Biomedical subjects

Lorena Teresinha Consalter Geib

Publications and source records attributed to Lorena Teresinha Consalter Geib.

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PubMed2006

[Sleeping habits related to sudden infant death syndrome: a population-based study].

This cross-sectional study on sleeping habits with potential risk for sudden infant death syndrome included all live births in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2003 with data collection from Certificates of Live Birth and interviews, analyzed with descriptive statistics and the chi-squared test. From the 2,634 live births, 2,285 children were selected (86.75%), with 8.4% exclusion and 5.2% losses. Protective habits included 77% of infants with appropriate clothing, 90% loosely wrapped, 69% with thin blankets, 98% sleeping in the parents' bedroom, and 56% in the crib. Potentially risky habits included lateral decubitus (92%), use of a pillow (88%), and feet far from the lower edge of the crib (96%). Among low-income families, bed-sharing with other children was significant (p = 0.00). Thus, in a county with a low prevalence of sudden infant death syndrome, infants are exposed to both protective and risk factors, suggesting that in underprivileged populations in developing countries, other risk factors for this syndrome should be considered.

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PubMed2006

Sleep practices and sudden infant death syndrome: a new proposal for scoring risk factors.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To evaluate sleep practices regarding maternal, infant, and socioeconomic factors in an infant population and to propose a scoring scale associated with high versus low risk of sudden infant death syndrome. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, population-based study. SETTING: Passo Fundo, Brazil. PARTICIPANTS: 2,285 newborns. INTERVENTIONS: Perinatal information was collected from the city health database, and a questionnaire regarding sleep practices was applied to the de facto mothers. The scale for classification of infant sleep practices in relation to high or low risk of sudden infant death syndrome was based on previous population studies. Cox regression, bivariate, and multivariate analyses were employed. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Application of the score allowed detection of high-risk sleep practices in 42.4% of infants. The following variables maintained association with high-risk sleep practices: 6 or fewer visits in the antenatal clinic (p < .001), maternal age < or = 20 years (p < .001), smoking during pregnancy (p = .041), disease during the first 2 months of life (p = .038), low birth weight (p = .049), and low socioeconomic status (p < .001); 90% of deceased infants and 75% of suspected sudden infant death syndrome cases were regularly exposed to high-risk sleep practices. CONCLUSIONS: High-risk sleep practices were widely observed in the study population. The significance of this study lies in the future application of this information via public health measures targeted at high-risk populations.

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PubMed2004

[Social representations of teenagers with their first-born child on maternal care to newborns].

This qualitative study aimed to analyze the social representation of teenagers who had their first child and about maternal care to newborns in the home environment. Participants were eight teenagers with their newborns. Data were collected at their homes by means of projective techniques and semi-structured interviews. Analysis was based on social representation theory, demonstrating that the teenagers represent maternal care in figurative centers of affection, family integration and maternal fulfillment. The maternal care is symbolically anchored in the appearance of a family, in the continuum of feelings and in the commitment to the psychomotor progress of the child. The teenagers who had their first child gave more value to belonging to a family than to the losses resulting from early motherhood. Maternal care is a conflictive exercise. On the one hand, it represents the status of being an adult and responsible but, on the other, it marks insecurity, lack of preparation and immaturity, which affect care to the newborn.

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[Tutorial programs for nursing courses].

The implementation of political-pedagogical projects, encouraged by health and education policies, generated the need to incorporate in nursing curricula several programs to attend the interests and necessities of undergraduate courses. One of these is the Tutorial Program that aims at considering the student as the subject of the education and care. In this way, this study aimed at contributing to the evaluation of a tutorial model in order to fill in gaps found in the process of construction of political-pedagogical projects. Therefore, the article describes the idealized theoretical model with the purpose to include it in undergraduate nursing programs.

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