Validation of an educational game to promote cardiovascular health in children.

Objective: The aim of this study was to validate the content and appearance of an educational game for children aged 7 to 10 years, focusing mainly on cardiovascular health promotion.

Method: The study used methodological research, with a quantitative approach. The validation process included the participation of 17 specialists in children and/or cardiovascular health.

[Family living cardiac transplantation].

Study with qualitative approach that aimed at analyzing the experience lived for family members during the process of heart transplantation of their relatives. It was carried through in the Unit of Transplantation and Heart Failure - UTIC of the Hospital of Messejana, in Fortaleza-Ceará, with seven family members. The speeches were obtained through interviews, and classified in categories: describing the occured changes, promoting the adaptation for the provision of care, and discovering and living deeply solidarity The analysis suggests that the heart transplantion generates changes, crises and moments of desestruturation, and that not only the person is shaken, but also the familiar net that make efforts to be adapted to the new situation.