Biomedical subjects

Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa Machado

Publications and source records attributed to Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa Machado.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2004

[The mothers' participation in the child malnutrition program].

This study aims to show mothers' and health professionals' conceptions and perceptions related to their participation in the Child Malnutrition Program. Thus, we particularly explore the mothers' participation, as a means of making them aware of the individual and social reality and their decisions about it. Our analysis of the maternal participation process is guided by Imogene King's conceptual framework. This study was conducted in Crato, Ceará State, Brazil. Study participants were mothers and professionals. We used semi-structured interviews and adopted Bardin's Content Analysis for organizing and analyzing the collected data. This study did not find evidence of strategies for the conscious participation of social actors in the child malnutrition program.

Child↗

PubMed2003

[Experiencing an emancipatory proposal in the teaching of semiology to nursing].

The aim was to analyze the teaching of Semiology through the programs of subject matters at five universities in the State of Ceará and, specifically, that of a public university. Three (3) classes were observed and meetings were held with teachers and students for collecting data about the teaching-learning process. The teachers presented teaching and research experience, and acknowledge that the high number of students impairs teaching-learning. The students mentioned difficulties in the elaboration of the nursing diagnosis and in the initial contact with the hospitalized client, causing insecurity and rejection of the practical part of the subject matter.

Education, Nursing↗

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[Ecologic view: a web in the nursing].

From the revolutionary changes in reality concept, caused by physics and modern thoughts, new consistent vision of the world emerge and it is influenced from the classic physics to quantum physics transition. The aim of this study is to show Capra's thoughts influenced the ecologic nursing care dissemination. The new paradigm can be called an ecologic view in a wider and deeper perspective. Health in the holistic view of men with its relationship encompass an ecological thought in which requires nurses'competence area. Also it needs a critical thinking towards knowing, being and doing in order to compromise changes to raise emotions, enchantment and to take care of nature for the quality and existence of humanity.

Holistic Nursing↗

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[Motives which lead women not to return to receive the results of their pap smear test].

The Pap smear test is an efficient method of uterine cervical cancer prevention. For this prevention method to be effective, it is essential that the patient receives her results and satisfactorily concludes the treatment. This study aims to identify the motives which lead women not to return to receive the results of their Pap smear test. This is a descriptive research with a qualitative approach, carried out at a health centre in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. The study subjects are 21 women who underwent the Pap smear test and did not return to collect their results. The tool for data collection was a semi-structured telephone interview, held between September and November 2004. The results pointed to motives related to the patient, to the health professional delivering care and to the service offered.

Attitude to Health↗