Publications by authors named "Maria Helena Borgato"

Objectives: to identify vulnerabilities of nurses who work in an intensive care unit.

Methods: an integrative review was held from 2006 to 2019, with searches on the platforms/databases LILACS, BDENF, SciELO, MEDLINE, Scopus, CINAHL, and Web of Science. The theoretical framework of ergology, by Schwartz, was used and the guiding question "What are the main vulnerabilities of nurses who work in an intensive care unit"?

Results: eleven articles were included.

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Objectives: to compare social, health and working conditions among nursing, nutrition and hospital cleaning service workers.

Methods: a quantitative cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational study carried out in a public hospital in the countryside of São Paulo, including workers from nutrition, cleaning and nursing services. Data collection occurred during working hours.

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Objective: To analyze the production of research that adopted as object of investigation: institutional strategies, actions and programs to curb and/or prevent the nursing workplace violence.

Method: Integrative review of 14 articles in full, available in the databases LILACS, PubMed Central, Scopus, CINAHL and Web of Science.

Results: Of the articles analyzed, most arise from quantitative research (71%), carried out in the United States (65%), with educational actions (57%) and programs (43%), denoting policies.

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Objective: To analyze the reports of incidents related to potentially hazardous medications distributed at a teaching hospital in the interior of São Paulo.

Methods: A descriptive, retrospective study with a quantitative approach of data from the analysis of pharmacovigilance notifications that occurred between January 2009 and December 2014, from tables and graphs, showing the absolute/relative frequencies.

Results: From 786 reports of pharmacovigilance, 188 were related to potentially hazardous medicines, 36.

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Background: Enteral nutrition therapy can be provided using comercialized products (chemically defined formulas) or blenderized home-made preparations.

Objective: To perform an integrative review of the literature comparing the use of both type of formulation.

Methods: In this descriptive study papers published in English, Spanish or Portuguese Brazil, in journals indexed in the databases PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, Web of Science and Bireme without the period 2010 to 2015 were reviewed The terms "enteral nutrition, foods, formulated, diet, homemade diet industrial and artisanal diet" according to the MeSH were used for the search.

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Objectives:: describe how the process of breaking bad news is established and identify how nurses approach the task of giving bad news.

Method:: integrative review of the literature for articles in Portuguese and English published between 1993-2014, in the databases: Bireme, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL and Embase. Nine articles were included using the selection flow chart.

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Objective:: To assess the prevalence of smoking and associated variables in female sex workers (FSWs).

Methods:: This was a quantitative cross-sectional study involving FSWs in the city of Botucatu, Brazil, who completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, including data regarding smoking status, motivational stage of change, and degree of nicotine dependence, as well as the Perceived Stress Scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.

Results:: We included 83 FSWs.

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The objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of socio-demographic variables and oral health conditions in the quality of life of non-institutionalized people aged 50 or above, living in Bauru, São Paulo State. Clinical oral examinations were conducted on a sample of 224 people including dental caries, periodontal disease and usage or need of dental prosthesis according to WHO suggestions for community dental health surveys. They were also asked to answer a questionnaire comprised of 49 questions about the impact of their oral status on the activities of daily living (OHIP).

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