O perfil sociodemográfico de pacientes em pós-operatório imediato de prostatectomia

Identificar o perfil sociodemográfico de pacientes submetidos à prostatectomia. Método: estudo quantitativo, transversal e descritivo, realizado na clínica cirúrgica de um Hospital Universitário na cidade de Natal/RN/Brasil, com 50 indivíduos em pós-operatório imediato de prostatectomia. A coleta de dados deu-se com um roteiro de anamnese e exame físico. Para a análise estatística dos dados foi utilizado o Programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, versão 16.0. O projeto de pesquisa foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, protocolo nº 130/10 CEP/UFRN. Resultados: os homens entrevistados tinham idade média de 67,78 anos, 80% tinham companheiros, com número de filhos variando de zero a quatro (56%). Conclusão: o conhecimento do perfil sociodemográfico dos pacientes prostatectomizados proporciona um direcionamento das ações de enfermagem frente à realidade de vida dessa clientela, uma vez que os pacientes estudados apresentaram perfil similar ao observado em outras cidades brasileiras

Prática de ensino supervisionada em Educação Pré-escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

O presente relatório retrata e analisa o trabalho desenvolvido no âmbito da unidade curricular de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES), do mestrado em Educação PréEscolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Bragança. A prática pedagógica foi desenvolvida em dois contextos da cidade de Bragança, sendo numa primeira fase num Jardim de Infância de uma Instituição Particular de Solidariedade Social (IPSS), numa sala com catorze crianças de três e quatro anos de idade e, numa segunda fase, numa escola do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico numa Instituição da rede pública, numa sala de 3.º ano com dezanove crianças de oito anos de idade. O principal objetivo deste relatório é dar a conhecer o trabalho realizado em ambos os contextos, descrevendo e refletindo sobre a prática realizada. Ao longo da PES procurámos desenvolver atividades que respondessem às necessidades e interesses das crianças, de forma a criar momentos de participação ativa, de partilha de saberes e de cooperação no âmbito das Orientações Curriculares para a Educação Pré-escolar e do Programa Nacional do 3.º ano do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Era nossa intenção mostrar como o livro para a infância pode ser utilizado como promotor de experiências de ensino/aprendizagem ricas e diversificadas, tendo sempre como base a leitura. Nesta perspetiva optámos pela questão-problema: Como podemos fomentar nas crianças o gosto pela leitura e pelo livro? Neste âmbito formulámos os seguintes objetivos: (i) Promover o gosto pela leitura; (ii) Despertar o interesse dos alunos pela leitura literária, recorrendo à utilização do fantástico e do maravilhoso para a estimulação do imaginário na infância; (iii) Envolver a família na promoção leitora; (iv) Proporcionar um conjunto de atividades de forma a trabalhar três momentos fulcrais para a leitura: antes da leitura (pré-leitura), no decorrer da leitura (leitura) e no fim da leitura (pós leitura). A metodologia utilizada foi a investigação qualitativa de natureza interpretativa, baseando-nos na utilização de instrumentos de recolha de dados do tipo qualitativo, como a observação, as notas de campo e fotografias. Este tipo de investigação apresenta os resultados através de narrativas com descrições contextuais e citações dos participantes em experiências de ensino/aprendizagem significativas que estimularam o gosto pela leitura e pelo livro das crianças de ambos os contextos.

kid-friendly veggies and fruits : 10 tips for making healthy foods more fun for children

This sheet encourages children to eat vegetables and fruits by making it fun. Provide healthy ingredients and let kids help with preparation, based on their age and skills. Kids may try foods they avoided in the past if they helped make them. Recipes are included.

Embedding sustainability into the new computer science curriculum for English schools

The primary goals of this study are to: embed sustainable concepts of energy consumption into certain part of existing Computer Science curriculum for English schools; investigate how to motivate 7-to-11 years old kids to learn these concepts; promote responsive ICT (Information and Communications Technology) use by these kids in their daily life; raise their awareness of today’s ecological challenges. Sustainability-related ICT lessons developed aim to provoke computational thinking and creativity to foster understanding of environmental impact of ICT and positive environmental impact of small changes in user energy consumption behaviour. The importance of including sustainability into the Computer Science curriculum is due to the fact that ICT is both a solution and one of the causes of current world ecological problems. This research follows Agile software development methodology. In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, sustainability requirements, curriculum requirements and technical requirements are firstly analysed. Secondly, the web-based user interface is designed. In parallel, a set of three online lessons (video, slideshow and game) is created for the website GreenICTKids.com taking into account several green design patterns. Finally, the evaluation phase involves the collection of adults’ and kids’ feedback on the following: user interface; contents; user interaction; impacts on the kids’ sustainability awareness and on the kids’ behaviour with technologies. In conclusion, a list of research outcomes is as follows: 92% of the adults learnt more about energy consumption; 80% of the kids are motivated to learn about energy consumption and found the website easy to use; 100% of the kids understood the contents and liked website’s visual aspect; 100% of the kids will try to apply in their daily life what they learnt through the online lessons.

Cuidador informal de idosos: efeitos sociais e familiares decorrentes do cuidar, uma revisão da literatura

Introdução - O papel dos cuidadores informais junto de pessoas idosas tem vindo a ser considerado pertinente na medida em que proporciona estabilidade e melhor qualidade de vida à pessoa idosa. É uma tarefa praticada na grande maioria por mulheres, originando efeitos sociais e familiares que modificam as relações entre familiares e até entre a rede de amigos. Objetivo - Identificar os efeitos sociais e familiares decorrentes do cuidar de idosos. Método – Trata-se de uma revisão da literatura com busca nas bases de dados eletrónicas: Repositório Científico de acesso aberto de Portugal (RCCAP) e Scielo. Foram selecionados artigos publicados entre os anos 2008 e 2015, a partir da questão de investigação: “Quais os efeitos sociais e familiares decorrentes do cuidar de idosos ”. Resultados - Após análise dos estudos selecionados verificou-se que os cuidadores são predominantemente do sexo feminino, nomeadamente esposa, filha ou neta da pessoa idosa. Apurou-se que existem alterações nas relações sociais e familiares devido ao excesso de tarefas que o cuidar exige. Identificaram-se o impacto financeiro, ausência de apoios sociais e familiares, impactos sociais, sobrecarga física e emocional, impactos na saúde, impacto profissional, a falta ou escassa formação/ preparação para exercer a função de cuidador, a falta ou diminuição do tempo para o casamento e para os filhos, a diminuição do tempo de lazer o que origina o isolamento social, o afastamento da rede de amigos e por último as alterações familiares como efeitos decorrentes do cuidar de idosos. Conclusão - conclui-se que apesar das dificuldades da prática de cuidar, os familiares sentem-se realizados por ser possível proporcionar um final de vida digno ao seu familiar, contudo seria pertinente a existência de formações e o desenvolvimento de estratégias que auxiliem o cuidador informal na execução das suas tarefas.

Usefulness of clinical observations and blood chemistry values for predicting clinical outcomes in dairy goats with pregnancy toxaemia

Background Pregnancy toxaemia (PT) is a disease that affects pregnant goats during their last month of gestation and is characterized by a high case fatality rate. This study involved 32 does maintained on a commercial dairy goat farm that were diagnosed with PT. A physical examination was performed on and haematology parameters obtained from each doe, at the time of diagnosis. The data from the 24 PT goats that died was compared with the corresponding data from the 8 PT goats that survived. Results Polypnea, swollen limbs, anorexia with absence of ruminal motility, recumbency, nervous signs and drooping ears were the most frequently observed clinical manifestations. Nineteen out of 21 recumbent goats died. Sixteen out of 17 goats with anorexia and absence of ruminal motility died. Mean beta-hydroxybutyric acid (BHBA) values in the goats that died were not significantly different from those in goats that survived. The blood values for pH and pCO2 (p < 0.005) as well as for HCO3 −, BE and K+ (p < 0.001) were significantly lower in the goats that died than in those that survived. Conclusions The clinical signs most indicative of a poor prognosis are anorexia with absence of ruminal motility and recumbency. Among the blood parameters to be considered, hypokalaemia and metabolic acidosis are the most relevant. Goats with PT have a high mortality and their condition can deteriorate very fast. Based on the authors’s experience, a good strategy to minimize the economic losses caused by PT is to focus on the offspring survival rate since an early decision (induction of kidding or caesarian surgery) can increase the number of alive kids.

Enseñanza de lenguas materna y extranjeras a niños con necesidades especiales: caso Síndrome de Down

Durante mucho tiempo se consideró que los niños con Síndrome de Down (SD) debían aprender su lengua materna y hasta pasada la adolescencia podrían seguir con otra lengua. No obstante, los beneficios posibles del aprendizaje precoz de lenguas sobre el desarrollo cognitivo y lingüístico de estos niños han de ser reconsiderados. La exposición de niños con SD asituaciones lingüísticas distintas puede evitar ponerlos a la defensiva, lo cual tiene consecuencias favorables en lo cognitivo. lo motivacional y lo emocional. La metodología de estimulación temprana mediante los idiomas es fundamental.For a long time it was believed that children with Down Syndrome (DS) should learn their native language, and not until after adolescence should they begin to study a second language. However, the potential benefits of early second-language education for cognitive and linguistic developmentshould be reconsidered. Exposure to new linguistic situations helps children with DS to avoid defensiveness, which in turn contributes positively to the child's cognitive, motivational and emotional level. Early stimulation with foreign languages is essential.

Sorological evaluation of commercial vaccines against enterotoxemia in goats.

Enterotoxemia in sheep and in goats is caused by the effects of the epsilon toxin of C/ostridium perfringens type D, being considered the main infectious cause of mortality in those animal species. The main prophylactic measures include adequate nutritional management and vaccination of ali animais using vaccines of high immunogenic power. Six commercial vaccines containing in its formulation the epsilon toxoid of C. perfringens type D were sorogically evaluated. Eighty four female goat kids, whose mothers had no previous vaccination history against clostridioses were used. They were divided into six groups of 14 animais each. The animais of the control group didn't receive any vaccine dose and the animais from the groups 1 to 5 received two vaccine doses, The first vaccine dose was applied at 45 days of life (day zero) and the second dose at 75 days (30 days after the first dose). Blood samples were collected from the goat kids at the days zero, 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150 after the beginning of the experiment, in order to evaluate the immunologic response. The Indirect ELlSA technique was used for the quantification of the antibodies against epsilon toxin in the samples of blood serum of the animais. In day zero, no animal presented titre considered protector. The largest number of animais considered protected was found at day 60, in response to the two initial doses of the vaccine (days O and 30, first and second doses, respectively). Only tive animaIs which received the vaccine 1 and one animal which received the vaccine 3 stayed wilh titres of antibodies considered up to 150 days after the first vaccine dose. Based on the results, it was concluded lhat the evaluated vaccines showed small amount of epsilon toxoid in the commercial formulations, a crucial fact for lhe low efficiency of. the vaccines. For commercial reasons, the vaccines against the clostridioses present versatile formulations, with several toxoid types, used for various animal species, which certainly contributed to reduce their effectiveness in preventing the iIInesses caused by the clostridia or their toxins.

A produção de conteúdos midiáticos realizada por jovens e suas possibilidades educativas

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, 2016.

Adolescent’s subjective perceptions of chronic disease and related psychosocial factors: Highlights from an outpatient context study

Background: Adolescents with chronic disease (CD) can be more vulnerable to adverse psychosocial outcomes. This study aims: 1) to identify differences in psychosocial variables (health-related quality of life, psychosomatic complaints, resilience, self-regulation and social support) among adolescents who feel that CD affects or does not affect school/peers connectedness (measured by self-reported participation in school and social activities); and 2) to assess the extent to which psychosocial variables are associated with connectedness in school and peer domains. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 135 adolescents with CD (51.9% boys), average age of 14 ± 1. 5 years old (SD = 1.5). Socio-demographic, clinical, and psychosocial variables were assessed, using a self-reported questionnaire, which included the Chronic Conditions Short Questionnaire, KIDSCREEN-10 Index, Symptoms Check-List, Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment Module Scale, Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory, and Satisfaction with Social Support Scale. Descriptive statistics, GLM-Univariate ANCOVA and Logistic Regression were performed using the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 22.0. The significance level was set at p < 0.05. Results: Thirteen to eighteen percent of the adolescents felt that CD affected participation at school (PSCH) and participation in leisure time with friends (PLTF). These adolescents presented lower results for all psychosocial study variables, when compared with adolescents who did not feel affected in both areas of participation. From the studied psychosocial variables, the most important ones associated with PSCH (after controlling for age, gender, diagnosis, and education level of father/mother) were self-regulation and psychosomatic health. Concerning the PLTF, social support was the sole variable explaining such association. Conclusions: The present study pointed out the association between psychosocial variables; and living with a CD and school/peers connectedness. The need to focus on the assessment of the effects of a CD on adolescents’ lives and contexts is suggested, as well as on the identification of vulnerable adolescents. Such identification could help to facilitate the maximization of social participation of adolescents with CD, and to plan interventions centered on providing support and opportunities for a healthy youth development. For that purpose, a complex and multifactorial approach that includes clinicians, schools, family, and peers may be proposed.

Promoting reflective assessing practices through narratives: An action research project in early childhood

This project aims at describing the use of Action Research in the development of more structured assessment practices in Early Childhood Portuguese contexts. The teacher had always observed young learners’ activities and progress, and registered them in the form of “critical incidents”. This reflective process structured through this type of narratives helps “tune” the Class Curriculum firstly designed without much knowledge about the kids and so, difficultly responding to their specific needs and interests. The results achieved suggest kids become better prepared to face further education and life. Being early childhood assessment felt by most Portuguese kindergarten teachers as an innovative procedure, the project was seen as the launching of roots for “new” practices.

Fysisk aktivitet och teknologins påverkan på barn : - en fallstudie av två lågstadieklasser

Fysisk inaktivitet och stillasittande är stora hälsorisker då samhället idag blir allt mer beroende av teknologin både under fritid, inom arbetslivet och i skolan. Vårt syfte med denna studie är att undersöka om teknologin på något sätt påverkar barnens fysiska aktivitet negativt. Detta är en kvalitativ fallstudie med intervjuer och observationer som genomförts i två lågstadieklasser på två olika skolor med olika regler gällande användandet av teknologi. Ena skolan använder sig av surfplattor från och med förskoleklass medan den andra skolan inte börjar med teknologi, i form av datorer, förrän i sjundeklass. Undersökningens resultat visar att barnens fysiska aktivitet i skolmiljö inte påverkas nämnvärt av att skolorna har regler angående användandet av tekniska resurser. Utifrån våra observationer kan vi också se att det behövs mer fokus och riktlinjer på hur man kan förminska förslitningsskador från barnens dåliga hållning vid användandet av surfplatta i framtiden. Intervjuerna visar också att lärare tycker att mer ansvar bör läggas på föräldrarna än på skolorna för att få barnen mer aktiva och intresserade av en fortsatt aktiv livsstil.

The state services for crippled children, 1950

This booklet contains the general policies of the State Services for Crippled Children of Iowa. Details are omitted.

Posture and body mechanics, by Loraine Frost, 1940.

This bulletin is a guide to the teaching of general fundamentals of posture and good use of the body in movement, primarily for young girls as and boys.

Posture and body mechanics, 1952.

This bulletin is a guide to the teaching of general fundamentals of posture and good use of the body in movement, primarily for young girls as and boys. This is the third printing of this bulletin.