Publications by authors named "Elda Oliveira"

Objectives: to discuss the influence of urban poverty on the context of violence among adolescents from an intersectional perspective.

Methods: the original research, of the action research type, analyzed data from 13 workshops. The participants were adolescents from both sexes, from 15 to 17 years old, from a public school in a peripheral neighborhood of São Paulo, SP.

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Objective: to understand how the contradictions and tensions of neoliberal policy, materialized in precarious work, affect nursing workers' mental health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: this is a study with a qualitative and descriptive approach, analyzed in the light of neoliberal economic policy. Data were collected through virtual means, with the participation of 719 nursing workers, from April to June 2020.

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Purpose: Since people with disabilities (PwD) are underrepresented in medical education, the authors of this article conducted a qualitative research in the form of an in-depth interview with students with disabilities from a medical school in Brazil, to characterize their experiences in medical education and identify barriers and facilitators to inclusion.

Materials And Methods: Participants were recruited by snowball sampling, signed an informed consent form, and completed a socioeconomic questionnaire. They were interviewed individually with open-ended questions so that they could develop narratives.

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  • A study was conducted in São Paulo to examine the prevalence of medical adhesive-related skin injuries in patients in cardiac Intensive Care Units, involving 123 patients.
  • They found a 22.7% prevalence of these injuries, predominantly caused by transparent polyurethane film, with the cervical region being the most affected area.
  • The study identified significant factors associated with the injuries, including high serum urea levels and certain platelet counts, which can aid in better preventive care planning.
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This article presents an analysis of the representations and experiences of male workers regarding self-care, and the ways in which configurations of health-disease-care processes and aging affect male sexuality. A qualitative study was conducted that included semi-structured interviews with fifteen men living with a chronic disease. Respondents had an average age of 56 years old, most had not completed elementary school, and they were residents of a low-income neighborhood in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

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The intersectionality approach emerged in the late 1990s in the field of black feminist activism in the USA, as a critique of one-dimensional analyses of social inequalities. This descriptive-analytical narrative review presents the current state of theoretical-methodological inclusion of intersectionality in public health. Seven scientific literature databases were consulted: Web of Science, Embase, Cinahl, Scopus, Sociological Abstracts, Lilacs, and Medline, resulting in 1763 papers.

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Objectives:: to understand everyday representations of young people about the peripheral areas, with the purpose of establishing topics to drug education media programs.

Method:: Marxist approach, with emancipatory action research and the participation in workshops of 13 youngsters from a public school of the peripheral area of São Paulo.

Results:: there are contradictory everyday representations about the State's role, which, on the one hand, does not guarantee social rights and exert social control over the peripheral areas and, on the other hand, is considered the privileged interlocutor for the improvement of life and work conditions.

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Objective: To report an emancipatory action research experience and discuss its potentialities as a way to problematise the realities of the young participants. The aim of the action research was to create a drug awareness media programme.

Method: Experience report of emancipatory action research with 13 young students of a public school, in São Paulo, from February to September 2014.

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The stuty shows the selection of some strategy to be used for the graduation courses in Nursing to arouse in the students more interest in the collective healthy area. The study is about a case study, that took place in a private graduation course in the Southern of Brazil, which was noticed the systematised option form the students to the hospital area when the choice of trainee fields to the development from the Essay when they accomplish the graduation course. It was used a method from Situation Strategic Planning (PES) like a tool to enlarge the analysis of the problem and reach the aim proposed.

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We report a case of a 28-year-old female with the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) referred to our breast pathology consultancy in 2002 due to a left breast nodule. Further investigation revealed bilateral coarse calcifications. Biopsy was consistent with a diagnosis of lupus mastitis.

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This study addresses the importance of promoting physical activities among psychiatric patients and its goals were to identify the changing behavior potential of the nurses as well as to identify the nurse staff beliefs regarding the benefits of physical activity with the patients, to characterize the way in which these activities are managed inside the psychiatric hospital and finally, to identify the factors which influence the promotion of these activities in the mentioned environment. The fourteen nurses interviewed believe in the benefits of physical exercise, but only nine of them do training. We have noticed that 50% of them are in the action stage, 42.

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