Ineffective health management in hemodialysis patients: content analysis.

Objective: To analyze the content of the nursing diagnosis Ineffective Health Management in hemodialysis patients.

Method: The Nursing Diagnoses Validation Model by Lopes, Silva and Auraújo was used in this research. A semi-structured questionnaire and evaluated the definition, location, defining characteristics, and related factors of the diagnosis Ineffective Health Management was answered by 22 experts in nursing diagnosis.

Pruritus in hemodialysis patients: association with phosphorus intake and serum calcium level.

Objective: To analyze the association between the occurrence of pruritus and adherence to the prescribed diet, biochemical indicators of renal function and the quality of hemodialysis in chronic renal patients.

Method: A cross-sectional study performed at a dialysis clinic in the Northeast of Brazil, with 200 patients undergoing hemodialysis in the first half of 2015.To analyze the data, inferential statistics were used, using Chi-Square and Fisher's Exact tests; and Mann Whitney U test.

Ineffective Health Management in Hemodialysis Patients: Diagnostic Accuracy Study.

This study analyzed the accuracy of clinical indicators of ineffective health management in hemodialysis patients. A diagnostic accuracy study was performed in 200 chronic kidney disease patients undergoing hemodialysis during the first half of 2015. Measures of sensitivity and specificity were calculated using latent class analysis.

Ineffective Protection in Hemodialysis Patients: Sociodemographic and Clinical Context.

Purpose: To analyze the association between components of the nursing diagnosis ineffective protection (00043) and sociodemographic and clinical data of hemodialysis patients.

Method: Cross-sectional study was conducted during the first half of 2015 with a sample of 200 patients from a reference clinic of nephrology. A structured instrument containing operational definitions was used to collect data.

Clinical validation of the nursing diagnosis of ineffective protection in haemodialysis patients.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the clinical validity of indicators of the nursing diagnosis of "ineffective protection" in haemodialysis patients.

Background: Haemodialysis patients have reduced protection. Studies on the nursing diagnosis of "ineffective protection" are scarce in the literature.

Excess fluid volume: sociodemographic and clinical analysis in haemodialysis patients.

Objective:: To analyse the defining characteristics and related factors in the nursing diagnosis Excess fluid volume and its relationship to sociodemographic and clinical variables in haemodialysis patients.

Method:: Cross-sectional study, conducted using a form and physical examination, with a sample of 100 patients, between December 2012 and April 2013 at a university hospital and a dialysis clinic.

Results:: It was found 10 significant statistical associations between the defining characteristics/ related factors of Excess fluid volume and the sociodemographic and clinical variables.

Nursing diagnoses and adaptation problems among chronic renal patients.

Objective: To identify similarities between NANDA International nursing diagnoses and Roy's adaptation model among chronic renal patients undergoing hemodialysis.

Methodology: Cross-sectional and descriptive study with 178 individuals selected, through consecutive convenience sampling, in a dialysis center located in the Northeast of Brazil. The study was conducted between October 2011 and February 2012.

Venous ulcer: risk factors and the Nursing Outcomes Classification.

Objective: To explore the relationship between the risk factors for the development of venous ulcers and the indicators of tissue integrity from the Nursing Outcomes Classification.

Methodology: A cross-sectional study conducted in 2013 in a university hospital in Natal/RN (Brazil). Fifty individuals selected by consecutive sampling participated in an interview and physical examination.

Association Between Nursing Diagnoses and Socioeconomic/Clinical Characteristics of Patients on Hemodialysis.

Purpose: To analyze the association between nursing diagnoses and socioeconomic/clinical characteristics of patients on hemodialysis.

Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted by means of interview and physical examination of 178 patients consecutively selected.

Findings: Nursing diagnoses within the NANDA-I domains of health promotion, nutrition, activity/rest, perception/cognition, sexuality, safety/protection, and comfort presented statistically significant association with the socioeconomic/clinical data of age, education, sex, marital status, and duration of the chronic renal disease and hemodialysis.