Identification of Inflammatory Mediators in Saliva Samples From Hospitalized Newborns: Potential Biomarkers?

Unlabelled: Saliva measurements serve as a noninvasive tool for clinically monitoring newborns (NB) and children, a vulnerable population with promising potential for both research and clinical practice. Saliva acts as a repository for various inflammatory biomarkers involved in diverse biological functions. Particularly for children, it offers numerous advantages when compared to plasma and urine sampling.

Continued breastfeeding and work: scenario of maternal persistence and resilience.

Objectives: to understand the challenges in mothers' daily life and strategies adopted to reconcile activities outside the home and continued breastfeeding.

Methods: a cross-sectional, qualitative study. Theoretical-methodological assumptions were discursive practices and production of meanings in everyday life.

Nurses' Motivation, Knowledge, and Satisfaction with a Neonatal Pain Assessment e-Learning Course.

Purpose: To analyze nurses' motivation to learn, motivation to transfer, knowledge acquisition, and satisfaction with an e-Learning course about neonatal pain assessment.

Design: Quantitative, longitudinal, quasi-experimental study, conducted in a university affiliated hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, between April and October 2018.

Methods: Upon consent, nurses received two questionnaires electronically ("Demographics Survey" and "Motivation to Learn Survey") and were granted access to the e- Learning environment.

Painful procedures and pain management in newborns admitted to an intensive care unit.

Objective: To characterize painful procedures, analgesic strategies, vital signs, and pain scores in hospitalized newborns.

Method: This is a primary, observational, prospective clinical study, developed in a Brazilian public hospital. Demographic data, painful procedures, pain relief measures, vital signs, and pain scores were collected from the clinical records of 90 newborns admitted to the intensive care unit and evaluated between admission and the third day of admission.

Effectiveness of photobiomodulation therapy for nipple pain or nipple trauma in lactating women: a systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this protocol is to evaluate the effectiveness of photobiomodulation therapy for the treatment of nipple pain or nipple trauma in women during the breastfeeding period.

Introduction: One approach that has been reported on the management of nipple pain or nipple trauma in lactating women is the use photobiomodulation therapy to heal the injury or to decrease pain intensity. However, studies have achieved different results, due to variations in the treatment protocol, such as the source of light used, the application mode, the irradiation, or the light dose parameters, leading to varying outcomes.

Breastfeeding self-efficacy and postpartum depression: a cohort study.

Objective: to evaluate breastfeeding self-efficacy, the presence of postpartum depression symptons and the association between breastfeeding self-efficacy and postpartum depression with cessation of exclusive breastfeeding.

Method: cohort study with 83 women. The instruments used were the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

What are the factors that contribute to the development of sexual dysfunction in breastfeeding women? A systematic scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Female sexual dysfunction is a public health problem. Evidence suggests that the population of nursing women is more vulnerable to the phenomenon due to breast feeding. Thus, this protocol was developed to explore the factors that contribute to the development of sexual dysfunction in breastfeeding women.

Child Health Care: Practices of a Brazilian Indigenous Population.

Purpose: To understand the health care practices related to children from birth to five years old in an Indigenous population of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Design: The theoretical and ethnographic methodological framework and the Observation-Participation-Reflection model (OPR) were used for data collection. In total, 20 families with 24 children were observed.

[Nursing contributions to the development of the Brazilian Telehealth Lactation Support Program].

The National Telehealth Program was founded by the Ministry of Health, in partnership with the Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação - MEC) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia - MCT), to support the development of family healthcare teams throughout the country. The São Paulo Telehealth Center has developed the Telehealth Lactation Support program, which provides primary healthcare professionals with information on diverse aspects of breastfeeding. This paper reports the development of the Lactation Support program and the nursing contributions.

[The approach to breastfeeding in the first years of elementary school].

To review the curricula and content of 1st- through 5th-year elementary school science textbooks with respect to the presence or absence of terms related to breastfeeding, we conducted a descriptive study analyzing the curricula and 16 textbooks of 25 public schools in 03 municipalities of São Paulo between September 2010 and February 2011. In particular, we defined essential concepts to teach and explain breastfeeding to children. We found that no block themed curriculum explicitly addressed the theme of breastfeeding.

[Portuguese school children breastfeeding experiences].

Descriptive cross-sectional study on breastfeeding experiences, using a questionnaire with 1078 children aged between 7 and 12 years, in the 3rd and 4th years of primary education in public schools. Most children knew that they and their siblings had been breastfed and had used a pacifier. Few had seen their mother breastfeeding, seen their father close to their mother while breastfeeding their siblings, or reported that nurses in the school had talked to them about breastfeeding.

[Agreement between center of disease control and word health organization reference growth].

The objective this study was to verify the agreement of the guidelines recommended by CDC and WHO to evaluate the nutritional state. This is a cross-sectional study, which counted with the participation of 254 children of ages 3 to 11 months and 29 days from São Paulo and Ribeirão Preto, performed from June 2005 to July 2006. The anthropometric indexes were obtained using the software available on the CDC and WHO websites.

[Nursing mothers' perception about their quality of life].

Women usually describe breastfeeding as a period of high physical and emotional distress. The objective of this study is to understand the perception that nursing mothers' supported in a Primary Health Care Clinic located in the city of São Paulo have about their quality of life (QL). This is an exploratory qualitative study.

Prevalence of anemia in children three to 12 months old in a health service in Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.

Iron deficiency anemia is the most common nutritional deficiency among children. This cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative study is part of a multicenter project, which verified the prevalence of anemia in children aged three to 12 months, treated by a health service unit in Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Interviews with mothers and determining hemoglobin dosage were carried out with 121 children who participated in the study.

[Health needs of women in the process of breastfeeding].

Our objective was to identify the health needs of women in their breastfeeding process. We interviewed 238 women and organized data according to proposal of the Collective Subject Discourse. By using the taxonomy of Matsumoto we found: Necessity of good conditions of life (having good alimentation; to work or to study; having time for itself; having sleep and adequate rest; having good mental health; having good conditions to breastfeed the baby); Necessity to have access to all the health technologies that contribute to improve and to draw out the life (to deal with the breastfeeding problems, to have access to health services); Necessity to have bond with a professional or health team; Necessity of self-care and autonomy and in the choice in the way of 'walking the life' (to have orientation about breastfeeding; to receive support from the professional; to feel self-confident to breastfeed).

Social representations about support for breastfeeding in a group of breastfeeding women.

This study aimed to get to know the social representations about support for breastfeeding in a group of breastfeeding women, as well as to identify the actions in their social environment these women perceive as supportive in their breastfeeding processes. Data were collected through a qualitative approach, using recorded semistructured interviews, organized in accordance with the Collective Subject Discourse and analyzed under the premises of Social Representations Theory. Results showed that the representations of women in this study about support for breastfeeding consist of actions available in the hospital, family and work contexts.

Doctoral education in nursing in Brazil.

This study aimed to present the trajectory of doctoral education in nursing in Brazil from 1981 to 2004. A descriptive and analytical study was carried out, using documents available at the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, a body responsible for the recognition, evaluation and coordination of graduate studies in Brazil. Data analysis revealed that there are 13 doctoral courses in nursing, most of which are concentrated in the Southeast (69.

[Women's needs in immediate puerperium in a public maternity in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil].

In order to identify women's needs in their immediate puerperium and to understand their perception of the nursing care they received during this period, the authors developed a descriptive study with qualitative data in a gender perspective. Twenty-five women were interviewed in a public hospital in Salvador, State of Bahia. From the content's analysis, in which a thematic approach was used, emerged two categories: the need for physical care and for a gentle welcome.

[Trace and anxiety of nursing mothers with insufficient and normal breast feeding indicators].

The objective of this study was to identify and compare the trace and the anxiety state on the 10th day postpartum and the anxiety state on the 30th day postpartum of primiparous and multiparous nursing mothers who present insufficient breast feeding indicators and nursing mothers with normal breast feeding, in order to verify the possible relationships between the anxiety state of the nursing mothers in those two moments with the insufficient breast feeding indicators presented. This is an exploratory and descriptive study, whose data has been gotten from 168 nursing mothers and their children by means of interviews in nursing consultations in the 10th and 30th day postpartum. The results obtained showed that primiparous and multiparous with insufficient breast feeding and primiparous with normal lactation presented higher anxiety state trace than the anxiety state on the 10th and 30th day postpartum.

[Breast-feeding experience for women workers and students from a public university].

This qualitative research aimed to know the main interfering elements in the breast-feeding process as experienced by professional women and by students, that was carried out with 65 professional women and students from a public university in São Paulo state. The data collection was proceeded by interviews which contents were analyzed according to Taylor and Bogdan and Symbolic Interactionism approaches. Results indicated that the breast-feeding process for these women demonstrated to be conditioned and highlighted by the conditions the women encounter in their domestic, professional, and study settings.

[Characteristics, frequency and factors present in nipples damage occurence in lactating women].

Our objectives were to verify the occurrence of nipple damage, according to the newborn and mother characteristics; to characterize the suction pattern of newborn, whose mothers present nipple damage. The sample was of 1020 lactating women and their infants, and of them, 84 were followed up by the researcher. It was verified that the gestational age of the newborn, the skin color, parity and the type of anesthesia received by the mothers during the labor were statistically significant for the occurrence of nipple damage.

[Doctoring interunits in nursing program: 21 years building science].

The Doctoring Interunits in Nursing Program was the first created in Latin America and has titled 290 nurses until the second semester of 2004. This study presents some thesis characteristics upheld in the program, focusing the thematic areas and research methods used. The summaries of 287 theses supported until the first semester of 2004, have been analyzed.

[The history of the nursing interunits doctoral program and its contribution to Brazilian nursing].

Authors aimed at describing the history of the Nursing Interunits Doctoral Program offered at the São Paulo and Ribeirão Preto campi from 1981 to 2004. Data were collected based on the Program documents (resolutions, opinion, students' records, reports, etc). The Nursing Interunits Doctoral Program was approved by the University of São Paulo Graduate Council in May 25, 1981.

[Nursing doctoral theses produced on graduate programs between 1983-2001].

This study describes the relationship between nursing doctoral dissertations and research lines defined by the Brazilian Nursing field in three areas: professional, care and organizational. It isa descriptive-exploratory research, based on reports of Graduate Programs evaluated by CAPES and on The Informative Guide of Nursing Research and Researchers CEPEn/ ABEn, from 1983 to 2001, totalling 448 abstracts. The care field includes the greatest production, followed by the organizational and professional areas.