Factors associated with nurses' search for training in auriculotherapy: a national cross-sectional study.

Objective: To analyze the sociodemographic profile and highlight factors associated with nurses' search for training in auriculotherapy.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study, with national scope, with 1,154 nurses. The data was collected digitally from June 2021 to January 2022 through a sociodemographic and training characterization questionnaire.

Integrative and complementary practices in health, nurses' profile and care provided to people with hypertension: a mixed study design.

to analyze the profile of nurses regarding integrative and complementary practices in health (ICPH) and understand how they are used in the care of people with arterial hypertension. mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. The cross-sectional quantitative stage included 386 nurses who completed an online questionnaire addressing sociodemographic and professional information, training, and practice, with a descriptive and inferential analysis.

[Complementary and alternative medicine and social medicalization: lack of definitions, risks, and potentials in primary healthcare].

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) need to be increasingly understood in the academic and research setting, given their growing inclusion in health institutions and scientific studies. However, vague definitions or broad generalizations are common in the Brazilian scientific literature, an example of which is the relationship between CAM and social medicalization. This study aims to discuss the medicalizing and de-medicalizing potential of the use of CAM, especially in primary healthcare (PHC).