Publications by authors named "Camila Lucchini Raies"

Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to adapt and validate the Self-Efficacy to Manage Chronic Disease (SEMCD-S) for the Chilean population, creating the SEMCD-S-Ch version.
  • Researchers conducted cognitive interviews and gathered data from 144 adults with chronic diseases to assess the instrument's understanding, reliability, and performance through various analyses like exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.
  • Results indicated that the SEMCD-S-Ch was well-understood and had good internal consistency, making it a reliable tool for evaluating self-efficacy in chronic disease management in primary health care settings.
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Background: Falls amongst the elderly represent a global public health challenge because of their potential to cause illness, death, and reduce the autonomy of this group. They also impact the emotional, family, social and economic well-being of those involved. Various strategies to prevent falls have been reported in the literature, focusing mainly on addressing individual risk factors, and on the continuous assessment of the risk of falls in older people.

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Aims: The aims of this study are to assess the acceptability and feasibility of a multicomponent intervention to support breastfeeding women and their families and explore its effectiveness.

Methods: A pilot study with control and intervention groups was conducted using the complex intervention framework in two primary healthcare centres. Overall, 44 childbearing women, their partners/relatives and 20 healthcare professionals participated in the study.

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Background: The diagnosis of an oncological disease exposes people to a greater state of vulnerability and health care models are not focused on their subjective needs. In this scenario, the primary nurse becomes a professional who contributes to the comprehensive care of people with cancer.

Aim: To understand the lived experience of patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatment, when being cared for by a primary nurse.

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PAHO/WHO proposes to implement the role of Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) in Latin America, to reduce gaps in coverage and access to health care. For this purpose, it is necessary to train nursing professionals with an expanded role, which allows them to collaborate in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of people with specific diseases, under established protocols and clinical guidelines and within consolidated interdisciplinary health teams in a cost-effective way. One of the areas with the greatest coverage deficit in Latin America is adult oncology, with inequality in care opportunities for these patients.

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Objective: To analyze the meanings attributed to fatherhood by first-time fathers.

Participants And Method: Qualitative research of Hermeneutic-Dialectic design. Data collection was carried out through in-depth interviews with fathers and mothers (10 of each) of children older than 12 months.

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Aim: To report a pilot study protocol to assess the feasibility of a complex intervention, in the primary healthcare context, to support women and their families in breastfeeding.

Design: A pilot/feasibility trial with control and intervention groups.

Methods: The study will be conducted in two primary healthcare centres with 40 childbearing women (20 control group; 20 intervention group), with their partner/meaningful person and their respective healthcare professionals.

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Objectives: To know the perceptions of mothers and health professionals in relation to the care provided and received during breastfeeding at primary health care level.

Methods: A qualitative exploratory study was conducted with breastfeeding mothers (10) and primary health care professionals (24). Data was gathered through in-depth interviews and focus groups.

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Objectives: To reveal the meanings attributed by university students to their experience of becoming a mother/father during their studies.

Methods: A phenomenological study was conducted with students at a private Chilean University. Sixteen students from different undergraduate careers (eight women and eight men) participated in in-depth interviews, which were recorded.

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Objectives: This work sought to unveil the meaning expressed by clinical nurses by being mentors for students from the nursing internship level.

Methods: Phenomenological research. In-depth interviews were conducted with nine clinical nurses from a hospital in Santiago de Chile, who participate as mentors of nursing students in their last stage of university formation.

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Unlabelled: Breastfeeding is the most beneficial feeding practice for infants. However, it is not always the first choice for mothers and their encouragement and support from health professionals is variable.

Objective: To understand the experience of mothers who had difficulties with their breastfeeding process.

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Objective: Revealing the experience of mothers when massaging their children to know the phenomenon in the context of a mother-child healthy development.

Method: This is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach carried out with 11 women who massaged their children and answered the guiding question: What did the experience of massaging your child mean to you?

Results: The experience of massaging their children meant the development of their being a mother and of being a son/daughter, in addition to developing the attachment relationship between them. The massage can operationalize this integrality, become a tool of communication, stimulation and promotion of secure attachment, by promoting the loving interaction between mother and child.

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