bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Coping and adaptation and their relationship to the spiritual perspective in patients with HIV/AIDS.
Authors: Pérez Giraldo Beatriz , Veloza Gómez Mónica del Mar , Ortiz Pinilla Jorge Eduardo 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To identify the coping and adaptation process and its relationship to the spiritual perspective in patients with HIV/AIDS.
Methodology. Cross-sectional descriptive study in which 100 patients participated and who were applied instruments like Roy’s coping and adaptation measurement scale and Reed’s Spiritual Perspective Scale. The study was conducted in 2009, at a state healthcare institution in Bogotá (Colombia).
Results. Five patient subgroups were identified (Recursive and Centered, Physical and Focused, in warning process, in systematic processing, and knowing and relating) who presented different dynamics regarding the greater or lesser use of coping strategies. In most patients a high spiritual perspective was identified upon the experience of the disease. A weak, but significant correlation was found between the coping and adaptation processes and the components of the spiritual perspective.
Conclusion. A relationship exists between the spiritual perspective and the coping and adaptation process to the HIV/AIDS disease; the aforementioned must be considered in the therapeutic relationship as a relevant component of caretaking.
ADULT LITERACY: POTENTIAL STAGE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION
Authors: Rodríguez Villamil Luz Natalia , Arias López Beatriz Elena 
Published: April 2023

Objective: to be able to understand the meaning of learning to read and write in everyday life situations for adults who live in slums of Medellín and the Aburrá valley in Antioquia, Colombia which take part on literacy processes focusing on pedagogy of the text.
Methodology: qualitative investigation with a perspective of focused etnography, developed between July 2006 and July 2008, by means of group and individual interviews as well as observations of educational sessions and family environments. Thirty two adults participated, the majority of them mature and medium aged women. The analysis is based on the results of the program Atlas.ti.
Results: while carrying out this educational experience the participants experience tensions derived from their inability to read and to have taken the decition to study at an advanced age. The meaning of the signature appeared as a symbolic element of identity, allowing the participation on spaces and public events. The strengthening of orality through reading and writing broadened the posibilities of social interaction.
Conclusions: the intra and interpersonal identities are moved and transformed during the educational process. Those people until then blocked by the predominance of the written culture started a process of self recognition, changes on family relationships and a decrease on the feeling of uncertainty. Although this new knowledge begin to be embodied in their family and social life, they do not necessarily secure an improvement on life conditions. However a greater control and projection of the individual life plan is envisaged as recognized aspiration on the objectives of health promotion.
TEACHING AND LEARNING OF OLD AGE CARE AND SELF CARE: THE “AULA UNIVERSITARIA” EXPERIENCE
Authors: Zea Herrera María del Carmen 
Published: April 2023

The “Aula Universitaria de Mayores” is an extracurricular proposal to answer the educational requirements of old age people from the life-health-illness perspective.
Objectives: the principal aspects of the “Aula Universitaria de Mayores” program experience show that it has enabled for more than two years the training of 120 people with satisfactory assessment and approval within the Medellín and Metropolitan Area adult population.
Conclusions: despite the popular saying that “old birds do not learn to sing” that would exclude them from university spaces, it is well known that old people retain repertories to defend themselves in daily life. Their education challenges the professionals; but is important to conceive it as a necessity, a right and a social service.
THE SPIRITUAL WELLBEING OF TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE AND THE SPIRITUAL WELL BEING OF APPARENTLY HEALTHY PEOPLE
Authors: Sánchez Herrera Beatriz 
Published: April 2023

Objective: The main objective of the study was to describe and compare the spiritual wellbeing of people with terminal illness with the spiritual well being of apparently healthy people.
Methodology: the study was developed with a quantitative, descriptive and comparative approach. It included 44 patients hospitalized at the Luis Carlos Galan Clinic and 44 people with similar characteristics but apparently healthy. The spiritual well being was measured with the Ellison Spiritual Wellbeing Scale®.
Results: the general level of spiritual well being of the people with terminal illness was high as well as its religious component. The level of the existential component of the spiritual well being in the same group was medium. In the apparently healthy people the general level of spiritual wellbeing and the level of its religious and existential components were high.
Conclusion: when the spiritual wellbeing of people withterminal illness was compared with the spiritual well being of apparently healthy people, a higher general spiritual well being and a higher existential component of the spiritual wellbeing was found in the group of the apparently healthy people. No differences were found in the religious component of the spiritual wellbeing between the groups.
FAMILY CARE: A CRITICAL REVIEW
Authors: De la Cuesta Benjumea Carmen 
Published: April 2023

Family care is an increasingly common phenomenon that is situated in the private domain and characterized as a feminine domain. Because of this, it is a pending issue in the public policy of some countries. Objetive: the paper explores the family care literature to highlight significant gaps in three issues: the nature of care, the burden of care and t responses to alleviate this burden. The aim is to make visible an area of interest in Public Health and Nursing. Results: it is argued that family care has intangible features and therefore it is amenable to research using qualitative methods. It is also argued that the burden of care must be considered as an issue of inequity in health. Conclusions: the area of family care requires today more research and diverse approaches as without a wide understanding of family care there cannot be effective intervention; in addition, collective health, understood as a study area, would benefit from the subjective and social constructions of qualitative research studies.
QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF A NURSING EDUCATION PROGRAM. PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS´ PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Tejada Tayabas Luz María , Castro Ramírez Juana , Miranda Herrera María Magdalena , Alcántara Hernández Elizabeth 
Published: April 2023

This paper presents the results of the evaluation to analyse (from the teachers and students’ perspective) of the implementation process of a Licenciatura in Nursing in the Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad autónoma de San Luis Potosí México, since the programme that was radically restructured. Methodology: it was a qualitative evaluation with an ethnographic focus that lasted from January 2004 to August 2005. The informants were 36 teachers and 42 students who were selected through a convenience sample. Eleven central groups were formed for the collection of the information. The data was analysed through the examination of the content according to different topics. Results: the teachers and students referred to their perception of strengths and weaknesses in relation to the experiences, and the evaluation of the content and implementation of the theory and practice areas in the programme, the teaching and learning process and its elements; as well as the teaching strategies and the evaluation, the perspective of the main parties and the relation among them. Conclusion: it is evident that the strengths and weaknesses in the structure, and the processes of a formative programme that established ambitious objectives based on the pedagogical focuses that sustain them, required a practical transformation of those involved. The constructive and critical restructuring of the programme detonated changes in the existing education schemes and so the teachers and students faced the need to change these. The process has encouraged some people to discover themselves and to make decisions to improve their practices. However it has caused in others a bigger resistance to change.
EVALUATION OF A DISTANT LEARNING COURSE ON HEPATITIS C
Authors: Aparecida Jacomini Regiane , Piai Thaís Helena , Moralez de Figueiredo Rosely 
Published: April 2023

Hepatitis C is a recent disease—it appeared just over a decade ago—and has demanded that nursing professionals study and constantly update their knowledge so as to provide effective assistance. Information technologies, in turn, are increasingly present in today’s world and can greatly facilitate the performance of everyday activities. Objective: this study aims at evaluating a distant education (DE) course on hepatitis C offered to nursing students. Methodology: it is an end-of-course assignment based on an applied research project of a transversal nature. Its participants are thirty-seven 3rd and 4th-year nursing students from Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. The DE course was offered on a MOODLE virtual learning platform. Results and discussion: out of the thirty-seven students that initially showed interest in the course and consented to participate in the research only twenty-nine enrolled in the module (78%) and thirteen completed it (45%). The average number of accesses to the virtual environment was 114, while this number reached 515 in the beginning module of the course and 141 in the final one. The participants’ final knowledge on hepatitis C improved by 50% when compared to the results of a pre-assessment. Their final average grade was 7.5 (0-10 scale). The drop-out rate in this educational mode is still quite high (55%) — its main causes being the participants’ deficient organization of study time and difficulties related to prompt access to computers and Internet services. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that DE is a viable strategy for the continued education of health professionals. To this end, however, variables such as students’ study time and ready access to computers and the Internet should be carefully dimensioned.
Incorrect use of medicines by patients post cerebrovascular accident
Authors: Dopico da Silva Lolita , De Mendonça Henrique Danielle 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To evaluate how patients cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) victims use their medicines at home.
Methodology. Cross sectional study. A representative sample of 30 patients who received home care in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2008 was studied. Information about CVA risk factors and the medicines they were taking was collected using a structured interview to the patients, and the DRUGDEX® classification system was used to determine the correct or incorrect use of the medicines.
Results. Participants were mostly elder women. The average of medicines per patient was of 3.3 medicines. The main reasons for mistaking were: taking medicines with food, and taking other medicines at the same time. The highest proportions of in­correct administration of medicines in more than 50% of the doses were: Spironolactone, glibenclamide, and atenolol (each of them with a 100.0%), simvastatin (87.5%), captopril (72.5%) and NPH insulin (66.7%).
Conclusion. A great proportion of patients after having suffered a CVA use their medicines prescribed for home treatment incorrectly.
Prescription characteristics given by nurses in the city of Cali, Colombia
Authors: Céspedes Zamora Leydy Diana , Bedoya Londoño Catherine , Palacios Gómez Mauricio 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To describe the drug prescription duties held by nursing professionals in the city of Cali (Colombia) during the year of 2008.
Methodology. A survey was applied to 135 nurses who work in different kinds of healthcare or administrative services about prescription habits, perceptions about their education, abilities and necessities to prescribe drugs.
Results. Drug prescription is a frequent practice in most of the surveyed population,unrelated to the work performed, the postgraduate degree or the job experience. The surveyed consider they need more than a legal support the pharmacological training to prescribe drugs; however they don’t recognize this practice as part of their professional job. Nurses’ drug prescription is sometimes presented as part of their occupation tasks into the institution.
Conclusion. Drug prescription is a practice performed by the city nurses and according to the presented results they require an academic, legal, professional debate to be considered between their tasks.
Living conditions in Antioquia’s (Colombia) paludic areas, 2005
Authors: Carmona Fonseca Jaime , Uscátegui Peñuela Rosa Magdalena , Correa Botero Adriana María 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To explore the paludic children families living conditions in two different areas of Antioquia.
Methodology. Transversal cut, descriptive design. A group of socioeconomic variables that express the families’living conditions between the years 2004 and 2005 are described and analyzed.
Results. From 88 families that lived in the cities of Turbo and el Bagre, 58% lived in area. In general the analyzed variables present a statistically significant difference per city and area (worst conditions: Rural-Turbo; worse: Urban-Bagre). The most frequent family characteristics were: Typical nuclear families (66%), with an average of 7.1 members per family. 29% live in a ranch/hovel, 42% have indoor toilets, 31% litter in the open fields. 69% of the houses have vegetation around them, another 66% have stagnant/running water. 64% of the fathers had a job, 59% of the jobs were unsteady. The most common occupations were: farmer (53%), miner (13%) and field worker (12%). The average monthly income was only about $244000. 58% of the families had steady food sources. The meat/ viscera consumption were less than once a week, milk and eggs 2-3 times a week, fruit rich in provitamin A carotenes were not consumed. The consumed food had a high probability to highly satisfy the family vitamin A requirements (45%).
Conclusion. Turbo and El Bagre families’ living conditions are very deficient and there are a high number of families with unsatisfied basic necessities. There are important differences between the studied cities and between the rural and urban area. The poor living conditions situation in these malaria regions widely overcome what has been referred by Antioquia’s department and Colombia’s rates.
Theory, practice and research in nursing: Marie-Luise Friedmann in conversation with Rafael Pineda Perdomo
Authors: Pineda Perdomo Rafael 
Published: April 2023

Transcription of the interview that Doctor Marie-Luise Friedmann gave to Nelly Garzon Alarcon and the author during her visit to Colombia in the year of 2009 in which the importance of re-searchers’ training for the development of nursing as science and occupation was discussed.
Stress in the nursing academic life. (Un) awareness and prevention
Authors: Da Silva Philbert Larissa Angélica , Corral-Mulato Sabrina , Antoniassi Baldissera Vanessa Denardi , Luiza dos Santos Janaina , Villela Bueno Sonia Maria 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To describe the personal and professional perceptions of stress, prevention and issue approach in training Brazilian nursing students.
Methodology. A qualitative, descriptive-exploratory study was developed in the year of 2009, through an open survey application. Answers were analyzed through thematic analysis categorizing identified qualitative variables.
Results. Eight female students in their last year of nursing school with ages between 21 and 27 years old participated. Personal stress is related to unbalanced situations and difficulties in their professional life, work overload, and lack of vocation, they all have physical and mental manifestations.
Conclusion. Participants related personal stress with unbalanced situations and difficulties in the professional life, work overload and lack of vocation.
Hypertensive patients’ attended with the family health strategy lifestyle
Authors: Paz Elisabete Pimenta Araujo , Souza Maria Helena do Nascimento , Mendonça Guimarães Raphael , Fragoso Pavani Gabriella , Dos Santos Correa Heloisa Ferreira , De Carvalho Priscila Moreira , Rodrigues Ravenna Magalhães 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To describe hypertensive patients’ attended with the Family Health strategy lifestyle.
Methodolo­gy. Cross sectional study, carried out between October 2009 and January 2010. 273 hypertensive patients randomly chosen from the Family Health program attended by three areas of Piraí/RJ (Brazil) participated. For data collection, the “fantastic lifestyle” questionnaire was used.
Results. From the studied sample: 61% were women, 56% were 60 and over years of age, 81% had a low level of education and 74% reported having low family income. The most frequent risk factors were: overweight or obesity (72%) and diabetes mellitus (37%). Lifestyle scores were: 13% excellent, 55% very good, 27% good, and 4% poor.
Conclusion. Even though lifestyle was considered satisfactory, conditions and health profiles indicate that there are still cardiovascular risk factors.
Health behaviors in adult Latin American immigrants of the Macarena de Sevilla district (Spain)
Authors: González López José Rafael , Lomas Campos María de las Mercedes , García Fernández Jacinto , Pascualvaca Armario Juana , Guardado González María José , Muñoz Guardado Beatriz , Caro Guerra Antonia , Lagares Vallejo Eloisa 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To describe the health status of the immigrant Latin American population between 25 and 44 years old from the Macarena district of the city of Sevilla.
Methodology. Cross-sectional study, it was employing a stratified ramdom sampling. It was conducted on 34 people, 16 men and 18 women, 25 to 44 years old. To collect the data a questionnaire that unified the instrument Surveillance System of Risk Factors associated to Noncommunicable Diseases in Adults and the Surveillance System of Risk Factors Risk Behavior was used. Data were analyzed with the SPSS 17.0 statistical software.
Results. 38.2% of the sample perceived as good their health condition. 26.5% are unsure or don’t know about which is their Primary Care Center. 58.8% have never been attended to a nursing consult. 38.2% consume alcohol once a week and the 58.8% have selfmedicated. 67.7% of the sample use contraception, but only 43.5% also protect themselves from a sexually transmitted disease.
Conclusion. Health behaviors were identified according to the origin and some related factors. This should be considered when designing and developing activities aimed at improving the health level in immigrants.
Characterization of UTI associated with health
Authors: Arias Arango Angela Maria , Valderrama Maya Monica Patricia , Parra Pérez Doris Milena , Marin Zuluaga Juan Ignacio , Mazo Monsalve Luz Maria , Montoya Zapata Claudia Patricia 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To describe epidemiological, microbiological and clinical characteristics of patients with health care associated urinary tract infection (UTI) in the adult hospitalization services in a fourth level attention hospital in the city of Medellin (Colombia) between 2007 and 2009.
Methodology. Descriptive study. 239 clinical histories of patients with health care associiated UTI diagnosis registered in the Infection Prevention Committee were studied.
Results. 269 episodes of health care associated UTI were analyzed. The average age of the patients was 56±19.2 years. 55.3% of the infections were in women. 69.1% had permanent catheter at the moment of the diagnosis or 7 days previous to it. In 12.4% the indication for the catheter wasn’t appropriate. 308 microorganisms were isolated in the studied cases, being the most frequent ones Escherichia coli (42.2%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (23.4%). The main complications were secondary bacteremia (9.2%) and septic shock (0.8%).
Conclusion. In an important percentage of patients the evaluation of the indication for putting the catheter wasn’t shown, which can influence the growth of the risk of acquiring urinary infections increasing the use of antibiotics which contributes to an increase in bacteria resistance and health care costs.
Effect of education on the incidence rate of occupational exposure resulting from sharp bodies and mucocutaneous contamination with blood and body fluids of patients among nursing personnel of Valiasr Hospital- Fassa, 2008
Authors: Ghodsbin Fariba , Bijani Mostafa , Rahmati Hashem , Mohebbi Zinat , Kamali M 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To determine the effect of education on the incidence rate of occupational exposure resulted from sharp bodies and mucocutaneous contamination with blood and body fluids of patients among nursing personnel of Valiasr Hospital- Fassa, 2008.
Methodology. Interventional study. Samples consisted of 120 nurses (60 as study group and 60 as control group) selected by systemic randomized allocation. The study group was trained in occupational exposure for a period of ten hours. The data collecting tool was an occupational exposure questionnaire that was completed for both groups, before and two months after education. A knowledge test was also applied to both groups before and after education. Data analysis was done by descriptive statistics, frequency, mean and standard deviation, inferential statistics, x², T-test and paired t, and a level of significance p<0.05 was statistically accepted.
Results. Results of the research, indicated an increase of the knowledge level and a reduction of the incidence rate of occupational exposure among the study group in such a way that, the knowledge mean score of this group went from 8.1 before education to 14.1 after education (p<0.05). The incidence rate of occupational exposure resulting from sharp bodies and mucocutaneous contamination with blood and body fluids of patients was also reduced after education in the case group (p<0.05).
Conclusion. The results of the study indicated improvement of knowledge and practice level in the the case group, concerning occupational exposure due to sharp bodies and mucocutaneous contamination with blood and body fluids of patients after the training intervention. In addition, continuous education in this respect is necessary because its effect lowers with time-lapse.
Creation of a career certification test for nursing
Authors: Catoni Salamanca María Isabel , Fernández Díaz Patricia Jimena , Sorria-Galvarro Ximena Ferrer , Manzi Astudillo Jorge Manuel , Flotts De los Hoyos María Paulina , Barrios Araya Silvia Cristina 
Published: April 2023

Objective. To evaluate the utility of a career certification test, as a written test to measure skills defined in the graduate profile of the nursing curriculum.
Methodology. The test was developed based in the definition of its characteristics, approach of the objectives, evaluated content definition, description of the questions characteristics, and determine the approval or disapproval nature of the test. After review and classification of the questions, pilot sampling was performed allowing the construction of the final tool.
Results. From the total of piloted questions, a total of 256 questions were accepted, 31.3% of them were rescued post psychometric analysis, they were used for the first version of the test applied to nurses and matron-nurses, 36 students took it reaching a score of 52.4±4.7. Considering the above, the average grade of this cohort was 4.9±0.5 (in a 1 to 7 scale).
Conclusion. The certification test measured a wide range of professional skills needed for a quality practice. It is important to know that the election of a “written test” modality allows measuring only cognitive knowledge and skills. So it must be assured through curriculum in each course, to achieve technical abilities and the correct attitudes.