Lorita Marlena Freitag Pagliuca

• PhD
• Principal Investigator at Federal University of Ceará

A comunicação destaca-se como instrumento indispensável durante a consulta de enfermagem, contudo, pode ser comprometida, quando os profissionais se deparam com pessoas cegas. Neste contexto, este estudo buscou analisar a comunicação do enfermeiro durante a aplicação do Processo de Enfermagem na consulta a pessoa cega. Trata-se de uma pesquisa tran...

Objective to describe the construction of a prototype mobile application for self-assessment of the cultural competence of nursing professionals and students in providing care to people with disabilities. Methods a methodological study of the prototype application type, based on the Instrument for Self-Assessment of Transcultural Competence for th...

Objetivo: Apresentar as recomendações para a utilização de paciente simulado no ensino superior. Metodologia: Trata-se de uma Scoping review conforme o The Institute Joanna Brigs, realizado nas bases de dados Literatura Latino-Americana em Ciências da Saúde e Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, e na biblioteca eletrônica Scient...

Objetivo: realizar a adaptação transcultural do instrumento General Self Efficacy Scale-12 para o português do Brasil. Método: trata-se de um estudo metodológico, de adaptação transcultural de um instrumento de autoeficácia, que seguiu as etapas de tradução, síntese, retrotradução, avaliação semântica, validação de conteúdo e pré-teste. Resultados:...

When an important date arrives, it is only natural to remember the milestones of the trajectory that led to it. Reminiscing these facts, especially when they illuminate a path full of work and commitment, brings us feelings of victory. Filled with joy and reassurance feeling a push forward, this journal has reached its twentieth year.

Objetivos: (1) Avaliar a adequação da Tecnologia assistiva “Drogas: reflexão para prevenção” em relação aos seus “objetivos”, “acessibilidade”, “clareza”, “estrutura e apresentação”, “relevância e eficácia”, e “interatividade” na perspectiva de pessoas com deficiência visual no Brasil e em Portugal, e (2) comparar as avaliações dos participantes no...

Purpose: (1) To evaluate the appropriateness of the assistive technology "Drugs: Reflection for Prevention" in regarding its “objectives”, “accessibility”, “clarity”, “structure and presentation”, “relevance and effectiveness”, and “interactivity” from the perspective of visually impaired people in Brazil and Portugal, and (2) to compare the evalua...

Rev Rene. v.22, 2021, ISSN 2175-6783DOI: https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.20212270972, e-location: e70972 No editorial , com número DOI: 10.15253/2175-6783.20202143362>, publicado no periódico Rev Rene. 2020; 21:e43362, na página <2>, disponível em: http://www.revenf.bvs.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-38522020000100100&lng=pt&nrm=iso&...

Objective: to build assistive technology, in video format, for deaf and hearing people about sexual health and condom use. Methods: methodological study consisting of the stages of pre-production, production and post-production. In pre-production we built the script, storyboard and scenes, following the principles of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky’s Theo...

Introduction: Due to the transformations that occurred in adolescence, the vagueness that accompanies it and the visual impairment, justifies a study on the experience of sexuality in this population cluster. Objectives: To identify the perceptions of visually impaired adolescents about their sexuality. Methods: Exploratory qualitative study. Fiv...

Objective To know according to the perception and experiences of blind mothers how access to primary health care services occurs in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. Methods This is a qualitative study conducted in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, with twenty blind mothers who had children from zero to ten years old. Data collection took place in the fir...

Objectives: to analyze verbal communication between the nurse and the parturient during the active phase of labor in two Lusophone countries. Methods: quantitative analytical study. Sample of 709 interactions between nurses and parturients using verbal communication during the active phase of labor in Brazil and Cape Verde. The following variables...

Em datas significativas, é natural relembrar de fatos que marcaram a trajetória do que se está a comemorar. Discorrer sobre esses fatos, principalmente quando ilustra um caminho de muito trabalho e compromisso, enlaça-nos em sentimentos de vitória. Em júbilo e repletos de encorajamento, a Revista alcança seus vinte anos de existência.

Objective: to identify funding demands in the light of CNPq’s knowledge subareas, as well as data on researchers and research groups, their distribution in the regions and their approximation with health research priorities of the Ministry of Health and the new knowledge tree framework of the area. Method: a descriptive study developed with data f...

Objective: to analyze nonverbal communication between nurse and parturient during the active phase of labor in two Portuguese-speaking countries. Method: a quantitative and analytical study, whose sample consisted of 709 interactions that used the nonverbal communication of nurses and parturients. The analyzed variables were: distance; posture;...

Este estudo apresenta análise reflexiva sobre desenvolvimento de tecnologias assistivas online, quesubsidiam o cuidado de enfermagem à pessoa com deficiência, com base em modelo de designinstrucional de Falkembach. Estudo reflexivo, realizado em abril de 2018, através do repositórioinstitucional online do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da...

Objective to report the knowledge of nurses about nursing care to people with spinal cord injury and urinary tract dysfunction. Methods a cross-sectional study with 19 nurses from a tertiary hospital. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire, validated concerning content for this research, containing sociodemographic, professional...

Objective: investigate the scientific evidence on the technologies that are used for health education for deaf people. Method: integrative review carried out in October 2017, with the publications of the last 15 years, in the databases MEDLINE/PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS via Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), Web of Science and Scopus. Results: we found...

Objective to evaluate the acquisition of knowledge of nurses in the nursing consultation on communication with blind patients. Methods evaluation research, carried out by questionnaires applied before and after the experience of an educational program of an e-learning course. We used Contextual Lexical Analysis software for a Set of Text Segments...

Objetivo: descrever o resultado da validação aparente e de conteúdo da tecnologia assistiva “Amamentação em ação”, junto a pessoas com deficiência visual de duas realidades, de Portugal e Brasil. Método: estudo de validação aparente fundamentado no modelo da psicometria composto dos polos teórico, empírico e analítico. Participaram, no Brasil, 19...

Objective: to develop affordable education course for the blind on the prevention of hypertension. Method: we used the Model of Development of Digital Educational Materials composed by the stages of analysis and planning; modeling; implementation; evaluation and maintenance; distribution. Results: we obtained fifteen pages divided into six learni...

Objetivo: Avaliar acessibilidade física da recepção de unidades de atenção primária à saúde. Método: Pesquisa descritiva, quantitativa, para mapear acessibilidade do espaço físico da área de recepção em 157 unidades de saúde, entre agosto de 2014 a maio de 2015, na região do maciço de Baturité, Ceará, Brasil. Os dados foram coletados com instrument...

Objective: To evaluate the self-eye examination practice as a tool to promote the ocular self-evaluation. Method: Quasi-experimental study developed in a university of Piauí with sample of 324 students between January and May 2014. A team of thirteen researchers made observations during the self-examination followed by an ocular screening. Resu...

Objetivo: Comparar os resultados do autoexame ocular realizado com auxílio das versões impressa e virtual de cartilha educativa. Método: Estudo quase-experimental realizado em escola estadual de capital do nordeste brasileiro, com 100 estudantes divididos igualmente em grupo controle e intervenção, mediante pareamento quanto à idade, ao sexo, à es...

Objective: to construct and validate the Educational Content Validation Instrument in Health. Method: methodological study that includes the establishment of the conceptual structure; definition of objectives and population; construction of items and response scale; selection and arrangement of items; instrument structuring; opinion of experts;...

Purpose: To validate the assistive technology “Drugs: reflection for prevention” to be used with visually impaired people. Method: Quantitative and quasi-experimental study, contrasting knowledge before and after the use of the assistive technology with 140 visually impaired people in institutes and associations for people with visual impairment. A...

Objective: to compare Interrater reliability concerning two eye assessment methods. Method: quasi-experimental study conducted with 324 college students including eye self-examination and eye assessment performed by the researchers in a public university. Kappa coefficient was used to verify agreement. Results: reliability coefficients between In...

Purpose: To evaluate the current evidence on the social and biological factors correlated with functional disability in the elderly, formulating a systematic review based on published studies on this subject. Methods: Systematic review from January 1998 to April 2014. The research was conducted with the descriptors: “health of the elderly”; “aging”...

Objective to identify the key competence domains defined in the Galway Consensus Conference Statement present in assistive technologies to promote the health of blind adults. Methods integrative review carried out in the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, SCOPUS, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and M...

Objective to evaluate schoolchildren´s knowledge before and after educational intervention using an educational blog about the person with disability. Methods quantitative study with 74 students participating. Knowledge test was applied. Mean and standard deviation of ages was calculated. McNemar test was used comparing pretest and posttest and Wi...

Objetivo Validar tecnologia assistiva sobre amamentação para cegos pessoas com deficiência visual na modalidade literatura de cordel em áudio através do acesso online. Métodos Pesquisa de desenvolvimento metodológico. Realizada de agosto de 2012 a março de 2013, com 124 pessoas cegas, as quais apreciaram tecnologia (literatura de cordel) sobre ama...

Objective: To validate the educational board game " Drugs: playing fair " for visually impaired people in Brazil and Portugal. Methods: Study of apparent validation carried out in two associations for visually impaired people in Forta-leza, Brazil, and in Porto, Portugal. Thirty-six visually impaired people, 18 from each country, participated in th...

Objetive: to build an educational video for early detection of trouble seeing in schoolers. Method: technology development study in three stages: pre-production, production and post-production in the period from March to December 2014. The recordings were made in a public school in Fortaleza (Brazil) and Health Communication Laboratory in the Univ...

Objectives: to evaluate the accessibility to Primary Health Care Units for the elderly in urban and rural areas. Method: descriptive quantitative study of 157 primary health care units in Ceará. An instrument with accessibility standards of the Brazilian Norm 9050/2004 for public streets and access to buildings was used in the study. Results: the...

Background: Accessibility enables the effective participation of disabled persons in public and private areas and the use of urban equipment and street furniture. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the physical accessibility of toilet facilities in urban and rural primary health care units. Methods: It was a quantitative descriptive study condu...

Objective: to assess the automatic accessibility of assistive technology in online courses for the hearing impaired. Method: evaluation study guided by the Assessment and Maintenance step proposed in the Model of Development of Digital Educational Material. The software Assessor and Simulator for the Accessibility of Sites (ASES) was used to analy...

Background: Understanding immigrants' interactions with the United States (US) healthcare system will likely make it possible to meet their healthcare needs and improve their quality of life in the US. Although challenges to accessing and utilizing healthcare in the US have been identified, there is little information specific to Brazilian-born im...

Objective: to validate an educational text in the context of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) for visually impaired persons, making it accessible to this population. Method: a validation study, in a virtual environment. Data collection occurred from May to September 2012 by emailing the subjects, and was composed by seven content experts about...

Introduction: Despite variations in the beginning and the end, adolescence is the second decade of life, 10-19 years. According to the World Report on disability among those individuals aged 0-14 years of age, 93 million had severe or moderate disabilities and 13 million severe disabilities. Therefore, this study aimed to identify adolescents with...

Introduction: Operational axes are strategies that enable the achievement of health promotion actions. Studying them allows the clarification of the actions that are being performed in the community. This study aimed to analyze the national policy of health promotion of 2015 about the implementation of strategies to achieve health promotion, consid...

Objective: The study aimed to compare the information on psychoactive substances for visually impaired people in Brazil and Portugal. Method: Study with a quantitative approach, before-and-after type, held in institutions that provide care to people with visual impairment in Brazilian cities and in Porto, Portugal. Data were collected through infor...

This study aimed to analyze the evidence available in the literature about psychoactive substance use by persons with disabilities. We used integrative review of literature in SciELO, PubMed, SCOPUS, BDENF, and PsychINFO databases, with the descriptors: pessoas com deficiencia; transtornos relacionados a uso de substancias; disabled persons; and su...

Objective to build the concept of disabled person. Methods study of analysis of concept using the phases field work and statistical analysis with 120 individuals divided into three groups of 40 people with hearing, visual and motor disability. Results there was predomination of men (68.0%), 18-29 years old (55.0%), with superior education (35.0%)...

Objective to analyze associations among sociodemographic characteristics and knowledge, attitude and practice of blind people about sexually transmitted infections. Methods descriptive transversal study with a quantitative approach. Participants were 36 blind individuals. The questionnaire Knowledge, attitude and practice about sexually transmitte...

O álcool é a droga mais consumida no mundo, que pode gerar problemas sociais e de saúde, afetando usuários, pessoas que com estes convivem e a sociedade em geral. O objetivo foi identificar melhores evidências em intervenções para redução do abuso de álcool. Revisão integrativa de literatura, realizada na LILACS, CINAHL, PUBMED e SCOPUS, por meio d...

Objetivou-se compreender o conhecimento de pessoas surdas em saúde e doença e suas fontes de informações em um estudo descritivo, com abordagem qualitativa, realizado em uma instituição pública de referência, no estado da Paraíba, em atendimento a pessoas com deficiência. Foram realizadas entrevistas individualmente, em língua de sinais, com 11 pes...

Objective: The repercussion of inclusive public policies was analyzed from the perspective of people with hearing, visual and physical impairments. Methods: Descriptive and quantitative study, based on the Hybrid Model of concept analysis. Disabled people were interviewed, using a structured questionnaire. Data were organized in tables and Crossta...

Objetivo: analizar comunicación no verbal entre enfermero y paciente ciego durante la consulta de enfermería. Método: estudio casi-experimental, cuantitativo. Participaron 15 enfermeros en el grupo control y 15 en el experimental y 30 pacientes ciegos. El grupo experimental ha recibido capacitación acerca de la Teoría Proxémica y del Modelo de Comu...

Assistive Technologies consists of resources, methods, and strategies favoring autonomy and inclusion of elderly and people with disabilities, being scarce in the literature instruments assessing them. A methodology study conducted with a panel of specialists and people with visual impairment, aimed to elaborate and validate a questionnaire to asse...

Estudo transversal, de abordagem quantitativa, que objetivou verificar o conhecimento de escolares antes e após aplicação do jogo de labirinto acerca de pessoa com deficiência. Participaram do estudo 94 escolares do nono ano do ensino fundamental, de escolas públicas e particulares, em duas cidades do Ceará, no segundo semestre de 2013. Aplicou-se...

Writing an editorial is always a challenge. When drafting a scientific paper one can rely on the literature review, method, results, and discussion with texts supporting or deconstructing what one wants to prove. Utopia is the spice of life, better when there are more than one utopian; particularly a group of dreamers who allowed themselves to drea...

This study aims at verifying the learning of adolescent students about the disabled person using educational technology in the board game mode and using a semi-experimental non-randomized study of pre and post with unintentional probability sample. Validated and standardized instruments were used. Data were processed by SPSS 20.0 and organized in t...

OBJECTIVE To validate assistive technology for visually impaired women to learn how to use the female condom. METHOD a methodological development study conducted on a web page, with data collection between May and October 2012. Participants were 14 judges; seven judges in sexual and reproductive health (1st stage) and seven in special education (2...

This study aimed to build an accessible online course about breast cancer, focusing on early detection. It is a methodological development study based on the construction of the Health Breast On-line Course, accessible for blind women. Content assessment with three health professionals was carried out, in a public university of Ceará, in September...

The objective was to compare the socioeconomic profile and the repercussions for effects on the health of people with physical, hearing and visual of the main Ceará state associations in Brazil. Quantitative study carried out from March to August 2012 through a structured questionnaire with 120 subjects. Variables were: gender, age, education, fami...

It aimed to analyze the assistance to the blind woman during prenatal care, childbirth, and childcare in light of the Model of Attention to Chronic Conditions. This is a descriptive, qualitative study. A collection was done through semi-structured interview and analysis of the speeches, conducted by content technique proposed by Bardin, emerging fr...

A quantitative descriptive study aimed to evaluate the physical structure accessibility of gyneco-logical nursing clinics and their bathrooms in basic health units for users with motor disabilities. A checklist tool/instrument was applied for analyzing 16 items in the bathroom and four in the nursing clinic. 157 basic health units were evaluated. I...

Objective: To analyze nonverbal communication between nurses and blind persons during nursing consultations. Methods: Quasi-experimental, quantitative study. The participants were 15 nurses in the experimental group and 15 in the control group and 30 blind persons. The experimental group received training on Proxemics Theory and the Model of Non-Ve...

Theoretical framework: Given the difficulties of blind parents in the introduction of complementary feeding for their children, a content was developed in Brazil on this topic, observing the characteristics of online assistive technology. Aim: To describe the adaptation and assessment of the assistive technology to the Portuguese culture. Methodolo...

The goal was to analyze the applicability of the phases of Humanistic Theory in research, according to a Theory Analysis Model. Critical nursing theory analysis study with emphasis on applicability. A search was carried out in April and May 2013 in the databases SCOPUS, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature and in the publication...

This study aimed at analyzing the perceptions of clients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) while using an educational guide for eye self-examination. Descriptive and exploratory study with qualitative approach, developed from May to August 2010, in outpatient care of referral hospital in...

Brazilian laws guarantee the protection to the rights of the citizenship of people with disabilities and their participation in various social sectors which influence health promotion. One aimed at reflecting about the health promotion actions contemplated in Brazilian laws directed to people with physical, hearing and visual disabilities. Through...

Objetivou-se validar as diretrizes gerais da comunicação do enfermeiro com o cego. Estudo quantitativo, realizado entre abril de 2008 e março de 2009 em Fortaleza-CE. Participaram 30 enfermeiros e 30 cegos divididos em grupo controle e experimental. Realizaram-se 30 consultas de enfermagem filmadas e analisadas por especialistas. O grupo experiment...

This article provides a presentation of the method used to guarantee the accessibility and usabili-ty of an online course for blind women. The course discusses breast cancer with a focus on early detection, with a view to granting these women a new form of learning about breast cancer. In this paper, the evaluation of the accessibility of HTML page...

Objective: To assess the learning of community health agents, in the form of knowledge and skills, to conceptualize, identify and register people with hearing, visual, physical and multiple impairments. Methods: Cross-sectional study involving 173 community health agents, who were trained to identify and register disabled people. The data were org...

The objective was to describe the process of development of a virtual guide on ocular self-examination for people with HIV/aids. The methodological proposal followed the five steps recommmended by Falkembach: analysis and planning, modeling, implementation, evaluation and distribution. The adequacy of the printed version to the virtual required the...

This study is aimed at assessing the vaccination coverage of visually impaired adults and their socio-demographic characteristics. Quantitative, exploratory and descriptive research, involving 41 visually impaired adults in an association of the blind in Fortaleza, CE, between February and May/2011. For data collection semi-structured questionnaire...

String literature about breastfeeding was linguistically and culturally adapted to Portugal. Methodological development study, undertaken at Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal, between March and May 2012, during a "sandwich" doctoral program in Porto. The theoretical framework of Psychometrics was used, organized in three hubs. In thi...

The alcohol abuse is associated with a wide range of social, health and legal problems to analyze the pattern of alcohol consumption of users of a Family Health Unit. A descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, conducted with 207 users of a Family Health Unit who responded the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Data w...

It was aimed at validating the applicability of the Model of Verbal Communication with blind people in nursing appointment in the stages of the nursing process. A methodology of quantitative study was used with 30 nurses and 30 blind people who participated in the study, divided in control and experimental groups. 30 nursing appointments took place...

Objective: To compare the learning of visually impaired individuals after the use of the educational game “Drugs: playing it clean”. Method: Quasi-experimental, comparative, before-after study. Results: The participants’ mean age in Brazil was lower than in Portugal; a significant difference in information acquisition was found between the pre and...

It notes the need of searching for technologies and strategies that encompass the universe to be reached, considering the peculiarities of each customer. Thus, there is a need to develop educational technologies on sexuality in accessible formats and inclusiveness to promote health to the blind people. This study aimed to describe the construction...

It was aimed to describe the experiences at the practice of sexuality of women with physical disabilities. This study is part of a doctoral thesis entitled sexuality in women with acquired deficiency: nursing in health promotion and empowerment. It was conducted an exploratory descriptive study with qualitative approach, which was carried out from...

The aim of the present study was to construct a concept of mobility limitation in the home, based on the identification of antecedents, attributes, and consequences in stroke patients. It accomplished the concept analysis of the literature starting from access on-line to three databases, in October month 2009. It used descriptors Mobility Limitatio...

The objectives were to develop and evaluate an assistive technology for the use of the male condom by visually impaired men. It was a technology development study with the participation of seven subjects. Three workshops were performed between April and May of 2010; they were all filmed and the statements of the participants were transcribed and an...

Aim: To develop an Assistive Technology for visually impaired women to learn how to use the female condom. Method: This is a descriptive and exploratory research, with a qualitative approach. Three workshops were held between April and May 2010. These events were recorded and the statements were transcribed and analyzed by the content analysis meth...

The aim was to describe aspects of the nursing evolution in the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq), focusing on the organizational structure and positions of the Area Representation and the advances in nursing knowledge. This is an experience report, a...

Study aimed to develop and assess an educational game on psychoactive drugs accessible to blind individuals, conducted in three steps: development of the educative game, evaluation by three special education experts, and assessment by twelve blind individuals. As a result, a board game called Drugs: staying clean was developed. In the Alpha version...

This work aimed at clarifying the concept learning in online education, expressed by the literature in the area of health. It is a study of analysis of concept, based on the Evolutionary Model, being highlighted attributes, background, consequents and substitute terms. Learning in the context of online education is characterized by a dynamic and co...

This theoretical study aimed to analyze the attributes, antecedents, and consequences of the transpersonal caring concept through using the Concepts Analysis Model. For this purpose, books published based on Jean Watson's theory in Portuguese and English from 1979 to 2012 were listed. Fulfilled inclusion criteria, only six literary works remained....

Estudio teórico objetivando analizar los atributos, antecedentes y consecuencias del concepto de cuidado transpersonal, utilizando el Modelo de Análisis de Concepto. Se seleccionaron libros de la teórica Jean Watson, en portugués e inglés, escritos entre 1979 y 2012. Cumplidos los criterios de inclusión, se trabajó con 6 obras literarias. Los antec...

Revisão integrativa com objetivo de identificar os domínios da promoção da saúde definidos na conferência de Galway em artigos que utilizam jogos educativos para promoção da saúde em adolescentes. Foi realizada coleta de dados em novembro de 2011, em consulta em bases de dados, obedecendo aos critérios de inclusão: possuir como temática central o u...

It was aimed to measure the quality of life of adults with spinal cord injury and identify domains that affect the quality of life of these individuals. Epidemiological study, conducted in 2007-2008 in Health Basic Units of Campina Grande/PB. There were 47 participants. It was used a questionnaire composed by: sociodemographic variables, etiology o...

Se objetivó medir la calidad de vida de adultos con lesión medular e identificar los dominios que afectan la calidad de vida de estos sujetos. Estudio epidemiológico realizado entre 2007-2008 en Unidades Básicas de Salud, Campina Grande/PB. Participaron 47 sujetos. Se utilizó cuestionario conteniendo variables sociodemográficas, etiología de la les...

This integrative review was performed with the purpose to identify the health promotion domains defined in the Galway conference considering articles that use educational games to promote health among adolescents. Data collection was performed in November of 2011, through searches on databases in accordance with the following inclusion criteria: ce...

The goal of this study was to assess educational technology in the string literature about breastfeeding. The study was conducted between March and September 2009 by breastfeeding experts and experts on string literature. A psychometric model was adopted as the theoretical-methodological framework. For data collection, an instrument was used to ass...

A saude do trabalhador constitui-se objeto precipuo de atencao nos locais de trabalho o que inclui a saude e seguranca dos trabalhadores de saude. Considerada estruturante na organizacao dos servicos de saude, a Estrategia Saude da Familia deve mobilizar grande contingente de profissionais. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar riscos ocupacionais p...

Proxemic communication (behaviours and relations of human interaction) offered by the mother in an HIV-infected mother-child pair during infancy was analysed to determine which proxemic factors promote the exchange of affection. This study, conducted in an experimental laboratory in 2007, included mother-child pairs in which the mother was HIV-posi...

This study addresses the Cross-Cultural Nursing Theory, which develops foundations for care delivery, as the essence of nursing work, based on anthropology, which supports and explains culture and care aspects. This reflexive study was based on the Theory Analysis method to study the concepts aimed at constructing a Self-Assessment Instrument of Co...

This study aimed at comparing testimonies of visually-impaired men and women, participating in workshops on sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases (STD), and female and male contraceptive methods. It is a descriptive, qualitative, exploratory study. Five workshops took place from April, 2010 to May, 2010, at the Health Communication Lab of the Nu...