Health Professionals' Approaches to Spirituality and Religiosity in Brazil: A Study Based on Item Response Theory.

This study aimed to estimate the proportion of Brazilian nurses, doctors, and psychologists who approach spirituality and religiosity (S/R) issues in professional practice. The study also explored these health professionals' willingness to interact with patients on issues related to S/R in their clinical practice using item response theory (IRT). From a nationwide cross-sectional web survey, demographic data and the opinions of doctors, nurses, and psychologists were collected regarding aspects related to S/R.

Prevalence of functional dependence and chronic diseases in the community-dwelling Brazilian older adults: an analysis by dependence severity and multimorbidity pattern.

Background: Despite the advancements in knowledge about health care for older adults, essential gaps persist regarding the effects of chronic diseases as epidemiological markers of the state of functional dependence. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of moderate and severe functional dependence in Brazilian older adults and its association with chronic diseases and verify the multimorbidity patterns by dependence status.

Methods: This cross-sectional analytical study used data from 11,177 community-dwelling Brazilian older adults from the 2013 National Health Survey conducted in Brazil.

Assessment of Developmental Language Disorder in Multilingual Children: Results from an International Survey.

Introduction: The Multilingual-Multicultural Affairs Committee of the International Association of Communication Disorders (IALP) conducted a survey of diagnostic criteria for developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children to discover how clinicians apply terminology and diagnostic criteria to multilingual children in different parts of the world.

Methods: An international web survey was used to survey 354 participants from 44 countries about their assessment practices, and clinical opinions about assessing multilingual children for DLD.

Results: The findings show that most clinicians felt confident in assessing multilingual children, and they applied the DLD terminology and inclusionary criteria to multilingual children with difficulty learning language.

Association between impairment and self-rated heath: a brazilian population study considering type, origin, and degree of limitation.

Background: Perceived health is a well-known, low-cost measure in public health, and has been used in several studies on individuals with impairment. Although many studies have related impairment to self-rated health (SRH), few have considered the origin and degree of limitation of the impairment. This study examined whether physical, hearing, or visual impairments-when analyzed according to origin (congenital or acquired) and degree of limitation (with or without)-are associated with the SRH status.

Frequency and associated factors for swallowing impairment in community-dwelling older persons: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Swallowing impairment (SI) is an underdiagnosed dysfunction frequently seen as an expected condition of aging. However, SI can lead to health complications and considerable social impact.

Methods: The objective of this systematic review with meta-analysis was to evaluate the frequency and associated factors with SI in community-dwelling older persons.

Caries experience in caregiver-intellectual deficient pair: Influence of caregiver's psychological morbidity.

Objective: Evaluate how determinants of psychological morbidity were associated with dental caries experience in the caregiver-intellectual deficient pair.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with 299 pair, who had their oral health status assessed using the DMFT index (decayed, missing and filled teeth). Symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, quality of sleep, and socioeconomic variables were measured in caregivers.

Swallowing impairment in older adults: association with sensorimotor peripheral nerve function from the Health, Aging and Body Composition study.

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine whether impairments in sensorimotor peripheral nerve function are associated with a higher likelihood of swallowing impairment in older adults.

Methods: Health, Aging and Body Composition participants (n = 607, age = 75.8 ± 2.

Associations between occupational factors and self-rated health in the national Brazilian working population.

Background: The literature remains seldom on the topic of self-rated health (SRH) among the national working populations of emerging countries. The objectives of the study were to examine the associations of occupational factors with SRH in a national representative sample of the working population in Brazil.

Methods: This study relied on a cross-sectional sample of 36,442 workers, 16,992 women and 19,450 men.

Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017.

Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable child deaths by 2030-we need consistently estimated data at the subnational level regarding child mortality rates and trends.

Development of a simplified dysphagia assessment by dentists in older persons.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a simplified clinical examination of swallowing by dentists and the Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10), when compared with the diagnosis provided by a speech pathologist (gold standard).

Methods: Three dentists and 1 speech pathologist clinically evaluated 265 older persons in southern Brazil, 123 were residents in long-term care and 142 were community-dwelling, all able to respond to the research protocol independently. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values (+PV and -PV), and positive and negative likelihood ratios (+LR and -LR) were calculated according to standard methods.

Use of nouns and verbs in the oral narrative of individuals with hearing impairment and normal hearing between 5 and 11 years of age.

Context And Objective: Nouns and verbs indicate actions in oral communication. However, hearing impairment can compromise the acquisition of oral language to such an extent that appropriate use of these can be challenging. The objective of this study was to compare the use of nouns and verbs in the oral narrative of hearing-impaired and hearing children.

[Breastfeeding in premature babies: speech-language and audiology performance based on education for health promotion concepts].

This paper reports an experience of a speech-language and audiology (SLP) team based on health promotion and education to contribute for the maintainance of exclusive breastfeeding in premature newborns in a high-risk maternity. In the process, a multiprofessional group and individual strategies were combined, producing dialogic settings along with puerperals and their families. Exclusive breastfeeding increased comparing with the last three years before these approach and greater participation of the team and relatives involved in these activities since the pregnant admission until discharge.

[Thinking about health related professions humanized practice].

This article intends to contribute with some reflections about contemporary clinical approach concerning humanized health assistance based on the review of literature indexed and published in Brazil at BVS and Scielo between 1987 and 2007, including some authors referred in these studies and published in the same period, when considered essential to consubstantiate the discussions presented. Matters are also discussed regarding humanized health care based on public policies and health related professional practices, as well as the possibilities for extending discussions related to the need of inclusion of theses principles in various stages of the health professional background, from undergraduate studies. In addition, some propositions are presented to contribute with the education of the healthcare professional, as well as subsidies for the reflection related to curricular proposals and opportunities offered by university professors, who may strongly influence the professional education and, further, with the health assistance and health services practices.

[Characteristics of Family Health Program users sample in Campo Bom (RS), Brazil during the year of 2006].

This study aims to describe the characteristics of Family Health Program (FHP) users sample in a Basic Health Unit (BHU) in Campo Bom, southern of Brazil. Based on data collected from the handbook of the first 200 patients attended in a specific BHU in January 2006, we analyzed sex, age, average number of medical and nursing consultations in the last twelve months and the reasons for requiring a BHU attendance. In this sample, 68% were female.