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Health Conditions and Memory Performance: a study with older adult women

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the correlation between health condition and memory performance of older adult women in the community. Method: Analytical cross-sectional study developed with 28 older adult women living in Cuiabá-MT. They answered the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and a shortened...

Guide of attributes of the nurse's political competence: a methodological study

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: To build and validate a guide of attributes of the nurse's political competence. Method: Methodological research. This study comprised the construction of the instrument through literature review; experts validation of pre-established attributes for composing the guide; and clinical...

Validation of an instrument regarding nursing intervention in patients in vasoactive therapy

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: to validate the content of a Standard Operational Procedure, regarding nursing interventions in emergency patients treated with vasoactive drugs. Method: methodological study, carried out from December 2015 to January 2016. Content validity was determined by 16 experts (13 nurses, 2...

Use of the Diffusion of Innovation Model in venous ulcers by specialized professionals

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the influence of the evidence and of the opinion of peers on the decisions of specialists regarding the agreement with recommendations for prevention and treatment of venous ulcer. Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study with two interventions: provision of studies wi...

Validation of the adherence questionnaire for Brazilian chronic kidney disease patients under hemodialysis

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: To validate the evaluation questionnaire on adherence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients under hemodialysis. Method: We verified the following psychometric properties of the instrument: reliability (stability and internal consistency) and validity (face, content, and construct...

Validation of the self-assessment of communication skills and professionalism for nurses

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Objectives: to translate, adapt cross-culturally and validate into Brazilian Portuguese the following instrument: "Self-assessment of communication skills and professionalism in residents" for the nursing professional, and to determine if personal characteristics and performance of the nurse in...

Escala numérica para evaluar síntomas espirituales en cuidados paliativos

Rev. méd. Chile; 145 (6), 2017
Background: Spiritual issues are an important dimension of health care, but seldom addressed by professionals. Thus, a scale that assesses the presence and intensity of seven spiritual symptoms was developed. Aim: To validate the instrument in palliative care settings. Material and Methods: The spiritu...

Reproducibility and concurrent validity of the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents (QAFA) aged 10-14 years

Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate the reproducibility and concurrent validity of the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents (QAFA). The reproducibility study (repeated evaluations with two-day interval between them) included 171 adolescents (average age 12.3 years, SD = 1.1), and the...

Validation of the Subjective Vitality Scale and study of the vitality of elderly people according to their physical activity

Abstract The main aim of the study was to validate the Portuguese version of the Subjective Vitality Scale - SVS for the Portuguese elderly population through of confirmatory factorial analysis. The existence of differences in the perception of subjective vitality among sufficiently active and insufficie...

Medicina narrativa enfocada a la investigación empírica social: el contexto ruso

Salud colect; 13 (2), 2017
RESUMEN Este artículo presenta los resultados de un análisis empírico llevado a cabo entre 2012 y 2016, que buscó entender si las narrativas de los pacientes están presentes en la comunicación médico-paciente y si esta historia subjetiva es significativa para ambos lados de la comunicación médic...