SUMMARY OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association between religious and spiritual beliefs, anxiety and depression in medical and nursing students. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out with medical and nursing students from a Brazilian university. Students were randomly selected and filled out a questionnaire that contained sociodemographic, religious (Duke Religion Index), spirituality (Self-spirituality rating scale) and mental health - depression and anxiety (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) data. Linear regression models were used to evaluate the association of R/E with mental health, with adjustments for sociodemographic variables. RESULTS: A total of 187 students (90.7%) were included in the study, 56.1% female, an average of 23 years old, and 69% were enrolled in the medical program. Of the students, 29.4% attended religious services once a week or more often, 10.7% had private religious activities once a day or more often, and the indexes of intrinsic religiosity and spirituality were moderate. In the linear regression, adjusted for sociodemographic variables, the religious attendance was the only factor associated with lower levels of anxiety (Beta: −0.178, p=0.026). The other dimensions of religiousness or spirituality were not associated with levels of anxiety and depression. CONCLUSIONS: The present study showed that only the religious attendance was associated with the mental health of the medical and nursing students. These results demonstrate that some students use religious support in an attempt to minimize the negative effects of their university life. This support seems to be more effective when it involves participation in religious social activities in relation to private activities.
Este é um estudo transversal, observacional e de abordagem quantitativa, realizado em Uberaba (MG), com o objetivo de traçar o perfil sociodemográfico e estimar a prevalência de indicativos de depressão em idosos. Foram incluídas na pesquisa pessoas com 60 anos ou mais, de ambos os sexos, que frequentam periodicamente a UAI. Dos 317 participantes, a maioria foi representada pelo sexo feminino, com 60-70 anos, viúvos, aposentados, com baixa escolaridade e baixa renda. A prevalência de indicativos de depressão foi de 30,9%. Estes dados mostram a necessidade de realizarem-se ações de diagnóstico e tratamento para a depressão, bem como de disponibilização de suportes para os aspectos psicossociais e emocionais dos idosos.
Resumo:A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar, por meio de um questionário, as dificuldades cotidianas de universitários canhotos e elencar suas propostas para solucionar os problemas levantados. Participaram deste estudo 135 estudantes canhotos, que responderam um questionário composto por oito perguntas abertas e cinco perguntas fechadas que englobavam informações sobre a lateralidade, atividades estudantis, laborais, de vida diária e a sugestão para melhoria em suas atividades. Verificou-se que as maiores dificuldades relatadas por estudantes universitários canhotos na vida cotidiana, no trabalho e no ambiente estudantil são, respectivamente, abrir latas, má disposição dos objetos no espaço e a inadequação das carteiras escolares. A fim de melhorar a execução de atividades nessas três esferas, as sugestões mais citadas estão relacionadas à melhoria/disponibilidade das carteiras para canhotos e o desenvolvimento de objetos adaptados para esse grupo. O estudo indica dados sobre dificuldades e sugestões que são coerentes entre si e as melhorias propostas são de fácil execução e de grande valia para essa população. Palavras-chave: Lateralidade Funcional, Atividades Cotidianas, Estudantes. Left-handed graduate students: difficulties found and proposals presented to daily life activitiesAbstract: This research aimed to identify, through the application of questionnaires, the daily difficulties of left-handed college students and to list their proposals to solve the problems found. One hundred thirty-eight left-handed students participated in the study. They answered a questionnaire composed of eight essay questions and five alternative questions which included information on laterality, school, labor and daily life activities, and on suggestions to improve their activities. It was verified that the main difficulties reported by left-handed college students on daily life, work, and school environment are opening cans, bad arrangement of objects in space, and inadequacy of school desks, respectively. Aiming to improve the performance of their activities within these three aspects, the most cited suggestions are related to improvement/availability of left-handed adapted desks and development of objects adapted to this group. The study shows data on difficulties and coherent suggestions, and the advances proposed are of easy solution and great value for such population.
O objetivo desse estudo foi descrever a percepção dos idosos com indicativo de depressão sobre o significado de viver. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, realizada com 17 idosos com indicativo de depressão cadastrados em uma Unidade de Atendimento ao Idoso de um município do interior de Minas Gerais. Os dados foram coletados por entrevista semi-estruturada, narrativa nos meses de abril e maio de 2013. As informações extraídas das entrevistas foram analisadas pelo método do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo fundamentado na Teoria das Representações Sociais. Foram evidenciados que o significado de viver está relacionado a cuidar da família, sentimento de cumprimento ou não de missão, propósito divino, preservação da amizade, valorização e satisfação da vida. Quando a vontade e o saber do idoso, construídos durante sua trajetória de vida, são considerados, entendidos e respeitados, favorece uma percepção positiva no significado de viver para o idoso.
Background and Purpose: The detection of older individuals who are most vulnerable to adverse health effects (AHE) may be useful for practitioners in managing health care resources. The purpose of this study was to analyze the prevalence and identify AHE after hospital discharge (HD). Methods: This cohort study included 135 hospitalized older individuals. Fragility was assessed by changes in the plasma concentrations of C-reactive protein and / or leukocytes. Results: Fragile individuals had a higher risk of rehospitalization, consumption of drugs, functional impairment and mortality within 30 days post-HD, and higher risk of functional disability at 180 days post-HD. Conclusion: More than one-third of hospitalized older individuals are fragile and require more attention in the first 30 days because of the associated AHE.
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