Overweight and obesity associated with high blood pressure: a cross-sectional study in Brazilian students
Conclusion: The results showed that overweight and obesity significantly increased the chance of high blood pressure among children aged 6 to 10 years old. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 11, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Injectable medications: self-reported practices of nursing professionals
Conclusion: Although most practices are within Safe Injecting practices, there are reports of risky practices, such as sharing single-use supplies. Training for the use of safety devices is not yet a reality for all professionals, since many reported it as rare. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 11, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Limit-situations in child health care practices: challenges to the empowerment of nurses
Conclusion: The study contributed to strengthening nurses through reflective dialogues on the realities experienced, increasing awareness and enabling interventions to transform their practices in child health care. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 11, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Functional capacity and quality of life of elderly people admitted to emergency service
Conclusion: The more independent the elderly the better their quality of life. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 11, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Direct cost of procedures for phlebitis treatment in an Inpatient Unit
Conclusion: Knowledge about the costs of procedures can support decision making that increase allocation efficiency of consumed resources. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 11, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Development and validation of an instrument to assess the knowledge of nurses on enteral nutrition
Conclusion: The instrument constructed was validated regarding content and application in nursing practice. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 11, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Epidemiological profile and tendency of leprosy in people younger than 15 years
Conclusion The increased tendency in the proportion of investigated contacts and the decrease in the proportion of healing revealed a need for the health system to improve patient follow-up during treatment against leprosy. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Women of different generations living with HIV: social representations about sexuality
Conclusion This study made it possible to identify processes of anchoring sexualities in terms of what ‘ cannot be revealed ’ beyond the family context. It should be noted that the elements ‘ sex ’ , intercourse ’ conceived by common sense as a synonym for sexuality, regardless of generation, had low frequency. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Analysis of the needs for help of men who have sex with men and live with HIV
Conclusion The needs for help identified were mainly related to psychological support coming from health professionals and family members. Participants were willing to receive help, especially to cope with the diagnosis. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Multiple dimensions of healthcare management of leprosy and challenges to its elimination
Conclusion The presented challenges demonstrate the health care network ’ s frailty regarding lowering this disease ’ s rate and the need for effective public policies to confront diseases that, similarly to leprosy, are determined by social inequality. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Strategies for notifying sexual partners of people with sexually transmitted infections: a randomized clinical trial*
Conclusion Given the failure to achieve effectiveness when applying the reporting by card, the authors recommend another card model containing information for partners to be used in combination with other methods. Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry: RBR-7jp5mr. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Team adherence to rapid prenatal testing and administration of benzathine penicillin in primary healthcare
Conclusion The testing process proved to be fragile because even if the test was available in prenatal care, the other activities linked to the work process did not occur properly. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Medication non-adherence in heart transplant patients
Conclusion Assessment using the BAASIS showed medication non-adherence in 46.7% of heart transplant patients. The VAS according to patients ’ self-report and nurse ’ s assessment showed high values (93.3% vs 83.3%). The BAASIS tends to address the difficulties reported by patients, when there is a change in doses, delays or anticipations of time and dose. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Psychosocial care for people with suicidal behavior from the perspective of users and health professionals
Conclusion Weaknesses and potentialities were noticed in the care provided by health professionals to users with suicidal behavior, within the scope of the Psychosocial Care Network. The need for management committed to the quality of care in the face of the risk of suicide stands out. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Nurse’s actions in the interface with expanded services of Family Health and Primary Care Center
Conclusion By provoking reflections on autonomy and the work process in collaborative performance with the Centers, the study expanded the perception about the actions developed by nurses in the interaction with the multiprofessional team. It is suggested to carry out other studies on interprofessionality in the relationship between nursing and the extended services through the perspective of the Center professionals. (Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP)
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - December 7, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: research