Correction: Barriers to care for dependent older adults: Brazilian Primary Health Care managers' perspective.

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Low-dose acetylsalicylic acid does not modify maternal vascular reactivity in nulliparas.

Objective: To assess if the low-dose acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) would be capable of modifying endothelial function throughout pregnancy in nulliparous patients.

Methods: A double-blind, randomized clinical trial with 277 were included. A total of 139 were orally administered 100 mg/day of ASA, and 138 received placebo.

Evaluation of the 'Gestação' application from the perspective of semiotics: pregnant women's views.

Evaluating health-related applications is necessary for their adequacy and dissemination in society. The GestAção application was evaluated based on the opinion of 13 pregnant women followed up in prenatal care consultations at three public health services and at a private institution in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Data emerged from an evaluation carried out from June to December 2017, including semi-structured interviews.

Challenges and possibilities of health professionals in the care of dependent older adults.

This study investigates the challenges and possibilities of health professionals in managing care for dependent older adults in PHC. We employed a qualitative approach based on dialectical hermeneutic fusion. Interviews were carried out with 38 health professionals, from June to December 2019, in eight cities in the five Brazilian regions, which resulted in themes about the challenges of professionals in the management of care for older adults, the strategies used, and their suggestions for improving the quality of care for dependent older adults.

"We are humans after all": Family caregivers' experience of caring for dependent older adults in Brazil.

This paper aims to understand the experiences of family caregivers with dependent older adults in Brazil and the consequences of caring for dependent older adults in the family caregiver's life. This is a qualitative multicenter study employing dialectical hermeneutics as a theoretical framework. In-depth interviews were conducted with 84 family caregivers in Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Teresina, Porto Alegre, and Araranguá, and Manaus.

Community health workers caring for dependent elderly people.

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are a link between Family Health Strategy (FHS) professionals and the community. This study aims to analyze health care professionals' perceptions and health management about CHWs' role in caring for dependent elderly people. A qualitative study was carried out, from a hermeneutic-dialectic perspective, with 38 professionals working in elderly people's health in cities in the five regions of Brazil.

mHealth in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections STIs.

The objective of this study was to analyze in the literature how the applications were developed and how they influence the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). PubMed, CAPES Periodicals and Bireme databases were searched using the descriptors sexually transmitted diseases and mHealth combined by the Boolean connector AND. The search considered studies published between 2013 to 2017 available online in Portuguese and English.

Reflective study on participatory diagnosis as a community research strategy.

Objectives: to conceive a theoretical-reflective discussion about participatory diagnosis as a methodological option in participatory research.

Methods: this is a reflection study, based on an experience that used participatory diagnosis as a research strategy in a socially vulnerable community. It was intended to implicate social groups in the search for identification and solution to the problems.

Internet searches for measures to address COVID-19 in Brazil: a description of searches in the first 100 days of 2020.

Objective: to describe profiles of interest of web search queries related to the Covid-19 epidemic in Brazil.

Methods: this was a quantitative and exploratory study using Google Health Trends. We analyzed daily data of interest, defined as search probability (Pr), in 23 terms in searches performed by users connected in Brazil from January 1 to April 9, 2020.

Labor market insecurity for nursing assistants and technicians in the State of Ceará, Brazil.

The article analyzes the labor market of nursing assistants and technicians in the State of Ceará, Brazil, from 2013 to 2017, concerning job insecurity aspects. Two data sources were employed. The cross-sectional Brazilian Nursing Team Profile Survey (PPEB) was used as the baseline, and the longitudinal Annual List of Social Information (RAIS) database, allowed the study of the trend of some of the variables related to job insecurity.

Mobile health technology for gestational care: evaluation of the GestAção's app.

Objective: to evaluate the GestAção application, based on the experience of pregnant women use.

Method: an evaluative, applied, methodological, quantitative-qualitative study. This tool was evaluated by 13 pregnant women through questionnaires for sociodemographic profile characterization and Likert scale use to calculate Content Validity Index (CVI); and semi-structured interview, with analysis based on Semiotics.

Procrastination in the early detection of breast cancer.

Objective: to analyze the meaning of postponement of breast cancer detection based on interviews with 26 women who were submited to mastectomy.

Method: qualitative study based on Symbolic Interactionism with Content Analysis in thematic modality, carried out in a public service outpatient clinic, in a capital city of Northeastern Brazil.

Results: faced with the participants' reports, the theme 'meanings attributed to procrastination of breast health care' emerged.

Development and evaluation of an application for syphilis control.

Objective: to develop and evaluate an application for syphilis control in pregnant women.

Method: methodological research developed between March and November of 2016 in two phases: bibliographic survey of the years 2012 to 2016 in the databases PubMed, CAPES and Scopus and application development. Eight users participated in the usability test and five doctors and five nurses working in prenatal care participated in the evaluation.

Coping with problems that impact on the health of a socially vulnerable community from the residents' perspective.

This research aims to identify the strategies adopted by dwellers of a socially vulnerable community, characterized by social and economic inequality, to address the problems that interfere in the health conditions. A participant investigation anchored in hermeneutics was conducted through participatory diagnosis, with 31 residents of the Dendê community, who were called vital informants. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews, street walking and focus groups.

Mastectomized women's perception of breast cancer early detection.

Background: A third of new cases of breast cancer could be detected early, which would prevent more serious consequences, such as mastectomy and death. Access to the subjectivity of mastectomized patients becomes relevant to elucidate failures in early detection of breast cancer and thus improve the cancer care network. Given that, the present study aimed to identify mastectomized women's perception of the quality of care provided by the cancer care network for the early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.

Mastectomy and the Meaning Attributed by Patients to Delay in Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer.

Background: Breast cancer is a major public health problem and its early detection (ED) can reduce the number of breast mutilations, morbidity and mortality rates, health costs and negative health outcomes. Given that, this study aimed to assess the meaning attributed by mastectomized women to delay in early detection of their breast cancers. Methods: Qualitative research was conducted with 26 mastectomized women who participated in semi-structured interviews about the meaning of delay in early detection of breast cancer in a reference oncology outpatient clinic in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Northeastern Brazil from December 2015 to January 2016.

Subjective well-being and oral discomfort in older people.

Unlabelled: ABSTRACTBackground:The study aims to assess the relationship between oral discomfort and subjective well-being (SWB) in older people.

Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted in four Reference Centers for Social Welfare in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil. A census was held and individual interviews were carried out with all the older people (n = 246) enrolled in the centers.

Realities and perspectives of adolescent mothers in their first pregnancy.

Objective: to understand the trajectory of adolescents regarding the first pregnancy, contemplating realities and perspectives.

Method: qualitative study, based on the Schütz theoretical framework, with 30 adolescents assisted in an outpatient clinic for adolescents in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. From the narrative interviews carried out in the first semester of 2013, in the return for the first consultation of the puerperium, the communicative processes were identified, the central ideas and units of meanings expressed in the themes were abstracted: I was dating and became pregnant; realities and perspectives.

Participatory diagnosis to identify health problems in a socially vulnerable community.

The Health Promotion paradigm led to the acknowledgment of health due to factors linked to the social, political and economic contexts. In Brazil, health inequities are one of the most striking features of the health situation, challenging the effectiveness of intersectoral policies. This study aimed to understand the perception of socially vulnerable community dwellers of the problems that interfere with the health conditions and the coping strategies used.

Adolescent health promotion and the School Health Program: complexity in the articulation of health and education.

Objective To analyze the context of health promotion with adolescents in the health and education interface focusing on the actions of the Brazilian School Health Program. Qualitative study conducted in 2015 with professionals working in the Regional Executive Coordination IV, in Fortaleza, Ceará. The data obtained in the interview were processed in the ALCESTE program.

Pregnant teenagers' group: contributions to prenatal care.

Objective: To describe changes in nurses' care following the implementation of a group of pregnant teenagers in prenatal care based on the expectations and experiences of pregnant teenagers.

Method: Qualitative and descriptive study conducted from February to November 2013 at a Primary Care Unit in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, through focus groups with 16 adolescents from the group of pregnant women in the second or third trimester of pregnancy. The analysis identified central ideas and units of meanings that formed the categories.

[Protocols in healthcare for female victims of sexual violence from the standpoint of healthcare professionals].

The use of protocols in health care for women suffering from sexual violence was analyzed from the standpoint of health professionals. It involved a qualitative study conducted in 18 institutions with 140 professionals interviewed in Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro. After organization of the data, the clusters of meaning pointed to the potential benefits of the use of protocols; limits to be faced in the adoption of protocols; and the need for protocol development and professional training.

Training for the challenges of sexual violence against children and adolescents in four Brazilian capitals.

This article analyzes the training offered to municipal public employees to confront sexual violence against children and adolescents in four Brazilian capitals. Based on a multiple case study, it focuses on the training programs offered in the 2010-2011 biennium by the municipal government for professionals and managers in the public health network. We analyzed 66 semi-structured interviews and written documents pertaining to the training actions.