Diagnostic accuracy of clinical indicators of Imbalanced nutrition in pediatric patients submitted to chemotherapy.

To analyze the accuracy of clinical indicators of nursing diagnosis, Imbalanced nutrition: less than the body requirements in pediatric patients undergoing chemotherapy. A cross-sectional study was carried out in a pediatric oncohematology unit. A total of 123 children aged 5-18 years were evaluated.

Mental health in adolescence: Elaboration and validation of an educational technology for health promotion.

Objective: to build and validate the appearance of a digital educational technology to promote the mental health of school adolescents.

Methods: methodological study, which included the elaboration and validation of the "Conect@dos com a S@ude" online course based on the Galvis-Panqueva methodological framework. The elaboration was based on a literature review and followed the Theory of Meaningful Learning.

Educational technology for bathing/hygiene of elders at home: contributions to career knowledge.

Objective: to build and validate an educational booklet for bathing and hygiene of elders at home.

Methods: a methodological study, developed through data collection in literature and situational diagnosis, booklet construction, material qualification through validation by expert judges (11 nurses) and target audience (30 caregivers). Data were analyzed descriptively.

Digital inclusion and Internet use among older adults in Brazil: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To describe the profile of Brazilian older adults who use the Internet, the means of Internet access and the purpose of Internet use and to verify the existence of association between socio-demographic variables and variables related to Internet use.

Method: Cross-sectional study with Brazilian older adults who used the social networks Facebook and WhatsApp. Descriptive, univariate, and bivariate analysis were conducted.

Nutritional Deficits In Children With Cancer: A Situation-Specific Theory.

Purpose: To construct a situation-specific theory (SST) to represent nutritional deficits for assessing children with cancer.

Data Sources: Literature review.

Data Synthesis: The SST included the definition of key concepts, a pictorial scheme, propositions, causal relationships, and evidence for nursing practice.

Development of middle-range theories in nursing.

Objective: To identify in the literature how Middle-Range Theories (MRT) are being developed in Nursing.

Method: Integrative review on the databases Lilacs (Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences), Scopus, Cinahl (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Web of Science and PubMed portal, using the keywords middle range theory and nursing, as well its Portuguese correspondents (Lilacs), and the Boolean operator AND. The sample included 25 articles.

Instrument for evaluation of sedentary lifestyle in patients with high blood pressure.

Objective: this article describes the diagnostic accuracy of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire to identify the nursing diagnosis of sedentary lifestyle.

Method: a diagnostic accuracy study was developed with 240 individuals with established high blood pressure. The analysis of diagnostic accuracy was based on measures of sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, efficiency, diagnostic odds ratio, Youden index, and area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve.

Clinical indicators of ineffective airway clearance in children with acute respiratory infection.

The identification of clinical indicators with good predictive ability allows the nurse to minimize the existing variability in clinical situations presented by the patient and to accurately identify the nursing diagnosis, which represents the true clinical condition. The purpose of this study was to analyze the accuracy of NANDA-I clinical indicators of the nursing diagnosis ineffective airway clearance (IAC) in children with acute respiratory infection. This was a prospective cohort study conducted with a group of 136 children and followed for a period of time ranging from 6 to 10 consecutive days.

Validation of Clinical Indicators of Imbalanced Nutrition: Less Than Body Requirements in Early Childhood.

This is a clinical validation study of the nursing diagnosis of imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements based on the diagnostic accuracy measures. Measures of sensitivity and specificity were calculated based on the latent class analysis method using a random effects model in a sample of 123 children between 0 and 6 years old. The prevalence of the diagnosis was estimated to be 27.

[Nursing diagnosis sedentary lifestyle in individuals with hypertension: an analysis of accuracy].

Objective: Assessing the accuracy of the defining characteristics (DC) of the nursing diagnosis Sedentary Lifestyle (SL) in people with hypertension.

Method: A cross-sectional study carried out in a referral center in the outpatient care of people with hypertension and diabetes, with a sample of 285 individuals. The form used in the study was designed from operational definitions constructed for each DC of the diagnosis.

Physical activity level in people with high blood pressure.

This study aimed to analyze the level of physical activity for people with high blood pressure cared for in a health center. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 310 individuals between 18 and 69 years of age through the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). The majority (80%) of participants presented low or moderate levels of physical activity.