Caring for children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic: innovations and changes experienced by nurses.

Objective: To understand the experience of nurses working in pediatric units in the face of innovations and changes in the process of caring for children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, the objective is to understand the typical experience of nurses in this care.

Method: Qualitative research, which involved the participation of 16 nurses from pediatric units of a public teaching hospital.

Family adaptation in families of individuals with Down syndrome from 12 countries.

Our current understanding of adaptation in families of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) is based primarily on findings from studies focused on participants from a single country. Guided by the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation, the purpose of this cross-country investigation, which is part of a larger, mixed methods study, was twofold: (1) to compare family adaptation in 12 countries, and (2) to examine the relationships between family variables and family adaptation. The focus of this study is data collected in the 12 countries where at least 30 parents completed the survey.

Measurement of Family Management in Families of Individuals With Down Syndrome: A Cross-Cultural Investigation.

Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability worldwide. The purpose of this analysis was to determine the internal consistency reliability of eight language versions of the Family Management Measure (FaMM) and compare family management of DS across cultures. A total of 2,740 parents of individuals with DS from 11 countries completed the FaMM.

Importance of families in nursing care for people with mental disorders: attitudes of Portuguese and Brazilian nurses.

Objective: To characterize and compare the attitudes of nurses working in primary healthcare on the importance of involving the families of people with mental disorders in nursing care.

Method: A cross-sectional study carried out in the cities of Porto (Portugal) and São Paulo (Brazil). Data was collected in 2018 using the "The Importance of Families in Nursing Care - Nurses' Attitudes" scale.

Giving Voice to Caregivers: a game for family caregivers of dependent individuals.

Objective: To construct and assess a board game created to promote the effective transition of family members into caregivers of dependent individuals.

Method: This was a qualitative exploratory and descriptive case study conducted with family caregivers of dependent individuals.

Results: The study resulted in the conceptualization, construction, and assessment of the board game.

The impact of chronic kidney disease:experiences of patients and relatives from the extreme North of Brazil.

Objectives: To identify the impact of chronic kidney disease on patients and their families.

Methods: This is a qualitative study conducted by the theoretical and methodological reference of Symbolic Interactionism and Narrative Research. The scenario of the study was the State of Amapá, in the extreme north of Brazil.

Family interview guide: strategy to develop skills in novice nurses.

Objective: describe the skills of nurses to conduct family interviews based on the Family Care Guide for Nursing Clinical Practice.

Method: exploratory case study that analyzed the content of 16 guides applied to a child emergency service by a novice nurse from the family nursing area.

Results: the records indicated the presence of perceptual, conceptual, and executive skills required to conduct family interviews, in particular skills for the development of genograms, therapeutic relationships, and actions to fulfill family needs.

The experience of rural families in the face of cancer.

Objective: To understand the meanings of cancer within the experience of rural families and how such meanings influence family dynamics.

Method: Qualitative study guided by Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical framework and Grounded Theory as a methodological framework. Six rural families (18 participants) undergoing the experience of having a relative with cancer participated in the interview.

Self-efficacy scale for the establishment of good relationships with families in neonatal and pediatric hospital settings.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and test the psychometric properties of the Self-efficacy Scale for the Establishment of Good Relationships with Families in Neonatal and Pediatric Hospital Settings.

Method: Methodological study grounded on self-efficacy theory was conducted in three phases: conceptual and operational definition (review of the literature and interviews with the target population), content validity (opinion of five experts e three clinical nurses), and exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency reliability (cross-sectional survey with a valid sample of 194 nurses).

Results: A ten-point Likert scale with 40-item was designed and one item was excluded after review by experts.

Family caregivers: what do they need? An integrative review.

Objective: Aimed to identify the main needs expressed by family caregivers in caring for adependent person.

Method: An integrative review of the literature in the period between 2010 and 2015 using specific search engine tools in the EBSCO and SCOPUSdatabases.

Results: 11 articles were selected, and the analysis of the scientific evidence obtained allowed for organizing the results into five thematic areas:transition into care, being responsible for everything, the importance of support, access to formal support, communication and informationprocesses.

[Family's presence in the pediatric emergency room: opinion of health's professionals].

Objective:: To learn the opinion of health professionals regarding the presence of family during pediatric emergency care.

Methods:: Cross-sectional study, performed with 46 health professionals, members of the medical and nursing team of a pediatric emergency service. The data were collected via the application of a questionnaire composed by variables related to the opinion of professionals about the studied subject, in line with the professional category and the vocational training time, as well as invasive procedures during which the presence of family is authorized by the professionals.

[Decision making satisfaction in health scale: instrument adapted and validated to Portuguese].

Decision making is an area of health research that has gained importance both for the partnership models of care that give prominence to the patient and family, either by growing concern about quality and customer satisfaction with the care provided. So we decided to make the cultural adaptation and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version "The Satisfaction with Decision Scale" de Holmes-Rovner (1996), which aims to assess satisfaction with the decisions taken in health. The sample consisted of 521 nursing students the School of Nursing of Porto.

Nurses' attitudes regarding the importance of families in pediatric nursing care.

Affective, cognitive and behavioral components affect nurses´ attitudes to include families in the care processes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of nurses about the importance of including families in nursing care. Data collection was performed in pediatric and maternal-child unit of a Brazilian university hospital.

[Scale of conflict in health care decision-making: an instrument adapted and validated for the Portuguese language].

The different options available to patients in the health environment now are implicated in increasingly difficult processes of decision-making, and may trigger conflict about them. This study had as its purpose, to develop an instrument that enabled us to know about this variable. Therefore, we decided to effect a transcultural adaptation and evaluation of psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Decisional Conflict Scale, which seeks information about decision-making and the factors that influence the choices made.

Clinical role of the nurse: concept analysis.

Aims And Objectives: To identify the attributes of the concept 'clinical role of the nurse' in the literature.

Background: The concept of nurses' clinical role is frequently mentioned in literature, but hardly explored in conceptual terms. This has implications for nursing practice and education.

[Reflections on the excessive rates of cesareans in Brazil and the empowerment of women].

The medicalization of childbirth as an outcome of social medicalization has been described as a complex sociocultural process that transforms the experiences, suffering and pain - which were formerly managed in the family or community settings - into medical needs. The scope of this paper is to reflect upon the excessive number of cesarean sections in Brazil from a critical and objective standpoint. Data on caesarean section statistics and studies on women's preference on the manner of delivery are discussed in order to contribute to the discussion on the empowerment of the health system consumers.

[Stomas in neonatology: recovering the mother's memory].

The scientific production overview that concerns the family and stomas urges for studies about the subject, especially about the experience in neonatal period. The present study aimed to comprehend mothers' experience about stomized children during neonatal period or the hospitalization period in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The methodological approach adopted in this study was Oral History, where interviews were conducted with nine mothers.

[Evidence-based practices published in Brazil: identification and analysis studies about human health prevention].

Integrative review of Brazilian studies about evidence-based practices (EBP) about prevention in human health, published in Web of Science/JCR journals, between October 2010 and April 2011. The aim was to identify the specialties that most accomplished these studies, their foci and methodological approaches. Based on inclusion criteria, 84 studies were selected, mainly published in public health journals, focusing on primary care and also addressing clinical issues and different specialties.

Imaginative construction of care: the nursing professional experience in a remote care service.

The direction of care delivery goes from the action to the being; a process built from professional experience, which gains special characteristics when the service is delivered by telephone. The goal of this research was to understand the interaction between professionals and users in a remote care service; to do so, a research is presented, using Grounded Theory and Symbolic Interactionism as theoretical references. Data were collected through eight interviews with professionals who deliver care by telephone.

[Evidence-based practices published in Brazil: identification and analysis of their types and methodological approches].

This is an integrative review of Brazilian studies on evidence-based practices (EBP) in health, published in ISI/JCR journals in the last 10 years. The aim was to identify the specialty areas that most accomplished these studies, their foci and methodological approaches. Based on inclusion criteria, 144 studies were selected.

The meaning of interaction between nursing professionals and newborns/families in a hospital setting.

This study aimed to understand the meaning of the nursing team's communication with newborns and families during care delivered in a neonatal unit and also to develop a theoretical model. Symbolic Interactionism and Hargie's model were used as theoretical and Grounded theory as the methodological reference framework. The study was carried out at the nursery of a hospital in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

The emergence of family nursing in Brazil.

A family perspective has been influencing Brazilian nursing practice and research, in particular in the past decade. Despite this development, there is evidence from research and from nurses' narratives that nurses still experience serious challenges in providing nursing care to families in Brazil. These challenges are analyzed and strategies are offered to support nurses in Brazil to "think family" and stimulate advanced practice in family nursing.