Publications by authors named "Tania Alteniza Leandro"
Aim: To analyse the etiological factors of the nursing diagnosis of impaired comfort in children and adolescents with cancer.
Design: This cross-sectional study was carried out in the referral unit for the treatment of childhood cancer in a tertiary hospital located in northeastern Brazil.
Methods: A total of 200 children and adolescents who were undergoing cancer treatment were included in this study.
Objective: To identify in the literature how Middle-Range Theories (MRT) are being developed in Nursing.
Method: Integrative review on the databases Lilacs (Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences), Scopus, Cinahl (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Web of Science and PubMed portal, using the keywords middle range theory and nursing, as well its Portuguese correspondents (Lilacs), and the Boolean operator AND. The sample included 25 articles.
Objective: to identify the defining characteristics of Ineffective airway clearance with better predictive power using classification trees.
Method: the predictive power of the defining characteristics of Ineffective airway clearance was evaluated based on classification trees generated from the data of 249 children with acute respiratory infection.
Results: Ineffective cough and adventitious breath sounds were identified as the main defining characteristics when screening for Ineffective airway clearance in accordance with trees based on three different computational algorithms.
Objective: To determine the strength of the association between the clinical indicators of Impaired Comfort and the evaluation sector in the hospital, age group and sex of patients with cancer.
Method: Cross-sectional study, conducted in a children's hospital, with 192 children and adolescents. For the collection, we used an instrument developed for the study.
Purpose: To validate the clinical indicators of the nursing diagnosis of Ineffective protection in adolescents with cancer based on diagnostic accuracy measurements.
Design And Methods: Measurements of sensitivity and specificity for the indicators were calculated using latent class analysis with random effects in a sample of 127 adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age.
Results: The prevalence of diagnosis was estimated at 93.
Objective: To investigate scientific evidence related to the term protection and clinical indicators and etiologic factors for nursing diagnosis Ineffective protection in adolescents with cancer.
Method: Integrative literature review in the databases of Scopus, Web of Science, National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health (PubMed) and Cochrane; by intersection of the descriptors protection and childhood cancer, which resulted in seven articles. These were insufficient for a comprehension of the term protection and aspects related to its impairment, therefore it was necessary to include a further three reference books.
Objective: to assess the knowledge and practice of primary health care nurses about control and elimination actions of leprosy.
Method: evaluation study with qualitative approach, using the Discourse of the Collective Subject, data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with 16 nurses.
Results: the data collected revealed that health professionals have sufficient knowledge about the National Policy on Control and Elimination of Leprosy (NPCEL) and that the main actions preconized were applied, however, notification of suspected or confirmed cases and social reintegration of the patient were not mentioned.
Unlabelled: Clinical indicators of ineffective breathing pattern in children with congenital heart disease.
Objectives: To analyze the accuracy of clinical predictors of nursing diagnosis "Ineffective breathing pattern in children with congenital heart disease".
Method: 1:1 case-control study with 30 children with congenital heart disease.