Publications by authors named "Luana Cristina Bellini Cardoso"
Objective: To identify factors associated with cognitive, emotional, psychomotor, and relational skills of informal caregivers in home care.
Methods: A cross-sectional study carried out with a sample of 216 informal caregivers residing in a municipality in the state of Paraná. Data collection took place between February and July 2019, with an instrument developed and validated to assess the skills of informal caregivers.
Objectives: to understand the meanings attributed to the changes experienced after bariatric surgery by people with obesity.
Methods: this is a study with a qualitative approach, with a theoretical framework in Symbolic Interactionism; and methodological, in the Grounded Theory. There were 12 participants who underwent bariatric surgery in two health services (bariatric surgery clinic; general hospital).
Objective: To learn about the perceptions of the professionals who work in Primary Health Care about mental health care.
Methods: Descriptive and qualitative study, carried out with 29 health workers through open and individual interviews. The IRaMuTeQ® software was used to organize the data which, then, was submitted to a content analysis process in the thematic modality.
Objectives: to build and validate educational self-care technology for informal caregivers.
Methods: methodological study, anchored in the Delphi technique, carried out in a municipality in the state of Paraná, Brazil, between September 2018 and November 2019. It was developed in three stages: situational diagnosis; elaboration of educational technology; content and appearance validation by expert judges and informal caregivers, using the content validity index and coefficient of variation.
Objectives: to indentify the time trend of rates of organs and tissues effective donors, of reports and types of transplanted organs per million people of the Brazilian population.
Methods: ecological study, of time series, about reports of organ donations and on transplants. The data were provided by the Registro Brasileiro de Transplantes and analyzed using polynomial regression.
Objective: to analyze the effect of vertical gastrectomy on lipid profile and cardiometabolic risk in young women, preoperatively and 6 months after the operation.
Methods: retrospective study, encompassing medical record reviews of women's charts, preoperatively and in six months after the operation. Data collection was performed in the second half of 2015, using a review protocol with questions on the clinical-laboratory profile, anthropometric and laboratory classification of dyslipidemias.