Publications by authors named "Aline Zulin"
Objective: To construct and validate three clinical scenarios for training dependent persons' informal caregivers.
Methods: Methodological study, conducted between January and August 2021, in a municipality in the northwest of the state of Paraná. It was developed in two stages: construction of scenarios; and content validation by experts (n = 12).
Objective: To identify factors associated with cognitive, emotional, psychomotor, and relational skills of informal caregivers in home care.
Methods: A cross-sectional study carried out with a sample of 216 informal caregivers residing in a municipality in the state of Paraná. Data collection took place between February and July 2019, with an instrument developed and validated to assess the skills of informal caregivers.
Objectives: to understand the meanings attributed to the changes experienced after bariatric surgery by people with obesity.
Methods: this is a study with a qualitative approach, with a theoretical framework in Symbolic Interactionism; and methodological, in the Grounded Theory. There were 12 participants who underwent bariatric surgery in two health services (bariatric surgery clinic; general hospital).
Objective: to analyze factors associated with the use of potentially inappropriate medications by elderly people with hypertension.
Method: a cross-sectional study, conducted in the first semester of 2016, with elderly people undergoing treatment for hypertension, living in the city of Maringá. Interviews, medical records analysis, and measurement of clinical and anthropometric parameters of the participants were carried out.
Objective: to analyze the effect of vertical gastrectomy on lipid profile and cardiometabolic risk in young women, preoperatively and 6 months after the operation.
Methods: retrospective study, encompassing medical record reviews of women's charts, preoperatively and in six months after the operation. Data collection was performed in the second half of 2015, using a review protocol with questions on the clinical-laboratory profile, anthropometric and laboratory classification of dyslipidemias.
Objective: to compare the clinical conditions of obese patients in the pre and postoperative period of bariatric surgery.
Methods: we carried out a descriptive, retrospective, quantitative study by consulting the charts of 134 patients who underwent bariatric surgery in the period from 2009 to 2014. We collected the data between September and November 2015.