Temporal trends in neonatal mortality in Pernambuco.

Objective: To verify the temporal trend of neonatal mortality in the health regions of Pernambuco between 2000 and 2020.

Method: A time-series ecological study was conducted, analyzing the total neonatal mortality rate and its early and late components. For regression analysis, Joinpoint Regression was applied, trends were classified, and annual and average percentage changes were calculated for the period, with a significance level of 95%.

Development and Psychometric Testing of Scales of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Self-Care for Patients With Arteriovenous Fistula.

To validate the scales of knowledge, attitude, and practice of self-care for arteriovenous fistulas in renal patients on hemodialysis. A methodological study verified the evidence of validity based on the content, response processes, and internal structure of the scales. The content was evaluated by six judges, and the response processes were verified with six patients.

Educational video for self-care with arteriovenous fistula in renal patients: randomized clinical trial.

Objective: to evaluate the effect of an educational video on the knowledge, attitude, and practice of self-care with arteriovenous fistula in patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment.

Method: randomized controlled clinical trial, with two arms and single-blind. The intervention used an educational video on arteriovenous fistula self-care.

Brazilian Adults' Attitudes and Practices Regarding the Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination and Their Hesitancy towards Childhood Vaccination.

Background: This study investigated the attitudes and practices of Brazilian adults regarding the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination and their hesitancy towards the vaccination of children.

Methods: Between March and May 2022, Brazilian adults answered an online questionnaire distributed through social media. The SAGE-WG questionnaire was adapted to measure hesitancy to the vaccination of children.

Effects of demographic and clinical character on differences in self-care behavior levels with arteriovenous fistula by hemodialysis patients: An ordinal logistic regression approach.

Introduction: Hemodialysis (HD) patients should be trained to develop self-care behaviors in order to prevent and preserve their arteriovenous fistula (AVF). The aim of this study was identifying the factors that affect the levels of self-care behavior with AVF by HD patients.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 89 patients.

[Spatial analysis as a tool for identification of priority intervention areas for syphilis prevention].

The spatial analysis of syphilis constitutes a tool capable of contributing to the establishment of guidelines for action in priority geographic areas for preventive intervention. The scope of the article was to describe the scientific evidence that used geoprocessing as a tool to identify risk areas for syphilis. This is an integrative review of the literature, carried out in the Medline/PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Lilacs, Ibecs, Cochrane Library Portal, SciELO, Cuiden and Bdenf databases through cross-referencing between the key words "syphilis," "spatial analysis," "geographical information system," "health education" and "geographical mapping.

Scale of Assessment of Self-Care Behaviors with Arteriovenous Fistula in Hemodialysis: A Psychometric Study in Brazil.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Scale for the Assessment of Self-Care Behaviors with Arteriovenous Fistula in Hemodialysis. Cross-sectional validation study, followed the recommendation provided by Sousa and Rojjanasrirat. Content validity, explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses used to check validity and Cronbach's alpha was the reliability measure.

Strategies to Promote Patient Safety in Hemodialysis: An Integrative Review.

A way to promote patient safety is to create strategies that can contain the latent failures present in health organizations, especially in highly complexity services, such as hemodialysis units, which, by the characteristics of the treatment, offer potential risks for the occurrence of adverse events to their patients. The aim of this study was to identify strategies in the literature that contribute to the promotion of patient safety in hemodialysis. Eleven articles were identified, comprising 17 strategies to promote patient safety in hemodialysis, divided into three dimensions of care: teaching, assistance, and management.

Self-care actions for the maintenance of the arteriovenous fistula: An integrative review.

Objective: To identify self-care actions for the maintenance of arteriovenous fistula of renal patients.

Method: An integrative review study was conducted and literature were searched in Medline/PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, LILACS, BDENF and SciELO Library databases using the descriptors chronic renal insufficiency, arteriovenous fistula, self-care, and knowledge. The inclusion criteria were that the documents be written in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, full text available, published in the last five years, and that they address the research question.

Construction and validation of an educational video for human papillomavirus vaccination.

Objectives: to validate an educational video aimed at the adhesion of human papillomavirus vaccination.

Methods: a methodological study, where the knowledge about the theme and the technology to be constructed in six focal groups was identified; a theoretical framework was set up and the existing videos were uploaded. After that, pre-production, production and post-production were followed.

Social representations of transsexual women living with HIV/AIDS.

Objectives: identify the social representations of transsexual women living with HIV/AIDS.

Methods: this is a qualitative descriptive exploratory study, based on the theory of social representations, conducted with six HIV/AIDS seropositive transsexual women from a hospital for patients with HIV/AIDS. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were conducted and later transcribed and analyzed with the help of Iramuteq (version 0.

Dynamics of the social network of young female transsexuals that live and deal with HIV/AIDS.

Objective: to analyze the social network of young female transsexuals who live with HIV/AIDS.

Method: descriptive and exploratory study of qualitative approach, based on the Social Network Theory, developed in a Brazilian reference hospital for HIV/AIDS, with six transsexual women. Individual interviews were recorded and transcribed, and the data were subjected to analysis of similarities through the software program IRaMuTeQ.

Construction and validation of content of a video on self-care with arteriovenous fistula.

Objective: To validate the content of the script of an educational video to promote self-care with arteriovenous fistula in chronic renal patients with nurses and social communicators.

Method: Methodological study that constructed and validated an educational video. Firstly, the demands of self-care were identified through a literature review on self-care with arteriovenous fistula.

Predictors of poor follow-up after bariatric surgery.

Objective: to identify predictive factors of loss of follow-up of patients submitted to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy in a 48-month period.

Methods: we conducted a retrospective, cohort study from January 2010 to December 2012. We analyzed thirteen variables and compared them to loss of follow-up.

Factors associated with elderly diabetic adherence to treatment in primary health care.

This study aimed to investigate factors associated with the treatment adherence of 150 elderly diabetics assisted in gerontogeriatric outpatient service in northeastern Brazil. Full adherence to therapy was self-reported by 27.3% of the elderly.

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Objective: To analyze basic self-care conditioning factors and quality of life associated with health, relating them to self-care capacity among individuals in the preoperative period of coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Method: Descriptive study with a quantitative approach, theoretically and methodologically anchored in the Self-care Deficit Nursing Theory. Data were collected between March and August 2013, using the Self-care Assessment Scale and the Medical Outcomes 36 Item Short Form Health Survey.

Cross-cultural adaptation of the drug-taking confidence questionnaire drug version for use in Brazil.

Background: The Drug-Taking Confidence Questionnaire evaluates a drug user's confidence in his or her ability to resist the urge to consume psychoactive substances in high-risk situations. This study's objective was to develop a cross-cultural adaptation of the eight-item version of the Drug-Taking Confidence Questionnaire (DTCQ-8) for all drugs except alcohol and to verify its content validity and reliability in a pre-test stage.

Methods: The following steps were taken: (1) implementation of the translation protocol and transcultural adaptation, (2) validation of the adapted content, and (3) assessment of reliability.