PLoS One
May 2023
Introduction: Childhood cancer affects approximately 600,000 children and adolescents worldwide, and chemotherapy is the main form of treatment. However, chemotherapy treatment causes feelings of fear and anxiety especially in the patient's caregiver. Thus, strategies that help the health education process directed towards caregivers are essential for strengthening knowledge and reducing anxiety involved with the beginning of treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To present a study protocol to compare glucose and reflexology in pain relief in neonate intensive care during arterial punctures.
Methods: A randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial protocol will be carried out at a teaching hospital maternity, with30 newborns admitted to neonate intensive care who are to undergo blood collection by arterial puncture. They will be randomly assigned to a control group (25% glucose) or an intervention group (foot reflexology).
Objective: To analyze in the scientific literature the effects of massage on pain relief in newborns submitted to puncture.
Method: Systematic review with meta-analysis performed in October 2020, using PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL, Scopus, Cochrane and Gale databases. Studies without time frame were included, which used massage as the main technique for relieving neonatal pain during puncture.
Objective: Semantically validate an educational technology with the caregiver of children and adolescents undergoing chemotherapy.
Method: Methodological study, with a quantitative approach, guided by the theoretical framework of psychometry, developed between March and April 2022, with nine caregivers of children and adolescents undergoing chemotherapy. Educational technology is a digital animation film about the pediatric chemotherapy treatment process, used as a tool for health education.
Objective: to validate the terms of the specialized nursing language used in care for hospitalized patients with Pressure Injury, identified in nurses' records, mapping them with the terms of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP® 2017).
Methods: methodological study, carried out at a School Hospital in 2018. It was performed: extraction of terms of medical records; normalization; cross-mapping between extracted terms and those in ICNP®; distribution in the seven axes; theoretical definition and validation of terms.
Rev Bras Enferm
January 2019
Objective: To analyze the association between nursing diagnoses and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in people living with AIDS.
Method: Cross-sectional study with 100 people living with AIDS in a University Hospital. Data collection took place between January and July 2015, using an interview script and physical examination.
Objective: to identify the predictive factors for the nursing diagnoses in people living with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
Method: a cross-sectional study, undertaken with 113 people living with AIDS. The data were collected using an interview script and physical examination.