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INTRODUCTION: The debate on scientific research and reporting integrity issues in Brazil is incipient. Literature suggests that a journalology training course could help to improve the competencies of the participants. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the immediate impact of a journalology training course on perceived academic competencies, comprised of knowledge, attitudes, and skills. METHODS: The course was taught in 5 consecutive days to an online audience of individuals from the health sciences. A self-applied questionnaire was employed before and immediately after the course, which included initial and acquired perceived knowledge, attitudes, skills. The Wilcoxon non-parametric test for paired samples was used for analysis. RESULTS: A total of 45 individuals participated in the course, with a 53% response rate before and after. The number of participants in each course session ranged between 32 and 45. There was an improvement in perceived knowledge of: (1) writing review articles; (2) ethical aspects of research; (3) scientific authorship; (4) predatory practices; (5) publication bias and spin, and (6) researcher evaluation. There was no improvement in self-reported attitudes towards any item. There was an improvement in the perception of skills relating to: (1) writing a response letter and (2) writing an opinion as a reviewer. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, attendees who participated in the survey reported perceived improved knowledge and skills in some items but not in their attitudes. Therefore, the course appears to have been unable to modify perceived scientific reporting competencies.

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As the works dealing with rarity in periodicals are scarce, this study sought to understand what are the rarity criteria for serials adopted by other institutions, which bibliographic elements for attributing rarity to books can be used in the context of periodicals and which historical elements and specific materials from production and circulation of serials publications bring scarcity and importance to titles and copies. For this, an exploratory, documentary and bibliographical research was carried out, in the literature on bibliographic rarity, in the history of production and circulation of periodials and in the criteria adopted by Brazilian institutions. From this survey, the rarity criteria for periodicals to be adopted by Central Library of the University of Brasília presented in this article were proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective. To analyze levels of production, reach, and thematic development of the Investigación y Educación en Enfermería journal from a scientometric analysis. Methods. The study collected 1,066 articles corresponding to the period between 1983 and 2020. The scientometric analysis was carried out from three components of descriptive analysis: performance of the publication, geographic reach, and thematic development. The first two used data consolidated from articles published in the Open Journal System at Universidad de Antioquia. The third component captured the bibliographic references from the Web of Science and Scopus databases and from the Google Scholar and Lens academic search engines. Results. In terms of the production analysis, the Journal shows stable behavior sustained over time with international reach regarding authorship. In the thematic setting, the Journal concentrates on two large clusters: 1) research on human factors from different perspectives and 2) cross-sectional studies differentiated mainly by sex. With respect to emerging clusters, on one side, a thematic pillar is seen with studies in young adult population and another in matters related to the educational process and nursing students. Conclusion. The Journal has maintained outstanding behavior in terms of production over time, aligned with very good visibility for potential authors internationally; something not easily accomplished for most journals in Colombia. Likewise, its production has had a thematic domain to a greater extent related to human factors associated with the nursing practice.

Electrostimulation has been used for many years in the rehabilitation of patients. There are low frequency currents, modulated at a frequency between 1 and 200Hz and medium frequency currents, modulated between 1,000 and 10,000Hz. Among these currents is low frequency functional electrical stimulation (FES) and medium frequency Russian and Aussie current. The aim of this study is to compare the different currents of low and medium frequency showing the most effective in the production of force. This is a literature review that included the databases SCIELO, LILACS, BVS, MEDLINE. Articles comparing low and medium frequency currents without language restriction from 2008 to 2020 were included; Were used the keywords: Transcutaneous nerve electrostimulation, electrical stimulation therapy, muscle strength, pulsed current and russian current, as used in the researched articles. In the literature, 344 articles were found with the title relevant to the subject and correspondence to the descriptors. After analysis of abstracts, there were 10 articles that compared the currents. There is no consensus on the effectiveness of currents, with some articles showing divergent results as to the most effective current, and other articles claim that currents have no significant differences compared to each other. In articles that used a control group, most showed improvement when associated with electrostimulation compared to the group that did not use it. Another data demonstrated in the articles was discomfort, assessed by the Visual Analog Scale, which also did not show consistency in the results. It is not possible to state which of the currents is more effective due to the divergence of results found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Blogs constitute an important space for the expression of feelings, experiences and opinions; thus, it became relevant to investigate what has been published related to psychotropic drugs. Objective: To analyze publications related to psychotropic drugs in blogs, in Portuguese. Methods: This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. A blog platform called TUMBLR was chosen as a source for data collection. The publications eligible for the study were all those in the Portuguese language classiied as "most popular", of the "text" or "quotation" type, and identiiable by means of the words "Antidepressivos" (Antidepressants); "Ansiolíticos" (Anxiolytics), and "Antipsicóticos" (Antipsychotics) using the search icon of the site. Results: The themes that represent the main topics addressed in the publications and that were included in this study are the following: "Negative perceptions on psychotropic drugs''; "Positive perceptions on psychotropic drugs and on support networks"; "Impacts of mental illness and psychotropic drugs use", and "Destructive behavior and psychotropic drugs". Conclusions: The negative perceptions on psychotropic drugs was the most promi- nent theme, followed by the positive perceptions that some individuals attribute to these medications. Has relevance the support networks in facing up the process of mental illness and distress, with Tumblr being mentioned as a support network. Highlighted some reports of destructive behaviors and of suicidal ideation that might or might not be linked to the use of psychotropic drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Considering the importance of the Brazilian journal Interface among the Collective Health journals and as a space of production of knowledge and practices in the area in Latin America, this work aimed at mapping the scientific production related to communication in its various dimensions throughout the magazine's 20 years of existence (1997 to 2017). Methodology: This is a descriptive study of the quantitative and qualitative aspects of production on communication through content analysis. Results: During this period, the journal published 1,343 manuscripts among which 154 were related to communication, representing 11.47% of all papers. Empirical studies were predominant (52.6%), followed by theoretical studies (25.97%). The identified thematic fields were: Media (26.62%); Collective Health (26.62%); Professional education (16.88%); Professional relationship, patient/family/service (14.29%); Information and Communication Technologies (9.09%); and Communication and society (1.3%). Conclusion: This thematic diversity demonstrates the Communication and Health field's wealth and heterogeneity of topics. However, the low number of publications related to communication highlights the lack of scientific production on this matter in Collective Health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: analyze the content related to COVID-19 published in the publications of the Federal Nursing Council. Method: Documentary research whose primary sources were reports and news published on the website of the Federal Nursing Council. The time frame comprises the period of two months. From the data analysis, thematic categories were defined that allowed a detailed analysis of the records. Results: A total of 113 publications were analyzed, whose contents focused on the advance of the pandemic in the country, disseminated informative, educational and scientific materials about the disease, recorded the struggle for the protection of health services, safety and health of workers and society, in addition to pointing to the challenges imposed by the current crisis and the concerns arising from this situation for the performance of the nursing professional. Conclusions: The published material helps nursing professionals to understand the pandemic and its implications for nursing work and equips them with quality materials and ensuring them a support for practice, in addition to instrumentalizing the professional collective to claim better working conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to analyze the scientific production on cardiorespiratory arrest in Brazilian nursing journals. Method: bibliometric study carried out through electronic access to the websites of the 14 Brazilian nursing journals, classified in the Sucupira Platform, for analysis of articles published between 2010 and 2019. Results: 18,266 articles were analyzed, of which 50 were selected to integrate the sample. It was possible to observe that 50% of the articles were published in Qualis A extract journals and 80% of the productions were derived from the Southeast Region. Regarding the type of study, 54% were descriptive and 64% quantitative. Regarding the most investigated theme, 28% portrayed the knowledge of nurses and 22% contemplated nursing training on cardiorespiratory arrest. Conclusion: the scientific production of Brazilian journals showed a predominance of articles published in Qualis A journals, from the Southeast Region, descriptive, quantitative, which predominantly investigated the knowledge and training of professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: Analyze the symbolic elements on the cover of the 1904 of Revista da Semana on Vaccine Revolt as a means of imaging a social and sanitary movement. Method: This is a documental research that has utilized as a subject the preliminary phases of Erwin Panofsky's notions, pre iconographic and iconographic. Results: The vaccine's uprising portrayed on the cover of the magazine of the week of 1904 shows the imposition of sanitary measures by the government and the popular participation in the struggle against these abusive and vertical proposals with the risk prevention's speech. Conclusion: With this study it was possible to do a deepening about two characters who are opposite representatives in a society marked by determinants, social disparateness and politics that didn't assist the health and economical reality. And it also portrayed the power relationship in force at the time steps that culminated in the movement of Vaccine Revolt were implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health communication comes consolidating itself as a specialty of the sub-area of scientific communication and develops ideas disseminated by European doctors even in the early 19th century, which earn epistemological know-how especially in the last three decades, when new paradigms emerged in communication and health began to realize the need for the union of the two areas, considering the assumptions of new conceptual definitions to consider mainly the promotion and health prevention. In this study, we mainly document analysis worth, rescued by two main sources: books, newspapers, newsletters and magazines specialized in area and Internet, featuring our bibliographic and documentary research, according to the techniques and observation instruments, viewing this documentary and bibliographic material as a vehicle of comments made by other researchers; and Mon., regarding the method, since analyzes vertically, that is, in depth, the question of the emergence and the consolidation of Health Communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"O Cruzeiro" magazine enshrined in the Brazilian scene as one of the best known and mostly disseminated periodical the twentieth century. Having started its circulation in 1928, the renowned magazine remained on newsstands across the country until the year 1975. The graphic quality of the printed media was notorious, especially in its early decades of publication. This article discusses the graphic production of the magazine "O Cruzeiro" from the original pages of the journal. The reproducibility makes, marks and consolidates those texts and those images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objetivos: analizar la literatura científca de los principales factores de estrés y estrategias de afrontamiento utilizadas por las enfermeras en el hospital. Metodología: Revisión integrativa que se realizó en julio de 2013 en las bases de datos LILACS, Embase y SciELO. Se encontraron 15 publicaciones que cumplían con los criterios de inclusión. Discusión: el estrés es natural y la condición humana puede ser provocada por varios factores que están directa o indirectamente vinculados con el hospital, por lo cual se requieren estrategias de afrontamiento. Consideraciones fnales: en el estudio se observó que no hay una estrategia única y para que sean efcaces deberían estar asociados entre sí para hacer frente al estrés. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabalho consiste em uma revis��o de 209 artigos originais publicados pelos Arquivos Brasileiros de Nutrição (1944/1968), um periódico editado pelo médico-nutrólogo Josué de Castro, diretor-fundador do Instituto de Nutrição da Universidade do Brasil (atual Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). A metodologia utilizada baseou-se na realização de uma análise quanti-qualitativa, buscando sumariar tanto os conteúdos temáticos abordados, como o perfil dos autores dos artigos. Os resultados deste estudo revelam, por um lado, que 134 destes artigos (64%) foram inseridos dentro da perspectiva biológica da nutrição e correspondem, na maioria, a pesquisas laboratoriais sobre a composição química e o valor nutricional de alimentos nacionais. Por outro lado, a análise dos 75 artigos (36%) incluídos na perspectiva social atesta o esforço dos primeiros nutrólogos brasileiros em construir e aperfeiçoar os instrumentos metodológicos específicos para investigar as condições nutricionais de nossa população, bem como em contribuir para a consolidação do campo da nutrição no Brasil.This study reviews 209 original articles published in the journal Arquivos Brasileiros de Nutrição (1944/1968), a periodical edited by Josué de Castro, physician, specialist in nutrition, and founder-director of the Institute of Nutrition at the University of Brazil (now the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). Our methodology was based on quantitative and qualitative analyses, aimed at summarizing both the topic itself and the authors' backgrounds. Results showed that 134 of the articles (64%) adopted a biological perspective to nutrition, mostly focusing on laboratory research concerning the chemical composition and nutritional value of Brazilian foodstuffs. On the other hand, 75 articles (36%) took a social perspective, testifying to the first efforts by Brazilian nutritional experts to create and improve specific methodological tools for investigating our population's nutritional conditions, thereby helping to consolidate the field of nutrition in the country.

Introduction: The scientific field of pharmaceutical care following an upward trend in the number of publications and citations exponentially. Within this scientific field, pharmacovigilance deserves attention because it is an indispensable activity to health regulation in any country. The aim of this article is describe the characteristics of scientific production of pharmacovigilance in journals of global significance, in timeline and citations. Materials and Methods: Using Scopus database and the descriptor pharmacovigilancy, the analysis of absolute and relative frequency were used to the following variables: author, year, journal, and country of origin, type of document, Impact Factor, thematic area and number of citations. Results: We found 3,410 documents in the 1973-2012 period, with a predominance of the 2001 to 2012 period, representing 77.1%. The average quote was 256.4 and median was 218.5. Discussion: Although the production has an Impact Factor and a significant number of citations, it was observed that the influence of journals and their articles is relatively low in the world scientific community. Conclusions: This study presents an initial discussion of the scientific concepts that may be guiding the thematic area of pharmacovigilance. Production details and implications of these characteristics can be useful as resources to public health practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Accidental falls remain the most reported incidents in hospital settings. This is a quality and safety issue for the patient which needs to be addressed by the hospital organisation. Nurses need to assess the risk of falling using scales. However, nurses are sometimes unsure of what is the most appropriate tool. Objective: To provide information on the two most commonly used scales for assessing the risk of falling, i.e., the St Thomas’s Risk Assessment Tool in Falling Elderly Inpatients (STRATIFY) and the Morse Fall Scale (MFS). Main topics for analysis: The fall risk assessment tools which were the subject of more systematic reviews and prospective validation in two or more cohorts, with appropriate tests to predict their validity, were analysed. The review concluded that both scales identify patients who are at risk of falling based on their intrinsic or clinical characteristics. Conclusion: Hospitals should use scales which have already been developed and tested for data comparison. These scales should be culturally and linguistically adapted, and validated for the Portuguese language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Nursing Education requires innovative pedagogical processes, with strategies that promote the students’ learning in training contexts. These strategies should facilitate the students’ development in the care process. Aims: To analyse the conception of the care process in clinical teaching, using a specific computer strategy. Main topics for analysis: Thirty critical reflections of 4th-year nursing students were analysed using Microsoft Word 2010. Thirty-four words were selected based on three criteria: semantic meaning, frequency, and theoretical background. Three themes emerged from the students’ cognitive structure: conception of care, nursing intervention, and care process learning. Full-meaning words were identified: care, person, help, moments, assessment, intervention, skills, learning, and reflection. The identified words were represented in a concept map of the care process (CmapTools). Conclusion: The pedagogical process promotes a continuum in the students’ acquisition of skills. We identified the conception of the care process in theoretical training related to critical thinking in clinical teaching. Study implication: use of the concept map as a pedagogical strategy to promote self-reflection in students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Emergency Medicine has its modern roots in the First World War. In Portugal, the first medical emergency system dates back to 1965. The Helicopter Emergency Medical Service of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) started operating in 1997. Objective: To inform about the history and current situation of the helicopter aeromedical transport of critically ill patients through the two major institutions in Portugal: the INEM and the Portuguese Air Force (FAP). Methodology: A qualitative historical study was conducted through documental analysis of the primary sources provided by the Portuguese Air Force and the National Institute of Medical Emergency, as well as the secondary sources. Results: The results suggest that the creation of a model for sharing air assets between various institutions leads to a more effective and efficient transport of critically ill patients. Conclusion: Further studies should be conducted to reveal the historical role played by the teams of physicians, nurses, commanders and pilots in Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Population ageing and dependency increase require a growing need of home-based care to be provided by family members. Objectives: To determine what are the main needs expressed by family caregivers in caring for the dependent person by performing a literature review. Methodology: Search in both national and international electronic databases, using specific search engines. A total of 516 scientific studies were initially obtained. After an analysis according to inclusion criteria, a total of 21 papers were selected. Results: The obtained scientific evidence highlights certain needs, which were divided according to the Transitions Theory: community and societal resources, knowledge and preparation, personal meaning, beliefs and attitudes, and socioeconomic status. Conclusion: We can conclude that the correct diagnosis of family caregivers’ needs is essential for an effective planning of nursing interventions, which can be translated into health gains both for the caregiver and the patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Within interpersonal relationships, romantic relationships take on a special meaning at the end of adolescence. Objectives: The main purpose of this methodological study was to translate and adapt the Relationship Questionnaire into the Portuguese culture. Methodology: A questionnaire (questions related to socio-demographic characteristics and romantic relationships, as well as the relationship questionnaire) was applied to a sample composed of 127 higher education students, obtained using a non-probability purposive sampling. Results: Results showed a 16-item scale, distributed into four factors (Possessive relationship, Controlling relationship, Demeaning relationship, and Destructive relationship), which explained 63.850% of the variance. The correlation matrix (χ²=840.544; p<.000) and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure (KMO=0.815) ensured the adequacy of the factor model. The scale showed good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.847). Data confirmed that the instrument is accurate, reliable and valid. Young people have healthy relationships, though female students have better relationships than male students. Conclusion: Results indicated that this is a reliable and valid questionnaire to assess romantic relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Raising a child is a challenge which demands great responsibility due to the complexity of necessary skills and knowledge, and implies not only deep changes in the couple’s social roles, but also a redefinition/reorganisation of life projects, with caregiving patterns that may influence the future parents-child interaction. Objective: To understand how the transition to parenthood is experienced during the child’s first six months. Methodology: Grounded Theory with the participation of five couples. Data collection based on semi-structured interviews. Results: The results describe the category embodying the father or mother figure, which is composed of the following subcategories: taking on male or female roles as caregivers, describing oneself as a father, describing oneself as a mother, perceiving one’s wife as a mother and perceiving one’s husband as a father. Conclusion: Parents are driven towards a polarisation of gender roles which defines and builds the meaning of being a good father/good mother, husband/wife and man/woman. Understanding these parental experiences is essential for nurses to be able to support parents during this transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Henri Fayol’s Classical Management Theory was based on an administrative vision marked by predictability, organisation, command, coordination, and control. To implement this administrative paradigm, fourteen general principles of management were defined. Objectives: To identify nurses’ representations of the current health administrative practices and analyse the extent to which these representations are in line with the principles of the Classical Management Theory. Methodology: Qualitative descriptive exploratory study. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, with previously defined categories corresponding to the fourteen general principles of management. These interviews were conducted to eight nurses, with heterogeneous professional features and chosen by rational selection. Results: Interviewed nurses’ representations show that for them the current health administration is relatively close to the principles advocated by Fayol. Conclusion: The present study highlights that the discussion with nurses about changing the health work organisation is major when developing the best management strategies for the organisation of these professionals’ work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Collaborative supervision explains the permanent transformation of professional practices from a coformative and developmental perspective. Objective: This study aims to identify the nurses’ conceptions of collaborative supervision and professional development in nursing care practice. Methodology: A qualitative empirical case study, including the Nursing team of an Internal Medicine unit of a Hospital Centre in Northern Portugal (N = 29). Data were obtained through document analysis, non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Results: Participants consider that collaborating means sharing, working in a team and helping the other, and that there are privileged collaborative moments in nursing care practice. Supervision emerges as a reality still apart from practice, and nurses tend to consider the supervisory process from a vertical perspective. As contributions to their professional development, nurses emphasise lifelong training, collaboration and the relationship between the person, the environment and the others. Conclusion: Despite the spontaneity and informality of both supervision and collaboration, these practices are closely related to the continuing professional development in Nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Mental disorders in the elderly are often associated with cognitive losses, and psychological and behavioural symptoms which compromise their quality of life. These manifestations are relevant to Nursing practice. Objective: To identify the most common mental health-related Nursing focuses among older people. Methodology: A sample of 75 users (≥ 65 years old), with mental illness diagnosed using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9), in a Psychiatry and Mental Health Unit was assessed. The instruments used were: the Mini-Mental State Examination; the Clock-Draw Test; the Geriatric Depression Scale; the Zung Anxiety Scale; the Barthel Index; the Lawton and Brody Index; and the Graffar’s Social Classification. Results: The most common medical diagnoses were depression and dementia. Most users had cognitive impairments, depression, and anxiety, and showed moderate dependence in Basic Activities of Daily Living and some level of dependence in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living. The most common Nursing focuses were memory, fatigue, anxiety, nervousness, insomnia and attention. Conclusion: Cognitive changes, dementia and depression were associated with a higher number of Nursing focuses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Immigrant care provides nurses with a new way to look at themselves and those they care for. According to Leininger and Meleis, the interaction between them underlies the development of cultural competencies in nurses and a balanced experience of transition processes in immigrants. Objectives: To study the process of building cultural competencies in nurses based on the identification of the meanings assigned in dyads in health care settings (family health units and immigrants’ households). Methodology: This qualitative and ethnographic study mobilised the researcher to be present in loco with the participants. Data were collected using narratives, participant observation, ethno- -biographical interviews and focus groups with a group of volunteers selected from health care units: 23 nurses, 27 immigrants and 2 privileged informants (a cultural mediator and a physician). Results: In health care contexts, nurses’ cultural competencies are built in a procedural way. This process begins with their interaction with immigrants; nurses then identify deficit areas in their cultural knowledge and skills; and recognise the bilateral cultural heritage during those meetings. Conclusion: In nurses’ clinical practice, cultural awareness, combined with the motivation to take care of immigrants, is based on an evolutionary basis, from ethnocentrism to ethnic relativism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The Mobile Emergency Care Service (Serviço de Atendimento Móvel de Urgência - SAMU), which is provided by the Brazilian Health System, is influenced by economic, political and symbolic determinants, making it a system of interests and an area of conflicts. Objectives: To understand how power practices shape relationships and professional boundaries at the SAMU of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Methodology: This is a qualitative case study based on the poststructuralist framework. Results: From the perspective of professional and territorial boundaries in the work performed at the SAMU, there are difficulties in recognising the group as a work team, while its discourses reinforce the historical dominance of the medical profession over the other professions. Conclusion: SAMU professionals struggle to identify and understand the thin line between their workspace and the workspace of others as their area of activity corresponds to the city as a whole. Setting its limit is a huge challenge due to the fragmentation of health services and the existing conflicts, which promote individualistic interventions that undermine the proposal to integrate the health care system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With the purpose of carrying out a literature review guided by the following questions: What are the inputs of works available online in the database of PUBMED, Scielo, and Web of Science in the themes related to nursing care models, from 2004 to 2011, and what are the care models most frequently found? 60 articles directly related to the subject of the research were selected. They were sorted by country of origin, nomenclature of the model, and characteristics of the two models with the highest number of publications. From the 11 models identified, the prevailing ones are: Evidence-Based Practice and Patient-Oriented Care Model [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of ad usum et beneficium is to identify and disclose documents which, given their value and significance at a particular time, represent a contribution to the history of the profession. We wish to introduce O Enfermeiro Português, Revista dos Profissionaes de Enfermagem e propaganda do Gremio dos Enfermeiros de Terra e Mar do Norte de Portugal -- Associação de Classe (period 1929-1930). The first five issues of the Journal, published between 31st October, 1929, and 15th September, 1930, belonged to the private collection of Alberto da Silva Mourão, a distinct individuality of Portuguese Nursing, and were offered by his daughter, Professor Alda Mourão. Without looking in depth into the various topics that were addressed in each issue of the Journal, which may be searched according to each subject, the method of analysis of this work included the following components: description of reference data issue by issue; identification of different categories of information; and synthesis of some central topics that were recurrent throughout the main pages of the five issues. The various opinion texts focused on the common and persistent concerns of the end of 1929, such as nurses' lack of motivation, the injustices related to the recognition of the profession's value, the lack of rigour and standardisation of training programs, the moral and value crisis, and the abundance of healers and others acting as nurses who did nothing to help dignify the class. We do not know whether the Journal O Enfermeiro Português continued to be published or for how long, since we only have access to this specific collection. Anyone interested in expanding the historical study of the issues of that time period, which included the crisis of values, the disorganisation of the class, the crisis of leadership, the wars between classes and groups, and the legitimate longings of a high value class in a world of suffering, may consult the documents in the old books section of the Nursing School of Coimbra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: Urinary incontinence is considered a common health problem among women and has broad repercussions on female daily life. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of urinary incontinence in women in Brazil. Method: Systematic review of studies on the prevalence of urinary incontinence in women in Brazil, published in the last 12 years (2000 to 2012), in PubMed, LILACS and SciELO, using the terms "urinary incontinence", "prevalence" and "Brazil". As well as the references cited in the articles obtained thorough the primary search of the aforementioned databases. Results: After a thorough examination, 22 articles were included in the study, conducted in four Brazilian regions (Southeast- 11, South- 5, Northeast- 4, Midwest-2). The study samples ranged from 1256 to 32 women. The study ages ranged from 12 to 80 years. The prevalence of female urinary incontinence varied between 5,8% and 72%. Conclusion: Despite the variation the values of prevalence found, the prevalence of urinary incontinence in women in Brazil is high. Further investigations are needed to increase the scope of information available on the prevalence of urinary incontinence in Brazilian women, since the concentration of studies occurred in the Southeast region, especially in metropolitan regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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