Publications by authors named "Debora Falleiros de Mello"
Objective: To identify the manifestations presented by parents of children and adolescents who require special health attention that can impact their mental health.
Methods: exploratory, qualitative research, based on the concept of vulnerability, with data collection carried out through interviews with 18 parents of children and adolescents with special health care needs, hospitalized in the pediatric ward of a hospital in Paraná, between May/2017 and May/ 2018. Data analyzed by inductive thematic analysis.
Objective: To develop and validate an animated infographic about the nursing process in childhood vaccination.
Method: Methodological study for the development and validation of educational technology, an animated infographic, on childhood vaccination. First, contents from the Ministry of Health that should compose the infographic were selected.
Objective: To identify factors related to parental stress of women during pregnancy and the child's first month of life.
Method: Prospective longitudinal study in two stages. Analysis of home interviews with 121 participants, Gestational Stress Scale, and Parental Stress Scale.
Objective: To validate the content of the tool Event History Calendar Adolescent Mother: strengthening self-care and child care.
Method: Methodological study using the Delphi technique, conducted in two rounds, involving 37 nursing specialists. In data collection, from December/2019 to August/2020, a semi-structured questionnaire composed of 47 items related to the two dimensions of the tool: Self-care and Child Care was used.
Objective: to evaluate the facilitators, barriers and perceptions of Nursing students in learning about home visiting and child care through Telesimulation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: a qualitative study to evaluate Telesimulation via computers, grounded on Kolb's theoretical model. A semi-structured questionnaire and the Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale were applied, with descriptive analysis and qualitative thematic analysis on the perceptions of 41 Nursing students.
Clusters of risk for the occurrence of leprosy and disabilities in children under 15 years of age in Cuiabá: a geospatial study.
Rev Bras Epidemiol
January 2023
Objective: This study aimed to analyze the spatial distribution of leprosy and disabilities in children under 15 years of age in Cuiabá.
Methods: Ecological study carried out in the city of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The study population consisted of leprosy cases in children under 15 years old notified in the Notifiable Diseases Information System, between 2008 and 2018.
Objectives: to develop the first version of an assessment guide for the quality of follow-up of preterm infants in Primary Health Care.
Methods: a descriptive methodological study, which developed a guide to assess follow-up quality of preterm infants in Primary Care. Steps of conceptual establishment, construction of items and answers, organization of domains and structuring of the guide were carried out.
Matching between maternal knowledge about infant development and care for children under one year old.
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem
October 2022
Objective: to analyze maternal knowledge about infant development and its matching to the care offered to children during their first year of life.
Method: a longitudinal and prospective study, in the stages of pregnancy and of the child's 12th/13th month of life. Interviews were applied to 121 women in a Brazilian city, based on 21 items selected from the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, related to the first year of life.
Evaluation of respiratory complications in a cohort of preterm infants who did not receive palivizumab monoclonal antibodies.
Rev Bras Enferm
October 2022
Objectives: to analyze the occurrence of respiratory complications over the first year of life in preterm infants who did not receive palivizumab monoclonal antibodies.
Methods: analytical retrospective cohort study with preterm infants born between 2012 and 2016 in Uberlândia, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data collection occurred from January to November 2018, by consulting hospital and primary healthcare medical records.
Objective: To identify scientific knowledge about the attention to health surveillance and development of Brazilian children under the age of three years involving the Congenital Zika virus (ZIKV) Syndrome.
Data Sources: This is an integrative literature review of primary studies with Brazilian children under three years of age from 2015 to 2019. The searches were carried out in the databases Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), US National Library of Medicine (PubMed), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), SCOPUS and Web of Science.
Objective: To analyze factors related to prolonged hospitalization and death in premature newborns in a border region.
Method: Cross-sectional study, with retrospective data collection, which analyzed 951 medical records of premature newborns hospitalized between 2013 and 2017. The independent variables were maternal age, nationality, prenatal appointments, maternal intercurrences, gestational age, weight at birth, Apgar, complications; the dependent variables were days of hospitalization, discharge, death, and transference.
Objective: to analyze elements of the follow-up care provided to premature children amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: qualitative study from the perspective of philosophical hermeneutics, interpreting experiences with childcare provided at home. Twelve mothers and 14 children aged two years old were interviewed online via a text messaging application.
Using geo-spatial analysis for assessing the risk of hospital admissions due to community-acquired pneumonia in under-5 children and its association with socially vulnerable areas (Brazil).
BMC Pediatr
November 2020
Background: The concentration of under-5 child morbidity and mortality due to pneumonia in developing countries reflects the social inequities. This study aimed to map and assess the spatial risk for hospitalization due to Community-Acquired Pneumonia in children under 5 years of age and its association with vulnerable areas.
Methods: Ecological study in the city of Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Objective: To verify if there are differences among the complementary feeding indicators of children aged 6-23 months according to the breastfeeding status.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 1,355 children aged 6-23 months in 2012 to evaluate five indicators proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and modified in accordance with Brazilian's recommendations "Ten steps to a healthy feeding: a feeding guide for children under two years old". The indicators used were: I.
Purpose: To identify events and experiences of adolescent mothers relevant to their own care and the care of their children so as to support the elaboration of a future Event History Calendar (EHC) tool.
Design And Methods: Qualitative study was conducted based on the Grounded Theory, from the constructivist perspective. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 11 Brazilian adolescent mothers.
Objective: To analyze situations in which premature children are vulnerable in home care, in the first six months after hospital discharge.
Method: Qualitative study, from the perspective of philosophical hermeneutics, carried out in a Brazilian city on the border. In-depth interviews were conducted, with a data analysis considering the method of interpretation of meanings.
Objective: to analyze opportunities for orientations to promote the care of premature infants during home visits and telephone support.
Method: a qualitative study from the perspective of philosophical hermeneutics conducted with 18 mothers of premature infants discharged from hospital. Hospital contact and interviews were carried out, 15 and 45 days after discharge and at the infants' six months of life, with data analysis by interpretation of meanings from 25 home visits and 56 telephone support contacts.
Objectives: to develop an educational intervention through a game that addresses aspects related to adolescent motherhood and child care.
Methods: this is an action research based on diagnosis, intervention and apprehension stages.
Results: the situational diagnosis was based on a literature review on adolescent motherhood and child care.
Objectives: comprehend the Event History Calendar components that are relevant for the nurse to adolescent communicative process, in the context of Primary Health Care.
Methods: reflective study, based on the Event History Calendar approach, in the relational, communicative, and educational dimensions.
Results: best practices for adolescent health promotion are vital and constitute a challenge to nurses.
Objectives: to validate the vulnerability markers of dysfunctions in the socioemotional development of infants.
Methods: study with a sequential exploratory mixed-method design. The vulnerability markers elaborated in the qualitative phase were analyzed by experts in the quantitative phase using the Delphi technique with a minimum consensus of 70%.
Objective: to appreciate the strategies promoted by nurses in the context of child health surveillance relevant to early childhood development.
Method: this is a qualitative study with an inductive thematic analysis of the data, based on the conceptual principles of child health surveillance, and developed through semi-structured interviews with Brazilian nurses working with families in primary health care.
Results: the nurses' strategies in favor of child health surveillance focus on actions that anticipate harm with continuous follow-up and monitoring of health indicators.
Objective: To verify the type of milk consumed by children under one year of age and identify variables associated with non-maternal milk consumption (formula or cow milk).
Methods: Cross-sectional study developed during the 2012 National Vaccination Campaign against Poliomyelitis. The companions of 935 children under one year of age answered a structured questionnaire on the child's diet in the last 24 hours.
Objectives: Identifying the use of child care situations, the vaccination situation and the reasons for non-vaccination, and characterizing whether mothers/guardians demonstrate notions about the right to special vaccines for children with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.
Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional study with analysis of quantitative data based on interviews with mothers/guardians, particularly regarding access to childcare and vaccination against influenza and pneumococcal 23-valent (PPSV).
Results: 47 mothers/guardians participated in the study.
Understanding different cultures is important in the education of nursing students who will become the health care workforce of our future interdependent and globalized societies. International practicum courses help students and nurses understand different cultures. This article describes an innovative approach to nursing education and understanding diverse cultures, in the context of a hybrid course (online course coupled with face-to-face practicum experiences), which enrolled nursing students from opposite hemispheres.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective:: to evaluate the association of primary health care and other potential factors in relation to hospitalization due to pneumonia, among children aged under five years.
Method:: epidemiological study with a case-control, hospital-based design, which included 345 cases and 345 controls, matched according to gender, age and hospital. Data were collected using a pre-coded questionnaire and the Primary Care Assessment Tool, analyzed by means of multivariate logistic regression, following the assumptions of a hierarchical approach.