Healing of Venous Leg Ulcers Influenced by Individual Aspects: Cluster Analysis in a Specialist Wound Management Clinic.

Introduction/objective: Venous Leg Ulcers (VLU) present a challenging healing process. Attaining healing is a primary treatment objective, commonly pursued in Primary Health Care (PHC) or Specialist Wound Management Clinics. Our objective was to examine the association and interplay between sociodemographic, health, clinical, and care factors with the outcomes of VLU treatment in patients undergoing care at a Specialist Wound Management Clinic.

Construction and validation of a booklet of perioperative orientation and patient safety.

Objective: To describe the development and validation process of a booklet with perioperative guidelines for surgical patients.

Method: This is a methodological, quantitative study, divided into three stages: narrative review, booklet preparation and validation with 23 judges, nurses specialized in patient safety/perioperative nursing, who answered the online Educational Content Validation Instrument. The booklet was considered valid when each item obtained a Content Validity Index equal to or greater than 0.

Bundle for the prevention and management of complications of neutropenia in cancer patients.

Objectives: to construct and assess bundle content for the prevention and management of complications in neutropenia in cancer patients.

Methods: a methodological study developed in four stages: scoping review; bundle construction; material assessment by experts (developed according to Pasquali's psychometry); pilot test in a High Complexity Assistance Unit in Oncology. For content assessment, the Delphi technique was applied in two rounds and those items with Content Validation Coefficient (CVC)> 0.

[The influence of activities on the quality of life of the elderly: a systematic review].

The scope of this study was to identify which activities or interventions cause changes in the quality of life of the elderly. It involved a systematic review of the literature in the Scopus, ISI Web of Science, Scielo, Lilacs, BDenf and PubMed databases. The key word for the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) used was "quality of life," in combination with the terms of greatest interest: "elderly, motor activity, education.

Health-related quality of life in patients with venous leg ulcer treated in primary care in Brazil and Portugal.

Background: Venous ulcers constitute an important public health problem as they can cause disability with consequences for multiple dimensions of quality of life.

Objective: To describe the quality of life in patients with venous leg ulcer treated in primary care in two cities from Brazil and Portugal.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional comparative study with a non-probabilistic sample of 171 patients with venous leg ulcers who were treated in primary care in two cities from Brazil and Portugal, namely, Natal and Évora.

Association between poor clinical prognosis and sleep duration among breast cancer patients.

Objective:: to investigate the association between clinical progression and the quality and duration of sleep in women with breast cancer.

Method:: longitudinal study, with 114 participants, conducted in a hospital in Brazil. The instruments used were: questionnaire for sociodemographic and clinical characterization, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; Beck Depression Inventory and Herth Hope Scale.

Poor sleep quality, depression and hope before breast cancer surgery.

Aim: This study aims to identify the predictors of poor sleep quality and the associations between depression, hope and sleep in a sample of 156 women with breast cancer prior to surgery.

Background: The care and treatment of breast cancer is among the most important scientific challenges in public health. Sleep disturbances and depression are the important complaint of cancer patients.

Factors associated with poor sleep quality in women with cancer.

Objectives: to analyze the factors associated with poor sleep quality, its characteristics and components in women with breast cancer prior to surgery for removing the tumor and throughout the follow-up.

Method: longitudinal study in a teaching hospital, with a sample of 102 women. The following were used: a questionnaire for sociodemographic and clinical characterization, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; the Beck Depression Inventory; and the Herth Hope Scale.

[Fatigue in the elderly undergoing chemotherapy].

This is a cross-sectional survey conducted from August to December 2010, which aimed to identify the presence and severity of fatigue in 140 elderly (mean age 69.8 years, 52.1% female) diagnosed with cancer undergoing chemotherapy in an outpatient unit.

[Institutionalized elderly: chronological organization of daily routines and sleep quality].

This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, which aimed to identify the perception of nursing home elderly residents related to the chronological organization of their daily routines and to their sleep quality. The study was conducted with 37 elderly (14 women and 23 men, mean age of 75 years) who lived in a long term care facility located in the municipality of Campinas-SP, Brazil. The results showed that 81% of the elderlies had complaints compatible with poor sleep, but 70% of them reported that they had good sleep quality when directly questioned about it.

[Association between insomnia and rheumatoid arthritis in elderly].

This study aimed to assess symptoms of insomnia in elderly residents in the community and its association with rheumatoid arthritis. Descriptive and cross-sectional study, part of a multicentre research project entitled Fragility in Brazilian elderly . A total number of 689 elderly (68.

Factors associated with sleep quality in the elderly receiving chemotherapy.

Objective: to evaluate the characteristics of sleep and the factors associated with the quality of sleep in elderly patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy treatment.

Method: cross-sectional study with 140 elderly patients (51.2% female, average age 69.