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GESTEIRA, Tereza Cristina Vasconcelos. Curvas de rendimento da cavala, Scomberomorus cavalla (Cuvier), e da serra, Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill), no Estado do Ceará (Brasil). Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v.13. n.1, p.13-15, mar.1973.

A lagosta Panulirus argus (Latreille) ocorre ao longo da costa leste das Américas, desde Beaufort (Carolina do Norte, U.S.A.) até o Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) - (Crawford & De Smidt, 1922; Chace & Dumont, 1949; Smith, 1958; Sims Jr. & Ingle, 1966 ; Buesa Más et al., 1968) . As suas principais áreas de pesca, em ordem de importância decrescente, se encontram em Cuba, nordeste do Brasil e Flórida (U.S.A.) - (Buesa-Más & Paiva, 1969). No nordeste brasileiro, a exploração lagosteira teve início em 1955 (Paiva et al., 1971), concentrando-se em águas costeiras do Estado do Ceará. Duas espécies de lagostas são normalmente capturadas: Panulirus argus (Latreille) e Panulirus laevicauda (Latreille). Destas lagostas, a primeira tem maior participação nas capturas regionais. O objetivo deste trabalho é estimar medidas de mortalidade na população da lagosta Panulirus argus, que vive em águas costeiras do Estado do Ceará. Essas estimativas são importantes para o conhecimento da dinâmica da população e, portanto, para a investigação pesqueira.

Teaching has been studied through the relation of the docent practices with the educational institutions, in order to detect occupational deaseases usually found on docent’s job. This study has intended to ackknowledge the nurses’social representations related to their docent job and life quality, as well as comparing the docent nurses’ social representations at private and public institutions, attending to a descriptive and exploratory method, quantitatively and qualitatively. It was developed from March to June of 2010, based on Serge Moscovici’s social representations theory, and approved by the Ethics and Research Committee under register nº 05/2010. The data were collected from preformed personal informations, the Whoqol – brief, a questionnaire with twenty-six questions, the TALP, abbreviation for a free words’ association technique, where the main themes were work, life quality (in general) and life quality in particular (itself). It was also included a written narrative about the decision to work with teaching. The research was made with a total of thirty-eight docent nurses; thirty-seven women and one man. Thirty of them were married, six singles and two divorcée. Forty-six year old was the average of their age; all professors at graduate and postgraduate educational institutions: one private institution and two public - State and Federal – ones. The results were presented in six tables and three boards showed in absolute and percentage numbers with descriptive statistics. Narratives of fifteen docent nurses were chosen randomly focused on four categories: life quality and docent practices on graduating education, life quality and docent practices on post graduating education, enjoyment, and publications. By analyzing the tables three to six, it was observed that over physical and psychological qualities the sum of the percentage scores nothing / very poor / very dissatisfied, very little or not satisfied, more or less / medium didn’t show significant differences, whereas to the first was forty-seven percent (47%) and forty-three decimal four percent (43,4%) to the second; however, to the social relationships and environment domains we had twenty-two decimal two percent (22,2%) and thirty decimal six percent (30,6%) respectively. It was inferred that social representations of the three groups over the study were anchored by the words responsibility, commitment, money and enjoyment. General life quality was anchored by the words peace and health, and particular life quality was anchored by the words health, family, work and time. The data triangulation has allowed us to understand the significance of the docent nurse’s social representations, the complementarities to the findings by the different methods.

O cuidado integral com Diabetes Mellitus e suas complicações é um desafio para a equipe de saúde. É imprescindível a identificação de comportamentos inadequados para poder revertê-los e conhecer as variáveis que possam interferir na mudança de comportamento para o autocuidado. O presente estudo teve como objetivo geral: avaliar as competências de idosos diabéticos para a prática de ações de autocuidado; e como objetivos específicos: caracterizar a população idosa segundo variáveis socioeconômicas e clínicas; analisar o conhecimento dos idosos diabéticos assistidos na atenção primária sobre o tratamento e o diabetes mellitus; verificar a relação entre as características sociodemográficas e individuais relacionadas ao diabetes e a competência dos indivíduos para o autocuidado. Estudo descritivo de corte transversal do tipo correlacional. A população do estudo foi composta por idosos acompanhados nas unidades básicas de saúde sorteadas inseridas nas seis Secretarias Executivas Regionais de Fortaleza-CE. A coleta de dados foi realizada no período de março a julho de 2009 nos domicílios dos idosos, através da utilização de um formulário e a Escala para Identificação de Competências para o Autocuidado em Diabetes (ECDAC), elaborada por NUNES (1982). Os dados foram agrupados e analisados estatisticamente, através do programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences-SPSS versão 14.0. A pesquisa foi aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Universidade Federal do Ceará, com protocolo nº 17/09. Os resultados mostraram que a maioria dos participantes constituiu-se de mulheres (76%), com idade mínima de 60 anos e máxima de 85 anos. A amostra apresentou grau de escolaridade bastante heterogêneo: 37% eram analfabetos O tempo de diagnóstico variou de 4 a 46 anos, com média de 10 anos de diagnóstico da doença (DP= 6,9 anos). Na Subescala I, que avalia a Capacidade Física dos idosos, obtiveram pontuação mínima de 11 pontos e pontuação máxima de 24 pontos, média de 23,21 e desvio padrão de 5,72. Na Subescala III, que avalia a Capacidade Mental, os idosos obtiveram pontuação mínima de 11 pontos, pontuação máxima de 39 pontos, média de 23,21 e desvio padrão de 5,72. Somente 38% dos idosos obtiveram pontuação entre 25-44 pontos, considerada pontuação satisfatória para competência para o autocuidado em diabetes. Já na pontuação total da ECDAC, somente 6% dos idosos atingiram pontuação entre 78 -108 pontos, sendo que apenas estes se classificaram como competentes para o autocuidado em diabetes. Conforme os resultados apresentados, observa-se que um número reduzido de idosos, apenas 6%, foi considerado competente para o autocuidado em diabetes, fato que enfatiza a importância do desenvolvimento de ações de promoção da saúde direcionados para esta parcela da população que possui limitações físicas, mentais ou motivacionais para o autocuidado em diabetes, tendo como premissas a avaliação de competências para o autocuidado em diabetes.

The educative technologies deserve quarrel and reflection how much to its validation and implementation in the practical assistencial. The rehabilitation with the aid of educational technologies can be sufficiently efficient, therefore it motivates the woman if to take care and to acquire knowledge necessary and adequate to be adopted in the effectiveness of its self care one. It was objectified to validate a directed educative manual for the promotion of the self care of mastectomizadas women, to identify aspects that can be perfected e/or modified and to evaluate the educative manual considered how much to the legibility and validity of content and appearance. One is about a research of methodological development. The referencial theoretician-methodological was adopted on the basis of the criteria of the model of Pasquali (1998) composed for three sets of procedures: theoreticians, empiricists and analytical. As one is about an educative manual, one used only the theoretical procedures. The collection of data was carried through of April the June of 2006 at two methodological moments. First, the evaluation of the fourteen judge-specialists (professional); second, the analysis semantics of nine mastectomizadas women chosen as criteria preset for both. The data had been extracted by means of individual questionnaires in the form of Likert scale with item distributed in three blocks of analysis. The data had received treatment descriptive, being calculated the adequacy of the mannering representation of the item, the linear correlation of Pearson of the item evaluated for the judges and the evaluation of the Index of Legibility of Flesch of the material (ILF), using the Automatic Grammatical to Revise for Portuguese (ReGra). In the appearance validation, the judge-specialists had suggested some alterations, but it had trend of the judges to opt to the answers in agreement. The majority of the answers was enters total adequate (142) and adequate (120), not having significant indication of discord, therefore of the 22 item and the four options of answers, but five item had gotten you prop up inadequate. How much to the mannering adequacy of the 22 item, fourteen had reached the goal proposal of 80% of agreement between the judges, four had had bordering indices and four had had indices below of the adopted parameter. In the linear correlation of Pearson, the appraisers had analyzed some item of form linearly dependent ones with the others, to indicate that the evaluation instrument how much to the referring aspects to the manual is adjusted. How much to the analysis semantics, 114 answers had been in total adequate and 114 in adequate. In this group it did not have significant indication of discord, therefore of the 26 item and the four options of answers, but an item got props up inadequate. In relation to the ILF, the results varied of 43 the 64, that is, easy and difficult reading, appropriate for education basic complete or incomplete mdium. One concludes that the educative manual is a resource that can be used of positive form in the process of rehabilitation of the mastectomizada case the messages is apprehended by it; the professionals must consider the instruction level and ability of reading of the patient, therefore the reading is a complex process and the understanding of texts involves questions related to the reader and its interaction. One expects that the application of the knowledge acquired in this study provides positive impacts for the nursing and the health of the mastectomizada woman and it guarantees to it quality to of life better.

This study aimed to evaluate prenatal care given to women with Gestational Hypertensive Syndrome. This is a descriptive, transversal and evaluation study with quantitative approach, held in the Maternity School Assis Chateaubriand (MEAC) in Fortaleza. The sample consisted of 230 women admitted at the maternity, diagnosed with Gestational Hypertensive Syndrome (GHS). The data was collected from March to November 2010, using a structured form and examination of the patients’ medical records. Most women, 134 (58.3%), were between the age of 20-34years, being the majority (65.7%) from the capital. 126 (54.8%) of the 230 women were young first-time mothers and 37 (16.1%) had a prior history of preeclampsia. 230 medical records were individually analyzed. From this it was found that 194 pregnant women were admitted with preeclampsia corresponding to 88.8%. However severe preeclampsia was the higher prevalence with 57.0% of admissions. Regarding risk factors, the main factor associated with SHG was prior preeclampsia with 37 (16.1%) cases, followed by HAC with 34 (14.8%). Among the key signs and symptoms at the time of admission were: increased High blood pressure totaling 200 women, with an average Systolic blood pressure of 164.2 with DP of 22.4, followed by proteinuria (148), and headache (127). The gestational age ranged from 18 to 42 weeks, with an average of 36.4, with a DP of 3.82. Caesarean was the prevalent choice of childbirth (77.4%). Regarding the pre natal data, 147 (63.91%) women began their appointments in the first trimester, 121 (48.5%) attended from 6 to 13 appointments with an average of 5.9 and DP of 2.2. 128 of these women were accompanied by two professionals: a doctor and a nurse. All laboratory tests and procedures recommended by PHPN were noted, over 80%, excepting the second samples of the following tests: VDRL, urine, HIV and blood glucose. Therefore, not fulfilling what is established by PHPN, in other words, the running of the second sample around the 30th week of gestation. In conclusion, this study has its relevance by reinforcing the route of prenatal assistance until the outcome in the attendance at the hospital. It shows us the factors related to prenatal follow-up, reaffirming that the mere realization does not ensure the minimization of the emergence of GHS, being fundamental the qualitative investment of this action

Estudo transversal, descritivo-exploratório, realizado em Itaitinga-CE, cujos objetivos foram identificar o perfil socioeconômico e obstétrico de gestantes; verificar a prevalência do Diagnóstico de Enfermagem: “Nutrição desequilibrada - ingestão maior que as necessidades corporais” em gestantes; verificar as características definidoras e o fator relacionado ao referido diagnóstico; e descrever o poder preditivo e a acurácia das características definidoras e do fator relacionado ao diagnóstico. A amostra de 146 gestantes foi estabelecida por coeficiente de confiança de 95%, erro amostral de 5% e P de 50,0%. Os dados foram coletados de abril a setembro 2009. Foram organizados no Excel, versão 2003, analisados nos softwares Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versão 16.0, Predictive Analysis SoftWare (PASW) versão 18.0 e R versão 2.8.1. Foram calculadas frequências absolutas e percentuais das variáveis nominais. Para as variáveis quantitativas, foram apresentadas a média e o desvio padrão. Para verificação de independência entre variáveis nominais, foi aplicado o teste do Qui-quadrado de Pearson. Foram aplicados o teste da probabilidade exata de Fisher ou o teste de Fisher-Freeman-Halton quando pelo menos 25% das frequências esperadas foram inferiores a cinco. Para a magnitude de associação entre as variáveis nominais, foi calculada a Odds Ratio (OR). Para análise de diferença de mediana, foi aplicado o teste de Kruskal-Wallis. Para verificação da acurácia das características definidoras, foram calculadas a sensibilidade, a especificidade e os valores preditivos. O projeto seguiu as recomendações da Resolução no. 196/96, sendo submetido e aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Universidade Federal do Ceará, conforme parecer nº 18/09. A idade média das gestantes foi de 24,34 anos, renda per capita média de R$ 168,30, média de pessoas na família 3,99, 126 (86,3%) declararam união consensual/casada, 96 (65,8%) eram do lar, 77 (53,4%) tinham ensino fundamental. A paridade média foi 1,24, 60 (41,1%) eram nulíparas e 87 (57%) estavam no segundo trimestre da gestação. Vinte (13,0%) gestantes apresentavam baixo peso, 89 (61,0%) peso adequado, 23 (16,0%) sobrepeso e 14 (10,0%) obesidade. Na gestação, o baixo peso reduziu em 50,0%, o eutrofismo em 51,7% e aumentaram os casos de sobrepeso em 160,8% e de obesidade em 135,7%. Sete (4,8%) gestantes apresentaram dobra da pele do tríceps maior que 25 mm. Predominou o consumo de alimentos do grupo A, 141 (96,6%) gestantes eram sedentárias, 55 (32,3%) se alimentavam por sugestão interna além da fome, 80 (42,5%) pelo cumprimento do horário da refeição, 73 (42,0%) se alimentavam vendo televisão e 38 (26,0%) se alimentavam além das necessidades metabólicas. Houve associação estatisticamente significante entre estado nutricional pré-gestacional e gestacional (p=0,03463); estado nutricional gestacional e idade (p=0,001), paridade (p=0,026) e idade gestacional (p=0,002). As características definidoras mais sensíveis foram sedentarismo (97,10%), alimentar-se em resposta a estímulos internos (86,98%), obesidade/sobrepeso e dobra da pele do tríceps (> 25 mm) (100%). Houve baixa especificidade, tendo alimentar-se em resposta a sugestões externas como a mais específica (70,13%). Houve associação estatisticamente significante em: alimentar-se em resposta a sugestões internas além da fome (p= 0,022), sobrepeso/obesidade (p= 0,000) e dobra da pele do tríceps (> 25mm) (p= 0,014).

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is one viral agent that causes infective disease, of transmission frequently sexual, known usually as acuminated conduloma, genital wart or cockscomb, it is the main agent that causes the cancer of the uterus colon as sure as can be with repercussion in the life of the infected individual and in the health of the family. The aims were to evaluate the structure, the development and the function of the family composed by attacked woman by Human Papillomavirus, based in the Calgary Model; to identify possible influences caused within structural family due to disease; to identify factors that the woman relates with the cause of the disease. The search was the descriptive type with qualitative boarding, having been realized one case study, at the home of the informer making use of the Calgary Model as one touched topic of family valuation. Datum collection was realized in January and February from 2007, through interview semi-structured with the couple, genogram and echomap from family. The family was composed of four members such as: the couple Josué and Rosa and their two children: Gabriel and Bela. By gynecological routine exam it was diagnosed in Rosa, one external wart and one small lesion in the scale-columnar junction of the uterus colon. All the members of the family maintain healthy relationship among them; there is a little bit of negativity in the entail between Rosa and Gabriel, due to charges with relation to studies. The couple didn’t keep away from their social net, due to undertaking with the virus. The housewife shared the case with her husband, accusing him, but lately she got acquired him of the importance from safe sexual habits. The couple got over comes the grasped critical phases, overlooking as better repercussion, the changing of their habits and bigger affection among the family. With regard to the theme HPV, it had seen that many people unknown still, staying to the load from professional spread the subject with more emphasis as among women well as men. As well as to promote the education within health, in order to the people reflect to respect of the great importance in utilizing the prophylactic.

ANTOS, Edison Pereira dos; ALCANTARA FILHO, Pedro de.; ROCHA, Carlos Artur Sobreira. Curvas de rendimento de lagostas no Estado do Ceará (Brasil). Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v. 13, n.1, p. 9-12, mar. 1973.

Nursing uses different strategies and technologies to insert blind people in the health promotion context. As these predominantly use paper and ink, illustrations and/or television images, programs to prevent and combat drugs limit blind clients’ information access. Feasible technologies for health promotion include Assistive Technology (AT). Games adapted to the blind represent a different education possibility, associating the playful with information collection and, hence, with knowledge, so that they are considered an Assistive Technology and contribute to awareness-raising on the theme, collaborating to turn health promotion into permanent education. Thus, the goal was the development of an Assistive Technology in the form of an educational game on psychoactive drugs use, accessible to the blind, and the assessment of this technology by special education specialists and blind people. An assistive technology construction and assessment study was carried out between June and August 2010 at the Health Communication Laboratory of the Federal University of Ceará (LabCom_Saúde-UFC). Study participants were three special education specialists and twelve blind people. The research involved three methodological phases: construction of the educational game, assessment by special education specialists and assessment by the blind. For assessment purposes, an instrument was elaborated in the form of a Likert scale. Items were divided into adequate, partially adequate, inadequate and does not apply. The three specialists assessed the first version of the assistive technology, Version Alpha, and made suggestions, which were accepted when pertinent. After the adjustments, the specialists assessed the second version of the game, Version Beta, until no further adjustments were needed. Next, three pairs of blind people played the game and assessed Version Beta and, thus, made suggestions, which were incorporated when pertinent. The last three pairs of blind people assessed the new version of the game, Version Gamma. The evaluation phase by the blind people was filmed to facilitate data collection. All study participants signed the Free and Informed Consent Term. Version Alpha was presented to the specialists, who formulated suggestions on the dimension of the board, aspects related to the texture of the board spaces, game pawns, such as the distinction among the pawns, quality of Braille writing and description of the game instructions. After the adjustments, version Beta was constructed and again assessed by the specialists, who considered it adequate. Next, the blind participants’ assessed the game, appointed aspects related to the texture of the spaces and suggested using Velcro in each space to fix the pawn during the moves. After making the adjustments, the assessment continued with the last three pairs, who considered the AT adequate. The participants’ interest and curiosity in the game was evidenced, besides encouraging the application of the game to younger ages than determined in the research. In view of these considerations, the educational game is considered an AT for the blind and was assessed positively, as it permits access to information on psychoactive drugs in a playful way. The AT aroused the blind people’s will and desire to discover what it would be like to play this type of game. It was considered relevant for the teaching-learning process and is thus useful to promote these people’s health, constituting a new tool for nursing to use in its educational function.

The free availability of digital content has fairly increased on the Web. Many of these contents can be modified, reused and adapted for specific purposes. Although diferent resources for providing and storing contents are widely available, there is a lack of tools suitable to versioning control of binary content on the Internet. In addition, most solutions to persistent data on the Web are based on Relational DataBase (RDB). As a simple solution, we can modify the original data and store new records in the tables of a database. However, this leads to a possible ineficiency due to a potentially large amount of redundant information. Nevertheless, in order to overcome this issue, it is possible to adapt versioning tools, also known as Control Version System (CVS), to the solution. These tools are specialized in storage of the modified regions of documents. This process is known as "deltification". However, regarding access time and gathering data, a CVS is less eficient than a DataBase Management System (DBMS). Therefore, if a CVS is used as a solution for data persistence, this can reduce the overall performance of the application. Aiming at designing a repository of versioned binary content on the Web, with eficient management for both accessing and storing binary data, this work analyzes the performance of free DBMSs most frequently used and a CVS, which we consider being the most suitable to the addressed repository. The attained results were the basis for the specification of thearchitecture of a repository that relies on a hybrid approach. The resulting approach lies in the simultaneous use of a DBMS and a CVS. We took into account features and runtime performance of both tools for each operation required in the final application. Then, we designed models on colored Petri Nets, which allowed the simulation and analysis of the aimed architecture. As a result, we present the e ciency of the proposed architecture against a traditional storage approach.

The Pap test has world-wide recognition as a safe strategy to detect cervical cancer early. Its execution includes manual work, from the material collection to the result emission. Thus, the performance of human resources contributes to the security or not of the results. This is carried out by doctors and nurses that compose the teams of Health Family Program (PSF), but mainly by nurses. In this context, it was decided to carry out this study which had as a general objective to evaluate the material collection for the Pap test by nurses and as specific objectives to verify knowledge and practice of these professionals in relation to cytological collection; to identify the availability of material resources which are necessary for the execution of the collection and to evaluate if the collected material is adequate based on the laboratorial report. It is an evaluative research, with descriptive exploratory character. It was executed in units of the Family Health Program (PSF) in Maranguape-CE, whose data was collected from August to October, 2006, through the direct and participative structured observation made with 21 (100%) nurses, in their area, and through the review of the laboratorial reports of 63 collected slides. The structured observation followed the Instrument of Quality Recognition of Proquali Methodology, and the data was annotated using checking system. The participative observation data was registered in field books. The results were presented under nurse characterization; formation, access to technical handbooks and knowledge to deal with cytological collection; performance of nurses in the material collection for the exam (biosecurity measures, comfort and security of women during exam and collection technique); availability of resources for the execution of the procedure and; suitability of the slides. Most nurses were graduated for 9 to 11 years and had 8 years of experience with cytological collection. Seventeen (81%) evaluated themselves as secure to execute the procedure and sixteen (76%) showed to have the adequate knowledge about the exact localization of the cytological collection. The access to the practice of cytological collection at college was referred by only 7 (33%) of them. Only 4 (19%) washed the hands before the procedure, 21 (100%) used procedure gloves in both hands and the discard of the trash was inadequate in all the units. Users’ comfort was evaluated according to the standpoint of making sure if the woman had emptied the bladder before the exam and of explaining it to the user and was achieved by 2 (9,5%) and 4 (19%) of the nurses respectively. The privacy was evaluated by the criteria of covering the woman, maintaining the office’s door closed and preventing people’s getting in and out during the exam. It was achieved by 20 (95%), 17 (81%) and 14 (67%), respectively. The collection technique was satisfactory with 90,5% or more of the nursed in 7 of the 11 evaluated items and the suitability of blenders was satisfactory in 100% of the 63 reports. The nurses’ performance was the ideal expected in terms of guaranteeing slides with good quality to search cervical cancer. However, practice at college, washing of hands, adequate discard of the trash, users’ comfort and security and the interview about women’s conditions for the execution of the collection need improvement. It was observed risk of desiccation, presence of blood and hypocelular material, but unsatisfactory slides were not generated. It is suggested that studies need to be carried out with the objective of evaluating unnecessary or excessive recommendations for the collection.

The obstetric nurse returns to the scenery of reproductive health with their responsibilities enlarged, as strategy proposed by the World Organization of Health - OMS, for the reduction of the maternal and perinatal mortality rates. This fact increases the demands of better professional qualification, so that the interventions implemented for the protection of women’s and children’s health are effective and efficacious. In this perspective, we developed this documental study, aiming to propose a guideline for the nurses’ clinical actions in prenatal consultations in the physiological dimension, subsidized in the International Classification for the Practice of Nursing-CIPE. It was developed at the Center of Natural Childbirth of the Center of Family Development - CEDEFAM/UFC, located in the city of Fortaleza-CE. The population was constituted of 253 records of pregnant women that attended the prenatal nursing consultation in the period between July 2003 and August 2004, and the sample was composed of 62 records selected at random. We used an instrument for data collection that contained the Nursing phenomena according to the CIPE - alpha version. The data were collected in the months of May and August 2004. We detected that the more prevalent phenomenon in the pregnant women were: intermittent sleep (56,5%); functional dyspnea (51,6%); edema (37,1%); orthopnea (35,5%) and constipation (32,2%). We carried out the tests of association qui-square and Firsher, but there was not association of the phenomenon among themselves, nor with the other variables of the study. The conduct guide’s development made it possible to verify that the construction of technologies is something accessible to Nursing and that the CIPE can contribute to a better organization of the nurse’s actions during prenatal period, starting from the answers of the pregnant women facing the physiological alterations caused by pregnancy

CARVALHO , Liliane Brandão. Práticas do psicólogo em instituições públicas de saúde: o cuidado para com outro. 2006. 137f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2006.

The type 2 diabetes mellitus is a disease of increasing importance in public health, since its incidence and prevalence have dauntingly advanced, and has been caused by a combination of genetic factors and lifestyle. In this view, public health indicates primary prevention to identify risk factors for T2DM and strategize in order to avoid exposure to risk by delaying or preventing the onset of the disease. The objective was to evaluate the risk for the development of T2DM among adults in Itapipoca town-Ceará. It is a quantitative research with cross-sectional observational study conducted from January to March 2010, with 419 users of Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF) in Itapipoca town-Ceará, the participants aged between 20 and 59 years. To collect data we applied a form in which demographic and clinical data and Finnish Diabetes Risk Score were registered. The data were stored in Excel, and processed in the Statistical Package for Social Science 18.0. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Ceará, under protocol 346/09. Out of the 419 participating users, 88.1% were female and the average age was 37 years, 60.4% were married or had common law-marriage, 39.4% attended to part of primary school and 58.2% belonged to lower social classes. Regarding risk factors for T2DM, 25.3% were aged ≥ 45 years, 59.7% were overweight, 84% were classified as cardiovascular risk, 83.3% were sedentary, 53.7% reported not eating fruit and / or vegetables daily, 12.9% were taking anti-hypertensive, 5.3% reported a previous history of high glucose and 47% had family history of T2DM. As observed, 5.2% of the sample were classified as having hypertension, and only 0.7% with probable diabetes. As for the risk levels for T2DM, 24.6% were at low risk, 63% in moderate risk and 11.7% at high risk. Amongst participants with high risk, 12.0% were men, 30.2% were aged ≥ 45 years, 37.4% were overweight, 21.1% were at increased cardiovascular risk, 12.9% were sedentary; 14.7% did not eat fruit / vegetables daily, 31.5% took antihypertensive drugs, 81.8% reported a history of high glucose and 23.9% had family history of T2DM. This study opens doors for further intervention research in the town, in which individuals at high risk for T2DM would be accompanied by health professionals from the ESF and the Núcleos de Apoio à Saúde da Família. With the aim to reduce or delay the onset of the disease, the individuals would be given guidance as to changes in lifestyle and interventions on potential risk factors found.

Accuracy of the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis ‘sedentary lifestyle’ in patients with arterial hypertension Facing the increasing global concern related to the physical inactivity, the NANDA taxonomy published in 2006 the nursing diagnosis ‘Sedentary lifestyle’ (SL). The identification of clinical indicators (defining characteristics), with good predition, will contribute to a better accuracy, improving the reliability on the diagnostic inference. Having seen the question from the view of the direct relation between the sedentary lifestyle and the pressoric levels, the study aimed to: identify the prevalence of the SL diagnosis in patients with arterial hypertension (AH), as well as the defining characteristics (DC) and the related factors (RF); verify the reproductibility of the DC and RF, to the establishment of the SL diagnosis in patients with AH; determine the sensitivity, the specificity and the preditive value of the DC in the SL diagnosis in patients with the AH. A transversal study done amongst 310 individuals accompanied in one of the ambulatory and practice centers in Fortaleza- CE. The data collection occured within the period of November, 2007 and March, 2008. The including criteria were: have the AH medical diagnosis; be registered in the program; and be aged between 18 and 69. The data were taken from a form, which had been subjected to a pre-test, through interview. Three evaluators have taken part in the study, they have also decided whether the SL diagnosis and their clinical indicators should be absent or not. The data were compiled in the Excel software and analised through the SPSS program 15.0 version. The level of significance adopted in the study was of 5%. All ethical recommendations were fulfilled. The population showed it was mostly feminine, retired, proceeded from the capital city, catholic, living with a partner, presented excess of diabetes mellitus. Half of the sample had been up to 56 years old, had attended school no more than the primary school years, had had per capita income up to R$ 253.33 and had also been presenting the arterial hypertension diagnosis for more than 10 years. The sample showed, according to the IPAQ classification, 40% showed low level of physical activity. After the evaluators judgement, the DC that was most frequent amongst the patients with AH was “one presents lack of physical condition”. The FRs with most and least prevalence were “lack of practice in order to do exercises” and “the impaired awareness about the benefits that the physical activity brings to health”, respectively. The prevalence of the SL was of 60% associated to the age, to the presence of diabetes and all the DCs and RFs, apart from the “impaired awareness about the benefits that the physical activity brings to health”. The most sensitive DC and the one with the greatest preditive negative values was “one presents lack of physical condition”, whereas “one chooses daily routine without physical exercise” and “one verbalises preference for activity with little physical activity” were more specified and with the most preditive positive values. The variables “one presents lack of physical condition”, “one verbalise preference for activity with little physical activity” and “lack of practice in order to do exercises”, as a whole, were identified as preditors with the SL identifying power of 85.2%. The study gave us a direction towards the diagnostic efficiency for the clinical indicators for the “sedentary lifestyle”. It is necessary that nurses take this diagnosis into account, in different contexts, in order to facilitate the promotion of more effective interventions and, consequently, having less complications derived from this response in people with AH.

Care technology is an accessibility resource to integrate disabled people and mitigate the harms of exclusion. Educative materials accessible to blind people that can be disseminated through the Internet can increase their independence and autonomy. In recent years, digital inclusion is widely emphasized in education, within the social, work and health context. People need to feel included in any environment, with a view to interacting, communicating, expressing themselves and feeling mutually accepted. This research was developed at the Health Communication Laboratory of the Nursing Department at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. The goal was to assess a care technology for blind people, based on string literature about breastfeeding, using distance access for health promotion. Pasquali’s model (1999) was used as a theoretical-methodological framework, concretizing the theoretical pole. The research was carried out from March to September 2009. Three experts in each specialty collaborated: content, string literature, pedagogical aspects and technical aspects. For data collection, an instrument was filled out that assessed questions related to content, rules of string literature, the blind’s accessibility to this technology and its distance use. The analysis involved comparing the experts’ notes and critically reflecting on their suggestions. Ethical aspects were respected in compliance with Resolution 196/96. After assessments, the technology was adjusted until its final approval. While the content and string literature experts made two assessments from the perspective of improving the string, whose considerations were included into the technology instrument itself, the pedagogical aspect experts (availability of technology to blind people) made only one, as they suggested few adjustments. In that phase, one of the experts was blind, which was important for the research because the technology targets the blind population. Almost all items were considered totally adequate in the final analysis. Technical aspect experts (use of this technology at a distance) made only one assessment as, for a second analysis, only one expert filled out the instrument. As observed in this phase, they related the study with distance education, but the research refers to distance access to assimilate contents in health. All contributions were valid because they support and stimulate learning, encouraging autonomy. Therefore, the technology is adequate and can be used for distance health education. Its contents do not reflect any type of discrimination or prejudice and the duration of the audio is adequate. The construction of care technology should be submitted to analysis with a view to its validation before being put at the public’s disposal. In this research, the theoretical pole, according to the abovementioned model, was carried out, while the empirical and analytical poles will be carried out in future research. To develop technologies that can make people autonomous and health and, thus, promote the population’s health, nurses should recognize the demands and needs of the community they deliver care to.

VIANA Lívia Gomes. Afetividade e ambiente esportivo: sentimentos e emoções de atletas de competição. 2009. 129 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

The various changes in the daily of women that have breast cancer, arising of cognitive changes, may represents threat to your manteinance biopsychosocial, being a stressful factor because request coping strategies whose aim is the reduction, elimination or management of stress. Thus, the study aimed to verify the occurrence of stress and the use of coping strategies in the daily of women diagnosed of breast cancer. It is a cross-sectional study, descriptive-exploratory, realized in the MEAC’s Mastology ambulatory and in the CRIO’s Chemotherapy sector. The population were composed by women that had been diagnosed recent with breast cancer and were in treatment in the locals refered. With criteria established and using the sampling procedure by convenience were included 21 women in the study and that were in the locals of collected during the months from April to July 2010. Used like instrument to obtain the dates a structured interview guide with sociodemographic dates and disease history, the Inventory of Symptoms of Stress to Adults of Lipp (ISSL) and the Ways of Coping Scale (WCS). The dates were stored and analysed in the SPSS program version 17.0, calculating mean and standard deviation to continuous variable, frequency percentage to categorically and the tests 2 and ANOVA in the verification of association among variables. All the analyses a p value<0.05 was considered statistically significant. The mean of age was 57,76 (DP=13,2), the instruction level was low average four to six years, the family income had a mean of R$966,00 (DP=0,4) and observed the mean of two children by women. Most of women (85,7%) had breast cancer with surgical indication like treatment, having most indication to realize total mastectomy (42,9%). From the total women, 42,8% had indication to realize neoadjuvant chemotherapy like complementary therapy. The stress diagnostic were present in 66,7% of sample while in 33,3% of patients it was not observed. From patients that were with stress, the mean phases were alarm (33,3%) and resistance (33,3%). In the group with stress, the mean type of coping used was the search for religious practice (42,8%) and in the group without stress observed the focus on the problem in the most of women (23,7%), having association statistically significant between these variables (test 2 ; p=0,007). The means of ages, income and number of children among women and the relation with the type of coping not demonstred association statistically significant with the test F of Snedecor (ANOVA). The research demonstred that the women with breast cancer were significantly stressed and used like way of coping the religious practice, having not occurrence of stress among women that were looking to face the disease of a resolving way. Anyway the stress situations caused by breast cancer request a response of women, be a more adaptive response or not, thus, the woman need to find the possible mechanism to be used in the coping process. It is believed that in this aspect the nursing have an important role to realize in order to mediate the more adapter responses in the disease’s situation.

Recognizing the peculiarities involving the prostitution, activity practiced by many women, we decided to undertake this study. This is a survey in the city of Fortaleza, aiming to know the activities of the daily life of prostitutes; to identify the determinants factors specific of the life activities of prostitutes in the gynecological consultation of nursing; Check the contributions of the Model for Life Activities of Roper, Logan and Tierney in the care of nursing with prostitutes. The survey had a quantitative and qualitative approach. The data were collected at two points. In the first moment, we use a form of structured interview in the months of May and June 2007 on the occasion of gynecological consultation at the Center for Natural Childbirth (CPN) and the technique of free observation. For the second time, we used a structured route to interview, with a focus in the activities of life that showed changes in the first time. The interviews were conducted in the months of September and October 2007, in the homes and work places of prostitutes, and the data were recorded by the researcher in own forms and the data of observation were recorded in a diary. Part 42 women for the first time and 6 women in the second time. We use the Model Activity of Life of Roper, Logan and Tierney as a mark theoretical. We organized the words according to the twelve activities of life components of the Model, which include: Maintaining a safe environment, Communicate, Breathing, Eating and drinking, Eliminating, Personal career and dressing, Checking the body temperature, Mobilize, Working and distracting, Expressing sexuality, Sleeping and Death. The results showed the main vulnerabilities and events of this population, who were present in all activities at life of prostitutes, decisive factor for the maintenance for these women’s life quality. We can see that prostitution can cause damage to the lives of prostitutes since it entails limits to the adoption styles of living more healthy. Moreover, the use of the Model activity of life for Roper, Logan and Tierney facilitated the holistic approach of caring, showing it is capable of being adapted to the different stages of life and the various people attended. Thus, knowing the activities of life of prostitutes can direct the actions aimed at the customers, because that denotes the vulnerabilities that permeate the daily life of women.