Correlation between quality of life, depression, satisfaction and functionality of older people with HIV.

Objective: To analyze the correlation between the quality of life, depression, life satisfaction, and functional capacity in elderly people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

Methods: A cross-sectional study developed in reference hospitals for treatment and follow-up of people with HIV. 241 elderly people participated by applying a questionnaire containing sociodemographic variables, the HIV/AIDS target quality of Life, the Barthel Index, the Life Satisfaction Scale, and the abbreviated version with 15 items of the Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale.

Caring for the carer: quality of life and burden of female caregivers.

Objective: To assess the quality of life and the burden of female caregivers.

Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative study carried out with 224 informal caregivers from March to July 2016. Three instruments were used: a characterization form for the caregiver, the WHOQOL-Bref questionnaire and the Zarit Burden Interview.

CLINICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS COMMUNICATED IN LIBRAS.

Objective: To validate a video containing image representations of clinical signs and symptoms of sexually transmitted infections expressed in Libras.

Method: Methodology development study conducted in an audio communication school. Thirty-six deaf people were selected.

[The no-care of patients with spinal cord injuries in primary care: bioethical challenges for health policies].

It was aimed to investigate what actions taken in Basic Health Units of the Family-(BHUF) to meet the demands of adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) post-rehabilitation, list facilities/difficulties to meet the demands of users. Descriptive study conducted in twenty BHUF. Twenty doctors and twenty nurses, randomly selected, participated in the study.

[Symbolical violence in the access of disabled persons to basic health units].

A descriptive study which aimed to characterize the conditions of people with disabilities (PD) in the Basic Health Units-UBS. Data were collected in January 2009 in 20 UBSF. It was used digital camera and check list based on the 9050-NBR ABNT.

[Popular medicine: benefits and drawbacks of medicinal plants].

Descriptive study which aims to verify if the herbalist offer the information correct for the use of the medicinal plants; if they give for the customers concerning the possible poisonings or interaction with the allopathic guide and also if there is a criteria for the commercialization of the phytotherapics. A questionnaire was used containing open and closed questions involving aspects of the performance of the herbalists with the phytotherapics. The herbalists know the majority of the medicinal plants, however, there are some gaps concerning the correct indication of these products, of the collateral effect and toxicities.

[Nursing and sport practices: learning with ethical dilemas].

This study aimed to identify the difficulties related to the first aids during one students competition and also it correlates the experience learned regarding technician aspects, cientifics and ethical approaches when the performance of the first-aid nurse. The report was taking into account the production basis regarding the performance of the first aids professionals and a workshop of consensus to solve ethical dilemmas. It was described the taking decision ethical, the material resources available and also the harms which might affected the physical integrity of the athletes and the interventions executed.

[The cultural construction of the Brazilian sexuality: nursing implications].

This paper presents a descriptive study which focuses on cultural construction of sexuality, media influences on human sexuality, and how nurses should consider the sexual education process. The investigation considered texts in the field of humanities and health. It was utilised the analytical construction to categorize the discursives retails.