Depressive symptoms in patients with coronary artery disease.

Objective: To assess the presence of depressive symptoms in patients with coronary artery disease in the preoperative period for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) in Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with 63 hospitalized patients prior to CABG. Two instruments were used for data collection; one for the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and the other to evaluate the presence of depressive symptoms, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

Fetal and neonatal deaths of children of patients classified as near miss.

Objective:: identify the epidemiological aspects of early fetal and neonatal deaths in children of patients classified with near miss and the factors associated with this outcome.

Method:: a cross-sectional study of 79 women identified with near miss and their newborns. The variables were analyzed using Fisher's exact test.

Construction and validation of a tool to Assess the Use of Light Technologies at Intensive Care Units.

Objective: to construct and validate a tool to assess the use of light technologies by the nursing team at Intensive Care Units.

Method: methodological study in which the tool was elaborated by means of the psychometric method for construction based on the categorization of health technologies by Merhy and Franco, from the National Humanization Policy, using the Nursing Intervention Classification taxonomy to categorize the domains of the tool. Agreement Percentages and Content Validity Indices were used for the purpose of validation.

[Barriers in health care to breast cancer: perception of women].

Objective: Identifying the barriers in the access to health care to breast cancer perceived by women undergoing chemotherapy.

Method: An exploratory descriptive study. The sample consisted of 58 women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy and registered in the public oncology ambulatory of Aracaju-Sergipe.

[Occupational stressors among nurses working in urgent and emergency care units].

The study aimed to assess occupational stressors among nurses working in urgent and emergency care facilities. It is a descriptive research developed in two public hospitals of different complexity degrees, with 49 nurses. Data were collected from June to September 2011.

[Strategy in the care of cardiac surgical patients: evaluation of the sense of coherence].

Sense of coherence is the construct proposed by Antonovsky to assess individuals' capacity of dealing with stress. This study aimed to measure the sense of coherence and evaluate its association to sociodemographic variables and the use of psychotropic drugs among 127 patients in the preoperative period of cardiac surgeries. The mean value of sense of coherence was 149.

[Health-related quality of life before and six months after coronary artery bypass graft surgery].

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery aims at offering a better health-related quality of life (HRQL), relieving symptoms and increasing survival. The objectives were to compare HRQL before CABG and six months after it and to evaluate its relation concerning participants' age, sex, schooling and marital status. Descriptive and longitudinal study which used the SF-36 to evaluate HRQL.

[The self-esteem of individual who have been submitted to coronary artery bypass graft surgery].

This is descriptive and correlational study that measured the self-esteem of individuals submitted to coronary artery bypass graft surgery and correlated the self-esteem with socio-demographic and clinical variables. A sample of 97 outpatients was interviewed. Data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, Pearson's Correlation test, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis tests.

[Use of the adapted version of the Flanagan Quality of Life Scale with post-surgical cardiac patients].

This descriptive and observational study aimed to measure the quality of life of patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Quality of life (QOL) was measured using the 15-item Flanagan Quality of Life Scale, modified by adding a 16th item on independence, as recommended by Burckhardt and her collaborators. 124 patients were interviewed, average age was 62 years, most patients were male (62.

[Stressors in care at a thoracic surgery postoperative unit: nursing evaluation].

The aim of this descriptive study was to determine what events are perceived as stressful to patients in the thoracic surgery postoperative unit, according to nursing evaluation. Data were collected at two hospitals, where the intensive care nursing team members completed the questionnaire. A 4-point Likert scale was used to evaluate 42 possible stressors.