Characteristics of music intervention to reduce anxiety in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization: scoping review.

The characteristics of music interventions for reducing anxiety in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization were mapped. A scoping review was conducted according to the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. Searches were performed in electronic portals and databases PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane, EMBASE, Scopus, LILACS, CAPES Thesis Portal (Brazil), DART-Europe E-theses Portal, Theses Canada Portal, Pro-Quest, and Google Scholar databases, gray literature, with no limitation on the year of publication.

Factors associated with caregivers' contribution to self-care in heart failure.

Objective: to analyze the caregiver's contribution to self-care in heart failure and the predictor variables of this contribution.

Method: a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study, with the participation of 140 dyads (patients and caregivers). The contribution to self-care was assessed using the Caregiver Contribution to Self-Care of Heart Failure Index.

Transitional care from the hospital to the home in heart failure: implementation of best practices.

Objectives: Assess the compliance of the implementation of better evidence in the transitional care of the person with heart failure from the hospital to the home.

Methods: Evidence implementation project according to the JBI methodology in a cardiology hospital in São Paulo. Six criteria were audited before and after implementing strategies to increase compliance with best practices.

SCHFI 6.2 Self-Care Confidence Scale - Brazilian version: psychometric analysis using the Rasch model.

Objective: to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Self-Care Confidence Scale in heart failure in the Brazilian version of the Self Care Heart Failure Index, version 6.2, using the Rasch model criteria.

Method: secondary study, of psychometric analysis, using the Rasch model, of the six items of the scale.