Effects of Cognitively Based Compassion Training in the outskirts: A mixed study.

Objective: to analyze the effects of Cognitively Based Compassion Training (CBCT®) among people in situations of social vulnerability.

Method: a mixed, sequential and transformative study with the same QUAL→QUAN weight. Focus Groups were applied at the beginning (n=24) and three months (n=11) after CBCT®, to understand the participants' knowledge about emotions, (self)care and stress situations.

Healthcare: action research with trans people living on the streets.

Objectives: to analyze the representations of healthcare provided to trans people living on the streets.

Methods: ten women (three trans) and three cisgender men participated in this action research. Popular health education groups, focus groups, seminars and interviews were held, the data of which were organized in the software Nvivo®, submitted to content analysis and interpreted in the light of intersectionality theory.

Teachers' social and emotional competencies in nursing technical education.

Objectives: to identify the socio-emotional competencies in teachers who work in a Nursing technical course.

Method: qualitative study in the action research modality. Inclusion criteria: being a teacher in a Nursing technical course.

Nursing Students' Relational Skills with Elders Improve through Humanitude Care Methodology.

Nursing students have difficulties interacting with cognitively impaired elders. This study aimed to identify students' difficulties in interacting with elders, the causes of the difficulties in interacting with elders, the strategies used to reduce these difficulties, and the importance attributed to the Structured Sequence of Humanitude Care Procedures (SSHCP). It also aimed to assess the contribution of the Humanitude Care Methodology (HCM) to the development of interaction skills in nursing students.

Educational actions: an action research with Family Health Strategy professionals and users.

Objectives: to identify the factors that influence educational actions, and building with professionals and users proposed educational strategies that encourage popular participation.

Methods: an action research, in which individual interviews, participant observation and Focus Group were conducted. Sixteen professionals and ten users from 2 Family Health Strategy from Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil participated.

Humanitude in the humanization of elderly care: experience reports in a health service.

Objective: To describe the experience in the implementation of the Humanitude Care Methodology (MCH) in the humanization of care for the elderly.

Methodology: This is an experience report about the implementation of the MCH, in a Health Service in Portugal, with capacity for 30 elderly people, most of them having cognitive alterations.

Results: The implementation of the MCH has shown positive results in the humanization of care for the elderly, namely in the reduction of agitation behaviors and better acceptance of care.

Implementation of the Humanitude Care Methodology: contribution to the quality of health care.

Objective: to evaluate the contribution of the implementation of the Humanitude Care Methodology to the quality of health care in a Continuing Care Unit.

Method: an action-research study with a non-probability convenience sampling, involving 34 health professionals from one unit in Portugal. Data was collected through a questionnaire and an observation worksheet for the Structured Sequence of Humanitude Care Procedures.

Education practices: research-action with nurses of Family Health Strategy.

Objective: to identify the factors that determine the implementation of educational practices of health promotion and to construct proposals to implement the educational actions of the nurses of the Family Health Units (FHU).

Method: research-action in which individual interviews and focus group were conducted, with 17 nurses from 12 FHU in the city of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre state, Brazil. The results were organized by the thematic analysis method.

Positive Effects of a Stress Reduction Program Based on Mindfulness Meditation in Brazilian Nursing Professionals: Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation.

Context: Mindfulness meditation has been shown to effectively mitigate the negative effects of stress among nursing professionals, but in countries like Brazil, these practices are relatively unexplored.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of a Stress Reduction Program (SRP) including mindfulness and loving kindness meditation among nursing professionals working in a Brazilian hospital setting.

Design: Pilot study with a mixed model using quantitative and qualitative methods was used to evaluate a group of participants.

The effects of meditation-based interventions on the treatment of fibromyalgia.

Meditation is the third most commonly requested complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy reported in a US survey. Those who suffer from chronic pain are those who most frequently use CAM therapies. This review aims to evaluate whether meditation-based interventions can help the treatment of fibromyalgia.

[Professional satisfaction of the nurse professor: a qualitative study].

The aim of this study was to recognize the satisfaction of the nurse professor of the nursing graduation course and to identify factors which, according to the professors, interfere in this state of satisfaction. Semi-structured interviews were performed with eight nurse professors from an official nursing school in the city of São Paulo. The results were analyzed according to the plan of the content analysis proposed by Bardin, under a qualitative approach.

[Work process of professional nurses: perceptions of undergraduate nursing falculty].

The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of undergraduate nursing faculty about the work processes of professional nurses, particularly, nursing care and competency - from ways of learning, knowing, and doing, which were developed during their undergraduate nursing education. Focus groups among fifteen undergraduate faculty members were conducted to collect data for this qualitative study. Content analysis was used to analyze the data.