Incidence, characteristics and influencing factors of medical adhesive-related skin injury in the indwelling urinary catheter attachment region in critically ill patients: A longitudinal study.

Background: Medical adhesives are potentially harmful to the skin, depending on the patient's condition, the adhesive agent and the adhesive application and removal technique.

Aim: The objective of the study was to determine the incidence, characteristics and influencing factors of medical adhesive-related skin injury from the indwelling urinary catheter attachment in critically ill patients.

Study Design: This is a longitudinal study.

Development of a website for wound assessment.

Introduction: The assessment and treatment of wounds are nurses' and their teams' responsibilities, as it is up to the nurses to outline a therapeutic plan for tissue repair. For the evaluation process, the nurse must be scientifically trained and use reliable instruments.

Objective: Website development for wound assessment.

Effectiveness of the strategies of an orientation programme for the lifestyle and wound-healing process in patients with venous ulcer: A randomised controlled trial.

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of strategies of a lifestyle orientation programme on patients with venous ulcer in elastic compression therapy. This was a single-blind, 2-arm, randomised clinical controlled trial. The primary outcome included the reduction of the wound surface area.

Quality of life of people with chronic ulcers.

Introduction: Patients with chronic ulcers have physical, social, and psychological changes that directly affect their quality of life.

Objectives: To evaluate the quality of life and analyze the association between personal and health characteristics in patient quality of life for those with chronic ulcers.

Method: A cross-sectional study, nonprobabilistic.

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Freiburg Life Quality Assessment--Wound Module to Brazilian Portuguese.

Objectives: to adapt the Freiburg Life Quality Assessment - Wound Module to Brazilian Portuguese and to measure its psychometric properties: reliability and validity.

Method: the cultural adaptation was undertaken following the stages of translation, synthesis of the translations, back translation, committee of specialists, pre-test and focus group. A total of 200 patients participated in the study.

Pain prevalence, socio-demographic and clinical features in patients with chronic ulcers.

Chronic wounds are considered a worldwide epidemic and pain is the most frequently symptom referred by the patients who have this type of wound. The aim was to assess the prevalence of pain in chronic wounds and relate socio-demographic and clinical variables to pain. This is an analytical cross-sectional study, carried out in Basic Health Units (BHU), Family Health Strategy (ESF) and in a university hospital in two cities of Minas Gerais.