Factors associated with the health and reproductive autonomy of Quilombola women in Brazil.

Objective: To verify the association between reproductive autonomy and sociodemographic, sexual, and reproductive characteristics in Quilombola women (a term indicating the origin of politically organized concentrations of Afro-descendants who emancipated themselves from slavery).

Methods: Cross-sectional and analytical study with 160 women from Quilombola communities in the southwest of Bahia, Brazil. Data were collected using the Reproductive Autonomy Scale and the questionnaire from the National Health Survey (adapted).

Contents related to nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic on the Youtube™ platform.

Objective: to characterize the content of Youtube™ videos related to nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: a qualitative study that examined 47 videos on Youtube™ posted between 11/03 and 11/04 2020, which were subjected to thematic analysis.

Results: four categories emerged: "the role of nurses in care production during the pandemic", which addresses the management of services and individual care; "Overview of the pandemic from the perspective of nurses in different countries", presenting experiences and encouraging physical distance; "Tributes and motivation to mobilize the category", in addition to targeted tributes, calls for nurses to claim their rights; "Criticisms and demands to improve working conditions", which highlights the insecurity of care provision settings.

Autonomy in the reproductive health of quilombolas women and associated factors.

Objective: Identify the level of reproductive autonomy of quilombola women and associate it with sociodemographic characteristics and aspects of sexual and reproductive health.

Methods: Cross-sectional census study carried out in quilombola communities in a municipality in Bahia. Data was collected through questionnaires from the National Health Survey and the Reproductive Autonomy Scale, applied to quilombola women who agreed to participate.

Self-care deficits in women with leg ulcers and sickle cell disease.

Objective: to identify self-care deficits in women with leg ulcers and sickle cell disease.

Method: a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory approach with 14 women. The collection was performed from December 2015 to January 2016, while the analysis was supported by Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory.

"Waiting for a miracle": Spirituality/Religiosity in coping with sickle cell disease.

Objective: To understand spirituality/religiosity as experienced by people with sickle cell disease, and its influence on coping with the disease.

Method: A qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study conducted in the State of Bahia. Twenty-nine respondents participated in semi-structured interviews.

Self-care of men with priapism and sickle cell disease.

Objective: To identify self-care demands of men with sickle cell disease and priapism and describe self-care measures in light of Orem's Self-Care Theory.

Method: This is a descriptive exploratory study with qualitative approach conducted with nine men with a history of sickle cell disease and priapism. Data were analyzed using Orem's Self-Care Theory.

Cervical cancer prevention among quilombola women in the light of Leininger's theory.

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to discuss practices of cervical cancer prevention among Quilombola Women. METHOD This study used, in 2014, a qualitative research approach aiming twenty women from a quilombola community (people who live in quilombos, descendants of Afro-Brazilian slaves), which is located in Bahia. A semi-structured interview was developed by researchers in order to collect data.

The illness of women and men with sickle cell disease: a Grounded Theory study.

Objective: To understand the meanings given by women and men with sickle cell disease on the illness experience.

Method: Analytical study with a qualitative approach, conducted with 17 adults with sickle cell disease using the Theory Based on Data, or Grounded Theory, as theoretical-methodological referential. Data were collected between the years of 2012 and 2013, in an individual in-depth interview.

[Experiences of women in face of pain from acute myocardial infarction].

The aim of this study was to understand the meanings of the experience of pain suffered by women during acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and to identify their immediate actions in face of pain. This qualitative research used the Symbolic Interactionism theory and the Grounded Theory methodology. Forty-three women were interviewed at the University Hospital.

[Profile of nursing workers with RSI/WRMD diagnosis in Salvador-Bahia in 1998-2002].

This quantitative study aimed at drawing the profile of nursing workers with a confirmed RSI/WRMD diagnosis, seen at the Center of Workers' Health Studies (Cesat) in Salvador, Bahia, from 1998 to 2002. Data collection was performed based on medical reports and, complementarily, guidelines with items of interest for this investigation. Out of the medical reports, only those of nursing workers were selected.

[Progression of course content within the framework of curriculum requirements: gender in nursing education].

This article reviews the concept of gender in Nursing education at Federal University of Bahia based on Brazilian Curriculum Requirements for Graduate Nursing Programs. The possibility of inserting this concept as a progressive content into an integrated curriculum is presented, originating from experience obtained with a subject matter-based curriculum. The discussion of this proposal aims at contributing to other educational institutions which are currently experiencing a process of curriculum change.

[Strategies for the implementation of a new pedagogical proposal at the Nursing School of the Federal University of Bahia].

This article reflects on the process of designing the Pedagogical Project for the Nursing School from Federal University of Bahia. The socialization of this experience intends to contribute with other nursing institutions which, in order to meet new curricular requirements (DCENF--National Curricular Guidelines for Nursing, Medicine, and Nutrition Undergraduate Programs), are going to experience similar processes or which are presently going through the same process. This article includes some historical features and the legal basis for changes, by presenting the reasons for the current proposal, as well as its curricular organization, the main challenges and some strategies for overcoming them.

[Working conditions of obstetrical nurses: empirical evidence].

This work aimed at the description of the working conditions of the nurse, its specification, transformation and contradictions. The sample was constituted of 10 skilled nurses or specialists in obstetric nursing active in six public institutions in Salvador (four maternity hospitals and two hospitals). As technique of data collection there were used interviews and observation with participation.

[Mental health and women's work: images and representations of nurses].

This investigation advances on the perspective of the construction of knowledge on the relation between mental health and nursing work. It is a descriptive study based on a qualitative approach and on the Social Representations Theory as well as studies on Psychopathology and Work Psychodynamics. The analysis indicated that nurses representations on the relation between mental health and nursing work are influenced by the individual and collective-organizational levels, showing these professionals as a product and producers of their personal history and of the mental health regarding the work environment, understanding them as a manifestation of the social totality.