Hemílio Fernandes Campos Coelho

Male and female condoms: What do women of a subnormal agglomerate know

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the knowledge about male and female condoms among women living in subnormal agglomerate and identify sources of information and appropriate care to use. METHODS Household survey, descriptive, transversal and quantitative study with 300 women over 18 of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil, who began their sexual life. The systematic sampling plan for data collection was used. The interview form included sociodemographic questions and gazed relevant aspects of the use of condoms as a preventive measure of sexually transmitted infections and AIDS. RESULTS TV and healthcare professionals were the main sources of information. The participants knew more often the male condom features compared to women. The care most often mentioned by women as the use of male and female condoms were related to the validity, form of openness and conditions of packaging and storage of condoms. The largest number of care focused on measures taken in the pre-sexual moment. Moreover, care was nonspecific on the female condom. CONCLUSION The participating women have inadequate knowledge on female and male condoms. It is necessary that the nursing seek health education strategies for improving knowledge about relevant information about male and female condoms.

The Caixa de Pandora Game: Changing Behaviors and Attitudes toward Violence against Women

This article presents the development issues and evaluation results of a serious game called Caixa de Pandora (Pandoras Box, in English), developed to train health professionals to care for women in situations of domestic violence. The combat of violence against women in the health sector presupposes a change of attitudes with respect to identified cases, with the exclusion of discriminatory and oppressive practices on the part of care professionals. To change these behaviors and verify postures, Caixa de Pandora uses an approach focused on the affective domain of learning. In the same sense of verifying and guiding changes in behavior, the intelligence module of the game used a model based on psychometric principles in its design. The validation of the game by a statistical sample with health professionals identified changes in their conceptions about the subject after playing the game, thereby demonstrating its pedagogical potential to formulate new knowledge and to change behavior.

Uso do método Respondent Driven Sampling para avaliação do alcoolismo em mulheres

RESUMO Trata-se de um estudo observacional transversal, objetivando a apresentacao de indicadores relacionados as mulheres que fazem uso excessivo de alcool. Devido a dificuldade de obtencao de um cadastro que permitisse a selecao aleatoria de mulheres alcoolistas, decidiu-se como alternativa a aplicacao do metodo Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS). O metodo permitiu a apresentacao de indicadores relacionados ao alcoolismo com base em uma amostra de 36 mulheres selecionadas de centros de tratamento. Os resultados da pesquisa evidenciaram que dos 91,7% das mulheres que fazem uso excessivo de alcool em conjunto com outras drogas, 69,44% usam maconha e cigarro. E, das 30.087 mulheres que consomem alcool, 24.371 necessitam de avaliacao e tratamento.

Implantação do e-SUS AB no Distrito Sanitário IV de João Pessoa (PB): relato de experiência

Os sistemas de informacao tem o proposito de auxiliar os gestores nas tomadas de decisoes. O e-SUS AB facilita e contribui para a organizacao do trabalho dos profissionais de saude na Atencao Basica. O presente artigo tem o objetivo de apresentar o processo de implantacao e desenvolvimento do e-SUS AB no Distrito Sanitario IV de Joao Pessoa (PB), em 2014. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, na forma de relato de experiencia, o qual aponta as dificuldades e qualidades do sistema. Conclui-se que os esforcos para reestruturacao do sistema so serao efetivos com o apoio dos envolvidos na implantacao, na utilizacao e no aprimoramento do Sistema de Informacao em Saude da Atencao Basica (Sisab) e da estrategia e-SUS AB.

Original ArticleSociodemographic and clinical features and quality of life in stomized patientsCaracterísticas sociodemográficas e clínicas e qualidade de vida de pessoas com estomia intestinal

Objectives To identify users with an intestinal ostomy concerning their sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and to determine the scores for quality of life according to the domains of the questionnaire City of Hope.

Sociodemographic and clinical features and quality of life in stomized patients

Objectives To identify users with an intestinal ostomy concerning their sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and to determine the scores for quality of life according to the domains of the questionnaire City of Hope.