Health workers coping with having a relative in palliative care for cancer.

Objective To know the experience of health workers who are coping with having a relative in palliative care for cancer. Methodology A qualitative study conducted with four family members of cancer patients in palliative care. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews from November to December, 2014, at the home of the participants.

[Identity of the resilient man in the context of ill with prostate cancer: a cultural perspective].

The study aimed to understand the context of resilient man when ill with prostate cancer. This is an ethnographic case study conducted with two prostate cancer survival men with a high degree of resilience. The data was collected on their places, in 2012 April and May, using semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observation and ecomap.

[Nursing's view of the care practices of rural families and the person with cancer].

The objective of this study is to identify the care practices of rural families who care for a person with cancer. This qualitative study used the Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory as the theoretical and methodological framework. The participants were three families from a rural area who had a relative undergoing chemotherapy at an oncology service of a teaching hospital in southern Brazil.

[Profile of HiperDia system users from three primary healthcare units in southern Brazil].

This study aims to describe the profile of hypertensive and diabetic patients from three primary health units in the city of Pelotas, southern Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, that are registered in the Ministry of Health's HiperDia system. This is a cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. A form based on the registration form of the HiperDia system was used as a research instrument.

[Evaluation of the completeness of information of Hyperday in a Basic Unit in southern Brazil].

The study evaluated the completeness of the information in the records of the Hyperday of a Basic Unit of Health (BUH) in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Transversal delineation was used through the collection of secondary data. Copies of 567 records filled out in BUH between 2002 and 2008 were analyzed.

[Medicinal plants: knowledge transmission in families of ecological farmers in souther Rio Grande do Sul].

The aim of this study was to investigate the process of knowledge transmission related to medicinal plants among family generations in the context of ecological farmers in Southern Rio Grande do Sul. This qualitative study was conducted with eight farming families, comprising 19 respondents living in the municipalities of Pelotas, Morro Redondo, Canguçu and Arroio do Padre. The interviews took place from January to May 2009.

The oncologic radiotherapy experience for patients: a poison-drug.

The study aimed at understanding the patients' experience with oncologic radiotherapy. The anthropological interpretative approach and the ethnographic method guided the investigation. Ten patients took part in the study.