Educational booklet on labor and delivery: validity study.

Objectives: to develop and validate an educational booklet on labor and delivery for pregnant women.

Methods: this methodological study involved constructing and validating a booklet based on Echer's framework. We used the Content Validity Index and Cronbach's alpha for content and face validation, selecting judges according to Fering's criteria.

Domestic accidents due to children's falls: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To describe the occurrence of domestic accidents due to children's falls.

Method: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study carried out with 181 parents and/or other caregivers of children aged between 2 and 5 years. Data were collected in March and April 2024, through a questionnaire containing 23 items, which were subjected to descriptive analysis.

Use of technologies by nurses to promote breastfeeding: a scoping review.

Objective: To map evidence on technologies used by nurses to promote breastfeeding in Health Services.

Method: This is a scoping review, based on the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute and following the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews, carried out in 2022. The searches took place in seven databases, using the following combined descriptors: "nurse", "technology", "breastfeeding", and "health services".

Stress and associated factors in public school teachers: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: The search for improving productivity and performance at work has exposed workers to high levels of stress. Since the working conditions of basic education teachers interfere negatively with their health, it is important to study the entire context involving teachers, in order to encourage the promotion of workers' health actions.

Objectives: To investigate stress levels and associated factors in public school teachers.

Educational technologies for accident prevention due to falls in childhood: a scoping review.

Objectives: to map evidence on educational technology use for accident prevention due to falls in childhood.

Methods: a scoping review, carried out in October and November 2022, in the MEDLINE, Web of Science, BDENF and CINAHL databases and LILACS bibliographic index. There was no delimitation of language or time.

Relationship between sexual maturation and anthropometric and blood pressure indicators in teenagers.

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between sexual maturation and anthropometric and blood pressure indicators in teenagers. This was a population-based cross-sectional study, conducted with 345 teenagers, aged 10 to 19 years, between 2018 and 2020. In this study, data referent to sociodemographic and anthropometric variables, blood pressure, and sexual maturation were collected.

Effect of thermometry on the prevention of diabetic foot ulcers: a systematic review with meta-analysis.

Objective: to analyze the effect of cutaneous foot thermometry in people with Diabetes Mellitus, compared with the standard prevention of foot ulcers adopted in these patients.

Method: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Protocol registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020202686).

Telephone intervention in self-care practices with the feet of patients with diabetes: a randomized clinical trial.

Objective: To assess the effect of a telephone intervention for self-care practices with the feet of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Method: This is a randomized clinical trial with two groups, control and intervention, carried out with 102 users with type 2 diabetes mellitus linked to four Basic Health Units in a municipality in the state of Piauí. For the intervention group, six telephone interventions were carried out in three months; and the control group received only conventional follow-up.

Construction and validation of educational material on promoting breastfeeding in schools.

Objective: to build and validate an educational technology on the promotion of breastfeeding for schoolchildren.

Methods: a methodological study was developed through a bibliographic survey, situational diagnosis, creation of illustrations, layout, design and texts, validation of the material with the help of expert judges and target audience.

Results: the content judges enabled the validation of the material with an overall Content Validity Index of 90%, the judges of the design Suitability Assessment of Materials of 90.

The effects of felted foam in diabetic foot treatment: systematic review with meta-analysis.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of felted foam in the treatment of diabetic foot plantar ulcer.

Method: Systematic review with meta-analysis. Research was conducted in Cochrane Library, PubMed, CINAHL, Science Direct, Web of Science, SCOPUS, IBECS and LILACS.

Access to the Unified Health System in the perspective of male homosexuals.

Objectives: To analyze the perception of male homosexuals regarding the access to the Unified Health System.

Methods: A qualitative study with male homosexuals in a city in the Northeast Brazil. Eight subjects participated, a socioeconomic questionnaire was used for data collection and a focal group was carried out, in which the narratives were recorded and later transcribed.

Stress and health risk behaviors among university students.

Objective: To analyze the level of stress and its relationship with health risk behaviors among university students.

Method: Cross-sectional analytical study carried out at a higher education institution in Picos-PI. A total of 377 students were evaluated for socio-demographic and academic variables, stress profile, sleep quality, alcohol use, smoking habits and level of physical activity.

Health literacy of adults with and without arterial hypertension.

Objective: Assess the level of health literacy of adults, with and without hypertension, treated in three basic health units (UBS) in Picos, Piauí.

Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted with 357 adults. Data were collected using a questionnaire with sociodemographic variables, and literacy was assessed by the Test of Functional Literacy in Adults.

Training in diabetes education: meanings attributed by primary care nurses.

Objective: seize meanings attributed by primary care nurses to training in diabetes education.

Method: exploratory and descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, with twenty primary care nurses; semistructured interview script, with interviews processed in the IRaMuTeQ software and analyzed through the Descending Hierarchical Classification. The results were subsidized in the Representational Theory of Meaning.

Students' knowledge of metabolic syndrome after educational intervention.

Objective: To analyze the knowledge of children and adolescents about risk factors for metabolic syndrome (MS) before and after educational interventions.

Method: A quasi-experimental, comparative, prospective and intervention study conducted in 2015 and 2016 with 43 students in the city of Picos (state of Piauí-PI). Five health education meetings were held.

Primary care assessment from a male population perspective.

Objective: to evaluate the quality of primary health care from the perspective of the male population.

Method: a cross-sectional descriptive-evaluative study conducted at the family health units of Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, with the male population being interviewed through the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT).

Results: 301 participants with mean age of 51.

Construction and validation of educational materials for the prevention of metabolic syndrome in adolescents.

Objective: To develop and validate an educational technology focused on prevention of metabolic syndrome among adolescents.

Methods: This was methodological research. Using an integrative review, the available publications on the subject were analyzed.

Factors Associated with Infant Mortality in a Northeastern Brazilian Capital.

 Identify factors associated with infant mortality by a hierarchical model based on socioeconomic, health care, obstetric and biological determinants in a northeastern Brazilian capital.  Observational, retrospective cohort study based on secondary data of births and deaths of infants of mothers living in the city of Teresina.  Based on the distal level of determination of infant mortality, the characteristics that remained statistically significant were maternal age, maternal education and maternal occupation ( < 0.

[Prenatal care and risk factors associated with premature birth and low birth weight in the a capital in the Brazilian Northeast].

The main determinants of the risk of mortality in the neonatal period are low birth weight and premature birth. The study sought to analyze the adequacy of prenatal care and risk factors associated with premature birth and low birth weight in a northeastern Brazilian capital. This is a case-control study.

Quality of life of undergraduate nursing students.

Objective The aim of this paper is to analyse the quality of life (QOL) of undergraduate nursing students. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study with 206 students conducted in July 2013, in the city of Picos/PI, Brazil. Data were collected using the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire.

Adherence to foot self-care in diabetes mellitus patients.

Objective: To analyze the self-care of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Family Health Strategy in Teresina-PI.

Method: Search cross selected by simple random sampling, 331 people with diabetes mellitus. Data collection took place from August to December 2012 with the use of Self-Care Activities Questionnaire with Diabetes and structured instrument for recording information socioeconomic and guidance received by the professional nurse.

Prevalence of metabolic components in university students.

Objective: to identify the frequency of components of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) among university students.

Method: descriptive study with 550 students, from various courses run by a public university. The socioeconomic data, lifestyle, and components of MetS were filled out using a questionnaire.

[Knowledge, attitudes and practices for the prevention of diabetic foot].

The purpose of this study was to identify the knowledge, attitudes and practices for the prevention of diabetic foot in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. This study was based on a cross-sectional survey conducted in two Family Health Units, in the city of Picos--PI, Brazil, with 85 diabetics of both sexes, by means of a semi-structured Knowledge, Attitude and Practice questionnaire. There was a predominance of females in the study (62.

[Use of the linkage method to identify the risk factors associated with infant mortality: an integrative review of the literature].

Global concern in relation to child mortality gained visibility with the release of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 in which the reduction of child mortality is included under goal number four, which proposes to reduce the mortality rate of children under five years by two thirds between 1990 and 2015. Reducing child mortality has been a major priority of social health policies of the Brazilian government. The identification of risk factors associated with infant mortality can assist in the planning of actions to restructure and improve care for pregnant women and newborns in order to reduce child mortality.

An analysis of risk factors for arterial hypertension in adolescent students.

The objective of the study was to evaluate some risk factors for increases in systemic arterial blood pressure. This transversal study was carried out with 145 individuals from 12 to 18 years of age at two state schools in the city of Pico in the state of Piauí in Brazil. The majority were female (62.