Burden and social support in informal caregivers of people undergoing kidney dialysis: a mixed study.

Objectives: to analyze the burden and the social support of the informal caregivers of people undergoing kidney dialysis.

Methods: mixed study, based on the Theory of Stress and Overload, using instruments of sociodemographic characterization, the Social Support Survey from the Medical Outcomes Study, Zarit's Burden Scale, and guiding questions. Analysis of data used statistical and thematic inferences.

Burden and social support in informal caregivers of people undergoing kidney dialysis: a mixed study.

Objectives: to analyze the burden and the social support of the informal caregivers of people undergoing kidney dialysis.

Methods: mixed study, based on the Theory of Stress and Overload, using instruments of sociodemographic characterization, the Social Support Survey from the Medical Outcomes Study, Zarit's Burden Scale, and guiding questions. Analysis of data used statistical and thematic inferences.

The Influence of Plasma Composition in the Thermal Cyclic Performance of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia (8YSZ) Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs).

In the combustion chambers of gas turbine engines, ZrO-8wt.%YO (YSZ) TBCs are commonly applied by air plasma spray (APS) using Ar-/H-based plasmas via legacy torches. Alternatively, N/H plasmas could be used with the potential of increasing overall deposition efficiency (DE) and hence reduce the consumption of high-value feedstock powder.

High-Temperature Cycling of Plasma Sprayed Multilayered NiCrAlY/YSZ/GZO/YAG Thermal Barrier Coatings Prepared from Liquid Feedstocks.

High-enthalpy hybrid water/argon-stabilized plasma (WSP-H) torch may be used for efficient deposition of coatings from dry powders, suspensions, and solutions. WSP-H torch was used to deposit two complete thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) with multilayered top-coat. NiCrAlY was used as bondcoat and deposited on nickel-based superalloy substrates.

For a Vygotskian concept of nurse professional identity: reflective essay.

Objective: to understand the nurse professional identity from a vygotskian perspective and to understand its implications in the education process of nursing students.

Methods: theoretical-reflexive study, based on the historical-cultural approach of Lev Seminovich Vigotski.

Results: the perspective of human cultural development defended by Vigotski can support an understanding of nurse professional identity as a complex psychological construction, which takes into account both the elements of the historical-cultural context that circumscribes the profession and the subject, as well as the set of psychological functions, developed by the subject in personal and professional relationships.

Construction of professional identity in nursing students: qualitative research from the historical-cultural perspective.

Objective: to analyze the process of professional identity construction in undergraduate nursing students during their education.

Method: qualitative research, anchored in the Historical-Cultural framework. Twenty-three undergraduate nursing students took part.

Effects of prayer on the vital signs of patients with chronic kidney disease: randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To assess the effect of prayer on blood pressure, heart rate and respiratory rate in patients with chronic kidney disease and learn their perception of the intervention.

Method: A randomized controlledtrial, double blind with a sample of volunteers, randomized into an intervention group (n=42) and a control group (n=37). Questionnaires addressing socio-demographic, clinical and spiritual characteristics and the Duke University Religious Index were applied.

Quality of life of people with chronic ulcers.

Introduction: Patients with chronic ulcers have physical, social, and psychological changes that directly affect their quality of life.

Objectives: To evaluate the quality of life and analyze the association between personal and health characteristics in patient quality of life for those with chronic ulcers.

Method: A cross-sectional study, nonprobabilistic.

Representation of nurse's managerial practice in inpatient units: nursing staff perspective.

Objective To understand the meanings that nursing staff gives to nurse's managerial practice in the inpatient unit. Methods This is an exploratory and descriptive research with qualitative approach, conducted in a general hospital in a Southern city of Minas Gerais State. We used the Theory of Social Representations as theoretical framework.

National prevalence survey in Brazil to evaluate the quality of microbiology laboratories: the importance of defining priorities to allocate limited resources.

This report describes a survey of microbiology laboratories (n = 467) serving Brazilian hospitals with ≥10 intensive care beds and/or involved in the government health care adverse event reporting system. Coordinators were interviewed and laboratories classified as follows: Level 0 (no minimal functioning conditions-85.4% of laboratories); Level 1 (minimal functioning conditions but inadequate execution of basic routine-6.

[Profile of the elderly trauma victims assisted at an Emergency Unit].

The objective of this study was to identify the epidemiological profile of elderly victims assisted at the Emergency unit of a university hospital. This is a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study. Data treatment was performed using descriptive statistics, charts and tables.

Titania-hydroxyapatite nanocomposite coatings support human mesenchymal stem cells osteogenic differentiation.

In addition to mechanical and chemical stability, the third design goal of the ideal bone-implant coating is the ability to support osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Plasma-sprayed TiO(2)-based bone-implant coatings exhibit excellent long-term mechanical properties, but their applications in bone implants are limited by their bioinertness. We have successfully produced a TiO(2) nanostructured (grain size <50 nm) based coating charged with 10% wt hydroxyapatite (TiO(2)-HA) sprayed by high-velocity oxy-fuel.