Articles - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ABSTRACT

Objective:

Elaborate and validate an educational technology for adolescents on leprosy, focusing on preventing the disease and reducing stigma.

Method:

First, a prototype of the educational technology was elaborated and later analyzed by 17 adolescents and 7 researchers’ experts in the leprosy area and educational technologies who answered a questionnaire with questions related to the subject. Subsequently, the technology has been applied to 43 adolescents, and a questionnaire was handed before and after the use of the game, so that questionnaire scores were compared by a Wilcoxon paired test.

Results:

After the data collection with researchers and adolescents, the answers received descriptive treatment, and the Content Validity Index was calculated, which reached a good level of agreement, with an overall value (0.86), although there were improvements to the technology, based on the perceptions of researchers and adolescents.

Conclusions:

There was an increase in knowledge about leprosy.

ABSTRACT

Objective:

to develop and evaluate an application for syphilis control in pregnant women.

Method:

methodological research developed between March and November of 2016 in two phases: bibliographic survey of the years 2012 to 2016 in the databases PubMed, CAPES and Scopus and application development. Eight users participated in the usability test and five doctors and five nurses working in prenatal care participated in the evaluation.

Results:

the application contains informative video, information about the disease, map of health clinics, agenda function and anonymous notification. The evaluation of the objective, function and relevance was considered adequate with value higher than 0.80 in all items of the Content Validity Index.

Final considerations:

the application makes easier the routine of health services in the context of health promotion, in the convocation and treatment of pregnant women and their partners.

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to understand the experience of nurses with nursing consultations in the context of the Family Health Strategy and propose a representative model.

Methods:

qualitative research using Grounded Theory, with 14 nurses working through non-directive interviews. For data analysis, three stages were used: open, axial and selective coding, which originated phenomena, themes, categories and subcategories, which supported the construction of the central category and, consequently, the theoretical model.

Results:

the interrelation of phenomena emerged from the essence of the nurse’s experience, revealing the central category: From nursing education to the practice of Nursing Consultation, unveiling learning, challenges and autonomy as intervening components. Final Considerations: the nurse’s experience is positive and, despite numerous challenges in daily life, the nurse has been performing it based on comprehensive care. New studies may add new understandings that enable the expansion of working conditions, valuing the nursing consultation.