Health Sciences

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) have been a major concern in all age groups, especially in adolescents and adults, due to their sexual behavior towards the use of condoms and the increase of contamination. STIs are a public health problem and the unprotected sex act is the main way of transmission. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the perception of the students of a college in the Southwest of Bahia, regarding the use of condoms and their importance.

Objective: To describe the nurses' attitude regarding the violence suffered by the elderly, evidenced in the Brazilian and Portuguese scientific literature, from 2007 to 2018. Method: It is an exploratory study with qualitative approach of the type Integrative Review of Literature. The sample consisted of 14 articles, 13 Brazilian and one Portuguese. Results: The results showed that nurses are the health professionals who most identify violence against the elderly, either through nursing consultation or the arrival of the elderly in emergency services.

Congenital syphilis is a disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, transmitted by hematogenous, transplacental or part-channel routes and breastfeeding. This disease affects around 930,000 people worldwide, with a gradual increase in the disease, both nationally and at the state level. The present study is a descriptive epidemiological survey with a quantitative approach, in which data available from the SINAN databases in the Data SUS was collected on cases of congenital syphilis in children younger than 4 years old between 2007 and 2017 in the state of Pará, Brazil.

Objective: To evaluate the use of realistic simulation as a strategy of the learning teaching process with students of the nursing course in the scenarios of basic health care. Method: Descriptive, exploratory, quantitative study developed in a private Higher Education Institution in Belem / PA, in August, 2018. The sample consisted of 47 students from the Nursing course, 5th year, enrolled in the discipline in Basic Attention in health.

This study evaluated adherence to treatment for diabetes and the relationship with kidney function and lifestyle. It is a descriptive study, carried out with 270 elderly people, with questionnaires during home visits. The mean age was 63.6±1.7 years, 62.6% female, 71.9% married, 76.3% hypertensive, 68.1% sedentary, 12.2% smokers, 69.3% report having healthy eating, 74.1% have incomplete elementary education. The average filtration rate was 70.8±23.6 ml/min. Glomerular filtration rate was lower in women and in the elderly over 60 years, but had no relation to adherence to treatment.

Comparative EMG study of the revertion of the neuromuscular function after the use of three kinds of non-depolarizing muscle relaxants in sixty patients which were subclassified into three groups , of twenty patients were every one , for had been elective cholecystectomy. Indicating the use of anticholinesterasic drug ( neostigmine) which must be used when the patients had been retired of equal or more than 50%of the control twitch height and would not be doing extubation till the height would be reaching more than 70% of the control.

The construction of quality of life (QoL) is a goal in all spheres of health. It is important to research the factors they influence, and specifically in the university field this analysis there special role, since the student's admission in this environment can significantly influence their quality of life. To outline a profile of QOL studies conducted at the last ten years with university students in Brazil. The databases utilized were Scopus, Scielo, PubMed and Lilacs, through the descriptors: Quality of life AND Brazil AND University students OR Students OR Graduandos OR Academics.

The Erectile dysfunction is the main male sexual dysfunction and may be an early manifestation of cardiovascular disease because by sharing risk factors, etiology and clinical evolution, based on endothelial dysfunction. This is an integrative review with the objective of verifying the available evidence in the literature on erectile dysfunction as a predictor of cardiovascular disease. Data collection was carried out from October to November 2017. Articles published in full between January 2012 and September 2017 were included. A sample of 11 (eleven) articles was obtained.

Objective: To analyze the factors associated with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB) in the State of Maranhão, from 2010 to 2015. Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study with DRTB cases of the Tuberculosis Special Treatment Information System (SITETB) using the model to identify associations. Estimated prevalence and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Results: Between 2010 and 2015, 124 (1.13%) cases of DRTB were reported.

This study has as goal to identify the factors linked to abdominal obesity in the elderly people living in a community. This is an epidemiological cross-sectional population-based study, carried out with all subjects with age ≥ 60 years old residents in an interior city of Bahia. It was performed the Poisson regression with p-value<0.05 for inferential analysis. There were studied 179 elderly people, with age between 60 and 91 years old.