Publications by authors named "Ana Paula da-Conceicao"
Objective: to investigate the factors that exert an influence on health literacy in patients with coronary artery disease.
Methods: a crosssectional study, including 122 patients with coronary diseases (60.7% male; 62.
Objective: to analyze the caregiver's contribution to self-care in heart failure and the predictor variables of this contribution.
Method: a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study, with the participation of 140 dyads (patients and caregivers). The contribution to self-care was assessed using the Caregiver Contribution to Self-Care of Heart Failure Index.
Objectives: Assess the compliance of the implementation of better evidence in the transitional care of the person with heart failure from the hospital to the home.
Methods: Evidence implementation project according to the JBI methodology in a cardiology hospital in São Paulo. Six criteria were audited before and after implementing strategies to increase compliance with best practices.
Background: In Brazil, there are no instruments available to measure the presence, frequency, severity and distress related to heart failure (HF) symptoms.
Aims: To adapt the Symptom Status Questionnaire - HF (SSQ-HF) into Brazilian Portuguese and to examine the content validity of the adapted version.
Methods: The instrument was translated, back-translated and evaluated by an expert committee for semantic, idiomatic, cultural, and conceptual equivalences.
Objective: to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Self-Care Confidence Scale in heart failure in the Brazilian version of the Self Care Heart Failure Index, version 6.2, using the Rasch model criteria.
Method: secondary study, of psychometric analysis, using the Rasch model, of the six items of the scale.
Objective: To characterize the adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) in students from elementary schools in Porto and Maia and analyze its association with sleep hygiene, physical activity, cardiometabolic risk, and school performance.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 891 Portuguese students: 455 boys (51%) and 436 girls (49%), aged between 9 and 11 years old (mean [M]=9.2, standard deviation [SD]=0.
Objective: to estimate the effects of non-pharmacological interventions to improve the quality of sleep and quality of life of patients with heart failure.
Method: pilot study of a randomized controlled trial with 32 individuals assigned to four groups. Sleep was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inventory, while health-related quality of life was assessed using the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire, at the baseline and at the 12th and 24th weeks.
Self-care in heart failure patients.
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem
August 2017
Objective: to describe self-care behavior and its associated factors in a sample of heart failure Brazilian patients.
Method: descriptive cross-sectional study with non-probabilistic sample of 116 ambulatory patients undergoing heart failure treatment. Self-care was evaluated using the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index, (scores ≥70 points=appropriate self-care).