scholarly journals Nursing diagnosis Risk for Falls in the elderly in primary health care

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Henrique Fernandes dos Santos ◽  
Marina Morato Stival ◽  
Luciano Ramos de Lima ◽  
Walterlânia Silva Santos ◽  
Cris Renata Grou Volpe ◽  
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ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the Nursing Diagnosis (ND) Risk for Falls in elderly subjects in primary health care in the Federal District. Methods: a descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study conducted in two basic health units. Data collection included blood collection, nursing consultation and physical evaluation of 156 elderly subjects with chronic diseases. Results: the most prevalent intrinsic risk factors of NANDA-I were visual impairment (73.7%), impaired mobility (70.5%) and history of falls (69.9%); and extrinsic factors were the use of insufficient material in the bathroom (60.3%) and loose carpets (58.3%). The intrinsic factors that increased the risk for falls were the use of assistive devices (OR 3.50; p=0.030), impaired walking (OR 2.84; p=0.019) and cognitive impairment (OR 1.26; p=0.019); and the extrinsic factor was the use of loose rugs (OR 1.59; p=0.041). Conclusion: this ND has proved to be a valuable instrument for the identification of risk factors for falls in elderly subjects in primary care.

Curationis ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.V. Larsen

It has recently been demonstrated that about 56 percent of patients delivering in a rural obstetric unit had significant risk factors, and that 85 percent of these could have been detected by meticulous antenatal screening before the onset of labour. These figures show that the average rural obstetric unit in South Africa is dealing with a large percentage of high risk patients. In this work, it is hampered by: 1. Communications problems: i.e. bad roads, long distances. and unpredictable telephones. 2. A serious shortage of medical staff resulting in primary obstetric care being delivered by midwives with minimal medical supervision.


Author(s):  
Hashim Mohamed

AbstractIntroductionPostnatal Depression (PND) is a major health problem affecting mother, her child and family.  Its prevalence and associated risk factors among South Asian mothers (SAM) living  in Qatar remain unknown. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of PND among (SEAM) in Qatar and to correlate risk factors contributing to the development of PND.Materials and methodsA total of (285 ) (SAM)females who were six months  postpartum were interviewed as  part of a prospective study conducted in primary health care centers in Qatar.  PND symptoms were defined as present when subjects had an Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale score of 10 or higher. Descriptive statistics were used for summarizing the study and outcome variables. The χ2 test and ORs with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used for observation and quantifying the association between different variables. Multivariate binary logistic regression was used to identify the independent associated factors of PPD. P≤0.05 was considered significant. Variables included were age , occupation, education level ,previous psychiatric history ,comorbidities , ,history of depression during current  pregnancy, history of anxiety during current pregnancy, number of previous pregnancies, strong social support, husband support, marital problem before pregnancy and ongoing marital problems during current pregnancy.Results The prevalence of postnatal depression among 285 respondents was 33.2% .several psychosocial risk factors were significantly associated with postnatal depression and, after multiple regression analysis, a history of depressive illness ,anxiety ,marital problems before delivery ,a history of diabetes and asthma ,history of congenital malformations ,and lack of mother support.Other variables, including age, parity, education, occupation, and delivery type, were not significantly correlated (P=0.15–0.95), but marginally indicative of the risk of depressive symptoms.ConclusionThis study showed a high rate of depressive symptoms among(SAM) six months Postpartum . Future screening protocols  must be employed at primary care level and hospital based clinics in Qatar to detect and treat post natal depression.Keywords: postnatal  depression,  South Asians, primary health care ,Doha, EPDS  


2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Couto Carvalho Barra ◽  
Gabriela Beims Gapski ◽  
Fernanda Paese ◽  
Grace Teresinha Marcon Dal Sasso ◽  
Paulino Artur Ferreira de Sousa ◽  
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ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify and confirm the priority nursing diagnosis of International Classification for Nursing Practice® for home nursing consultation to adults in Primary Health Care. Methods: qualitative study, of methodological and validation type. The 5-point Likert scale was used, with a minimum Content Validity Index of 80% consensus among judges., considering the answers “priority” or “very priority” for the list of nursing diagnoses presented. 23 expert judges participated in this survey. Results: a hundred and eleven nursing diagnoses of prepared statements lists have been grouped by human systems and sociodemographic characteristics. were grouped by human systems and sociodemographic characteristics. Eighty-three of them (74.77%) had a Content Validity Index equal or higher to 0.8; and 27 (32.5%) had an index of 1.0 (100%) among judges. Conclusions: nursing diagnosis validated can be used to assist clients in home nursing consultations in Primary Health Care.


2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Pineault ◽  
S Provost ◽  
M Hamel ◽  
A Couture ◽  
JF Levesque

Objectives To examine the extent to which experience of care varies across chronic diseases, and to analyze the relationship of primary health care (PHC) organizational models with the experience of care reported by patients in different chronic disease situations. Methods We linked a population survey and a PHC organizational survey conducted in two regions of Quebec. We identified five groups of chronic diseases and contrasted these with a no–chronic-disease group. Results Accessibility of care is low for all chronic conditions and shows little variation across diseases. The contact and the coordination-integrated models are the most accessible, whereas the single-provider model is the least. Process and outcome indices of care experience are much higher than accessibility for all conditions and vary across diseases, with the highest being for cardiovascular-risk-factors and the lowest for respiratory diseases (for people aged 44 and under). However, as we move from risk factors to more severe chronic conditions, the coordination-integrated and community models are more likely to generate better process of care, highlighting the greater potential of these two models to meet the needs of more severely chronically ill individuals within the Canadian health care system.


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