Human-animal interaction and One Health: establishment and validation of the Brazilian version of the Animal Empathy Scale.

Objective: To design and validate a Brazilian version of the Animal Empathy Scale, based on the existing Portuguese version.

Methods: Content validity assessment was performed by expert judges, and the adapted scale was administered to a sample of 386 participants. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed.

Nature-Based Interventions Targeting Elderly People's Health and Well-Being: An Evidence Map.

Background: Healthy aging encompasses more than the absence of disease, emphasizing the preservation of functional abilities for enhanced well-being and quality of life. Nature-based interventions are scientifically proven contributors to healthy aging.

Objective: To develop an evidence map showcasing nature-based interventions targeting older individuals' health and well-being.

A time with e-Natureza (e-Nature): a model of nature-based health interventions as a complex adaptive system.

Discussions surrounding the positive impacts of nature on human health and strategies to enhance our connection with the natural world have been ongoing. However, a limited number of theoretical models are available to guide research and practice in this area. Therefore, there is a pressing need for a systematic framework that outlines clear steps for conducting research implementing nature-based interventions.

Nature Photographs as Complementary Care in Chemotherapy: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Unlabelled: The incidence of cancer cases is increasing worldwide, and chemotherapy is often necessary as part of the treatment for many of these cases. Nature-based interventions have been shown to offer potential benefits for human well-being.

Objective: This study aims to investigate the outcome of nature images on clinical symptom management related to chemotherapy.

Nurses' perception of solutions proposed by nurse leaders in face of COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To evaluate the perception of bedside nurses regarding the implementation of solutions proposed by nurse leaders for patient and employee care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Nurse leaders have proposed solutions to better manage the challenges of the pandemic. However, multiple factors influence the transposal of actions from the tactical to the operational levels.

Nurses in the triage of the emergency department: self-compassion and empathy.

Objective: to adapt the Consultation and Relational Empathy Measure (Brazilian version) for nurses; to evaluate the concurrence between empathy self-reported by nurses and that perceived by patients; To correlate self-compassion to the empathy self-reported by nurses and perceived by patients.

Method: seven specialists validated the Consultation and Relational Empathy Measure Nurses (Brazilian version)' adaptation by original author's authorization. A sample with 15 triage nurses and 93 patients they admitted to the Emergency Department of a philanthropic private hospital were interviewed according to the following instruments: Consultation and Relational Empathy Measure - Nurses (Brazilian version) and the Self-Compassion Scale (Brazilian version).

[Therapeutic touch for the healing of skin injuries in guinea pigs].

This study verifies the action of therapeutic touch--a complementary practice- over the process of healing of injuries caused in the skin of guinea pigs. It is a quantitative study of the experimental kind, and there was a comparison of healing speed among 10 guinea pigs that received water energized with such technique (group B) and 10 guinea pigs that received water with no treatment (group A). The project was executed in the experimental laboratory of the Nursing School at the University of São Paulo, and the length of the bruises was measured five times, at every four days.