Health Sciences

The objective of this research was to get to know the nurse's performance in the work management of the community health agents. Qualitative interpretive study developed with 25 nurse managers from a municipality of Serra Catarinense, Brazil. Bardin's content analysis was performed using Atlas. Ti 6.2 software. From the results, two categories emerged that explore difficulties and facilities for management.

The objective of this study was to verify health actions and services directed to the Guama Tocantins Indigenous Special Health District included in the Health Care Networks (RAS-Redes de Atenção à Saúde) of the state of Para,evaluating the perception of the coordinators of the health care networks as well as of the indigenous health managers of Para, on the implementation of these actions and services in the regional plans of the four RAS (stork, urgency and emergency, psychosocial and people with disabilities) seven health regions, which encompass the Guama-Tocantins DSEI.

Background and objective: Psoriasis represents a common inflammatory skin disorder, and psoriatic arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease which characterized by arthritis and enthesitis that can occur in about one-third of patients with psoriasis. Both conditions had been linked to increasing the risk of osteoporosis. The aims: this study aims to assess the bone mineral density and the rate of osteoporosis in a group of psoriatic patients with and without arthritis and find the predictors of osteoporosis in such patients.

Study objective: To Correlate of 4-meter gait speed with 6 MWD in COPD patients. Materials and methods: 50 diagnosed COPD patients underwent 4-meter gait speed test and six minute walk test by two examiners. Data obtained from both the tests was correlated. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: Inpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation setup Time duration: Three months Participants: 50 diagnosed COPD patients. Conclusion: There is a weak positive correlation between 4-meter gait speed and Six minute walk distance in COPD patients

There are several types of Diabetes Mellitus, type 1 is a metabolic disease, chronic and multifactorial resulting in serious consequences to the human organism and e intraoral as periodontal diseases, dental cavity, xerostomia and change in salivary pH decreasing its protective effect and favoring an acidogenic environment increasing the incidence of dental caries in patients with Diabetes Mellitus.

The concern of the world population has been increasing due to the significant augmentation of people affected by chronic degenerative diseases. These diseases are usually caused by oxidative stress, so there is a growing interest in the discovery of natural substances as an alternative medical resource that can act as antioxidants. Authors have shown that Annona muricata L is associated with several benefits to human health and can be associated to improve risk factors of developing some chronic degenerative diseases.

The content of this article focuses on the construct validity of the Polish Self-Regulation Questionnaire-Learning (SRQ-L). The assessment of students' level of self-regulation can be a powerful tool in enhancing and understanding students' functioning in the school environment. Theoretical consideration is based on the Theory of Self-Regulation by Deci & Ryan. The aim of the present study is to adapt, validate and determine the psychometric properties of the SRQ-L on a Polish student sample, consisting of 200 teenagers, ages 14–17 from middle schools.

This study aimed to characterize the stress of the nursing team in an intensive care unit. It is an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted between April and June 2016, with 93 professionals from the nursing team of three public hospitals in São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil. Three questionnaires, a semi-structured one composed by socioeconomic and occupational data, the Stress Inventory in Nursesand the Stress Symptom Scale were used.

Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) have had positive results with elderly people, thus the purpose of this study was to analyze the scientific publications on the effects of Mindfulness on the elderly population. It is an integrative literature review based on the following steps: development of the guiding question; search for studies in databases; selection of papers; data extraction; evaluation of the selected studies; analysis and synthesis of the results; and review presentation.

Objectives: To determine surgical site infection (SSI) rates, after abdominal Surgery and To determine risk factors associated with surgical site infections. Settings: AL-Jumhoori Teaching Hospital, Department of surgery, Mosul Medical City, Mosul, Iraq. Starting from October 2007-October 2008. Patients and methods: A prospective cohort study included 78 patients with surgical site infection after elective and emergency abdominal surgery.