Stigma perceived by overweight women.

Objective: to understand the experience of discrimination perceived by overweight women.

Methods: a qualitative research conducted at an outpatient clinic in Salvador, Bahia, where eleven women were interviewed. The interviews were transcribed and submitted to thematic content analysis.

Effect of nursing telemonitoring on the knowledge of obese women: clinical trial.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of remote monitoring in the knowledge of overweight women.

Method: Randomized clinical trial with 101 women, randomly assigned to the control group (CG=50) and to the intervention group (IG=51). The IG received educational intervention over the telephone, during three months and routine follow-up in the service, while the CG only received conventional follow-up.

Effect of remote nursing monitoring on overweight in women: clinical trial.

Objective: to evaluate the effect of remote nursing monitoring on the improvement of anthropometric measurements of overweight women.

Method: controlled, randomized clinical trial, carried out in a reference outpatient clinic for treatment of obesity. The baseline sample was composed of 101 women randomly assigned to two groups, 51 in the intervention group (IG) and 50 in the control group (CG).

An evaluation of the Rastreometro, a new device for populational screening for high blood pressure in developing countries.

Objective: To test a simplified blood pressure device called Rastreometro that could be used by the Health Agents.

Methods: The Rastreometro has been developed from an ordinary aneroid sphygmomanometer, in which the numeric display is covered by an adhesive with a red zone, indicating pressures equal or above 140 mmHg and a yellow zone indicating pressures below 140 mmHg. The onset of oscillations of the aneroid needle is taken as an indication of the systolic pressure value.