Objective: To assess the quality of life and the burden of female caregivers. Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative study carried out with 224 informal caregivers from March to July 2016. Three instruments were used: a characterization form for the caregiver, the WHOQOL-Bref questionnaire and the Zarit Burden Interview. The following tests were used: Cronbach’s Alpha, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Kruskal-Wallis, Spearman and Mann-Whitney. Results: The mean age of caregivers was 51.8 years with a standard deviation of 13.7. They were predominantly married, had a low income and low level of education, were first-degree relatives, had been providing care for one to five years and presented some pathology. The associations of quality of life that presented statistical significance were: income, marital status, number of people living with the caregiver and time of care. Conclusion: The burden was negatively correlated with QOL, that is, the greater the burden, the more impaired will be the life of these caregivers.
Introduction: Diseases of old age have shown increasing prevalence in society. One of them is stroke, which can be conceptualized as the interruption of cerebral blood supply due to a leakage or blood vessel obstruction caused by clots. Objective: To verify the associations between sociodemographic factors and the functional capacity of elderly affected by stroke. Methods: This is an epidemiological, cross-sectional, and quantitative study, including 118 elderly people with paralyses due to stroke, who were registered in one of the Family Health Strategies units of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. Data were collected by means of home interviews. Two questionnaires were used, in which one was directed for assessment of sociodemographic variables and the second was called Barthel index for assessing the functional capacity of the subjects regarding the activities of daily life. The analysis was conducted using the statistical program SPSS. Results: There was a predominance of the female gender, widowed, without schooling, and with household income of up to one Brazilian minimum wage. The average age was 65 years (± 9.63). The Barthel index internal consistency was satisfactory, presenting values of Cronbach's alpha coefficient in the range of 0.897-0.918. Total correlation of corrected items was greater than 0.4, and Cronbach's alpha with a deleted item was also greater than 0.8. The activities with higher level of achievement difficulty were urination and evacuation. Association between functional capacity with race, age range, and schooling was found. Conclusion: It was seen that demographic factors might interfere with the functional capacity of elderly affected by stroke. Hence, it is believed that this investigation might have contributed to the reflection on this issue, thus supporting the promotion of these people's access to health assistance programs.
RESUMOObjetivo: verificar como a temática referente à condição de saúde da mulher em situação de privação de liberdade vem sendo abordada nos últimos 5 anos. Material e métodos: foi realizada uma revisão integrativa sobre a condição de saúde de mulheres privadas de liberdade nos últimos 5 anos, com base em protocolo básico com três etapas realizadas por dois pesquisadores e um avaliador. A busca se deu nas bases de dados Scielo, PubMed e LILACS. O aprofundamento analítico dos artigos se deu a partir da localização de todos os estudos na íntegra. Resultados: foram encontrados 2 artigos na LILACS, 0 na Scielo e 38 estudos na PubMed, sendo na última etapa analisados 8 artigos na íntegra que responderam que trataram das condições de saúde das mulheres em situação de regime fechado. Todos os estudos estavam indexados na base de dados Medline. Estes demonstraram que a temática relativa à saúde da mulher encarcerada vem sendo abordada na forma de tentar compreender o perfil deste público crescente na sociedade, no qual a situação de saúde e agravos trazem aspectos semelhantes nos estudos. Conclusão: a abordagem da saúde da mulher em situação de cárcere apresenta resultados semelhantes nos estudos, identificando um cenário de mulheres que são mais acometidas por agravos á saúde do que a população feminina geral, além de terem poucas condições de acesso aos cuidados de saúde, muitas vezes prestados indevidamente. Os agravos da saúde mental são evidentes. As condições biopsicossociais pré-encarceramento são relevantes na situação de saúde geral das detentas. DESCRITORESSaúde da Mulher. Prisões. Prisioneiros. ABSTRACT Objective:To verify how health condition of imprisoned women has been approached over the past five years. Material and Methods:This was an integrative review on the health status of women deprived of freedom over the last five years. This study was based on a basic protocol with three steps performed by two researchers and one examiner. Bibliographical searches of full articles were carried out in the databases SciELO, PubMed and LILACS. Results: A total of two articles were found in LILACS, 0 in Scielo, and 38 in PubMed. In the final step, eight articles addressing the health conditions of women in closed prisons were fully analyzed. All articles were indexed in the Medline database. The studies have addressed the health conditions of imprisoned women and characterized their profile. Both health condition and health issues were approached by the authors. Conclusion: Similar results were found in the studies concerning the health condition of imprisoned women. We observed that women deprived of freedom are more affected by health issues than the general female population and have less access to care, which is frequently provided in an improper way. Mental health diseases are evident, and biopsychosocial conditions prior to imprisonment influence the overall health condition of prisoners. DESCRIPTORS
Nº 40 Octubre 2015Página 96 CLÍNICA Atención prenatal: acciones esenciales desempeñadas por los enfermeros RESUMENObjetivo: Investigar el perfil, el conocimiento y la práctica de las enfermeras que trabajan la atención prenatal de bajo riesgo.Métodos: Estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo, transversal realizado en las Unidades Básicas de Salud Familiar Campina Grande / Paraíba, Brasil. Se incluyeron quince UBSF's del distrito sanitario I de Campina Grande, totalizando 15 enfermeros que respondieron a un cuestionario. La colecta de datos se llevó a cabo entre marzo y junio de 2013. El análisis de datos se realizó de forma manual, en mapa resumen, según la población estudiada y posteriormente se analizaron mediante estadística descriptiva y organizados en gráficosy tablas de frecuencias absoluta y relativa.Resultados: Se puede considerar satisfactoria la atención prenatal realizada por los enfermeros, ya que además de los procedimientos y las pruebas de rutina, se observó que también llevan a cabo los procedimientos y pruebas consideradas como complementaria, de acuerdo con el Ministerio de SaludConclusión: Es necesario proporcionar un mayor número de orientación con respecto al uso de métodos anticonceptivos tras el periodo gestacional. Se revela también la necesidad de estudios de evaluación de la calidad y el impacto de la atención prenatal realizados por enfermeros especializados en la reducción de la morbilidad y mortalidad materna y neonatal en el municipio, este enfoque sería de gran importancia para la consolidación de una práctica exitosa en Campina Grande.
Objectives: To investigate the abusive consumption of alcohol in the elderly in the municipality of Santa Cruz -PB.Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study, with quantitative approach with a sample of 170 elderly. To perform the study, three instruments were used: the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test -Geriatric Version (MAST-G). The data were analyzed in the program Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS -version 21).Results: 14.7% of the elderly were classified by the MAST-G score as elderly individuals presenting problems related to alcohol abuse, the majority of whom were male, single, with education above 05 years, who reside alone, and present some pathology and make use of medications. Conclusion:The research points out the need for multiprofessional work in health in Primary Care, in order to develop health actions that include the prevention of alcohol consumption and minimize the deleterious effects of consumption, in order to reduce the number of undesirable events arising from the use of that substance.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.