Brazilian Adults' Attitudes and Practices Regarding the Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination and Their Hesitancy towards Childhood Vaccination.

Background: This study investigated the attitudes and practices of Brazilian adults regarding the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination and their hesitancy towards the vaccination of children.

Methods: Between March and May 2022, Brazilian adults answered an online questionnaire distributed through social media. The SAGE-WG questionnaire was adapted to measure hesitancy to the vaccination of children.

Children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease in haemodialysis: perception of professionals.

Objective: to identify aspects impacting on quality of life for children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis, from the perspective of health professionals, as an essential step for the construction of a specific module of the DISABKIDS® instrument.

Method: methodological study. Data was collected between May and June 2012, through personal interviews with 12 participants, in two dialysis centers.

[Children and adolescents on hemodialysis: attributes associated with quality of life].

Objective: To identify quality of life impacting attributes related to health of children and adolescents with chronic renal failure,on hemodialysis, as initial step to build the specific module DISABKIDS®.

Method: An Exploratory descriptive study, with qualitative approach, with data collected between August of 2011 to March of 2013, through focus group analysis, with 42 participants between 8 and 18 years, their parents and caregivers. The data analysis was conducted following the thematic content, using the program Qualitative Data Analysis Software.

[Neonatal screening: what mothers know about it in a maternity in the hinterland of the state of Paraná, Brazil].

This is a cross-sectional quantitative study quantitative held in the rooming area of a medium-sized hospital in the hinterlands of Paraná, Brazil. 40 mothers over 18 years participated in the study. The study aimed to examine what this population knows about the purpose and importance of completing the "Guthrie test" and also to characterize these mothers socio-demographically.

[Main causes of hospitalization of hemodialysis patients in the city of Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil].

Quantitative study that aims to characterize patients on hemodialysis according to socio-demographic and identify the main causes of hospitalization in 2007. Data collection was performed in a clinic Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil, with 29 patients,through medical records and the computerized program Nefrodata, specific to dialysis centers. The medical records were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics, where 58.