Psychometric properties of the Providers Survey in the Brazilian context of mental health: a validation study.

Background: Precisely determining the aspects related to an instrument's validity and reliability measures allows for greater assurance of the quality of the results.

Objectives: To analyze the psychometric properties of The Providers Survey in the Brazilian context of mental health services.

Design And Setting: The instrument validation study was conducted in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Analysis of evaluations performed by undergraduate nursing alumni: a Brazilian multicenter study.

Objective: To compare evaluations performed by undergraduate nursing alumni in three dimensions: sociodemographic characterization, identification and insertion into the job market, and professional training evaluation.

Methods: Cross-sectional, quantitative, and multicenter study with alumni of three Brazilian public institutions. Data analysis was carried out according to the internal reliability of the used instrument and by applying descriptive statistics.

Mortality in community-dwelling elderly: coefficient and associated factors.

Objective: Analyze the coefficient, associated factors, and causes of mortality in community-dwelling elderly.

Method: Longitudinal and analytical study. Data collection, at baseline, was performed in the elderly's home.

The construction and validation of an instrument for the assessment of graduates of undergraduate nursing courses.

Objective: to construct an instrument for the assessment of graduates of undergraduate nursing courses and to validate this instrument through the consensus of specialists.

Method: methodological study. In order to elaborate the instrument, documental analysis and a literature review were undertaken.

Early impact of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in childhood pneumonia hospitalizations using primary data from an active population-based surveillance.

Background: In Brazil, 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) was introduced in 2010 in the childhood routine immunization program. We used primary data to evaluate the effect of PCV10 on the reduction of hospital admissions due to community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).

Methods: Active population-based surveillance studies on pneumonia hospitalizations in children aged <36 months were conducted before and after PCV10 introduction in Central Brazil.

[Influence of socioeconomic factors on the quality of life of elderly hypertensive individuals].

This study sought to evaluate the association between socioeconomic variables and the quality of life of elderly hypertensive patients treated under the Family Health Program in the city of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil. An analytical cross study was conducted in a representative sample of 294 elderly hypertensive patients. Data were collected using a questionnaire on socioeconomic characteristics and quality of life (MINICHAL).

Direct effect of 10-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccination on pneumococcal carriage in children Brazil.

Background: 10-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine/PCV10 was introduced in the Brazilian National Immunization Program along the year of 2010. We assessed the direct effectiveness of PCV10 vaccination in preventing nasopharyngeal/NP pneumococcal carriage in infants.

Methods: A cross-sectional population-based household survey was conducted in Goiania Brazil, from December/2010-February/2011 targeting children aged 7-11 m and 15-18 m.

Reports of violence against women in different life cycles.

Objective: to analyze the reports and factors associated with violence against women.

Method: this was a cross-sectional, exploratory and analytical study with information about the cases of reported violence, extracted from the Civil Police Report Bulletin, in a mid-sized city in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Results: out of the 7,487 reports of violence against women, it was found that 44.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in neonates and children attending a pediatric outpatient clinics in Brazil.

Background: In Latin America, few studies have been carried out on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in the pediatric population. We conducted a survey of nasal S. aureus carriage in neonates and in children attending the pediatric outpatient clinics in a large Brazilian city with high antimicrobial consumption.

[Degree of dependence of elderly residents in geriatric long-term care facilities in Montes Claros, MG].

This study aimed to identify the degree of dependence of institutionalized older adults in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It consists of a cross-sectional descriptive study, developed in three non-profit geriatric long-term care facilities in this municipality. The sample was comprised of 125 older adults and data were collected with the use of the Katz Index.

Molecular epidemiological investigation to determine the source of a fatal case of serotype 22F pneumococcal meningitis.

A child's death due to pneumococcal meningitis after contracting the disease in an after-school programme prompted an investigation to assess nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage among her contacts. The serotype of the meningitis case isolate was determined, together with the serotypes of the NP specimens of contacts, comprising the case patient's brother, the case patient's after-school programme contacts and the brother's day-care centre (DCC) contacts. NP swabs from 155 children and 69 adults were obtained.

[Disease-related absenteeism among nursing team members in a teaching hospital].

The article presents results of the research that identified to causes of disease-related absenteeism, justified by medical license, among nursing employees of a public hospital in Montes Claros, MG, Brazil. This is a descriptive-exploratory study. Results indicate that the main reasons for absenteeism are related to musculoskeletal problems and to respiratory diseases; mainly between married female nurse aides, with age between 25 and 45 years, that works in day shift and with more than one employment.

[Unveiling the routine of informal caregivers for the elderly].

This article intends to describe how the informal caregivers interpret and build their daily routine. It is a qualitative study using dialectics as the theoretical-methodological framework. The instrument for data colection was individual interviews with five caregivers for elderly in homes in the Family Health Program, in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

[Bibliographic production about adherence/non-adherence to therapy].

Critical analysis of the Latin American bibliographical production over the last 10 years regarding the adherence/non-adherence to treatment of people with chronic health problems: leprosy, tuberculosis, hypertension, diabetes and AIDS. Thirty six articles were analyzed identifying the variables: year of publication, publication area and kind of study. Most of the articles (27) were produced by professionals of the medical area, in epidemiological studies, and of the nursing area (7) in qualitative and quanti-qualitative studies.

[Children and adolescents with chronic disease: living with changes].

This study concerns descriptive and exploratory, with aimed at apprehending by means of interviews the experiences of children and adolescents with a chronic disease, as it is felt by them. The results show that the lives of children and adolescents are changed by frequent hospitalizations and by the limitations imposed by the disease, which causes alterations particularly in their schooling process. Considering that children and adolescents experience complex feelings and situations in the everyday routine of living with a chronic disease, it is important that health care professionals learn about such needs and incorporate them to care planning, aiming at providing effective intervention in order to promote growth and development.