Transitions experienced by mothers of children/adolescents with sickle cell disease in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To analyze the transitions experienced by mothers and children/adolescents with sickle cell disease after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: A qualitative study involving 19 mothers of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews via WhatsApp, followed by Thematic Analysis and Descending Hierarchical Classification with the help of Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Texteset de Questionnaires and interpreted in the light of Afaf Meleis' Transition Theory.

Nursing protocol for children with sickle cell disease in emergency room: a convergent-care approach.

Objective: to describe the methodological process of developing a nursing care protocol for children with sickle cell disease in the emergency room.

Method: convergent care research, carried out in a public pediatric hospital in the state of Bahia, with 12 emergency nurses specialist. Data production took place between July 2020 and April 2021, with semi-structured interviews, observation in a field diary and convergence groups, according to the research phases: conception, instrumentation, scrutiny and analysis.

Stigma experienced by men diagnosed with COVID-19.

Objective: to analyze the stigma characteristics perceived in the experience of men who had COVID-19.

Method: this qualitative study involved men living in Brazil, diagnosed with COVID-19, who answered semi-structured questions in an online form. Data were subjected to thematic and lexical analysis, interpreted in the light of the stigma theory.