Design and development of the content of a mobile application to reduce risk factors of the metabolic syndrome in the climacteric.

Objective: To describe the design and development of the content of the technological application to control and reduce clinical risk factors of the Metabolic Syndrome in women in climacteric stage.

Method: A multidisciplinary approach was used, guided by the Self-care Deficit Theory and a combination of methods that included literature review, interviews with women in climacteric stage who were potential users (n = 10), interviews with experts in information technologies (n = 4), and with health professionals (n = 5). During the process, a systematic evaluation was carried out to improve the acceptancy of this eHealth technology.

Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men.

Relatively little is known about the unique needs and issues faced by transgender men and their self-care practices during gender transition. This study aimed to analyse self-care practices during gender transition through the life histories of a group of Costa Rican transgender men. A qualitative study with a sociohistorical design employing a thematic life history approach was conducted with fourteen participants between April and September 2022.

Body image, illness uncertainty and symptom clusters in surgically treated breast cancer survivors: An exploratory factor analysis and correlational study.

Purpose: To determine the relationship among body image, illness uncertainty, and symptom clusters in surgically treated breast cancer survivors.

Methods: A correlational, descriptive study was conducted in a convenience sample of 60 women surgically treated breast cancer survivors recruited in a private hospital and a survivor center. A questionnaire of sociodemographic characteristics, MUIS-C Scale, and QLQ-C30 and Module BR-23 were used.

Nursing educational intervention in hysterectomized women: a mixed method study protocol.

Objectives: To know the meaning of education in the perioperative period, in women undergoing hysterectomy for benign causes and to determine the effectiveness of educational nursing intervention in improving female sexual function, quality of life and self-esteem in women undergoing hysterectomy for benign causes.

Methods: Mixed design, exploratory sequential Qualitative phase semi-structured interviews and content analysis. Quasi-experimental study quantitative phase, non-equivalent control group.

Psycho social risks noted by oncology workers related to their quality of life.

Objective: To analyze the relation between occupational psychosocial risks and quality of life related to health, felt by workers who work in oncology and palliative care units in a region of Chile.

Method: Cross-sectional analytical study of quantitative approach, in which 110 health workers participated. Research met the ethical requirements of E.

Effectiveness of personalized face-to-face and telephone nursing counseling interventions for cardiovascular risk factors: a controlled clinical trial.

Objective: to evaluate the effect and gender differences of an innovative intervention involving in-person and telephone nursing counseling to control cardiovascular risk factors (arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, and overweight), improve health-related quality of life and strengthen self-efficacy and social support in persons using the municipal health centers' cardiovascular health program.

Method: a randomized controlled clinical trial involving participants randomized into the intervention group who received traditional consultation plus personalized and telephone nursing counseling for 7 months (n = 53) and the control group (n = 56). The study followed the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials Statement.

Critical theory and its contribution to the nursing discipline.

This article reflects on the Critical theory, stemming from the most important philosophical concepts and the modifications it has endured over time. Thereafter, we expose the contribution of the Critical theory to Nursing. This emphasizes on the contextual analysis of the phenomena and it is a self-critique to prevent dogmatisms and totalitarianisms.