Beliefs and practices of the nursing team related to pressure injury preventive measures: A analysis of social representations.

Aims And Objectives: To analyse the process of elaborating social representations about pressure injury preventive measures by the nursing team (nurses and nurse technicians) and how this process relates to preventive practices for hospitalized patients.

Design: Qualitative study, with the application of the theory of social representations in its procedural methodological approach.

Methods: The study was carried out in an inpatient clinic of a public hospital in the state of Rondônia, Brazil.

Preventive Measures For pressure injuries: structure of social representations of nursing teams.

Objective: To analyze the structure of social representations on the preventive measures to pressure injury of nursing teams.

Method: Qualitative research, based on the structural approach of Social Representations. It was conducted with 103 nursing professionals from a specialized hospital, using the Word Association Test.

Social representations of adolescents about sexuality on the internet.

Objective: To apprehend the social representations of adolescents about sexuality on the internet.

Method: Qualitative research, based on the structural approach on the Theory of Social Representations, with adolescents who are users of virtual media and who are students of two state schools. The free word association test was used, whose data were processed by the Evoc® 2005 software and analyzed in the light of the aforementioned theory.

[Competition in the arts of midwifery in the city of Rio de Janeiro from 1835 to 1900].

The article discusses competition between midwives and doctors offering birth-related services in the city of Rio de Janeiro from 1835 to 1900. The research analyzed minutes from meetings, textbooks on births, and terms from qualification examinations for physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, and midwives at the Rio de Janeiro Medical School (Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro), as well as announcements by and advertisements for doctors and midwives in columns featuring advertisements and useful recommendations in the Jornal do Commercio newspaper. An increase in the number of delivery physicians, and their scientific discourses led midwives to feel an obligation to diversify their clientele, consequently establishing themselves and working in lower-class and inhospitable areas.

Social representations of older adults regarding quality of life.

Objective: to identify the social representations of older adults regarding quality of life, and to analyze the care practices adopted to promote it.

Method: qualitative, exploratory, descriptive research, applying the Theory of Social Representations. Thirty older people from a Health Academy of Rio de Janeiro participated in the study.

Social representations of integrative community therapy by the elderly.

Objective: To elicit the social representations of the elderly regarding integrative community therapy (ICT).

Method: This is an exploratory study conducted with 273 elderly people in a municipality of northeastern Brazil, in 2014. It is based on the theory of social representations and the free-association test for the inductor term "integrative community therapy".

Assessment of risk of falls in elderly living at home.

Objective: to assess the risk of falls in elderly, by comparing the sociodemographic and cognitive factors, history of falls and self-reported comorbidities.

Method: cross-sectional and quantitative study with 240 elderly. Data were collected based on the social profile, through the instrument of risk of falls and assessment of falls, by univariate analysis, bivariate and multiple logistic regression.

Changes and events over life course: a comparative study between groups of older adults.

Objective: to identify the changes which had occurred over the last year in the life of older adults, as well as the values attributed to these changes.

Method: this is a multicentric, cross-sectional study, of the inquiry type, undertaken in three cities of the Brazilian Northeast, investigating two distinct groups of older adults.

Results: among the 236 older adults interviewed, it was observed that 30.

From hepatic diseases and jaundice to viral hepatitis: the configuration of a kaleidoscope.

Viral hepatitis A, B, C, D and E--systemic hepatotropic viral infections--present as acute hepatitis that, depending on the etiological agent, viral load and host conditions, may evolve into chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer and acute fulminant disease. The ecological versatility of these viruses, their spectrum of transmission in time and space, potentialized by the sub-clinical course of a large proportion of infections, comprise an epidemiological challenge. This essay describes scenarios and tendencies in the socioepidemiologic profile, based on the history of these infections, and indicates the need to overcome patterns, models, and protocols and instead investigate each particular situation.

[Theses on hepatitis at the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1837-2000].

An inventory of the theses on hepatitis of the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro between 1837 and 2000 is presented. The analysis indicates the potential and limits for discussion of the evolutionary framework of scientific knowledge on these health problems in Brazil. The theories are also discussed in light of their scientific reference points and the technological and social changes that influenced them.

[Social representations of elders' quality of life].

This study aimed to identify elders' social representations of quality of life. This is an exploratory study with a sample of 240 elders, of both sexes. For data collection we used a Free Association Test with Words, using the inductive stimulus 'quality of life" and sociodemographic variables.

[Assessing the risk of falls for the elderly in Basic Health Units].

The world population is aging rapidly, which poses a greater challenge for the institutions involved which, in turn, require new public health policies that include the prevention of falls. The objective of this study was to assess the risk of falls in the elderly. This epidemiological, cross-sectional study was performed at a family health unit, using a quantitative approach.

[Humanization: social representations of a children's hospital].

This study aims at investigating the architectural and built environment aspects involved in the humanizing process in a pediatric hospital and its influence to the recovering of the hospitalized child. Based on the Social Representation Theory, a structural analysis was carried out, using free association of words and a semi-structured questionnaire for data collection. The study was carried out in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the results presented refer to the representations produced by 75 people accompanying hospitalized child.

[The look of teenagers about health: a study on social representation].

Studying the social representations elaborated by adolescents aims to define a purpose to evaluate the Adolescent Healthcare Program (PROSAD) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The study is based on the Social Representation Theory using its structural approach. A word evocation test and a questionnaire with closed and open questions have been used.

[Adherence to an oral health program for HIV infected children and adolescents and the attitudes of their caretakers].

This study aimed to evaluate the adherence to an Oral Health Program (OHP) for HIV infected children and adolescents, as well as the attitudes of their caretakers regarding oral care. A total of 58 caretakers that accompany the children in medical appointments at an AIDS ambulatory were interviewed for collecting personal data and data regarding adherence to the OHP or other odontological treatment and attitudes related to oral care. Approximately 70% of the caretakers stated that their children participated in the OHAP, however 20% of them did not return to the recall appointments; such visits were even less frequent when the caretakers were not the parents themselves (p= 0.

[Tobacco and health in the view of univerity students].

Smoking is a serious public health problem. This study aims at understanding how social representation about smoke/tobacco and health are shared by young university students through the impact of figures contained in cigarettes package in heath. This exploratory study was carried with 63 nursing students in Lisboa, Portugal.

[Thinking health under the perspective of Brazilian immigrants living in Portugal].

This study aimed at determining the social representations on health and immigrants constructed by Brazilians. Samples consisted of one hundred Brazilian male and female immigrants living in Lisbon, Portugal. The technique of free evocation, which uses as inductive words "health "and "immigrant", were used for data collection.

[Health providers' knowledge on transfusion-transmitted viral hepatitis].

Objective: Training health providers is a strategy for improving health care quality that need to be technically correct and comply with the conceptual universe of the trainees. A pilot study was carried out to explore the consistency of knowledge on blood transmission of viral hepatitis among primary care providers.

Methods: A non-identified questionnaire was applied to 190 providers attending a public health training program in 2003 and 2004.

[Ethical issues about seroprevalence studies on viral hepatitis].

Background: Epidemiological studies on viral hepatitis (VH) using new technologies raise ethical issues especially concerning community-based studies on seroprevalence (CSS), sentinel surveillance-based studies (SBS) the use of blood-bank registers (BBR) and serum stocks (SS).

Methods: Positive (PA) and negative (NA) aspects of these different designs are discussed, pointing to alternatives, according to Resolution CNS n masculine 196/96.

Results: Priority for research is justified by VH magnitude, severity, and vulnerability, and need for development of diagnosis/therapy protocols and prevention/control strategies.

Information from teachers on viral hepatitis transmission and prevention in Brazil.

Objective: To assess school teachers' level of knowledge on prevention of viral hepatitis (VH).

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in three cities of Brazil, from August to November of 1999. The sample was composed of 360 subjects: 334 women and 26 men, 81 (22.