Caring for heart transplant recipients: The lived experience of primary caregivers

Objective: To understand the experience of primary caregivers of heart transplant recipients. Methods: A phenomenological approach was used to understand the caregivers' experience of caring for a heart transplant patient. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 caregivers, in a Brazilian hospital, from December 2008 to March 2009. Results: Following the transplant, caregivers' lives change drastically; their priority becomes providing care for their relative. Despite successful transplant results, the uncertainty about future remains, generating permanent distress. Anxiety is exacerbated by familial or economic problems and, consequently, many participants turn to their local communities for support. Some caregivers learn from the experience and plan return to regular activities. Others feel helpless, unable to overcome personal losses and difficulties. Conclusions: Nurses are ideally placed to lead the way by providing family-centered support and education for caregivers of heart recipients. Listening to the concerns of family caregivers seems to be an essential aspect of effective interventions. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.

Symptom dimensions, clinical course and comorbidity in men and women with obsessive-compulsive disorder

The study aimed to compare male and female patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) across symptom dimensions, clinical course and comorbidity. A cross-sectional study was undertaken with 858 adult OCD patients (DSM-IV) from the Brazilian Research Consortium on Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders. Patients were evaluated using structured interviews, including the Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DY-BOCS) and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I disorders (SCID-I). The sample was composed of 504 women (58.7%) and 354 men (41.3%) with a mean age of 35.4 years-old (range: 18-77). Men were younger, more frequently single and presented more tics, social phobia and alcohol use disorders. Among men, symptom interference occurred earlier and symptoms of the sexual/religious dimension were more common and more severe. Conversely, women were more likely to present symptoms of the aggressive, contamination/cleaning and hoarding dimension and comorbidity with specific phobias, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, trichotillomania, skin picking and compulsive buying. In the logistic regression, female gender remained independently associated with the aggressive and contamination/cleaning dimensions. In both genders the aggressive dimension remained associated with comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder, the sexual/religious dimension with major depression and the hoarding dimension with tic disorders. Gender seems to be relevant in the determination of OCD clinical presentation and course and should be considered an important aspect when defining more homogeneous OCD subgroups. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

Processos de criação em sala de aula: experiências fenomenológicas como formas de reaprender a ver o mundo

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Portinari menino e o circo

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

A caixa de Pandora: as deusas e o feminino no cinema

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Comunicação midiática nas (arqui)dioceses do Brasil: possibilidades para ser igreja virtual

Pós-graduação em Comunicação - FAAC

Educação, psicanálise e literatura: distanciamento do texto literário no ensino fundamental

Pós-graduação em Educação - IBRC

Programa Saúde da Família: analisando a prática do enfermeiro

Pós-graduação em Enfermagem (mestrado profissional) - FMB

Corpo, ciência e educação: representações do corpo junto a jovens estudantes e seus professores

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

O saber-fazer dos professores de geografia do ensino fundamental: fatores que poderão influenciar na escolha dos procedimentos didáticos para ensinar sobre o cerrado

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

A dialética do conhecimento científico, a prática e a experimentação: uma análise do ideário de licenciandos e sua relação com a epistemologia da ciência moderna

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

A dramatização da crise dos valores sociais e humanos em Tess of the d'Urbervilles, de Thomas Hardy

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Intermitências de corações: um estudo comparado entre Clarice Lispector e Marcel Proust

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

A enunciação poética nos contos de Marina Colasanti

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O zoológico existencialista de Edward Albee

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR