Publications by authors named "Juliana de Lima Brandao"
Objective: to analyze the social representation of spiritual surgeries in Umbanda for Bantu-Amerindian ritual mediums and their contributions to the cross-cultural care proposed by Madeleine Leininger.
Methods: a descriptive-exploratory, qualitative study, supported by the procedural approach of Social Representation Theory and Transcultural Nursing Theory, carried out with 30 Umbanda mediums of the Bantu-Amerindian ritual through interviews, submitted to the Iramuteq software for lexical analysis.
Results: mostly women, white, with an average of 46 years old and approximately 14 years of practice in Umbanda participated.
Objective: to discuss undergraduate students' sexual behavior from the perspective of social markers and cross-cultural care proposed by Madeleine Leininger.
Methods: descriptive-exploratory qualitative research, with a theoretical-philosophical foundation in the Transcultural Theory. Convenience sample was composed of 57 young people from two universities in Rio de Janeiro.
Objective: to analyze the social representations about sexually transmitted infections elaborated by undergraduate students.
Methods: a descriptive, qualitative study, in the light of the structural approach of Social Representation Theory, carried out with 160 young undergraduate students, in the second half of 2019, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Data were collected using a sociodemographic characterization questionnaire, knowledge and practices for preventing sexually transmitted infections, analyzed using descriptive statistics and a form of free evocations with the inducing term STD, analyzed using prototypical and similarity analysis.
The object of study refers to the representations of spirituality and religiosity for women who belong to Afro-diasporic religions, specifically those who are faithful to Umbanda and Candomblé. The objective was to analyze the representational structure of spirituality and religiosity for Umbandist and Candomblecist women with the aim of thinking of an explanatory model of this symbolic construction and implications for the practice of care in the area of health. Qualitative study, in the light of Social Representations in its structural approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence and Factors Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in Patients at a Psychosocial Care Center: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
August 2022
Article Synopsis
- Metabolic syndrome (MS) is common among individuals with mental illness, with a study in Salvador, Brazil finding a prevalence rate of 35.2% in patients at a Psychosocial Care Center.
- Factors like obesity, increased waist circumference, and polypharmacy were noted, with 85.9% using antipsychotics.
- Key associations with MS included being female, using antidepressants, experiencing depression, having acanthosis, and having a hypertriglyceridemic waist, indicating the need for improved clinical screening for physical health in this population.