Health surveillance guides public policies, allows for the monitoring of occupational exposures that may cause health risks, and can prevent work-related diseases. The scoping review protocol herein is designed to map studies on the surveillance of occupational exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in gas stations and identify the governmental agencies and public health measures in different countries. This review protocol is based on the Joanna Briggs Institute manual and guided by the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective is to unveil the reasons for vaccine hesitancy among parents and/or guardians of children and adolescents toward the prevention of COVID-19. This is a descriptive study, with a qualitative approach that seeks to analyze the answers to the open question "Why will you not vaccinate or have not vaccinated or are in doubt about vaccinating the children and adolescents under your responsibility, for the prevention of COVID-19?". The research included adult individuals, Brazilians, living in the country, responsible for children and adolescents under 18 years of age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study identified and mapped worldwide surveillance actions and initiatives of drinking water quality implemented by government agencies and public health services. The scoping review was conducted between July 2021 and August 2022 based on the Joanna Briggs Institute method. The search was performed in relevant databases and gray literature; 49 studies were retrieved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article aims to characterize the work process of the prison health team in the state of Paraíba. This is an exploratory research, with a qualitative approach, carried out with two Prison Primary Care Teams in the state of Paraíba. Individual interviews were carried out with health professionals in order to elucidate the work process developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUniversal access to clean and safe drinking water is essential for life maintenance since exposure to poor quality water is harmful to health. Drinking water quality is part of public health actions and, together with sanitation, a human right essential for life and a sustainable development goal. Moreover, an independent surveillance system conducted by the Ministry of Health or government agencies is needed for the safety of drinking water quality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCien Saude Colet
November 2021
We aim to describe the construction and validation of the logical model and the matrix of criteria for assessing care to people with mental disorders in conflict with the law. This is a methodological research, carried out from February to December 2019, following three procedures: 1) theoretical - composed of an evaluability study performed from documentary research and interviews with key informants; 2) empirical - construction of the collection instrument and selection of experts for the validation process of the proposed evaluation instrument; and 3) analytical - performing two Delphi steps. The evaluability study resulted in the elaboration and agreement of the logical model; the analysis and comparison between the reality of the policy and the logical model; and the elaboration of the matrix of criteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: to identify and map the invasive procedures performed by nursing that can cause Healthcare-Associated Infections in patients in Intensive Care Units.
Methods: this is a scoping review carried out in the first half of 2018, based on search for studies in national and international databases, in which 2,209 studies were found, of which 35 constituted the final sample. The data were analyzed and organized by simple descriptive statistics.
This is a scoping review of which objective was to identify and to map the use of photography as a data collection technique in qualitative research in the health area. The research was guided by the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute and presented according to the recommendations of PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews. Qualitative studies in the health area that used photography as a data collection technique were included.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: to identify and map the mental health care offered to patients admitted to forensic psychiatry institutes in Brazil.
Method: a scoping review was guided by the JBI Institute Reviewer's Manual. Searches took place in February 2019, in six databases, using descriptors and synonyms.
Objective: To identify and map the online data collection strategies used in qualitative researches in the health field.
Methods: This is a scoping review guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) from the Joanna Briggs Institute. We analyzed scientific articles, theses and dissertations from 12 databases.
Objectives: to analyze the main non-conformities of the nursing records of a public hospital in Natal, Brazil.
Methods: this is a descriptive, cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach. This study was conducted in nursing departments of medical and surgical wards.
Objective: To identify and map nursing care to the adult patient with Healthcare-Associated Infections admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.
Method: Scoping Review, conducted in January 2018, through the search of studies in national and international databases, journals, catalogs of theses and dissertations, and websites of Brazilian health institutions. We included full surveys published in the Portuguese, Spanish or English language; which had as object of study the researched subject, besides manuals and protocols.
Objective: To describe the process of hypermedia construction to support the teaching of the Systematization of the Nursing Care (SNC).
Method: Methodological research of educational technology development. The hypermedia construction stages were conducted from February 2015 to March 2016 and integrated theoretical studies, focus group with professors and educational technology development process in the light of the referential Theory of Significant Learning.
The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of age-period and cohort (APC) of birth on mortality for acute myocardial infarction in Brazil and its geographic regions, according to sex in the period from 1980 to 2009. The data was extracted from the Mortality Information System and was corrected and adjusted by means of proportional redistribution of records with sex and age ignored, ill-defined causes, and corrections were made based on the death sub-register. The APC was calculated using the Poisson regression model with estimable functions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: to describe the content validation process of a Virtual Learning Object to support the teaching of nursing care systematization to nursing professionals.
Method: methodological study, with quantitative approach, developed according to the methodological reference of Pasquali's psychometry and conducted from March to July 2016, from two-stage Delphi procedure.
Results: in the Delphi 1 stage, eight judges evaluated the Virtual Object; in Delphi 2 stage, seven judges evaluated it.
Objective: To analyze the concept of virtual learning object and environment according to Rodgers' evolutionary perspective.
Method: Descriptive study with a mixed approach, based on the stages proposed by Rodgers in his concept analysis method. Data collection occurred in August 2015 with the search of dissertations and theses in the Bank of Theses of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel.
Objective: The objective research is analyzing the nursing care in intensive care units from the perspective of patient safety based on health evaluation.
Methods: This is an evaluation research, for the purpose of issuance of judgment or judgment on a given system, carried out in six intensive care units. Data collection occurred from April to July 2014, in locu, with a validated instrument containing 97 questions related to patient safety.
Objective: To describe how patient safety is addressed in YouTube videos.
Methods: descriptive study with a quantitative approach. Data was collected in May 2015, at YouTube's search field, with descriptor "patient safety".
Objective:: summarize the dissertations and theses produced by nurses available in the Catalog of Theses and Dissertations of the Brazilian Nursing Association, from volume XIX to XXXII, that address patient safety.
Method:: this is a documentary study. After data collection, the following variables were analyzed: academic level, educational institutions, year, place, type of service, study object, study method, subjects, priority protocol of patient safety, implications and final recommendations.
Epidemiol Serv Saude
October 2018
Objective: to analyze cervical cancer mortality trends in the state of Rio Grande do Norte and its health micro-regions from 1996 to 2010, as well as to make projections for five-year periods from 2011 to 2030.
Methods: this was an ecological time series study; negative binomial regression was used to analyze trends and projections.
Results: rates above 5.
Objective: To understand the perception of nursing professionals in public hospital intensive therapy units regarding patient safety.
Methods: This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Eighty nursing professionals who developed welfare activities in general intensive care units in Northeastern Brazil participated.
Aim: To analyze the effect of age-period and birth cohort on gastric cancer mortality, in Brazil and across its five geographic regions, by sex, in the population over 20 years of age, as well as make projections for the period 2010-2029.
Methods: An ecological study is presented herein, which distributed gastric cancer-related deaths in Brazil and its geographic regions. The effects of age-period and birth cohort were calculated by the Poisson regression model and projections were made with the age-period-cohort model in the statistical program R.
Objective: To analyze the execution of urinary catheterization technique of male delay in YouTube videos.
Methods: This is an exploratory research with a quantitative approach, performed using the YouTube sharing site. The search of the videos was conducted in September 2014, using the controlled descriptor "urinary catheterization".
Objective: To analyze the videos on the YouTube video sharing site, noting which points addressed in the videos related to CPR and BLS, based on the 2010 Guidelines for the American Heart Association (AHA).
Methods: This was an exploratory, quantitative and qualitative research performed in the YouTube sharing site, using as keywords the expressions in Portuguese equivalent to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) "Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" and "Basic Life Support" for videos that focused on the basic life support.
Results: The research totaled 260 videos over the two searches.