Clinical practice guidelines of foot care practice for patients with type 2 diabetes: A scoping review using self-care model.

Background: Type 2 diabetes can lead to severe foot complications, making self-care education, guided by clinical guidelines, crucial. However, fragmented and dispersed recommendations challenge effective implementation of these guidelines. Bringing together recommendations and presenting them according to a self-care model can provide a solid framework and facilitate the interpretation of results.

Needs and preferences regarding a mobile application to support diabetic foot self-care.

Objective: To identify the needs and preferences of individuals with type 2 diabetes regarding the functionalities and characteristics for a mobile application to support foot self-care.

Method: Qualitative research with 16 individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes recruited during clinical care at a university hospital in Porto, Portugal. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews between March and June 2022 and analyzed using inductive content analysis.

Clinical validation of the nursing diagnosis decreased diversional activity engagement in patients with diabetes.

Background: Diagnostic accuracy studies are important to identify the best set of defining characteristics for a given nursing diagnosis. The reliability of nursing inferences can be increased by using clinical indicators with high prediction capacity helping nurses to be more accurate in their clinical practice.

Objective: To clinically validate the nursing diagnosis Decreased diversional activity engagement in adult patients with diabetes.

Social representations on diabetic foot: contributions to PHC in the Brazilian Northeast.

This study aimed to identify the structuring elements guiding the establishment of the social representations of diabetic foot among people with diabetes mellitus. This qualitative study is based on the Social Representations Theory and was conducted in a capital of the Brazilian Northeast. The free word association test and a roadmap were used to characterize the sociodemographic and clinical profile to collect data.

Quality of life at work in a central sterile processing department.

Objectives: to evaluate the quality of life of nursing professionals who work in a central sterile processing department.

Methods: a descriptive, quantitative, exploratory study, conducted with 82 nursing professionals working in the Central Sterile Processing Department of a University Hospital, from September to November 2017. A semi-structured instrument and the questionnaire "Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36" were used.