Objective: Report experience of male person on a Doulas-training course, whose historical dominance is female people and the training scenario is unique to this genre.
Methods:Qualitative and descriptive study, reporting the experience in a Training Course for Doulas held in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in June 2015. The results characterize the course, followed by the experienced living. The analysis was funded by the literature on the subject.
Results:The experience showed that the process of working as doula must be delimited by an understanding beyond sexism and from exploitation for it.
Conclusion:It is noteworthy that care as an archetype should not be associated with the gender division of activities in the ideological process of the rite of passage transcribed in a training course, neither in the care of women.
Introduction: The desire for a child is also a characteristic feeling of man throughout his life. However, when a premature and/or risk birth occur, require specialized care in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, parents are surprised by many difficult feelings to overcome.Objective: To understand the paternal experience during hospitalization of their child in the neonatal intensive care unit.Method: This is an exploratory-descriptive study of qualitative approach, carried out in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a university hospital in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, through interviews, from a semi-structured instrument. It was submitted to the Content Analysis Technique, mode of cross-thematic analysis for analysis of the data.
Objective: to identify how health education actions performed by the nursing professional contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of patients with heart failure.
Method:Integrative review built from the following question: What contributions of the nurse in the health education of patients with heart failure? Made in the PUBMED, LILACS and SciELO Virtual Library databases. The studies were analyzed and presented in a descriptive and table format.Results: 8 studies were the sample. It was possible to identify that the actions of health education developed by nurses to patients with heart failure provide integration of the patients with the family, behavior change and acquisition of healthy habits.
Objective: To identify beliefs related to oral antidiabetic use among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. Method: This is a descriptive, quantitative and qualitative study conducted with 32 participants using oral antidiabetic drugs. Data was collected through an open question tool and analyzed by number of emissions and content. Results: Among the behavioral beliefs, the following stand out: (a) as an advantage, to keep diabetes controlled; and (b) as disadvantages, gastric pain and discomfort, nausea and diarrhea. In the normative beliefs, family stood out as a social referent (children, mother and siblings). As for the control beliefs, taking the tablets with water and the size of the tablets stood out as practicalities and difficulties, respectively, in relation to the oral therapy follow-up. Conclusion and implications for practice: It was possible to identify the beliefs regarding the behavior of taking oral antidiabetics that will contribute to foster educational strategies with the potential to strengthen the positive beliefs and to revert the negative ones, in favor of adherence to drug therapy, glycemic control and quality of life.
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