Maria Helena Lopes

University of Campinas | UNICAMP · Faculdade de Enfermagem

Objective to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice about Gestational Hypertensive Syndrome among pregnant women, after an educational intervention. Method a controlled, randomized and longitudinal clinical trial, related to the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice survey on Gestational Hypertensive Syndrome complications, carried out with 120 preg...

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease in which the number of people affected has been increasing worldwide. One of its main complications is the diabetic foot, which causes high treatment costs, low quality of life, with the possibility of limb amputation. Methods that early identify the risk for developing diabetic foot are necessary for its prev...

Introduction The health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients with tachyarrhythmia can be negaatively influenced by the clinical manifestations. The evaluation of HRQOL with validated instruments can provide valuable information that will contribute to clinical decision-making and treatment. In Brazil, however, there is no available scale tha...

Objective to elaborate and validate an instrument to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pregnant women regarding the hypertensive disease of pregnancy. Methods methodological research, to develop and validate an instrument about the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pregnant women regarding said disease. The stages of the des...

Objective To analyze the content of nursing diagnoses related to urinary incontinence according to NANDA International and others identified in the literature. Method Methodological study conducted with judges who were experts in urinary dysfunctions and nursing diagnosis. The analysis included diagnoses of Stress Urinary Incontinence, Urgency Uri...

Objectives: to report the experience of designing and implementing the nursing care project with mothers and babies in prison. Methods: this is an experience report about the nursing care project with mothers and children in prison, having as a guiding axis Winnicottian concepts about the mother-baby relationship. Results: nursing consultations w...

Background and objective To automatically identify patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) who have high risk of developing diabetic foot, via an unsupervised machine learning technique. Methods We collected a new database containing 54 known risk factors from 250 patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. The database also contained a separate valid...

Objectives: to assess the relation of the locus of control with the adolescents’ knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP). Methods: this is a cross-sectional study with 1,192 high school students. Data were collected using the KAP questionnaire and the Levenson locus of control scale and analyzed by descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test and Kr...

Objective: To describe the socioeconomic, demographic and obstetric profile of pregnant women with Gestational Hypertensive Syndrome. Methods: A descriptive and correlational study, conducted in Maternity School Assis Chateaubriand, with 120 pregnant women, through a questionnaire analyzed by descriptive and analytical statistics. Results: most wom...

The food pattern is one of the modifiable factors for improving lifestyle and disease prevention. It is known that changes in diet have an effect on the evolution of chronic noncommunicable diseases (CNCD) of high prevalence, such as obesity, depression, anxiety, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. In order to prevent the CNCD, changing e...

Introduction Research shows that symptoms of urinary incontinence are common among women who engage in physical activity. Objective To conduct a kinesiological analysis of specific exercises for the pelvic floor muscles (PFM), proposing correspondences of these postures through resistance exercises. Methods This research project is of a descripti...

Purpose: To elucidate six diagnostic concepts related to urinary incontinence (UI). Methods: Eight out of nine steps of the simultaneous concept analysis (SCA) method were used to elucidate six diagnostic concepts related to UI proposed by NANDA International. Findings: Individual concepts of each diagnosis were elucidated, including anteceden...

Objective: To compare the results of the standard urotherapy alone and associated with pelvic floor muscle training alone, and in combination with oxybutynin in treatment of nonmonosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis. Methods: A total of 38 children aged 5 to 10 years were randomized into three groups: Group I (n=12) that was submitted to standard ur...

Objective: to identify and describe the scientific evidence on the use of educational strategies for preventing complications during pregnancy. Method: this is an integrative review, which was performed from April to July 2018. We selected papers in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Results: the final sample consisted of 27 papers, which arose five c...

Objetivo: identificar e descrever as evidências científicas sobre o uso de estratégias educativas na prevenção das complicações na gestação. Método: trata-se de uma revisão integrativa, realizada de abril a julho de 2018. Foram selecionados artigos em português, inglês ou espanhol. Resultados: amostra final constituiu de 27 artigos, que emergiram c...

Objetivo: realizar uma revisão integrativa para descrever a utilização da CIPE na prática profissional de enfermagem de acordo com a produção científica nacional e internacional. Métodos: A busca dos artigos foi realizada nas bases de dados CINAHL, Scopus, PubMed e Bireme, com a delimitação dos últimos cinco anos. Utilizou-se para a busca os termos...

Objective: Describe the sociodemographic, clinical, and sexual profile, identify profile variables that affect the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL), and evaluate the correlation between two HRQoL questionnaires used in a pelvic floor rehabilitation program. Method: This is an observational, analytical, and cross-sectional study, based on p...

Objective To evaluate two educational interventions and identify differences between them in what concerns the promotion of knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to the pill and male condom. Methods A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted with teenagers, in which two different educational interventions were used, one based on...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate if detrusor overactivity (DO) can be influenced by a pelvic floor muscle (PFM) contraction in multiple sclerosis-associated overactive bladder (MS) and idiopathic overactive bladder (OAB) volunteers and compare urodynamic findings between the two groups. Design: Eighteen women with MS and seven...

This chapter will present an overview of the epidemiology of fecal incontinence in different populations and countries of the world. Findings are limited to studies published in the last 5 years (2012–2017). The majority of the studies were carried out with women and adults and in outpatient settings. Only one article was found that reported the pr...

The mechanism of fecal continence is a complex process, composed of a series of events, which are influenced by the consistency, volume, and speed with which the fecal material reaches the rectum; the sensitivity and distensibility of the rectum vault; and factors related to the sphincter muscles, which involve sensorial and mechanical components t...

Objective To verify the reliability of information, the sources of information used and the user opinions of the free mobile applications (apps) with nutritional information available in Brazil. Design Descriptive, cross-sectional study. Setting We evaluated the content about nutrition of free apps available on the App Store of iPhone 5S with sof...

Objetivos: investigar e discutir publicações acerca do suporte relacionado ao luto de pais que vivenciam a perda do filho neonato. Material e método: revisão crítica de literatura com busca nas bases de dados CINAHL, Embase, PubMed, PsycINFO e Scopus, de artigos publicados entre janeiro de 2010 e julho de 2017, utilizando análise temática para o t...

Objective: To identify evidence in the literature of the relationship between the use of different hormonal contraceptive methods and alterations in women's blood pressure values. Method: This is an integrative literature review, consisting of ten scientific articles published in PubMed and BVS, between 2012 and 2016, selected by keywords, avail...

Buscou-se conhecer as vivências de gestantes em situação prisional. Trata-se de estudo qualitativo e descritivo realizado em uma penitenciária feminina do Estado de São Paulo/Brasil, com 14 gestantes e uso da técnica de análise de conteúdo fundamentada nas abordagens psicoemocionais. Identificaram-se as categorias: Busca da Autoproteção, Sentimento...

Purpose: To develop conceptual and operational definitions for defining characteristics and related factors for nursing diagnosis of urinary retention, as contained in Taxonomy II of NANDA-I. Data sources: Integrative literature review and elaboration of terms related to urinary retention. Data synthesis: It includes operational and conceptual...

Zika virus (ZIKV) infection represents a great concern especially in countries where the vector is found. The aim of this article is to encourage reflection on the relevance of this current issue and its repercussions on pregnancy, considering the rapid ZIKV dissemination in Brazil and the severe consequences of congenital infection. This is a refl...

Objective: to investigate evidence in the literature on procedures for measuring gastric tube insertion in newborns and verifying its placement, using alternative procedures to radiological examination. Method: an integrative review of the literature carried out in the Cochrane, LILACS, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE and Scopus databases using the descri...

Objective: to relate the creation, experience of establishment and service performed in the Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Program [(PRAP)], a project of the School of Nursing of University of Campinas (UNICAMP), developed at a health unity in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Results: this Program appeared due to the high demand of patients with urinary...

Objective To analyze the major impact variables in the opinion of nursing staff about the Quality Program of a teaching hospital. Methods An exploratory-descriptive study was performed with 72 nursing staff. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire containing 24 statements about the Quality Program; and the degree of agreement o...

Objetivou-se caracterizar usuários com urgência/emergência hipertensiva em unidade de pronto atendimento de Minas Gerais, quanto às condições socioeconômicas, níveis pressóricos e classificação de risco. Estudo transversal e retrospectivo que utilizou dados secundários de 63 prontuários de usuários atendidos de outubro a dezembro de 2013. A coleta...

Objective: To validate the Brazilian version of the Gaudenz-Fragebogen questionnaire, used in the differential diagnosis of female stress and urge urinary incontinence. Methods: Reliability was validated through the application of test-retest in 60 women. For the evaluation of the concurrent validity criterion, the diagnoses-based on the questionn...

Aims and objectives: To describe the experiences of women who have suffered sexual violence and the impact and importance of that violence on their lives. Background: Sexual violence against women is a serious problem worldwide. Studies need to investigate how women reorganise their lives after experiencing sexual violence. Design: A qualitati...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the risk factors for postpartum urinary incontinence (UI) and its characteristics. METHOD: This was a case-control study with 344 puerperal women (77 cases and 267 controls) with up to 90 days postpartum. In a single session, participants were given a questionnaire with sociodemographic and clinical data and two others th...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of intravaginal neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) and transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and health-related quality of life in women undergoing pelvic floor muscle (PFM) training (PFMT) with multiple sclerosis (MS) and to compare...

Chronic wounds are considered a worldwide epidemic and pain is the most frequently symptom referred by the patients who have this type of wound. The aim was to assess the prevalence of pain in chronic wounds and relate socio-demographic and clinical variables to pain. This is an analytical cross-sectional study, carried out in Basic Health Units (B...

Background: The purpose is to evaluate the psychometric properties of reliability and discriminant validity of the Brazilian Portuguese versions of two instruments used in the diagnosis of interstitial cystitis (IC): "The Interstitial Cystitis Symptom Index and Problem Index" (The O'Leary-Sant), and "Pelvic Pain and Urgency/Frequency (PUF) Patient...

Lower urinary tract dysfunctions (LUTD) restrict quality of life, resulting in decreased work productivity and emotional well-being. However, most people are not diagnosed because they do not seek medical treatment. In addition, some facilities do not adequately train health professionals in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of these conditio...

Aims: To evaluate the use of the Portuguese version of the booklet "Your Pelvic Floor" as educational material, among Brazilian teenagers. The original version in English, directed to teenage audience, was developed by members of the Association for Continence Advice, in 2009. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was carried out at a non-gover...

Este checklist poderá ser utilizado como ferramenta de apoio na elaboração e avaliação de artigos de revisão integrativa.

Maria Helena Baena de Moraes Lopes,1 Rosângela Higa21Faculty of Nursing, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil; 2Nursing Department, Prof Dr José Aristodemo Pinotti Women’s Hospital, CAISM, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Abstract: Prostate cancer, the leading cancer among men, constitutes a serious public health p...

Telehealth services in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil are led by the Telehealth Center (RedeNUTES) and based on HealthNet 2.0 software. Among the tele-assistance services, health professionals have clinical discussions focused on second opinions. This paper reports the experience in a PhD study through mixed-methods, to evaluate the telehealth ser...

This experience report aimed to describe the prenatal care undertaken in a primary care center in the non-metropolitan area of the State of São Paulo, offered to the female prison population. The data and related information refer to the period June 2010 – June 2012. The article describes the construction of the work process by the local team, the...

to translate and culturally adapt to Brazilian Portuguese the Developing Nurses' Thinking model, used as a strategy for teaching clinical reasoning. the translation and cultural adaptation were undertaken through initial translation, synthesis of the translations, back-translation, evaluation by a committee of specialists and a pre-test with 33 und...

O objetivo desse estudo foi identificar os diagnósticos de enfermagem, no período pós-operatório de mastectomia, entre mulheres internadas em uma Unidade de Internação em Oncologia de um hospital de ensino público do interior paulista. Tratou-se de um estudo descritivo e retrospectivo, realizado em prontuários de mulheres submetidas a mastectomia....

PurposeTo test the viability of to use specialists' opinions to establish degrees of membership between nursing diagnoses and its elements (defining characteristics or risk factors), based on the concepts of fuzzy sets theory. This strategy may feasibly mapping the specialist's knowledge on the diagnostic task. Methods Specialists were invited to r...

The aim of this study was to translate and adapt the instruments known as The O'Leary-Sant and PUF to the Brazilian culture used in the diagnosis of interstitial cystitis. We followed the methodological steps recommended by the international literature for cultural adaptation. The steps of translation, synthesis of translations and back translation...

The aim of this study was to analyze the methods used for validation studies in nursing research considering the clinical investigation as phenomenon. We carried out literature at BIREME, CINAHL, PUBMED which contain the terms 'validation studies', 'nursing' and 'clinical' and 21 articles were included in the review. The majority of the studies wer...

The aim of this study was to analyze the methods used for validation studies in nursing research considering the clinical investigation as phenomenon. We carried out literature at BIREME, CINAHL, PUBMED which contain the terms 'validation studies', 'nursing' and 'clinical' and 21 articles were included in the review. The majority of the studies wer...

Background: In Brazil, in order to train the Family Health Strategy teams, the Health Ministry implemented the Brazil Telehealth Program to provide health support and permanent health education. In Pernambuco, the Telehealth Center Network of Pernambuco (RedeNUTES) offers telehealth services to 80 municipalities, supporting 154 Family Health Strat...

  Apply the educational software Fuzzy Kitten with undergraduate Brazilian nursing students.   This software, based on fuzzy logic, generates performance scores that evaluate the ability to identify defining characteristics/risk factors present in clinical cases, relate them with nursing diagnoses, and determine the diagnoses freely or using a deci...

to validate the operational definitions of the defining characteristics and risk factors of the three NANDA International (NANDA-I) nursing diagnoses and to revise these diagnoses' definitions. content validation of nursing diagnosis. 146 defining characteristics and risk factors were identified in the literature in Brazilian and international data...

Male urinary incontinence has been related to several factors, among which benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer treatment are highlighted. Urinary incontinence has negative effects on patients as well as on their relatives and caregivers. In the present study, an integrative review was performed with the purpose to identify the impact t...

Male urinary incontinence has been related to several factors, among which benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer treatment are highlighted. Urinary incontinence has negative effects on patients as well as on their relatives and caregivers. In the present study, an integrative review was performed with the purpose to identify the imp...

Literature review aimed to identify associations between urinary incontinence in women and racial aspects. We used the databases MEDLINE and LILACS for research articles published in the years 2003 to 2010. It were analyzed 30 publications that indicated different relationships between incontinence and race. The prevalence of incontinence was highe...

Purpose: To develop a decision support system to discriminate the diagnoses of alterations in urinary elimination, according to the nursing terminology of NANDA International (NANDA-I). Methods: A fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) was structured considering six possible diagnoses: stress urinary incontinence, reflex urinary incontinence, urge urinary in...

The article describes the translation and adaptation of the Gaudenz-Fragebogen, an instrument of German origin used to diagnose female urinary incontinence, to the Brazilian culture. The steps recommended by international literature were followed: translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, valuation of the synthetic version by a boar...

This case-control study evaluated whether UI in the puerperium compromises the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and if so, in which aspects. The study included 344 women (77 case group and 267 control group) up to 90 days postpartum, who were attended the Obstetrics Outpatient Clinic of a public teaching hospital, for the postpartum follow up...

To verify the relationship between enuresis in childhood and the type of urinary incontinence in adults, considering the gender and age. In this retrospective cohort study the database used contained the records of patients who had with urinary complaints and underwent urodynamic studies in the period from 1999 to 2008. A multinomial logistic regre...

This article describes the development and evaluation of software that verifies the accuracy of diagnoses made by nursing students. The software was based on a model that uses fuzzy logic concepts, including PERL, the MySQL database for Internet accessibility, and the NANDA-I 2007-2008 classification system. The software was evaluated in terms of i...

Este artículo describe el desarrollo y evaluación de un software que verifica la exactitud diagnóstica de alumnos de enfermería. El software se basó en un modelo que utiliza conceptos de lógica fuzzy, en PERL, banco de datos MySQL para acceso por Internet y la clasificación NANDA-I 2007-2008. Se evaluó calidad técnica y usabilidad del software...

The objective of this study was to explore the psychosocial meaning and repercussions on lifestyle associated with erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence (UI) in men following radical prostatectomy. Ten men from Southeastern Brazil who underwent radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer were interviewed. All participants underwent treatment...

This descriptive study aimed to verify the inclusion of subjects about informatics in undergraduate nursing programs at Brazilian (state and federal) public education institutions. The programs were located through the e-MEC system. The Internet was used to search for the curricula of the campuses offering the nursing program and identify subjects...

We explored the meanings of silence for Brazilian women with urinary incontinence (UI). The sample consisted of 8 women, aged 30 to 45 years. Respondents worked as housekeepers or cleaning staff and were from lower social, economic, and educational strata. Their years of formal education varied from 0 to 8 years and they earned up to 4.5 times the...

This study evaluated the pain intensity and behavior during labor and delivery, among women who had natural childbirth, without analgesia, in one of the following positions: semi-sitting, lying on the left side, and lithotomy. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational study. The instruments used were a validated questionnaire that ev...

This study conducted an integrative review investigating how fuzzy logic has been used in research with the participation of nurses. The article search was carried out in the CINAHL, EMBASE, SCOPUS, PubMed and Medline databases, with no limitation on time of publication. Articles written in Portuguese, English and Spanish with themes related to nur...

Nosso objetivo foi aprofundar os conhecimentos sobre as vivências com a perda urinária entre mulheres brasileiras. Utilizou-se o método clínico-qualitativo com entrevistas semi-dirigidas. Oito mulheres, faxineiras, de 30 a 45 anos, de baixa situação socioeconômica, com queixa de perda urinária e que nunca realizaram tratamento, foram selecionadas p...

Digital vaginal palpation performed during clinical practice can help diagnose urinary, intestinal and sexual disorders, while perineometry is more useful for performing perineal exercises with biofeedback. This study verifies whether there is a correlation between values of Pelvic Floor Muscle Strength (PFMS) obtained through perineometry performe...

To evaluate how the nursing process has been registered at a Brazilian teaching hospital. Descriptive and retrospective study of 68 medical records. The data collection of history was more frequent on the admission day. The documentation of physical exam was prioritized. Sometimes there were records of nursing interventions but not of nursing diagn...

The aim of this study was to characterize the nursing care, provided to women who suffered sexual violence, treated at The Women's Hospital-CAISM/UNICAMP. A retrospective, descriptive study performed using 146 nursing care records of women attended from June 2006 to May 2007. The results showed that the majority of attendances occurred during the d...

OBJETIVO: Compreender as vivências de enfermeiros no atendimento a mulheres que sofreram violência sexual. PROCEDIMENTOS METODOLÓGICOS: Estudo clínico-qualitativo em que foram entrevistados seis enfermeiros de um serviço de assistência a mulheres vítimas de violência sexual em Campinas, SP, no período de abril a maio de 2007. Utilizou-se a técnica...

To understand experiences of nurses caring for women who have suffered sexual violence. Qualitative-clinical study in which six nurses from a health care service for women who had suffered sexual violence were interviewed in the city of Campinas, Southeastern Brazil, between April and May 2007. Semi-guided interview technique with open questions wa...

To assess the relationship between locus of control and knowledge, attitude and practice regarding pill and condom use among university students. The inquiry was developed in Campinas, a city in Southeastern Brazil, in 2006. A total of 295 adolescent newcomers to a public university answered a structured questionnaire and Levenson's multidimensiona...

Nursing diagnoses associated with alterations of urinary elimination require different interventions. Nurses, who are not specialists, require support to diagnose and manage patients with disturbances of urine elimination. The aim of this study was to present a model based on fuzzy logic for differential diagnosis of alterations in urinary eliminat...

The differential diagnosis of urinary incontinence classes is sometimes difficult to establish. As a rule, only the results of urodynamic testing allow an accurate diagnosis. However, this exam is not always feasible, because it requires special equipment, and also trained personnel to lead and interpret the exam. Some expert systems have been deve...

Urinary incontinence (UI) is seen as a problem that affects older multiparous women. Little attention has been given to identifying UI in groups of younger or nulliparous women. This study verified the prevalence of UI and the characteristics of urinary loss among young nulliparous female physical education students. Data collection was performed u...

Urinary incontinence (UI) is seen as a problem that affects older multiparous women. Little attention has been given to identifying UI in groups of younger or nulliparous women. This study verified the prevalence of UI and the characteristics of urinary loss among young nulliparous female physical education students. Data collection was performed u...