Guillén RR,Nascimento LC

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to evaluate the influence of the Nursing Consultation Protocol in aspects of anxiety and depression in patients after myocardial revascularization using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD). A randomized clinical trial developed in the outpatient clinic of a public hospital in Fortaleza-Ce...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Lima FE,De Araújo TL,Serafim EC,Custódio IL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigates the additional payroll expense caused by absenteeism due to illness among nursing professionals and physicians at two public hospitals at Cacoal, Rondonia, Brazil. Non-programmed absences of up to 15 days which occurred at the hospital units between 2004 to 2007 were verified in the database of ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Junkes MB,Pessoa VF

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This documental study has the qualitative approach of a case study. It analyzes how autonomy has been developed in nursing students process of knowledge construction, in a context mediated by the use of educational chat in Learning Management Systems (LMS). The analyzed materials were eight discussions promoted by stu...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： da Silva AP,Pedro EN

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of surgical positioning is to promote access to the surgical site. It should be carried out correctly to ensure patient safety and prevent complications. This integrative literature review aimed to search for and evaluate available evidences in literature about nursing care related to surgical positioning of ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Lopes CM,Galvão CM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study developed a pain evaluation scale and validated it for the Portuguese language. Development of the inventory--308 readily available pain descriptors--were searched in international literature and validated by six judges. One hundred descriptors of acute pain and 100 descriptors of chronic pain were found, w...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Sousa FA,Pereira LV,Cardoso R,Hortense P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the incidence and risk factors of bloodstream infection (BSI) among patients with a double-lumen central venous catheter (CVC) for hemodialysis (HD) and identified the microorganisms isolated from the bloodstream. A follow-up included all patients (n=156) who underwent hemodialysis by double-lumen...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Grothe C,da Silva Belasco AG,de Cássia Bittencourt AR,Vianna LA,de Castro Cintra Sesso R,Barbosa DA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify strategies caregiving professionals at shelters discuss and use in care delivery to violence situations lived by female adolescents; and to discuss educative practice as a care technology for coping with violence. Based on qualitative research, the data were produced through interviews wit...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Penna LH,Carinhanha JI,Leite LC

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This historical-social study aimed to examine the symbolic elements that express the hierarchizing division between the male and female, contained in newspaper reports published about the return home of the nurses who worked in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's Health Service, and to discuss the symbolic effects the...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Oliveira AB,Santos TC,Barreira Ide A,Almeida Filho AJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the results of a quantitative study. The purpose was to describe the perspective of family members and acquaintances of illicit drug users about family and community risk factors that can contribute to addiction to illicit drugs. A questionnaire was used for data collection. The population consis...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Granados Hernández M,Brands B,Adlaf E,Giesbrecht N,Simich L,Wright Mda G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study compared perceived peer drug use and actual drug use in a sample of Latin American university students. Students from nine universities in five countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras and Peru) completed a questionnaire that addressed the use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Bustamante IV,Carvalho AM,de Oliveira EB,de Oliveira Júnior HP,Santos Figueroa SD,Montoya Vásquez EM,Cazenave A,Chaname E,Medina Matallana LS,Ramirez Castillo J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This study analyzes the relationship between perceived norms about drug use among peers and actual use among university students. This is a qualitative, multicenter study involving sophomore and junior students of the health courses of a Chilean university. Participants were 286 (75.2%) of the total 380 univ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Ramirez Castillo J,Cunningham J,Brands B,Strike C,Wright Mda G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00