Psychometric evaluation of the Functional Health Pattern Assessment Screening Tool - Modified Brazilian Version.

Objective: to test the factorial structure, reliability and convergent validity of the Functional Health Pattern Assessment Screening Tool - Modified Brazilian Version.

Method: this was a psychometric evaluation of the Functional Health Pattern Assessment Screening Tool - Modified Brazilian Version. Seven hundred and seventeen participants answered the data collection instrument consisting of two parts.

Diagnostic concordance among nursing clinical decision support system users: a pilot study.

Objective: To analyze the nursing diagnostic concordance among users of a clinical decision support system (CDSS), The Electronic Documentation System of the Nursing Process of the University of São Paulo (PROCEnf-USP®), structured according to the Nanda International, Nursing Intervention Classification and Nursing Outcome Classification (NNN) Taxonomy.

Materials And Methods: This pilot, exploratory-descriptive study was conducted from September 2017 to January 2018. Participants were nurses, nurse residents, and nursing undergraduates.

Factors that influence health literacy in patients with coronary artery disease.

Objective: to investigate the factors that exert an influence on health literacy in patients with coronary artery disease.

Methods: a crosssectional study, including 122 patients with coronary diseases (60.7% male; 62.

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.

Blood Pressure Control and Adherence to Drug Treatment in Patients with Hypertension Treated at a Specialized Outpatient Clinic: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objective: To evaluate and identify variables associated with the control of hypertension and adherence to antihypertensive drug treatment in a group of patients with hypertension monitored in a specialized, highly complex outpatient service.

Methods: A prospective, cross-sectional study was carried out in the hypertension unit of a tertiary teaching hospital. Patients diagnosed with hypertensive aged 18 years and over and accompanied for at least six months were included in the study.

An integrative review of comprehensive nursing assessment tools developed based on Gordon's Eleven Functional Health Patterns.

Purpose: To evaluate the content and psychometric properties of comprehensive nursing assessment tools developed based on The Eleven Functional Health Patterns Assessment Framework.

Methods: An integrative literature review following Whittemore and Knafl's method and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Searches on PubMed, Cinahl, and Virtual Health Library were conducted between September and December 2018.

Content validation of the nursing outcome Knowledge Heart Failure Management: Brazilian nurses' opinions.

Purpose: To estimate the content validity of the outcome Knowledge: Heart Failure Management (1835) of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC).

Methods: A methodological study conducted in Brazil with nurses with expertise in cardiovascular nursing and nursing process. The nurse experts evaluated the relevance of the indicators for the nursing outcome on a 5-point Likert scale.

Brazilian Nursing Process Research Network contributions for assistance in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to describe the theoretical construction process of nursing process support documents in COVID-19 care scenarios.

Methods: an experience report of the joint activity of the Brazilian Nursing Process Research Network (Rede de Pesquisa em Processo de Enfermagem) composed of Higher Education and Health Institution researchers in Brazil.

Results: five instruments were organized collectively, involving the elements of nursing practice (nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions) in assistance for community; for patients (with suspected or mild, moderate, and critical COVID-19 and residents in Nursing Homes); for nursing workers' health support, also subsidizing registration and documentation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Content validation of the symptom control outcome for heart failure patients in palliative care.

Objectives: To estimate the content validity of the Symptom Control nursing outcome for heart failure patients in palliative care and to analyze the influence of experts' experience in the judgment of the relevance of indicators.

Methods: A methodological study conducted in São Paulo in 2018, with an adaptation of Fehring's validation model. The relevance of the 11 outcome indicators was assessed by 19 experts by means of an electronically submitted survey.

The Nurse-Patient Outcome Content Validation Method.

Purpose: To describe a new method of validating nursing outcomes and indicators that incorporates nurses' and patients' perspectives.

Methods: The Nurse-Patient Outcome Content Validation Method was developed in light of the experience of conducting the content validation of the nursing outcome Knowledge: Heart Failure Management (1835). It was developed based on Fehring's content validation model used for the validation of NANDA International nursing diagnoses.

Relationship between functional capacity, performance and symptoms in hospitalized patients with heart failure.

Objectives: to evaluate the prevalence of symptoms in heart failure patients and to investigate the relationship between symptoms, functional capacity and performance.

Methods: cross-sectional study, developed at a hospital specializing in cardiology. The sample (n=170) consisted of patients with heart failure, assessed by means of a sociodemographic form, New York Heart Association Functional Class, Edmonton Symptom Rating Scale and Karnofsky Physical Performance Scale.

Conceptual and operational definitions for the indicators of the nursing outcome classification: Symptom control in patients with heart failure in palliative care.

Objective: To validate conceptual and operational definitions of Symptom control (1608) indicators for patients with cardiac diseases in palliative care.

Method: Definitions were established through a literature review and were validated by consensus among expert nurses. Two rounds of the Delphi method and a meeting with experts were carried out in order to validate the definitions for the indicators and for the magnitude of response for each indicator.

Reliability and viability of using the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20 in patients with chronic coronary artery disease.

Objective: To verify the reliability and viability estimates of using the translated and adapted version of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20 for use in Brazil in patients with chronic coronary artery disease.

Method: A methodological study. The instrument was answered by the participants without the help of the researchers.

Pulse Pressure and Mortality Risk in Critically Ill Patients.

Background: Pulse pressure is a hemodynamic variable easily measured in the intensive care unit.

Objective: To investigate whether pulse pressure is an independent risk factor for mortality in intensive care unit patients.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was carried out in Brazil.