Maria do Carmo- State University of Paraíba
Maria do Carmo
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"O cuidado em saúde na contemporaneidade é uma questão multidisciplinar que abrange diversas áreas do conhecimento, desde a medicina e enfermagem até a psicologia e sociologia. Com o envelhecimento da população, o cuidado em saúde tem se tornado cada vez mais relevante, uma vez que as demandas de saúde aumentam com a idade. Uma das perspectivas mai...
The aim of this study was to understand the quality of life concepts in elderly people who suffers from arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus. It is a descriptive and exploratory study with qualitative approach, the data collection strategy was Focus Group Interviews. The software QDA Miner was used for qualitative data analysis and the Conte...
O objetivo deste estudo foi compreender as concepções de qualidade de vida de idosos portadores de hipertensão arterial sistêmica e diabetes mellitus tipo II. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório-descritivo de abordagem qualitativa, e a estratégia de coleta de dados foi a técnica de Grupo Focal. Os dados foram analisados usando o programa de análise...
Introdução: Estudo transversal, que objetivou avaliar a qualidade de vida (QV) e o sentimento de esperança e analisar a correlação entre esses construtos com dados demográficos. Métodos: Participaram 508 idosos, de ambos os sexos. Utilizaram-se os seguintes instrumentos: questionário demográfico, Escala de Esperança de Herth e WHOQOL-bref. Resultad...
Resumo O contexto de modificações e de adversidades decorrentes do envelhecimento exige flexibilidade na adaptação e no ajustamento às situações, a fim de proporcionar um desenvolvimento equilibrado e saudável na velhice. Objetivou-se analisar a compreensão de idosos acerca dos fatores de proteção que promovem resiliência, em resposta aos desafios...
Resumo A compreensão sobre suporte e qualidade ambiental torna-se de fundamental importância para intervenções e melhoria das condições e qualidade de vida da população idosa. Este estudo objetivou identificar a percepção do suporte ambiental e suas implicações na elaboração de projetos pessoais na velhice. A pesquisa se caracterizou como explorató...
BACKGROUND: Frailty is a clinical syndrome, and its development is multifactorial and dynamic. The clinical indicators (physical measures and self-report) that characterize the syndrome tend to vary across studies. To determine the contributions of the indicators in the determination of frailty it is important to obtain data about the variations th...
Resumo: A pesquisa teve o objetivo de averiguar a presença de transtorno mental comum (TMC) em mulheres em situação de violência doméstica (VD). Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo, com recorte transversal, do qual participaram 30 mulheres, com média de 35,93 anos de idade, em situação de violência doméstica, atendidas em um Centro de Referência da...
Resumo Resiliência é a capacidade humana de se adaptar às situações adversas de vida e pode ser potencializada pela ação dos fatores de proteção, dos quais se destaca o suporte social. Objetivou-se identificar associações entre a resiliência e variáveis sociodemográficas (sexo, idade, renda, estado civil, arranjo de moradia e religião) e correlaçõe...
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The aim of the study is to assess the quality of life of elderly individuals with hypertension and diabetes Mellitus. A total of 371 elderly individuals with hypertension and/or diabetes who are being treated in the public primary health care network, with a mean age of 71 years, M = 71, 34 (SD = 6.848) participated in this study. It is a quantitat...
This study sought to compare evidence of the factorial validity of the adapted version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-OLD) scale (three response options) with the original version of the scale. We included two populations of individuals age 60 years or older from northeast Brazil. The majority of participants were women wh...
Resumo O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a prevalência de anemia e a correlação da concentração de hemoglobina com fatores cognitivos em população idosa residente em Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil. Tratou-se de um estudo transversal com indivíduos de 60 anos de idade ou mais. Foram considerados anêmicos os indivíduos do sexo masculino que apre...
The objective of this study was to verify how the coping strategies, applied to health problems of the elderly, are related to the levels of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) in a cluster sample of 381 elderly people with an average age of 71.50 years (SD = 8.0), mostly female (73.4 %). The following instruments were used: Mini-Mental State Examination,...
Objetivo: O presente estudo teve como objetivo identificar e analisar os sentimentos suscitados por pacientes na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI), mediante a sua experiência de permanência nessa unidade.Materiais e Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo e descritivo. Participaram 25 pacientes internados em duas UTIs, com idades entre 15 e 85...
This article presents the results of a survey conducted in Brazil, Spain and Portugal. The objectives were to explore the discourses of psychologists about their practices in public health services in primary, secondary and tertiary care. A comparative and descriptive field studywas employed. One hundred seven participants filled out a questionnair...
This study aimed to investigate the latent structure of depression with a non-clinical sample of elderly, using taxometric analysis. The latter consists of a family of statistical procedures conceived for testing whether a given psychological construct is best represented by categories or dimensions in which individuals vary. The sample consisted o...
O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a estrutura latente da depressão em uma amostra não clínica de idosos, utilizando a análise taxométrica. Essa análise é uma família de procedimentos estatísticos concebidos para testar se um determinado construto é mais bem representado por categorias ou por dimensões nas quais os sujeitos variam. A amostra fo...
This study persons aimed to verify the Social Representations
of elderly persons about physical disability.
Participants were 15 elderly persons, of both sexes, with
mean age 70.6 years, who were undergoing physiotherapy
treatment at a Physiotherapy Clinic, in Campina
Grande - PB. We used as instruments a sociodemographic
questionnaire and photo-la...
This study persons aimed to verify the Social Representations of elderly persons about physical disability. Participants were 15 elderly persons, of both sexes, with mean age 70.6 years, who were undergoing physiotherapy treatment at a Physiotherapy Clinic, in Campina Grande - PB. We used as instruments a sociodemographic questionnaire and photo-la...
This paper aims to identify the prevalence of frailty syndrome and its association with demographic, economic, health, psychological and functional variables in Brazilian population. The study was cross-sectional and composed of 385 elderly aged from 65 years, an average age of 73.92 years. A multivariate Poisson regression was used to check for co...
It aimed to understand the meanings experienced by nursing mothers about breastfeeding. Descriptive, analytical qualitative study, approved by the ethics committee. Data were collected from 24 nursing mothers residing in Paraiba, who participated in an extension group, in 2007 , through interviews, recorded, stimulated by images. Data were analyzed...
A sexualidade é um fenômeno intrínseco aos seres humanos. Às pessoas portadoras de doença mental não é diferente Entretanto, pela doença ou pelo estigma; esta dimensão pode receber conotações diferenciadas. Tivemos por objetivo, identificar e analisar as concepções da sexualidade de portadores de doença mental pelos profissionais de saúde que traba...
A study was designed to identify conditions of frailty in relation to social, demographic, health, cognitive, functional, and psychosocial variables in community-dwelling elderly. The article presents the methodology and preliminary data. A total of 3,478 elderly (65 years and older) were selected from probabilistic samples of seven Brazilian citie...
A study was designed to identify conditions of frailty in relation to social, demographic, health, cognitive, functional, and psychosocial variables in community-dwelling elderly. The article presents the methodology and preliminary data. A total of 3,478 elderly (65 years and older) were selected from probabilistic samples of seven Brazilian citie...
Este trabalho objetivou identificar e estimular fontes de apoio social a idosos portadores de doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica. Pautado por uma análise qualitativa e com caráter intervencionista, foi realizado através de quatro oficinas, que foram gravadas e posteriormente transformadas em corpus de discursos submetidos à análise categorial temát...
The main objective of this study has been to know if the relationship between stress and elderly quality of life can be moderated by the meaning in life. Two hundred and ten participants with mean age of seventy four years old, most of them female (68.58%) took part in the study. The participants answered the following instruments: Mini Mental Stat...
This study aimed to evaluate the meaning of life indices (SV), quality of life (QOL) and functional dependency (FD) of the elderly, and observe whether the SV could act as protective feature capable of reduce the effects of DF on QOL. It is characterized by being cross-sectional of domiciliary basis, with 210 participants who have an average age of...
The main objective of this study has been to know if the relationship between stress and elderly quality of life can be moderated by the meaning in life. Two hundred and ten participants with mean age of seventy four years old, most of them female (68.58%) took part in the study. The participants answered the following instruments: Mini Mental Stat...
This study focused on finding out the discourses in the field of health psychology in Brazilian journals. Throughout the literature review we found that health psychology is sometimes configured as a broad, specific discipline, which includes clinical psychology as one of its interventions; and some other times, clinic is wider than health psycholo...
A presente pesquisa teve por objetivos analisar como o curso de Serviço Social da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba tem abordado a saúde mental; identificar os componentes curriculares que contemplam a saúde mental no referido curso; verificar se a direção teórico-conceitual adotada está em consonância com os princípios da reforma psiquiátrica; e co...
With the advances brought about by the process of the Psychiatric Reform, new challenges are being offered to professionals in the mental health network. To enable the practice proposed by the psychosocial model to become effective it is necessary for the educational institutions to be attentive to the professionals that they are shaping. This rese...
Nursing professionals have themselves held liable for the "art" of take care of the users and are the ones who dedicate the major part of their time to them. The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between the nursing assistant and the user expressed by the social representations of the touch act by these professionals in the Family...
The Family Health Program was implanted as a change strategy and reorganization of the assistance model, aiming to overcome the fragmentation of care and, then, proposes a quality, humanitarian integral attending. The objective of this work is to identify how children under one-year-old have been cared by professionals of FHP. The study has a quali...
The Family Health Program was implanted as a change strategy and reorganization of the assistance model, aiming to overcome the fragmentation of care and, then, proposes a quality, humanitarian integral attending. The objective of this work is to identify how children under one-year-old have been cared by professionals of FHP. The study has a quali...
RESUMO A APA Barra do rio Mamanguape, localizada nos Municípios de Lucena, Marcação e Rio Tinto, Estado da Paraíba, Nordeste do Brasil, compreende entre outras formações, remanescentes de Mata Atlântica em sua área de abrangência, que são importantes refúgios de fauna nativa da região. Este estudo teve o propósito de caracterizar a composição da fl...
Este artigo aborda a interdisciplinaridade de forma histórica e crítica. Evidencia as filosofias de base: a filosofia do sujeito e o marxismo dialético, localizando a Teoria das Representações Sociais nesse contexto. A filosofia do sujeito limita-se a uma concepção a-histórica do objeto filosófico científico, interdisciplinaridade, cujo processo de...
