Objective: To discuss the use of the Fourth Generation Evaluation methodology as a powerful theoretical-methodological path for the implementation of Knowledge Translation in child and adolescent mental health.
Method: It comprises the description of the stages and fieldwork of a research that evaluated mental health practices aimed at adolescents in a Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Care Center, between August and December 2018, with the health care team.
Results: Using strategies to involve workers in all stages, a dialectical construction of knowledge, the adaptation of the path to the field - with the implementation of interventions suggested by the participants - and the research path itself, in its condition of product/result, enable the interface with Knowledge Translation.
Background: Preterm (PT) infants harbor a different gut microbiome than full-term infants. Multiple factors affect gut microbial colonization of PT infants, including low gestational age, high rates of Cesarean section, exposure to antibiotics, and diet. Human milk, whether it's mother's own milk (MOM) or donor human milk, is the preferred feeding mode for PT infants but needs to be fortified to achieve adequate nutrient content.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPreterm infants are exposed to different dietary inputs during their hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). These include human milk (HM), with a human milk-based (HMF) or a bovine milk-based (BMF) fortifier, or formula. Milk consumption and the type of fortification will cause changes in the gut microbiota structure of preterm infants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify the repercussions on mental health of groups and populations in the context of the new coronavirus pandemic.
Method: Narrative review carired out in three databases, in March 2020, using the descriptors mental health and coronavirus. A total of 19 publications were analyzed, organized in a synoptic chart, containing type of publication, authors, country, sample, objective, and main results.
The preterm infant gut microbiota is influenced by environmental, endogenous, maternal, and genetic factors. Although siblings share similar gut microbial composition, it is not known how genetic relatedness affects alpha diversity and specific taxa abundances in preterm infants. We analyzed the 16S rRNA gene content of stool samples, ≤ and >3 weeks postnatal age, and clinical data from preterm multiplets and singletons at two Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), Tampa General Hospital (TGH; FL, USA) and Carle Hospital (IL, USA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis research aimed to analyse how homeless people experience drug use and the intertwining between it and their cultural environment and life style. An etnographic study has been conducted which identified the macrosocial structures through the National Movement of the Homeless (Movimento Nacional da População de Rua) monitoring and the microsocial ones by means of its interlocutors' individual trajectories. Data were collected upon participant observation, registered in a research field journal and in semi-structured interviews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyze nurses' means of work used in the articulation of the Psychosocial Care Network (PCN) Method: An exploratory-descriptive qualitative study conducted at the PCN of a District Health Management in Porto Alegre. The data collection technique used was the semi-structured interview held from October to December 2017. Data was subjected to thematic analysis under the Marxist theory of the Labor Process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Assess components of the Psychosocial Attention Network (RAPS) in crack user care in a Rio Grande do Sul municipality.
Method: Qualitative study based on Fourth Generation Evaluation. Data collection occurred in 2014, through participating observation and interviews based on the Hermeneutic-Dialectic Circle.
Background: Bioprotective properties of mother's own milk (MOM) support the use of targeted MOM administration methods, including oropharyngeal therapy (OPT) with MOM, which may mimic the protective effects of swallowed amniotic fluid, thereby improving infant health outcomes.
Purpose: To increase the use of MOM-OPT in premature infants in the first week of life.
Methods: Quality improvement methods were used to implement precision dosing of OPT.
Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol
December 2017
Background: Although decades have focused on unraveling its etiology, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains a chief threat to the health of premature infants. Both modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors contribute to varying rates of disease across neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a scoping review with two new meta-analyses, clinical recommendations, and implementation strategies to prevent and foster timely recognition of NEC.
Background: Preterm infants are at increased risk of developing feeding intolerance and necrotizing enterocolitis. Comprehensive, targeted nursing assessments can evaluate the risk for and identify early signs of these conditions in an effort to prevent their destructive sequela.
Purpose: While the long-term goal is to develop a validated risk-scoring tool for the prediction of feeding intolerance and necrotizing enterocolitis, the objective of the preliminary phase presented here is to assess the ease of use and nurses' attitudes toward a novel feeding intolerance and necrotizing enterocolitis risk-scoring tool.
The Family Health Strategy Service (FHSS) is an important ally in the mental health system, contributing to the completeness and effectiveness of care. This study aimed to discuss the mental health care network as compared to the daily routine of an FHSS. It is an evaluative study with a qualitative methodological approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Significance: Risk for neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is complex, reflecting its multifactorial pathogenesis.
Purpose: To improve risk awareness and facilitate communication among neonatal caregivers, especially nurses, 2 tools were developed.
Design: GutCheck was derived and validated as part of a formal research study over 3 phases, evidence synthesis, expert consensus building, and statistical modeling.
This study aims to evaluate qualitatively the relationship between social actors and the madness. It was based in experiences produced in a Psychosocial Care Center in the Southern Brazilian context. This is a clipping from an evaluative and qualitative study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlastic surgery practices have become more accepting of the implantation of permanent cosmetics over the last few years. Many plastic surgery practices have added the implantation of permanent cosmetics into their offered services. Many clients who would not have considered having permanent cosmetics implanted because of having to go to a tattoo parlor are now having the procedures performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study's objective was to evaluate the work process in a psychosocial treatment center. We endeavored to identify areas of difficulty, gaps, deficiencies, potentialities, and experiences shared by the people involved in the service's day-to-day routine (users, family members, and health staff).
Methods: Qualitative evaluation study that used fourth-generation evaluation as the theoretical-methodological framework.
This article presents partial results of evaluative research conducted in 2005 at a Psychosocial Care Center in Pelotas, in the Southern Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul. The study adopts a qualitative approach and utilizes the theoretical and methodological referential of the Fourth Generation Evaluation. The data collected contains observation and interviews with users, family members and professionals of the care center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis is an excerpt of the study An evaluation of the Psychosocial Care Centers in Southern Brazil. The objective is to evaluate the ambience of a Level II Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS, abbreviation in Portuguese) as a place for comfort. This case-study was performed using a qualitative approach and the Fourth Generation Evaluation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate user satisfaction with psychosocial healthcare services.
Methods: Qualitative and quantitative study conducted in psychosocial healthcare services in the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil, in 2006. The study combined quantitative and qualitative methods.
The study reports the use of the Evaluation of Fourth Generation in a Center of Psychosocial Attention (CAPS). A qualitative evaluation was carried through with the purpose of learning the service dynamics, the ways the actors interact and how the senses are built by those people in relation to their practice. The data collection was made in a CAPS in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, during the period between October and November of 2006.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNiphathesine C and related pyridine alkaloids are well known natural products with interesting antimicrobial activities, characterized by a pyridine ring and a lipophilic side chain with a terminal nitrogen-containing functional group. This paper describes the synthesis of analogues of these alkylpyridine alkaloids with variation of the heterocyclic ring and the terminal functional group. Key steps of the syntheses are a Sonogashira reaction of appropriate aryl iodides with undec-10-ynol or undec-10-ynoic acid derivatives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article rescues the practices of reformulation of the psychiatric assistance in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The influence of the reformists' movements like the institutional psychotherapy, the therapeutic community, the sector psychiatry, the preventive psychiatry and the democratic psychiatry are recovered.
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