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Objectives: to evaluate the factors associated to the adherence to the non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension in primary health care., Methods: cross-sectional study with 421 participants. The adherence was evaluated using the components: weight control, abdominal circumference, physical activity, and alcohol consumption. The chi-squared and Mann-Whitney's tests were used for analysis., Results: the adherence to the control of the abdominal circumference was associated to smoking, sex, and stress. Smoking, age, and profession were associated to weight control. The adherence to a physical activity varied between the sexes and between people who used beta blockers and those who did not. Moderate alcohol consumption was associated to sex, age, profession, income, comorbidities, time using antihypertensive drugs, and using other medication., Conclusions: socioeconomic and clinical factors were associated to the adherence to the anti-hypertensive treatment. Innovative techniques, such as the transtheoretical model of change, motivational interviews, and supported self-care can help in behavioral changes.

Objectives: To identify attitudes, beliefs and barriers to adherence to the hyposodic diet in patients with heart failure and associated factors., Methods: Cross-sectional study with 41 individuals. The Dietary Sodium Restriction Questionnaire was used. Fisher's test was applied for analysis., Results: Attitudes were based on family and professional relationships; in the beliefs, it was highlighted to believe in the diet to improve health. As barriers, insufficient efforts were found to change the diet and taste of low salt foods. It was associated with adherence among the components factors such as: income, perception of cardiac improvement with the diet, family history of renal and heart failure and family adherence to the diet., Conclusions: The identified attitudes and beliefs refer, respectively, to social relationships and trust in the diet to improve health status. The barriers were: insufficient effort to modify the diet and food palatability. Economic, family and clinical factors were associated with hyposodic adherence.

Objective: to analyze in the scientific literature the educational technologies on sexually transmitted infections used in health education for incarcerated women., Method: an integrative review carried out by searching for articles in the following databases: Scopus, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health, Education Resources Information Center, PsycInFO, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Latin American Literature in Health Sciences, Cochrane, and the ScienceDirect electronic library. There were no language and time restrictions. A search strategy was developed in PubMed and later adapted to the other databases., Results: a total of 823 studies were initially identified and, after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, eight articles were selected. Most of them were developed in the United States with a predominance of randomized clinical trials. The technologies identified were of the printed materials type, isolated or associated to simulators of genital organs, videos, and games., Conclusion: the technologies on sexually transmitted infections used in health education for incarcerated women may contribute to adherence to the prevention of this serious public health problem in the context of deprivation of liberty.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of Reiki in reducing anxiety, depression, and improving preoperative well-being in cardiac surgery., Method: A non-randomized, two-arm controlled clinical trial conducted in a cardiology referral hospital with patients in the preoperative period of cardiac surgery, with up to five days for surgery, between May and November 2018. The intervention group (n=31) was submitted to a Reiki protocol, and the control group (n=59) received only conventional care., Results: One hundred twenty-four patients were assessed. The mean anxiety and depression did not obtain a significant difference between the groups. Spiritual well-being, in religious and existential dimensions, has improved significantly., Conclusion: Anxiety and depression were lower in the intervention group, with no statistically significant difference. There was a better result in the assessment of well-being with the intervention group. Religiosity may interfere in some cases with acceptance of holistic and integrative practices. Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials: RBR-4cxw37.

Objective: To assess the quality of life related to health for heart failure patients and to relate sociodemographic and clinical data., Method: It is an observational and transversal study, with quantitative approach, carried out in a heart failure ambulatory in the state of Pernambuco., Results: In the sample (n=101), there was prevalence of men older than 60 years old, married and professionally inactive. The quality of life related to health, based on the Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire, was considered moderate (34.3±21.6), being significantly related to age (p=0.004), functional class (p<0.001), and patients with chagasic cardiopathy (p=0.02)., Conclusion: The quality of life in the HF group of chagasic etiology was more compromised, specially in the emotional dimension. It is suggested that studies on the hypothesis that longer ambulatory follow-up improves quality of life and that having Chagas disease interferes negatively with the quality of life of heart failure patients.

Objective: Identify the beliefs related to adherence to diet of patients treated with oral anticoagulant., Method: Descriptive study, guided by the Theory of Reasoned Action, conducted with 57 patients in continuous use of oral anticoagulants, attended at a general cardiology outpatient clinic in João Pessoa and specialized in anticoagulation in Recife. Data were collected from February to May 2017, with an application form with open questions, through an interview, and submitted to a descriptive analysis., Results: The most mentioned positive behavioral beliefs were to improve health/treatment in the general outpatient clinic and to control coagulation, in the specialized service. Children, spouses, doctors, and parents stood out proportionally in both scenarios as positive normative beliefs., Conclusion: In the outpatient clinic specializing in oral anticoagulation, patients add more specific beliefs about the interference of vitamin K-rich diet on coagulation, when compared to those in the general cardiology outpatient clinic.

Objective: to investigate the patients' experience in the cardiac surgery preoperative period under the Heideggerian perspective., Method: exploratory qualitative research. Twelve patients were interviewed, from March to April, 2016, while they waited for myocardial revascularization surgery or valve replacement surgery., Results: the analysis of the speeches allowed finding two dimensions of the being-there-patient-waiting-for-cardiac surgery, two meanings of the beingness: being-there-in-a-reduced-world and being-there-in-a-unknown-world., Conclusion: the experiences were related to alterations and limitations coming from the surgery, potential generators of anxiety, depression and existential conflicts in the cardiac surgery preoperative period. Reinforcing the care as being-with-the-other is suggested, considering the dimensions referred to and the patient's integrality.

Objective: To characterize relations between spiritual well-being and hope of patients in the preoperative period of cardiac surgery., Method: Exploratory cross-sectional study with quantitative approach, performed in the infirmaries of a reference hospital in cardiology. We evaluated 69 patients hospitalized in preoperative period of myocardial revascularization, valve repair or replacement., Results: We verified that patients hold relevant scores of hope and welfare in all areas, being the existential well-being significantly lower than the religious one. The average of the spiritual well-being score was below the required to be considered high. There was no significant correlation between welfare and hope., Conclusion: Nurses should develop a watchful eye to these issues, be trained in specific protocols of spiritual anamnese and use the real moments of care to strengthen the patients.

Objective: To analyze the association between sociodemographic and clinical conditions with the quality of life related to health of heart failure patients., Method: Cross-sectional study with a non-random sample of 84 outpatients with heart failure, performed in the city of João Pessoa, PB, Brazil, in the period from January to July 2015. The questionnaire by name Minnesota Living with Heart Questionnaire was used The following tests were applied in data analysis: t-Student, ANOVA and Pearson's Correlation, com a 5% significance level., Results: The average scores of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire showed a good quality of life in the group under study. There was a significant negative association between quality of life and age: thus the lower the age, the worse the quality of life., Conclusion: Health promotion actions become necessary to improve the coping capacity of this disease, especially for younger patients.