Effect of educational intervention for compliance of school adolescents with the human papillomavirus vaccine.

Objective: to assess the effects of "Piss off, HPV!", an educational intervention to increase adolescents' knowledge, attitude and compliance with human papillomavirus vaccination.

Method: a randomized clinical trial by cluster, carried out in six schools in two municipalities in Ceará, with 238 girls. The control group (n = 120) received routine instructions, and the intervention group (n = 118), printed message cards about the quadrivalent HPV vaccine.

Telephone interventions in adherence to receiving the Pap test report: a randomized clinical trial.

Objective: to test the efficacy of the behavioral and educational interventions undertaken by telephone, for women's attendance at the consultation to receive the Pap test report.

Method: a randomized clinical trial, with a sample randomized in three groups: telephone call - educational (n=171), telephone call - reminder (n=171) and comparison (n=169). The inclusion criteria were to be of legal age, to have become sexually active, to undertake the preventive examination during the study and to have a mobile or fixed telephone.

Comparison among the efficacy of interventions for the return rate to receive the pap test report: randomized controlled clinical trial.

Objective:: to test the effects of a behavioral, an educative and a comparative intervention on women's adherence to the return appointment to receive the pap test report.

Methods:: randomized controlled clinical trial at a Primary Health Care Service, involving three groups: EG (educative session and test demonstration), BG (recall ribbon) and standard intervention (card containing the return appointment - graphical reminder), called comparative group here (CG). To select the sample, the following was established: having started sexual activity and undergoing the pap smear during the study, resulting in 775 women.

Telephone interventions for adherence to colpocytological examination.

Objective: to test the effects of behavioral and educational intervention by telephone on adherence of women with inappropriate periodicity to colpocytological examination.

Method: quasi-experimental study with a sample of 524 women, selected with the following inclusion criteria: be aged between 25 and 64 years, have initiated sexual activity, have inappropriate periodicity of examination and have mobile or landline phone. The women were divided into two groups for application of behavioral and educational intervention by telephone.

[Development and validating an educational booklet for childbirth companions].

Objective: The article describes the steps in producing and validating an educational booklet for childbirth companions.

Method: Methodological study conducted in 2011 consisting of the following steps: situational assessment; establishing brochure content; content selection and referencing; drafting the text; design of illustrations; layout; consultation of specialists; consultation of target audience; amendments; proofreading; evaluation using the Flesch Reading Ease Formula. The topics portrayed the sequence of events involving support from gestation to the postpartum period.

[Vaginal discharge in pregnant women: comparison between syndromic approach and examination of clinical nursing practice].

This is a study for assessment of a quantitative approach in pregnant women (N=104), in which findings of vaginal infection were compared. The findings were obtained by two means, flowchart of vaginal discharge, and typical examinations in the clinical nursing practice. Data were collected from January to July 2011 through interviews and gynecological examinations.

[Pregnancy in adolescence description and analysis of care provided].

This work is aimed at describing and analyzing prenatal care to teenage women through the Brazilian Prenatal and Birth Humanization Program (BPBHP). It's a descriptive quantitative study conducted between March and July 2009 based on a form and interview with 200 teenage women during the postpartum period in a maternity ward of Sistema Unico de Satúde (Brazilian Unified Health System), which is considered a reference in obstetric care. The young women received prenatal care through the public service (96.