(15,14). Nas questões gerais o escore global foi 14,00. Conclusão: Os resultados apontam para uma boa percepção de qualidade de vida nos aspectos físicos e psicológi-cos e menor percepção nos domínios das relações sociais e do meio ambiente, provavelmente decorrentes da situação sócio-estruturais e culturais dos pacientes. Descritores: Qualidade de Vida. Questionário. Baixa Visão. Cegueira. Reabilitação.
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1-INTRODUÇÃOAs questões examinadas nesta pesquisa pertencem ao campo da saúde e dizem respeito à avaliação da qualidade de vida de deficientes visuais usuários de programas de reabilitação em um serviço universitário de referência em Campinas.A avaliação de qualidade de vida (QV) vem crescendo em importância como medida na avaliação de intervenções terapêuticas, de serviços e da prática assistencial cotidiana na área da saúde 1,2 Tem sido considerada importante indicador devido ao impacto físico e psicossocial que enfermidades, disfunções ou incapacidades podem acarretar para as pessoas acometidas 3 . A melhoria da qualidade de vida passou a ser um dos resultados esperados das práticas assistenciais e das políticas públicas para o setor no campo da promoção da saúde 3 .Qualidade de vida foi definida pela Organização Mundial da Saúde como "a percepção do indivíduo de sua posição na vida, no contexto da cultura e do sistema de valores em que vive e em relação aos seus objetivos, expectativas, padrões e percepções" 4,5 .Medicina, Ribeirão Preto, 39 (2): 260-264, abr
The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life of deaf people's relatives in a rehabilitation service. This descriptive study was conducted from March to June 2005 and a sample of fifteen parents of deaf people assisted in CEPRE/FCM/UNICAMP was interviewed. It was used a Portuguese version of the generic instrument of quality of life assessment WHOQOL--BREF (World Health Organization Quality of Life), along with an identification questionnaire and socio-demographic data. The SPSS program was used in the statistics analysis, with the scores transformed from zero to 100. The Research Ethics Committee of the School of Medical Sciences of Unicamp approved this investigation. The sample interviewed consisted in a majority of women (93.3%), all homemakers with an average of 44 years old. The evaluation of the different items at WHOQOL--BREF indicated that the relatives interviewed admitted to have a good or a very good quality of life. The study showed a better quality of life in the physical (73.8%) and social relationship aspects (72.2%). A lower perception could be seen in the environment domain (51.8%) probably because of their socio-cultural conditions, as well as in the psychological domain (63.3%), which may be related to the fact of living together with a deaf child.
Introduction: Immunization is the primary method of preventing influenza. The objective of this study was to describe reasons and determine causes of acceptance or refusal of the influenza vaccine by elderly people. Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive study included elderly patients (aged >60 years) from the City of Jundiai, São Paulo, Brazil. Results: The sample comprised 185 people; 71.9% reported receiving the vaccine and 21% claimed to have experienced complications. Conclusions: The vaccination coverage was below the national goal; the reasons for not being vaccinated was "did not want to receive the vaccine", in addition to "forgot".
On the basis of this small-scale exploratory study, there is no evidence that those international CAMs ubiquitous in the West are spreading to low-income cancer service users in Brazil (despite anecdotal evidence of its increasing presence in the country generally). Moreover, when excluding prayer, use of indigenous traditional medicine was found to be relatively low. Further research is needed to examine these findings on a larger scale and to explore the relative importance of social, cultural, and economic factors behind them.
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