Text Messaging (SMS) Helping Cancer Care in Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy Treatment: a Pilot Study.

Cancer treatment is an extremely stressful life experience that is accompanied by a range of psychological, social, physical, and practical difficulties. Cancer patients need to receive information that helps them to better understand the disease, assists them in decision-making, and helps them deal with treatment. Patients are interested in receiving such information.

The bond as a soft technology in the daily routine of the Family Health Strategy: perception of the user.

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the production of a bond between users and health care professionals in a Family Health Unit (FHU).

Methods: This was a qualitative, descriptive study, with 33 hypertensive and/or diabetic users. Interviews were transcribed, analyzed and data were compared to the literature.

[Work in the Basic Health Unit: implications for nurses' quality of life].

The study aimed to know the perception of the nurses that work in the health basic units from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, about their life quality in work (LQW). This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study, carried out with seven nurses, through semi-structured interviews, submitted to thematic analysis. Inadequate conditions at work, professional belittling and insufficient support from the managers were categories related to low of low LQW meanwhile the interpersonal relations and the satisfaction with the activity of caring were categories positively related to professional performance and the LQW.