Presence of multidrug-resistant bacteria on ready-to-use laryngoscope blades and handles: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The presence of microorganisms in laryngoscopes emphasizes the risk to patient safety during orotracheal intubations.

Methods: Cross-sectional study was carried out in university hospital in the inpatient, emergency, intensive care and surgical center sectors. Microorganisms were recovered from the blades using a filter membrane and from the handles using swab.

The practice environment of primary care nurses: A cross-sectional study of five health care districts in San Paulo, Brazil.

Background: Primary care is a fundamental component of healthcare in Brazil. Often provided by nurses, little is known about the practice environment of nurses in primary care and if nurses are satisfied with their role in the primary care setting.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if aspects of the primary care practice environment in Brazil are associated nurse reported outcomes of job satisfaction, intention to stay on the job, and the quality of care.

Implementation of a monitoring and contact tracing program to manage COVID-19 by a multinational chemical company.

Introduction: During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, uninterrupted manufacture of products for domestic or health care purposes presupposed initiatives to control transmission in the work environment.

Objectives: This study analyzed data collected in a multinational chemical company between 2020 and 2022 through its COVID-19 contact tracing system, determining the association between work variables, personal protective equipment use, emotional distress symptoms, and diagnostic confirmation of COVID-19.

Methods: This correlational, cross-sectional study analyzed a company database of reports of suspected cases between June 2020 and January 2022.

Nurses' perceptions about the patient safety climate in Primary Health Care.

Objective: to evaluate the patient safety climate in Primary Health Care from the perspective of nurses working in the services.

Method: a quantitative and cross-sectional study conducted with 148 nurses from a municipality in the state of São Paulo. The Brazilian version of the Primary Care Safety Questionnaire Survey and personal, professional, and organizational performance variables (intention to stay at work, job satisfaction, care quality, and frequency of incidents) were used.

Validity, sensitivity and specificity of a measure of medication adherence instrument among patients taking oral anticoagulants.

Although self-report instruments are currently considered a valuable tool for measuring adherence, due to their low cost and ease of implementation, there are still important factors that impact measurement accuracy, such as social desirability and memory bias. Thus, the Global Assessment of Medication Adherence Instrument (GEMA) was developed to provide an accurate measure of this construct. The aim of this study was to evaluate the properties of the measurement of the Global Evaluation of Medication Adherence Instrument (GEMA) among patients with chronic diseases.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep disorders among Nursing professionals.

Objective: to analyze the factors related to sleep disorders reported by Nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: this is a cross-sectional and analytical study conducted with Nursing professionals from all Brazilian regions. Sociodemographic data, working conditions and questions about sleep disorders were collected.

Depressive symptoms, symptoms of insomnia and stressful events in hypertensive older adults: Cross-sectional study.

Objectives: the aim of this study was to determine whether symptoms of insomnia and intensity of stressful life events are independently associated with depressive symptoms in community-dwelling hypertensive older adults.

Methods: this was an observational cross-sectional study. Participants were 438 older adults with arterial hypertension who completed questionnaires about depressive symptoms, stressful events, self-reported symptoms of insomnia and socio-demographic characteristics.

Sleep and Professional Burnout in Nurses, Nursing Technicians, and Nursing Assistants During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may trigger sleep disorders and burnout in nursing professionals.

Purpose: This study was designed to describe the occurrence of sleep disorders and burnout in a nursing team during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify the associated factors.

Methods: A cross-sectional approach was used.

Stressful events, depressive symptoms, and frailty associated to older adults' survival and mortality.

This study analyzed factors associated with survival and mortality risk of community-dwelling older adults, considering the intensity of stressful life events, depressive symptoms, insomnia, frailty, multimorbidity, and sociodemographic factors. This is a longitudinal study on survival of older adults interviewed between 2008-2009, with follow-up after 8 years. Survival and mortality risks were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier curve, Log Rank test, and Cox proportional-hazards model (p < 0.

Device and nondevice-guided slow breathing to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Backgroud And Aims: Hypertension (HTN) is a multifactorial chronic disease. Considering the high prevalence rates of this disease, treatment of HTN is necessary, not only to reduce blood pressure (BP) levels but also to prevent the development of cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and kidney diseases. This treatment can be through medication, which will be determined according to the BP values, obtained either in medical consultations or at home; presence of cardiovascular risk factors, and the presence of target organ damage identified during anamnesis.

A Brazilian Portuguese translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Arrhythmia-Specific questionnaire in Tachycardia and Arrhythmia (ASTA) health-related quality of life (HRQOL) scale.

Introduction: The health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients with tachyarrhythmia can be negatively influenced by the clinical manifestations. The evaluation of HRQOL with validated instruments can provide valuable information that will contribute to clinical decision-making and treatment. In Brazil, however, there is no available scale that evaluates HRQOL in different types of arrhythmia.

Psychometric properties of medication adherence instruments in cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes mellitus: systematic review protocol.

Background: The pharmacological treatment of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes mellitus reduces the risk of cardiovascular events.; however, most patients do not adhere to the treatment. There are several self-reported measures for assessing medication adherence.

An evaluation of machine learning methods for speed-bump detection on a GoPro dataset.

Every day, new applications arise relying on the use of high-resolution road maps in both academic and industrial environments. Autonomous vehicles rely on digital maps to navigate when optical sensors cannot be trusted, such as heavy rainfalls, snowy conditions, fog, and other situations. These situations increase the risks of accidents and disable the potentials of real-time mapping sensors.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of Unna boot in the treatment of venous leg ulcers.

This systematic review determined the effectiveness of the Unna boot in the treatment of venous leg ulcers (VLUs) by assessing the quality of the available evidence. A systematic search of studies published between August 2019 and February 2020 was conducted using the PubMed, PubMed/PMC, BVS/BIREME, CINAHL, Web of Science, MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane, ProQuest, BDTD, CAPES Thesis and Dissertation, OPEN THESIS, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and SciELO databases. Studies were eligible if they reported primary studies, controlled clinical trials, quasi-experimental studies or observational studies (cross-sectional studies or cohort studies).

Effects of an intervention program with health education and hatha yoga on the health of professionals with musculoskeletal symptoms.

Introduction: Musculoskeletal and mental disorders are relevant in the workers' disease process, and ergonomic interventions that include guidance and physical exercise consist of strategies of health promotion. Integrative and complementary practices are presented as a possibility of promoting comprehensive care and yoga consists of a therapeutic alternative.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of an intervention including educational measures and hatha yoga in musculoskeletal pain, disability, and stress in professionals of a university hospital.

The relevance of enzyme specificity for coenzymes and the presence of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase for polyhydroxyalkanoates production in the metabolism of Pseudomonas sp. LFM046.

Reconstruction of genome-based metabolic model is a useful approach for the assessment of metabolic pathways, genes and proteins involved in the environmental fitness capabilities or pathogenic potential as well as for biotechnological processes development. Pseudomonas sp. LFM046 was selected as a good polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) producer from carbohydrates and plant oils.

Validation of an Instrument to guide Nursing Staffing in Obstetric Rooming in.

Objectives: to construct and validate an instrument for the classification of mother-baby binomials that subsidizes personnel Staffing in in-rooming units.

Method: methodological study. The construction was based on theoretical and legal references.

Competitive neural layer-based method to identify people with high risk for diabetic foot.

Background And Objective: To automatically identify patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) who have high risk of developing diabetic foot, via an unsupervised machine learning technique.

Methods: We collected a new database containing 54 known risk factors from 250 patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. The database also contained a separate validation cohort composed of 73 subjects, where the perceived risk was annotated by expert nurses.

Assessment of the use of Unna boot in the treatment of chronic venous leg ulcers in adults: systematic review protocol.

Introduction: Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is an anomaly of the normal functioning of the venous system caused by valvular incompetence with or without the obstruction of venous flow. This condition can affect either or both of the superficial and the deep venous systems. Venous dysfunction can even result in congenital or acquired disorders, and its complications include venous leg ulcers (VLUs).

Perspectives of healthcare workers on the morality of abortion: a multicenter study in seven Brazilian public hospitals.

We used the questionnaire "Mosaic of Opinions on Induced Abortion" to conduct a multi-centered study to evaluate the perspectives of physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists and pharmacists on the morality of abortion. In all, 254 participants constituted the sample. The inadequate knowledge on Brazilian abortion laws was the only determinant negatively associated with the construct "Sexual and Reproductive Rights", corroborating the hypothesis that a better understanding of abortion legislation could mitigate the opposition of some professionals to the ethical perspective that access to safe abortion should be seen as a sexual and reproductive right.

Validation of Nursing Outcomes Related to Breastfeeding Establishment.

Purpose: To clinically validate indicators of the nursing outcomes "Breastfeeding establishment: Infant (1000)" and "Breastfeeding establishment: maternal (1001)", and their conceptual and operational definitions in infants admitted to a neonatal unit and their mothers.

Method: This study utilized several methods in a stepwise approach including an integrative review of the literature, content validation, and clinical validation. The content validity index was performed by eight experts, who evaluated revised content of the studied nursing outcomes.

Relationship Between Anticoagulant Medication Adherence and Satisfaction in Patients With Stroke.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy of the self-reported measure of adherence and the relation between adherence to warfarin use, demographic and clinical variables, and the satisfaction with the treatment in patients affected by stroke.

Methods: This is a correlational, quantitative, and cross-sectional study, carried out in the outpatient clinics of a public university hospital from October 2017 to April 2018. Sociodemographic and clinical data were collected through interviews and hospital charts, as well as by applying the Measurement of Treatment Adherence (MTA) and the Duke Anticoagulation Satisfaction Scale, in their Brazilian versions.

Measurement properties of the questionnaire "Mosaic of opinions on induced abortion": a multicenter study in seven Brazilian hospitals.

Objective: In Brasil, abortion is legal in cases of rape, when there is a risk of maternal death, and in cases of fetal anencephaly. However, the literature reports that some doctors refuse to care for women with such demands or come to perform it in a discriminatory manner. Pretest, test and evaluate the measurement properties of the "Mosaic of Opinions on Induced Abortion," a questionnaire developed to investigate the perspectives of Brazilian healthcare professionals about the morality of abortion.

Dietary sources of salt intake in adults and older people: a population-based study in a Brazilian town.

Objective: To assess salt intake and its dietary sources using biochemical and self-report methods and to characterize salt intake according to sociodemographic and disease-related variables in a sample of the Brazilian population.

Design: Population-based cross-sectional survey.

Setting: Salt intake was assessed by biochemical (24 h urinary Na excretion) and self-report methods (sodium FFQ, 24 h dietary recall, seasoned-salt questionnaire, discretionary-salt questionnaire and total reported salt intake).