Objective: To evaluate the impact of recurring urinary infections on the quality of life of women in outpatient care. Method: Observational, descriptive, and analytical study with 98 women attended in the outpatient clinic of a public teaching hospital in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 49 of these women had recurring urinary infections, confirmed...
Introduction:Pregnancy is considered a unique and memorable event in a woman's life. High-risk pregnancy is a stressful experience due to the risks to which the mother and the baby are exposed, and due to the changes that negatively affect their emotional balance. Objective:To identify the feelings experienced by pregnant women facing high-risk pre...
Published in Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objectives: to analyze the social representations elaborated by sex workers from Alto Sertão Produtivo Baiano about quality of life. Methods: a qualitative study, based on the Social Representation Theory, carried out in the region of Alto Sertão Produtivo Baiano, with 30 sex workers. Individual in-depth interview was carried out, with speeches org...
Introduction:When facing breast cancer, patients and their loving ones experiment many changes in their lives filled with feelings such as fear, anguish, and sadness. In the light of this, the identification of the coping methods used to face breast cancer is crucial to provide a better experience for all those involved. Objective: To understand th...
Introduction: Diseases often represent physiological changes that require immediate action depending on the severity. Faced with these changes, Andean women put into practice their ancestral knowledge and attitudes to find a solution, as they are the most immediate means at their disposal. Objective: To interpret the attitudes of Andean women in th...
Objective: to understand the perspective of nurses regarding the obstacles faced by physically disabled women in regard to cytopathological examinations. Methods: qualitative study with 11 nurses from Basic Health Units, including urban and rural areas. Data was processed and analyzed using the software IRAMUTEQ (R pour les Analyses Multidimensionn...
Published in Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objectives: to describe the daily life of Brazilian women who work in mining. Methods: a descriptive, qualitative study, with analysis based on the theory of Symbolic Interactionism. Non-participant observations, field diary writing, sociodemographic form, non-directive interviews, recorded and transcribed in full, were carried out with 19 women wh...
Published in Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P
To map the nursing interventions of the Terminology Subset for elderly women with HIV/AIDS-related vulnerabilities in the International Classification for Nursing Practice 2019/2020, according to the guidelines of the ABNT Standard ISO/TR 12.300/2016. This is a descriptive exploratory study of terminological mapping, in which interventions underwen...
Carried out by the Fundación Servicio Especial en Salud Pública(FSESP) in Algoas between 1960 and 1990, this is a sociohistoricalstudy that describes the work of recruiting, training and supervising midwives and curious women. Both written and oral sources were used, produced in interviews from oral thematic history. The participants were two healt...
Objective: to describe the experiences of pregnant women at advanced maternal age assisted in a private hospital. Methods: a qualitative study, carried out with 17 women, by means of semi-structured interviews via telephone. The data was submitted to Thematic Content Analysis. Results: the participants were between 35 and 40 years old. Two categori...
