Primary Health Care in transitional care of people with stroke.

Objectives: to understand the role of Primary Health Care teams in caring for people with stroke after hospital discharge.

Methods: single case study, with integrated units of analysis, with a qualitative approach. Data triangulation occurred through interviews with professionals and family caregivers involved in transition of care, in addition to direct observations in rounds and document analysis.

Culture circle in primary care: dialogues with managers on health promotion.

Objective: To identify health promotion strategies used by managers in primary health care.

Method: Qualitative research, of a participant action nature, which adopted the Culture Circle proposed by Paulo Freire as its methodological reference. Eleven primary health care managers from a medium-sized municipality in southern Brazil took part.

Generalized Resistance Deficits in inmates with hypertension: missing resources that limit health.

Objective: to understand the Generalized Resistance Deficits of people deprived of liberty with hypertension in a Brazilian prison unit.

Method: qualitative research, anchored in Salutogenesis, carried out with 38 people with hypertension from a Brazilian prison unit, from February to July 2022, with a semi-structured interview with open-ended questions, whose analysis was thematic, explaining the limitations to health in prison.

Results: 13 Generalized Resistance Deficits were reported, mostly related to the prison environment and, to a lesser extent, to the social group and the individual, respectively.

Learning difficulties in school children: health and education professionals' perceptions.

Objectives: to understand health and education professionals' perceptions regarding children's learning difficulties in public schools.

Methods: qualitative research, of the participatory action type, linked to Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary. Forty-five professionals participated, through interviews and a Virtual Culture Circle.

Social support networks and life cycle stage of Venezuelan immigrant families.

Objective: To understand the structures of social networks of interiorized Venezuelan immigrant families and the life cycle stage they are in.

Methods: Qualitative multiple-case study with families from the Interiorization Program residing in the Greater Florianópolis, Brazil. Screening occurred through social networks and key informants.

Remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: repercussions from professors' perspective.

Objectives: to understand the repercussions of teaching work in remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in Higher Education Institutions in northern Santa Catarina.

Methods: a qualitative participatory action research, based on Paulo Freire's theoretical-methodological precepts. Seventeen health professors participated in two Virtual Culture Circles held in the first half of 2021.

Reflections of the social determinants of health on school children's learning.

Objective: understanding the repercussions of the social determinants of health on school children's learning, linked to the public-school network, from the point of view of health and education professionals.

Method: qualitative study, participant-action type, articulated to Freire's Research Itinerary, through three moments: Thematic Investigation; Coding and Decoding; Critical Unveiling. The participants were 27 health professionals and 18 education professionals, working in four municipalities of Santa Catarina.

Circle dance: integrative and complementary practice in the daily health promotion for older adults.

Objectives: to understand circle dance as an integrative and complementary practice for health promotion in older adults' daily lives.

Methods: an interpretive, qualitative study, based on Michel Maffesoli's Comprehensive Sociology of Everyday Life. There were 20 participants, 17 older adults and three focalizers in circles held in Basic Health Units in a municipality in southern Brazil.

COVID-19 vaccination campaign: dialogues with nurses working in Primary Health Care.

Objective: To reflect on the perception of nurses working in Primary Health Care about the development of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

Method: This is a participatory action qualitative study, based on the methodological theoretical precepts by Paulo Freire, which consists of three interconnected phases: Thematic Research, Coding and Decoding, and Critical Unveiling. Three virtual Culture Circles were held between February and March 2021, with 11 nurses from Primary Health Care, residing in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Vulnerability and health promotion of Haitian immigrants: reflections based on Paulo Freire's dialogic práxis.

Objective: To understand the perceptions of Haitian immigrants about the possibilities to promote health, in the face of the vulnerabilities they experience.

Method: This is a qualitative, participatory action study, based on Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary, which has three phases: thematic investigation; encoding and decoding; critical unveiling. Ten Haitian immigrants, students of a public university in Brazil, participated in the Culture Circle.

Management of the health workforce in facing COVID-19: disinformation and absences in Brazil's Public Policies.

The objective of this research was to analyse federal government interventions in crisis management and the consequences for health professionals. This is a documentary-type qualitative research. Brazilian Federal regulations referring to work and health education produced during the pandemic emergency of COVID-19, published from January 28 to June 2, 2020, were identified.

Health promotion in coping with COVID-19: a Virtual Culture Circle experience.

Objective: To report the experience of a Virtual Culture Circle with Brazilian families about coping with COVID-19, as a space that promotes health during the pandemic.

Method: Experience resulting from an extension action, the Virtual Culture Circle was held based on Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary. It counted with the participation of seven families from different locations in Brazil.

Paulo Freire's culture circles: contributions to nursing research, teaching, and professional practice.

Objectives: to share the contributions of culture circles for teaching, research, and professional nursing practice, having as framework Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary.

Methods: this is an experience report of a culture circle, with participation of three professors and ten students, enrolled in a course of a Graduate Program in Nursing in southern Brazil. In this culture circle, a tree was built in which the roots formed the thematic investigation, the stem, coding and decoding, and the leaves, the Research Itinerary critical unveiling.

Limit-situations in child health care practices: challenges to the empowerment of nurses.

Objective: To analyze the limit-situations experienced by nurses in child health care practices, from the perspective of empowerment in health promotion.

Method: This is a qualitative approach Participatory Action Research, supported by Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary, developed through Culture Circles, consisting of three stages: thematic investigation, coding and decoding and critical unveiling. 13 Culture Circles were held with nurses from the Family Health Strategy of five Basic Health Units in the city of Manaus, Amazonas.

Empowerment of family caregiver in front of stroke in hospital environment.

Objectives: to understand how the empowerment of family caregivers of people with stroke occurs in the hospital environment.

Methods: a qualitative research, participatory action research, articulated with Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary, developed in April 2018 with family caregivers, in a Stroke Unit.

Results: three predominant codes were coded: the need for empowerment and autonomy to experience the care situation; the challenges experienced in becoming a caregiver; and family support.

Integrative and complementary practices in Primary Care: unveiling health promotion.

Objective: to understand the use of integrative and complementary practices as a health promotion action.

Method: qualitative study, action-participant type, with the application of Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary, in which 30 Primary Health Care professionals participated. Thematic research was developed with two Primary Care Units, one that used integrative and complementary practices in daily life and another that focused more on allopathic concepts of assistance.

Gerontotechnology for fall prevention of the elderly with Parkinson.

Objective: to develop the gerontological nursing care process among the elderly with Parkinson's disease, aiming at the promotion of health through the creation of gerontotechnologies for fall prevention.

Method: Convergent Care Research was used as a methodological route. Data were collected from February to October 2017, with the participation of nine elderly people with Parkinson's disease.

Integrative and complementary practices in the Unified Health System: unveiling potentials and limitations.

Objective: To understand the perception of professionals in the Family Health Strategy and the Family Health Support Center units regarding the use of integrative and complementary practices in the Unified Health System, revealing potentials and limitations.

Method: A qualitative and participatory study articulated using a dialogical methodological reference performed in Culture Circles with professionals of a municipality of the South of Brazil. The disclosure was carried out concurrently with the participation of the respondents.

Nursing care practices for people with Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases.

Objective: To understand care practices for people with Chronic Noncommunicable Disease, developed by Primary Health Care nurses in a municipality in southern Brazil.

Method: Qualitative study, developed through the Discourse of the Collective Subject. Twenty-three nurses from the Family Health Strategy participated.

Promoting the autonomy of rural older adults in active aging.

Objective: to understand how the rural older adults promote their autonomy in active aging.

Method: qualitative research through the Paulo Freire's research itinerary, consisting of three steps: area of research; encoding and decoding; and critical unveiling. Seventeen older adults living in the rural area of a municipality in Southern Brazil participated in the research.

[A comparative study of primary care health promotion practices in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada].

The study aimed to compare the experiences with the organization of universal public healthcare systems in relation to health promotion in primary care units in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This was a descriptive exploratory study with a qualitative approach in primary care units. Data were collected with semi-structured interviews containing questions on health promotion practices, with 25 health professionals in Florianópolis and 10 in Toronto.

Health promotion practices in primary care groups.

This is a descriptive-exploratory study using a qualitative approach, conducted in ten municipalities in southern Brazil. Data were obtained by talking to 21 nurses from February to November 2012, through semi-structured interviews using questions to probe their health promotion practices. Data were analyzed through thematic analysis focused on health promotion concepts.

[Health promotion in primary care: study based on the Paulo Freire method].

The scope of this study is to analyze the implementation of health promotion actions in the working process of the Family Health Teams of a city in the state of Santa Catarina. It involves research adopting a qualitative approach linked to the methodological benchmark of Paulo Freire, consisting of three dialectic moments: thematic investigation; encoding and decoding; critical revelation. Fifteen Culture Circles were conducted, covering five district health units, with the participation of 70 professionals.

[The practical applicability of empowerment in health promotion strategies].

The scope of this study is to identify what empowerment strategies were addressed for the promotion of health in health research, characterizing them from a socio-critical and post-structuralist standpoint. It involved an Integrative Review conducted in May 2011 of the Medline, Lilacs and SciELO databases. The inclusion criteria were complete research articles, case reports or experience reports, published between 2002 and 2011 in Portuguese, Spanish and English.

[The promotion of women's autonomy during family health nursing consultations].

We adopted a qualitative approach combined with the methodological framework of Paulo Freire, consisting of thematic investigation, coding and decoding, and critical unveiling, to understand whether nursing consultation promotes women's autonomy in a health center. Six Culture Circles that were each two hours long were conducted, with an average of nine participants each, between May and July 2011. The investigation revealed eight topics of importance, although two were particularly important: the need for dialogue on domestic violence and the relationship between nurses and participants during consultations.