Past Issue

Acidentes domésticos por queimaduras em criaças menores de cinco anos

Objetivo: identificar fatores de risco para acidentes domésticos, causados por queimaduras, em crianças menores de cinco anos de idade. Método: estudo transversal, com 354 cuidadores de crianças do nordeste do Brasil. Utilizou-se de formulário referente às questões socioeconômicas e checklist para observação do ambiente. Realizaram-se análises bivariadas, utilizando-se do teste Qui-quadrado de Pearson.

Fatores de risco para doenças cardiovasculares em estudantes de medicina

O objetivo deste estudo foi estimar a prevalência dos fatores de risco para doença cardiovascular em estudantes de medicina e comparar entre homens e mulheres. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, com 95 estudantes. Foram analisados dados sociodemográficos e fatores de risco cardiovascular. Realizou-se análise estatística, com nível de significância de 5%. A idade média encontrada foi de 22,2 anos (±3,4), sendo 56,1% mulheres.

Teaching nurse: quality of life and occupational stress

The objective was to identify the elements the determine the quality of life of teaching nurse, as well as the ones associated with their occupational stress. It is an integrative review made in the database LILACS, SCIELO, BDENF, through the following descriptors “occupational stress”, “quality of life”, “teaching nurse”, “worker’s health”, made in Portuguese, published from March to April of 2017.13 articles were selected. The data lead to the following thematic categories: Occupational risk factors for the stress and defining elements for the quality of life in the professional context.

Entrepreneurship as an alternative for unemployment an analysis from 2012 to 2018

Entrepreneurship can be defined as an activity that involves discovery, evaluation and exploration of opportunities to create new goods, services, markets and processes through the efforts of individuals or organizations that did not previously exist. Entrepreneurship is one of the solutions for unemployment in times of economic crisis. This paper investigates the influence of unemployment in Brazilian entrepreneurship between 2012 and 2018.

A systematic review on the wide spreading social media use and consequences of social media: mental health perspective

Social media is a web based technology that connects a large number of families, friends, clients and other large number of virtual communities to share and exchange what they have without any fear and interference to their intimate partners or groups. The purpose of this review is in order to clearly indicate the effects of social media use on human psychological wellbeing and mental health. Reviewing a number of articles has been done to show the pitfalls of social media and other technology on human wellbeing.

A study of anatomical variations of the popliteal artery in thiel cadaver and clinical applications

This Anatomical variations occur in structures of the body, with the structures of the vascular system inclusive. This study seeks to observe the variations in the termination pattern of popliteal artery and their clinical significances. 24 right and left popliteal fossae of 12 ScottishThiel-embalmed cadavers within the age range of 32 – 110 years were dissected. The observed variations in the termination pattern of popliteal artery were classified using to Kim’s method.

Knowledge of intensive nurses about the diagnosis of nursing: risk of injury in the cornea

Objective: To analyze nurses' knowledge about nursing diagnosis and intervention for the risk of corneal injury in the Intensive Care Unit. Method: Descriptive, exploratory research with a qualitative approach. Setting: Study developed at the Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital of medium and high complexity, located in the metropolitan region of Belém, State of Pará, Brazil, from April to June 2019. The sample consisted of nine nurses.

Perception of chronic renal patients on nursing care in a hemodialysis center

Objective: To understand the perception of patients with chronic kidney disease on nursing care in a Hemodialysis Clinic of Belém / PA. Methodology: Qualitative research, developed in Renal Disease Clinic and Diagnostic Methods with 10 patients on renal replacement therapy (hemodialysis), whose data collection took place through semi-structured interview, based on the Bardin method. Results and Discussion: The categories that emerged from the study were: Hemodialysis as life expectancy; Difficulties in hemodialysis treatment; Nursing care in the treatment of hemodialysis patients.

Serological survey of Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii in companion animals rescued from hoarding behavior cases in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

This report has aimed to serosurvey Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in two animal hoarding cases in Curitiba, Brazil. Blood samples from 15 dogs and 12 cats were tested, of which 3/15 (20.0%) dogs and 1/12 (8.3%) cat were seropositive to Leptospira spp. and 1/15 (6.6%) dog and 4/12 (33.3%) cats positive to T. gondii. The present report may be the first description of T. gondii and Leptospira spp. antibody status in dog and cat hoarding cases of Brazil.

First reports from urbanorum spp, meeting in sus patient floes in a private imperatriz laboratory during 2018

Enteroparasites comprise a species of organisms that affect the gastrointestinal tract of humans and depending on the degree of pathogenicity may lead to the death of the infected individual. In addition to the most frequent intestinal parasites found in Brazil, there are now reports of the appearance of Urbanorum spp., A new parasite discovered by researcher Francisco Tirado Santamaria, parasitologist at the Universidad Industrial de Santander - Colombia. This parasite is beginning to be reported in the literature by researchers from Brazil.