Perceived Social Support and Quality of Life of Children with and without Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Social support and Quality of life (QoL) are important aspects of life and should be explored during the specific scenario of the pandemic.

Aims: (i) to compare the perceived social support (PSS) in caregivers and the domains of QoL of the caregiver and the child with developmental disabilities (DD) and typical development (TD); (ii) to verify the existence of the association, in each group, between the PSS, and the domain of QoL of the caregiver and the child.

Methods And Procedures: 52 caregivers of children with DD and 34 with TD participated remotely.

Exploration of the Feasibility of Remote Assessment of Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities: Parents' Perspectives and Related Contextual Factors.

The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted face-to-face health services, leveraging telehealth strategies. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate, from a parent's perspective, the feasibility of a remote assessment of functioning in children with developmental disabilities during the pandemic and related contextual factors, based on how parents carry out the assessment. Parents of children with developmental disabilities (mean age = 7.

Mapping of health services to urinary catheter users: challenges for the advanced nursing practice.

Objective: To map and to identify the material distributed in the health care network to urinary catheter users in a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Method: Quantitative, descriptive-exploratory study, carried out with supervisors and/or managers of health services and a unit of distribution of materials used by urinary catheter users. Data were collected using a questionnaire and an interview via electronic form and analyzed by descriptive statistics.

Complementary therapies in education, community extension and research in nursing.

Objective: Report the implementation of integrative and complementary practices in a Nursing course at a federal university in the fields of teaching, research and extension.

Method: As a reference, the concept of nursing care anchored in the integrality and the avant-garde legacy of Florence Nightingale was used. The report is structured in two topics: the first describes the experience itself, and the second brings a critical reflection about the limits, achievements and challenges.

Health advocacy and primary health care: evidence for nursing.

Objectives: to analyze nursing actions involving health advocacy in the context of primary health care and the consolidation of this right to health.

Methods: this is an integrative literature review with content analysis of the results on health advocacy and its relationship with nursing in the context of primary health care.

Results: the content analysis of the seven selected studies resulted in two thematic categories: "Right to health - a complex and progressive consolidation movement in Brazil" and "Advocacy in health and nursing".

Perceptions of brazilian nursing faculty members regarding literacy of human rights related to health in nursing undergraduate programs.

Background: In the context of global health, the work of nurses is of key importance, given their role as diplomats in global health and as fundamental forces in the construction of global partnerships. This study seeks to identify the understanding and perceptions of Brazilian nursing faculty members regarding literacy of human rights related to health in nursing undergraduate programs.

Methods: Methodological, quantitative and cross-sectional study carried out with nursing faculty members from 20 Brazilian higher education institutions.

Social Determinants of Health in the lives of urinary catheter users.

Objective: To identify the influence of social determinants of health on the life conditions of patients who use intermittent urinary catheters.

Method: This was a descriptive study conducted in a rehabilitation center with 243 neurogenic bladder patients who used clear intermittent urinary catheters. The study was carried out between March 2012 and October 2015, using interviews based on semi-structured instruments, and data analysis using descriptive statistics.

Nursing and Global Health: social determinants of health in the training of nurses.

Objective: To evaluate to which extent nursing professors understand how social determinants of health impact on health, and whether the topic is addressed in nursing undergraduate education in Brazil.

Method: This is a methodological study carried out with 222 nursing faculty members from Brazilian higher education institutions. The answers of the domain "Social and environmental determinants of health", concerning a questionnaire on "Core Competencies in Global Health", were analyzed.

Quality of Life of Intermittent Urinary Catheterization Users and Their Caregivers: A Scoping Review.

Aims: This study aimed to examine and map the scientific evidences regarding quality of life in neurogenic bladder patients and consequently their caregivers by means of a scoping review.

Design: This is a scoping review proposal of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

Methods: It was conducted to examine and map the scientific evidences about quality of life (QoL) in neurogenic bladder patients and their caregivers, to identify the meanings attributed to QoL and its relation with intermittent urinary catheterization.

Quality of life of patients using intermittent urinary catheterization.

Objectives: measure and compare the quality of life of neurogenic bladder patients using intermittent urinary catheterization who were going through rehabilitation in Brazil and Portugal.

Method: multicenter, quantitative, cross-sectional, observational-analytic and correlational study executed in Brazil and Portugal. Two data collection tools were used, being one questionnaire with sociodemographic and clinical data and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-bref.

Development of a theoretical-practical script for clinical simulation.

Objective: To develop a theoretical-practical script based on the opinion of experts to be used in simulated clinical activities.

Method: Qualitative study through analysis of content of interviews with experts on the theme in order to develop the proposed script. Of the 24 invited experts, 12 specialists from educational institutions in Brazil and abroad participated in the study in compliance with the ethical precepts.

Quality of life and ethics: A concept analysis.

Background:: In health, ethics is an essential aspect of practice and care and guarantees a better quality of life for patients and their caregivers.

Objective:: To outline a conceptual analysis of quality of life and ethics, identifying attributes, contexts and magnitudes for health.

Method:: A qualitative design about quality of life and ethics in health, considering the evolutionary approach in order to analyse the concept.

Comfort, well-being and quality of life: Discussion of the differences and similarities among the concepts.

Highlights: The distinction among the concepts of comfort, well-being and QoL is often unclear.This ambiguity can lead to redundancies, gaps, and knowledge dispersion.The concepts are not surrogate terms but related concepts sharing common attributes.

Effectiveness of intermittent urinary catheterization in patients with neurogenic bladder: a systematic review protocol.

The objective of this review is to investigate the effectiveness of the use of intermittent urinary catheterization in improving the quality of life (QoL) of patients with neurogenic bladder.

Intermittent urethral catheterisation: the reality of the lubricants and catheters in the clinical practice of a Brazilian service.

Aims And Objectives: To identify how catheters and lubricants have been used among patients using intermittent urinary catheterisation in rehabilitation.

Background: The clean intermittent urinary catheterisation technique is an invasive procedure can cause discomfort, pain and urethral traumas. The use of lubricants and lubricated urinary catheters reduces the friction between the catheter and the urethral mucosa, minimising the risks.

Intermittent Urinary Catheterization: The Impact of Training on a Low-Fidelity Simulator on the Self-Confidence of Patients and Caregivers.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify how training on a low-fidelity simulator impacts the confidence of caregivers and patients with neurogenic bladder who use clean intermittent urinary catheterization.

Design: Quasi-experimental study.

Methods: Developed in a rehabilitation center in Brazil including patients who use clean intermittent urinary catheterization and caregivers from September to November 2013.

The Evolution of World Health Organization's Initiatives for the Strengthening of Nursing and Midwifery.

Purpose: To describe the evolution in the resolutions approved by World Health Organization (WHO)'s World Health Assembly (WHA) to strengthen nursing and midwifery.

Methods: Qualitative and descriptive study, undertaken through a search of resolutions presented by WHA, on the WHO website, regarding the theme "strengthening of nursing and midwifery." The resolutions on the theme "nursing and midwifery" were included, whose titles were available and whose full texts were accessed, excluding those on general health themes.