Publications by authors named "Vanda Palmarella Rodrigues"

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  • - The study aimed to explore how nursing students perceive obstetric violence, focusing on their social representations and experiences around the topic.
  • - Conducted with 117 students in Brazil, the research utilized a qualitative approach and a specific analysis software to identify key themes related to obstetric violence, revealing that disrespect and suffering are central to their views.
  • - Findings highlight that nursing students associate obstetric violence with negative experiences, emphasizing that disrespectful practices by healthcare professionals significantly contribute to women's suffering during childbirth.
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This study aimed at describing community health agents' representational structure on domestic violence against women. A quantitative-qualitative research study based on the Theory of Social Representations in its structural approach and carried out in a municipality from inland Bahia, Brazil. The community health agents participated through free evocation and centrality techniques: choix-par-bloc, constitution of word pairs and mise-en-cause, from May to August 2019.

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The objective was to identify the meanings attributed to self-care and its relationship with the actions taken by female sex workers in preventing and coping with COVID-19. Qualitative study supported by the Self-Care Nursing theory. An in-depth interview was carried out with 30 female sex workers from the Alto Sertão Produtivo Baiano.

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Objective:: to analyze the practices of care of nurses working in teams of the family health strategy, from the perspective of users.

Method:: qualitative research conducted with 34 registered users in seven family health units of a municipality of Bahia from June to December 2014. The results were organized by the technique of content analysis.

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