Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study.

Background: Moral distress, defined as moral suffering or a psychological imbalance, can affect nursing students. However, many new instruments or adaptations of other scales that are typically used to measure moral distress have not been used for nursing students.

Aim: This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of an Italian version of the Moral Distress Scale for Nursing Students (It-ESMEE) for use with delayed nursing students (students who could not graduate on time or failed the exams necessary to progress to the next level).

Validity and reliability of the self-care of hypertension inventory (SC-HI) in a Brazilian population.

Background: Poor self-care in patients with hypertension is associated with worse patient outcomes. The Self-Care of Hypertension Inventory (SC-HI) measures self-care in patients with hypertension and includes three scales: self-care maintenance, which measures adherence to prescribed treatments and behaviors; self-care management, which evaluates the responses to signs and symptoms of high blood pressure; and self-care confidence, which measures self-efficacy in dealing with the entire process.

Objective: To test the psychometric characteristics of the Brazilian version of the SC-HI.

Effect of motivational interviewing in hypertensive patients (MIdNIgHT): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Only one-third of hypertensive patients achieve and maintain blood-pressure control. This is attributed to low treatment adherence and has a negative impact on clinical outcomes. Adherence is multidimensional and involves aspects both related to patient characteristics and to the chronic nature of the disease.

Surgical safety in catheterization laboratory.

Objective: To describe the process of implanting the surgical safety checklist in a catheterization laboratory (CL).

Method: Descriptive case report study about the safety strategies developed in the last six years in a university hospital in the southern region of Brazil.

Results: The six international patient safety goals (IPSG) were incorporated into the care practice in accordance with the hospital's Joint Comission International (JCI) accreditation program, through a continuous process of educational nature.

Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Self-care of Hypertension Inventory Into Brazilian Portuguese.

Background: Lifestyle changes and treatment adherence still constitute a challenge to healthcare providers involved in the care of persons with hypertension. The lack of validated instruments measuring the ability of hypertensive patients to manage their disease has slowed research progress in this area. The Self-care of Hypertension Inventory, originally developed in the United States, consists of 23 items divided across 3 scales: Self-care Maintenance, Self-care Management, and Self-care Confidence.

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric testing of the brazilian version of the self-care of heart failure index version 6.2.

Objective. To adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the SCHFI v 6.2.

[Adherence to appointments and medication treatment of patients from randomized clinical trials of the industry].

Historical cohort study that assessed the adherence rate of patients of randomized clinical trials (RCT) of pharmaceutical industry in cardiology to appointments and follow-up medical treatment. This study was conducted at the cardiology research unit in a public university hospital in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. High adherence was regarded as > or = 80%.