Evaluation of the impact of binocular versus monocular cataract surgery using Catquest-9SF: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: This prospective, randomized, unmasked, clinical trial aimed to report the visual outcomes of cataract surgery on both eyes versus cataract surgery on one eye in Brazilian patients.

Methods: This study included patients with bilateral cataracts and binocular visual acuity worse than or equal to 0.3 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution.

Catquest-9SF questionnaire: validation of the Portuguese version using the Rasch analysis.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to validate the Portuguese version of Catquest-9SF through its application in a native Brazilian population with cataracts and to determine the correlation of the questionnaire scores with preoperative visual acuity.

Methods: A prospective study was conducted to validate the Catquest-9SF questionnaire, which was translated and back-translated, generating a final version in Portuguese. A total of 120 Brazilian patients awaiting cataract surgery were recruited to answer the questionnaire and to document their preoperative data and visual acuity.

[Parents and caregivers of depressed adolescents: learning about experiences that led to the search for specialized care].

This study is aimed at analyzing the processes and the motivations that lead parents and caregivers to notice the depressive illness in adolescents and at understanding the influence of health beliefs and cultural habits in the search of specialized treatment. Using the qualitative case study method, four parents and/or caregivers of adolescents with diagnoses of depression under treatment at a mental health clinic in the city of Campinas, State of São Paulo, were interviewed. In accordance with the theoretical presumptions of the Health Belief Model (HBM), the categories that were created and discussed were: the perception of parents and caregivers regarding the susceptibility to the depressive illness; the perception of parents and caregivers regarding the severity of the depressive illness; external stimuli influencing the search for specialized treatment; the barriers and benefits perceived for the search for specialized attendance; structural and social variables influencing the search for specialized attendance.