Objective: to verify the self-efficacy of parents and caregivers in controlling childhood asthma before and after an educational intervention and to associate the scores with sociodemographic factors. Methods: quasi-experimental study, with 65 parents and caregivers of children with asthma. The Self-Efficacy and Their Child’s Level of Asthma Control scale – Brazilian version – was used before and 30 days after the intervention with the reading of the booklet “Are you able to control your child’s asthma – let’s learn together?” For the analysis, McNemar’s Chi-square and Wilcoxon statistical tests were used. Results: after 30 days,the effect of the intervention demonstrated statistical significance between high self-efficacy scores and the following variables: marital status (Odds Ratio:2.6;p≤0.001), family income (Odds Ratio:3.4;p≤0.001) and Bolsa Família Program benefit (Odds Ratio:2.9;p≤0.001). Conclusion: the educational booklet was shown to be effective in increasing the self-efficacy of parents and caregivers in the control and management of childhood asthma.
Objectives: to verify sociodemographic, academic and health risk factors for Central Nervous System drug use among nursing students. Methods: a cross-sectional study with 199 public undergraduate students from Ceará, using Characterization Instrument, Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory. Fischer’s exact test and Pearson’s chi-square test were performed, verifying an association between variables. Prevalence ratio was used. Results: a total of 34 used such drugs, with predominance of use of anxiolytics, associated with age (p=0.026), dissatisfaction with the relationship between classmates (p=0.003), insomnia (p=0.009), chronic disease (p=0.001), depression (p=0.035), and severe anxiety (p=0.023). Conclusions: using Central Nervous System drugs among students was associated with sociodemographic, academic and health factors, evidencing the need for actions promoting undergraduate students’ mental health.
Objetivo: Relatar dados relevantes sobre a asma na infância a fim de possibilitar o conhecimento sobre a doença, visto sua prevalência e importância no Brasil e no mundo. Revisão bibliográfica: A asma é uma doença crônica caracterizada pela inflamação duradoura das vias aéreas. Em se tratando dos fatores de risco, tem-se que por ser uma doença multifatorial, uma série de variáveis influenciam o desfecho do seu acometimento, como os fatores ambientais, pessoais e genéticos. No que concerne a fisiopatologia, é uma condição imunomediada por reações de hipersensibilidade envolvendo a Imunoglobulina E (IgE), a qual desencadeará uma cascata de reações inflamatórias que levam a degranulação de mastócitos e, consequentemente, a uma resposta patológica exacerbada afetando o fluxo aéreo de forma reversível, podendo ter amplo componente genético. Ademais, a farmacoterapia é dividida em dois grupos, o de medicamentos destinados à manutenção do fluxo aéreo regular e os de manejo sintomático. Considerações finais: A presente revisão narrativa apresentou o cenário atual dos estudos referentes à asma na infância, empenhando-se para contribuir com o conhecimento científico sobre os aspectos estudados nesse público até o momento.
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