Cross-mapping of nursing diagnoses and interventions in decompensated heart failure.

Objective: To map the terms recorded in medical records of patients with decompensated heart failure for nursing diagnoses and interventions from the NANDA International and Nursing Interventions Classification.

Method: This is an exploratory and descriptive research, carried out by a cross-mapping study. Data were collected from 107 medical records of a Hospital Institute in the city of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, in a period between October 2017 to February 2019.

Effectiveness of health education in the self-care and adherence of patients with heart failure: a meta-analysis.

Objective: to evaluate in the literature the effectiveness of the health education interventions in self-care and adherence to treatment of patients with Chronic Heart Failure.

Method: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Studies were selected that compared health education interventions with the usual care to assess the outcomes of adherence and self-care.

Association between depressive symptoms and quality of life in outpatients and inpatients with heart failure.

Objective: To analyze sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, depressive symptoms and quality of life of patients with heart failure and associate quality of life with depressive symptoms.

Method: A cross-sectional study conducted with outpatients and inpatients. Sociodemographic data were collected and questionnaires were applied to assess quality of life (Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire) and depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory).

Risk factors for coronary artery disease in nursing students.

Objectives: to identify and discuss the main risk factors for coronary artery disease, observed in nursing students.

Methods: an observational and cross-sectional study conducted with nursing students at a public college in Niterói, RJ. Data collection involved instruments validated for use in Brazil.