Development and validation of a pocket guide for the prevention of diabetic foot ulcers.

Objective: Diabetic foot ulcers can have serious consequences, including amputation. This project aimed to develop and validate a diabetes care management model-a pocket guide on the prevention of foot ulceration to assist health professionals and scientific societies.

Methods: An adaptation of the Iowa method of evidence-based practice to promote high-quality care was employed.

Development, validation and application of clinical simulation scenarios for assessment of stomatherapy specialists.

Objectives: to build and validate three clinical simulation scenarios and report the application with candidates for the specialist's degree in stomatherapy.

Methods: methodological study, building three scenarios and evaluation checklists; content validation with judges, using content validity index and Modified Kappa Coefficient; pre-test and application.

Results: scenarios built based on nursing care for: 1.

Degree of risk for foot ulcer due to diabetes: nursing assessment.

Objective: To classify the level of risk for foot ulcers in people with diabetes mellitus and identify their main predictive risk factors.

Method: Exploratory, descriptive study, in which patients were assessed in a municipal ambulatory of São Paulo through nursing consultation, following the guidelines of the International Consensus on the Diabetic Foot. Data were descriptively analyzed.

Bariatric surgery: impact on sexuality of the obese person.

Objective: To assess the impact of surgical treatment in the sexuality of the obese.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative / quantitative research with 30 patients who had undergone Fobi-Capella Roux-Y gastric bypass for at least one year. We collected data through individual interviews using a questionnaire with 10 mixed questions and one open, between May and June 2011.

[Bariatric surgery: its effects for obese in the workplace].

This descriptive exploratory research aims to analyze the effects of bariatric surgery in the lifestyle of people with class III obesity in the workplace, through individual interviews with patients undergoing gastric bypass in gamma-Rouz. Data collection was conducted in June and July, 2011, by means of individual interviews, yielding three Collective Subject Discourse: "More willingness to work" "Life without comorbidities" and "Other effects of bariatric surgery." 30 patients with mean age 44 +/- 12 years old, 24 (80%) female, 19 (63%) performed paid professional activities, 10 (34%) did not work and one (3.