Integrating factors associated with complex wound healing into a mobile application: Findings from a cohort study.

Complex, chronic or hard-to-heal wounds are a prevalent health problem worldwide, with significant physical, psychological and social consequences. This study aims to identify factors associated with the healing process of these wounds and develop a mobile application for wound care that incorporates these factors. A prospective multicentre cohort study was conducted in nine health units in Portugal, involving data collection through a mobile application by nurses from April to October 2022.

Clinical validation of the nursing diagnosis risk for disturbed maternal-fetal dyad in high-risk pregnancy: A case-control study.

Purpose: To obtain evidence of the clinical validity of the nursing diagnosis (ND) risk for disturbed maternal-fetal dyad in high-risk pregnancy.

Method: Causal validation of the ND through a case-control study performed in a university hospital with 155 high-risk pregnant women: 31 cases and 124 controls. A causal association was found between the ND etiological factors and the occurrence of disruption of the symbiotic maternal-fetal dyad; an association was verified when the etiological factor presented a p-value <0.

Clinical validation of the nursing diagnosis decreased diversional activity engagement in patients with diabetes.

Background: Diagnostic accuracy studies are important to identify the best set of defining characteristics for a given nursing diagnosis. The reliability of nursing inferences can be increased by using clinical indicators with high prediction capacity helping nurses to be more accurate in their clinical practice.

Objective: To clinically validate the nursing diagnosis Decreased diversional activity engagement in adult patients with diabetes.

Middle-Range Theory of Ineffective Breathing Pattern in children with Congenital Heart Disease.

Objective: to develop and evaluate a middle-range theory for the Nursing Diagnosis of Ineffective Breathing Pattern in children with congenital heart disease.

Method: a methodological study carried out in two stages: 1) development of a middle- range theory for Ineffective Breathing Pattern in children with congenital heart diseases from the analysis of the NANDA-International taxonomy, Callista Roy's Adaptation Model and a literature review; and 2) assessment of the middle-range theory developed using expert panel evaluation.

Results: after three panel evaluations, the final version of the middle-range theory resulted in four metaparadigms, two key concepts, two pictorial diagrams, two propositions and a description of the interrelationships between the key concepts of Ineffective Breathing Pattern in children with congenital heart diseases and evidence for the Nursing practice.

Clinical Indicators of Impaired Swallowing in Children with Neurological Disorders.

Objective: To investigate the clinical indicators of the nursing diagnosis impaired swallowing in children with neurological disorders.

Methods: An integrative review was performed on the Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Lilacs and Cinahl databases; by crossing the terms impaired degluition, dyphagia, deglutition disorders, cerebral palsy, microcephaly, which resulted in 45 articles.

Results: Eighteen indicators were identified in the oral phase, ten in the pharyngeal phase, and nine in the esophageal phase.

Diagnostic Accuracy of the Defining Characteristics of Impaired Swallowing in Children with Encephalopathy.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the accuracy of the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis of impaired swallowing in children with encephalopathy. The measures of diagnostic accuracy for each indicator were verified through latent class analysis. The prevalence of swallowing impairment was 59.

Nursing students' diagnostic accuracy using a computer-based clinical scenario simulation.

Background: Being able to make accurate clinical decisions about actual or potential health problems is crucial to provide a safe and effective care. However, nursing students generally have difficulties identifying nursing diagnoses accurately.

Objective: To compare the diagnostic accuracy within and across the NANDA-I diagnoses domains of junior, senior, and graduate-entry students.

Accuracy of nursing diagnosis "readiness for enhanced hope" in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Objective: To analyse the accuracy of the nursing diagnosis readiness for enhanced hope in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study with 62 patients in the haemodialysis clinic conducted from August to November 2015. The Hearth Hope Scale was used to create definitions of the defining characteristics of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International.

Clinical validation of the NANDA-I diagnosis of impaired memory in elderly patients.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to perform a clinical validation of the defining characteristics of impaired memory (IM) in elderly patients at a long-term care institution.

Methods: A sample of 123 elderly patients was evaluated with a questionnaire designed to identify IM according to the NANDA-I taxonomy. Accuracy measures were calculated for the total sample and for males and females separately.

The construction and evaluation of new educational software for nursing diagnoses: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Student nurses often have difficulties with diagnostic inferences. To achieve high accuracy nursing diagnoses, effective learning strategies are required.

Objective: To describe the construction and evaluation of new educational software called Wise Nurse, which was developed to increase the capacity of student nurses to identify nursing diagnoses (NDx) and to establish relationships between NDx, defining characteristics (DC), and related factors (RF).

[Kidney transplanted patients: nursing diagnoses association analysis].

Chronic kidney inadequacy is a disease with serious physical, psychological and socioeconomic implications for the patient. The renal transplant provides life quality to chronic renal patients. The purpose of this study is to analyze associations among nursing diagnoses, related factors and defining characteristics present in renal transplanted patients of a university hospital.

[Analysis of risk indicators for the arterial hypertension in children and teenagers].

The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk indicators for high blood pressure in children and teenagers. A cross-sectional study developed with 342 individuals of 6-18 years of age in a school of Fortaleza city. The most individuals were male (51.