Analysis of factors associated with mortality due to sepsis resulting from device-related infections.

Introduction: Health care-associated infections (HAIs) contribute to morbidity and mortality and to the dissemination of multidrug-resistant organisms. Children admitted to the intensive care unit undergo invasive procedures that increase their risk of developing HAIs and sepsis. The aim of the study was to analyse factors associated with mortality due to sepsis arising from HAIs.

Mobile applications as a strategy to support parents in the care of newborns: a scoping review.

Objective: To map and describe studies available in the literature about mobile applications to support parents in newborn care and data from applications accessible in online stores.

Method: This is a scoping review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. The searches were carried out in theses and dissertations databases and portals, in September 2021, and articles, theses, and dissertations were included.

Systemic photobiomodulation in nursing professionals with chronic low back pain.

Introduction: Chronic low back pain is a frequent complaint at health care services, leading to absenteeism and high treatment costs. Photobiomodulation is a cost-effective, non-pharmacological treatment option.

Objectives: To assess the cost of systemic photobiomodulation in nursing professionals with chronic low back pain.

Therapeutic itinerary of children with special health care needs: analysis guided by care systems.

Objective: To understand the therapeutic itinerary taken by families in search of attention to their child's special health care needs in a Brazilian border town.

Method: Qualitative research based on dialectical hermeneutics and on the Health Care Systems model. Interviews and Talking Maps (Dynamics of Creativity and Sensitivity) were carried out with 19 caregivers of children with special health care needs, attended at care institutions in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, in 2020.

Spatial scenery of congenital syphilis in Brazil between 2007 and 2018: an ecological study.

Objective: To analysis the epidemiological scenery of the congenital syphilis (CS) in Brazil employing spatial analysis techniques.

Design: Ecological study.

Settings: This study was conducted in Brazil SAMPLE: A total of 151 601 CS cases notified to the Diseases and Notification Information System from 2007 to 2018 from children aged 0-23 months and born from mothers living in Brazil were included in this study.

Neonatal near miss in the intensive care unit.

Objective: To analyze near miss cases among newborns hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit.

Methods: An observational, cross-sectional, retrospective study using the STROBE guideline. Data were collected from 1,101 records of live births (newborns).

Maternal and child health care: adequacy index in public health services.

Objectives: to analyze the adequacy of maternal and child-care in prenatal care, childbirth and the puerperal period, in the public health service.

Methods: longitudinal study carried out in a city in Paraná with 357 puerperal women in a public maternity ward, outpatient clinic for immediate puerperal return and home visit 42 days postpartum. Four care domains were grouped (1 - Prenatal, 2 - Maternity, 3 - Immediate puerperal return, 4 - Late puerperal return).

Access to care during labor and delivery and safety to maternal health.

Objective: to analyze the time of access to care during labor and delivery and the safety of maternal health.

Method: cross-sectional analytical study, carried out in five maternity hospitals, four of which are of habitual and intermediate risk and one of high risk. For data collection, data from the maternal medical record and interviews with the puerperal woman were used.

Prenatal follow-up of high-risk pregnancy in the public service.

Objective: to analyze the prenatal follow-up of high-risk pregnancy in the public service.

Method: an analytical cross-sectional study carried out in a public maternity hospital in the South of Brazil, during the hospitalization of 319 postpartum women using a semi-structured tool for transcription of the prenatal card records and interview. The data were analyzed using the Chi-Square test (p≤0.

Impact of healthcare-associated infections on the hospitalization costs of children.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of Healthcare-Associated Infections on the hospitalization cost of children.

Method: A prospective, quantitative cohort study involving children admitted to the Inpatient and Pediatric Intensive Care Units of a public university hospital. The data were analyzed through SPSS software by frequency distribution, central tendency measures and dispersion.

Pregnant-puerperal care in Network: the experience of nurses, doctors and administrators.

Objective: Understand the experience of nurses, doctors and administrators of pregnancy-puerperal cycle care to women in the Rede Mãe Paranaense (Freely translated as Paranaense Mother Network).

Method: Qualitative research according to social phenomena with 44 professionals from 10 municipalities of the Regional of Health, in Paraná State, Brazil. The testimonies were recorded until converge and were analyzed following the steps established from the background.

Maternal near-miss in labor and delivery in the light of technologies in health.

Objective: To know maternal near-miss situations during labor and delivery according to technologies in health.

Method: A quantitative study conducted with puerperal women in a public institution in which the maternity department is a reference for high risk care. Data collection was performed from October 2016 to August 2017, and data were processed in SPSS 20.

Prenatal care: preparation for childbirth in primary healthcare in the south of Brazil.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between prenatal care and delivery guidelines In Primary Health Care.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, with 358 puerperal women of a public maternity from the south of Brazil. The data collection was performed from July to October of 2013, with prenatal card data transcription and a structured interview.

NEONATAL SEPSIS: MORTALITY IN A MUNICIPALITY IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL, 2000 TO 2013.

Objective: To describe the neonatal mortality coefficient attributed to sepsis and other causes, and to report the maternal, neonatal and death characteristics of newborn infants that died in the city of Londrina, Paraná, in Southern Brazil.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with a time series analysis. Neonatal deaths that contained neonatal sepsis records in any field of the death certificate between the years 2000 and 2013 were studied.

Expectations and satisfaction of pregnant women: unveiling prenatal care in primary care.

Objective: To analyze the perception of primiparous women about prenatal care in Basic Health Units in a municipality in southern Brazil.

Methods: This is a qualitative research from the perspective of Social Representation Theory, from the following question: How has been the pre-natal care for you? Eighteen pregnant women were interviewed.

Results: The analysis resulted in three categories: Expectation representation about prenatal care; Rescuing the care offered in prenatal consultation; Unveiling the (dis) satisfaction with prenatal consultation.

Mortality among children under the age of one: analysis of cases after discharge from maternity.

Objective: To analyze infant death after discharge from maternity in the time period between 2000 and 2013.

Method: A cross-sectional retrospective quantitative study in a municipality northward in the state of Paraná. Data were analyzed using the SPSS®, and were subjected to Chi-square test, logistical regression, 95% confidence interval, and a significance level of p <0.

[Extremes of maternal age and child mortality: analysis between 2000 and 2009].

Objective:: To analyze the characteristics of infant mortality at the extremes of maternal age.

Method:: Retrospective, cross-sectional quantitative study using data from Live Birth Certificates, Death Certificates and from Child Death Investigation records in Londrina, Paraná, in the years of 2000-2009.

Results:: During the 10-year study period

,: there were 176 infant deaths among mothers up to 19 years of age, and 113 deaths among mothers aged 35 years or more.

[Association between prenatal care and neonatal deaths, 2000-2009, Londrina-PR].

The study aimed to analyze the prenatal care for mothers of infants who died in the neonatal period, in Londrina-PR, through a quantitative retrospective cohort study, between 2000 and 2009. Almost all women held the prenatal care (91.4 %), with 55.

[Determining factors for neonatal mortality in a city in the southern region of Brazil].

This is an ecological quantitative study to identify risk factors that determined neonatal death between the years of 2000 to 2009 in Londrina, Paraná, using data from Birth Certificates, Death Certificates and Infant Death Investigation Forms. The variables maternal age, years of education, family income, occupation, marital status, type of delivery, and number of prenatal appointments were not associated to neonatal death. To the contrary, birth weight, gestational age, Apgar score at 1 and 5 minutes, and place of birth were identified as statistically significant variables.

[Postnatal mortality in Brazilian territory: a literature review].

This is a systematic review regarding postnatal mortality, covering the period between 2004 and 2009. The objective was to identify how the causes of death and the relationship with socioeconomic conditions are stated in the literature. Twenty-seven articles were selected, 74.

[Adolescents: knowledge about sexuality before and after participating in prevention workshops].

Teenagers go through biological/psychosocial changes including experiencing his/her sexuality. Adolescent sexuality is often shown in unsafe sexual practices; lack of information, taboos or even the fear of accepting one s sexuality can turn it into a problem. This study aims at analyzing the knowledge of adolescents on sexuality, contraceptive methods, pregnancy, STD/AIDS before and after prevention workshops.

[Healthcare for adolescents: perceptions by physicians and nurses in family health teams].

This descriptive qualitative study was conducted in basic healthcare units to analyze the perceptions of physicians and nurses from family health teams concerning healthcare for adolescents, using content analysis with an emphasis on thematic analysis. The discourse of these health professionals showed that care exists for adolescents in the family health service, but that: it is not systematized because of other priorities; adolescents fail to use the service; the health professionals feel unprepared to draw adolescents to the service and treat them; and in order to implement a healthcare program for adolescents in the family health strategy it would be necessary to reorganize the service to train the existing team members and hire other professionals. Thus, the interviewees value differentiated care for adolescents, and even while recognizing their limitations and reporting not having been trained, they conduct joint actions with other areas beyond health, demonstrating that they transcend the limits of the health service and seek new ways of treating adolescents holistically.