Past Issue

We analyzed the Cuban technical and professional education in agriculture and cattle raising, mainly by the experience of the offering of technical and higher education teaching courses of Education in the specialties of agriculture and cattle raising, an educational model that counts with a long tradition in the field. The objective of this research was to revisit the historical trajectory of technical and professional education in agriculture and cattle raising and the transformations after the 1959 revolution.

O presente estudo, realizado em uma Unidade de Saúde da Família – USF no interior da Bahia, objetiva compreender a percepção das mães acerca dos entraves e facilidades da amamentação. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva exploratória, de abordagem qualitativa, cuja coleta de dados se deu por meio de entrevista, norteada por roteiro semiestruturado com puérperas cadastradas em uma USF.

Objective: evaluate the pregnant women self-esteem who live with HIV/AIDS. Methods: This is an epidemiological with cross sectional and quantitative approach study, 33 pregnant women took part of the survey and they were interviewed in a school-ambulatory from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. They answered to two questionnaires, one of them was to the self-esteem evaluation and the o the one was for socioeconomic characterization, clinical-obstetric and emotional. The levels of self-esteem were related to the other variables and with data analysis.

Objective: To describe the main complications that affect the patient with a diagnosis of pancreatitis in intensive therapy environment. Methodology: it is an integrative literature review to search for articles in the LILACS, PUBMED and SCIELO, with articles published between 1992 to 2018, in the Portuguese language, English and Spanish. Results: There were found initially 478 studies, of which 14 were included in this review.

O sucesso da amamentação depende de fatores psico-sócio-históricos e culturais da mulher, de seus familiares e do conhecimento técnico-científico dos profissionais de saúde. Objetivo: Descrever vivências de primíparas sobre o processo de amamentação. Método: Pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva e exploratória, realizada em Jequié, Bahia, Brasil, com 15 primíparas que estavam internadas numa maternidade filantrópica. Dados coletados pela entrevista guiada por um roteiro semiestruturado e analisados pela técnica de análise de conteúdo temática.

Objective: To investigate nursing diagnoses and interventions in patients with Hansen’s disease. Method: Descriptive study, evaluated 22 patients with Hansen’s disease attended at a University Hospital. It was used a form with sociodemographic and clinical aspects, Taxonomy II domains from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International and Simplified Neurological Assessment. In the data compilation, the software Excel® 2013 was adopted and in the statistical analysis, the program Epi Info version 7.0.

Objective:This work aimed to describe the sociodemographic and economic profile and to analyze the quality of lifeof elderly people with chronic noncommunicable diseases. Methods:It is a descriptive and quantitative study. Thirty-eight elderly individuals diagnosed with chronic noncommunicable diseases took part in the research. For data collection, a sociodemographic and economic form and the Short-Form Quality of lifeQuestionnaire (SF-36) were applied.

The study aimed to understand the impacts on the social life of leprosy patients with leprosy reactions. This is a qualitative study, conducted at a university hospital located in a capital in northeast Brazil, in the period from December 2017 to January 2018, with five patients monitored in leprosy reaction. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview and subjected to content analysis.

Objetivo: Verificar o impacto do processo gestacional na força muscular respiratória. Materiais e Método: trata-se de um estudo do tipo transversal, analítico e quantitativo. O estudo foi submetido ao Comitê de Ética e Pesquisa da Faculdade Independente do Nordeste e aprovado conforme parecer: 2.824.919. A coleta de dados foi realizada em uma unidade hospitalar pública no município de Vitória da Conquista-BA. As participantes foram 30 gestantes, que se encontravam na unidade de saúde para realizar a consulta pré-natal.

A Infecção Hospitalar é um problema recorrente que vem ganhando destaque. Conhecer como a equipe multiprofissional realiza o controle de infecções possibilitou a investigação da adesão a estas e o levantamento de falhas as quais poderiam ser evitadas contribuindo para uma possível redução significativa das infecções.