It is considerably difficult for type 2 diabetes patients to change lifestyle according to professional guidelines. This contributes to controlling the disease below what is desirable and could increase morbimortality and health system costs with complications that could have been avoided. It is important to know this phenomenon for better intervention, therefore, this qualitative study explores experiences and narratives of 10 diabetic patients in the city of Salvador (state of Bahia, Brazil), comparing them to the literature to analyze how health determinants may influence them. It is concluded that it is a multifactorial phenomenon and aspects such as conceptions about the disease and its control, use and access to health care, professional-patient relationship, social support and environment personalize each experience with the disease, which facilitates or not the motivation for change. Health professionals and public authorities should be sensitized to such aspects, and will find suggestions in this article that contribute to mitigating difficulties and facilitating a preventive lifestyle for patients.
Despite coriander nutritional and commercial importance, few studies have been carried out with the fertilization of this crop, especially nitrogen fertilization. This study objective was to evaluate the coriander (Verdão cv.) yield as a function of the nitrogen (N) sources and doses. The experiment was set in a randomized block design, arranged in a 2 x 5 factorial scheme, with two N sources (urea and ammonium sulphate) and five N doses (0; 75; 150; 225 and 300 kg ha-1), with four replicates. The plant height (cm), number of leaves (units/plant), number of bunches (units/m 2) and yield (kg ha-1) of green mass of shoots (stem + leaves) were evaluated. The maximum economic efficiency N doses for two N sources used was calculated according to the prices of the fertilizers and coriander practiced at Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas State, Brazil, in 2011. The N sources used (urea and ammonium sulphate) resulted in different effect on the productive characteristics of the coriander, with urea presented greater agronomic efficiency in relation to the ammonium sulphate for the coriander yield. The results of this study showed that, regardless of the source of N used, all the productive characteristics of the coriander increased following a quadratic model as a function of the N doses. The maximum economic efficiency N doses fort the coriander yield were 163 kg ha-1 and 147 kg ha-1 , resulting in yields of green mass of shoots of 9,795 kg ha-1 and 7,125 kg ha-1 , for the urea and ammonium sulphate, respectively.
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