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A pandemia da COVID – 19 pode ser descrita como uma grave crise social, caracterizando um dos maiores problemas de saúde pública. No cenário mundial para enfrentamento da doença, o distanciamento e o isolamento social foram adotados como estratégias de controle da disseminação do vírus, no entanto, tais medidas podem trazer impactos negativos em diferentes níveis, principalmente às crianças. Assim, objetivou-se realizar uma revisão bibliográfica acerca dos impactos da pandemia de COVID-19 à saúde mental de crianças.

Introduction: Cerebral palsy is a predominantly sensorimotor disorder that involves disorders of muscle tone, posture, and voluntary movements, caused by non-progressive brain injuries. This health condition significantly interferes with the child's interaction in relevant contexts, which influences the acquisition and performance of basic motor milestones, as well as the daily routine activities. It is also known that the stimuli given to patients are extremely important for neuropsychomotor development, and they can act as facilitating or limiting functionality.

This study aimed to investigate the association between sociodemographic and anthropometric factors and aspects of spirituality/religiosity in elderly women with chronic pain. Quantitative cross-sectional research carried out with 80 elderly women, diagnosed with chronic pain, from a multidisciplinary program in inland Minas Gerais. A sociodemographic and the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiosity/Spirituality forms were applied. Statistical analysis was descriptive for numerical variables, while absolute and relative frequencies were used for categorical variables.

Objetivo: descrever as forças e fragilidades internas ao ambiente da universidade relacionadas às metodologias ativas na formação acadêmica do enfermeiro; e distinguir as oportunidades e desafios do cenário externo à universidade, relacionados às metodologias ativas na formação acadêmica do enfermeiro. Método: trata-se de estudo qualitativo e descritivo, realizado com docentes do curso de graduação em Enfermagem, sendo os dados coletados por entrevista, categorizados pela análise de conteúdo de Bardin e analisados pela análise SWOT.

Esta pesquisa buscou refletir sobre a prática terapêutica adotada por uma fonoaudióloga durante o atendimento de seis crianças (distribuídas em dois grupos) com dificuldades em leitura e escrita numa Clínica de Fonoaudiologia da Prefeitura Municipal de Americana - SP. A investigação é qualitativa e seguiu a metodologia empregada pelo interacionismo brasileiro, de forma que as sessões foram filmadas, transcritas e, posteriormente, analisadas.

A segment approach is presented that allows to describe the temporal evolution of the dispersion of passive pollutants in non-stationary meteorological conditions. The methodology consists of a continuous series of source emissions integrated in time intervals whose result is a plume segment and has no numerical inversion, which refines earlier literature approaches. The dispersion of pollutants is subject to advection in horizontal direction and turbulent diffusion in all three directions, in an inhomogeneous and non-stationary atmospheric boundary layer.

Cancer is a chronic multifactorial disease, characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of cells occurring in different regions of the body, among them in the gastrointestinal tract, related to this cachexia is a syndrome that is characterized by weight loss, lipolysis, muscle atrophy, anorexia, chronic nausea and asthenia. This study aimed to assess the occurrence of underdiagnosis of cachexia in cancer patients. For this purpose, 13 medical records were analyzed, evaluating admission characteristics and nursing developments.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized as a neurodegenerative disease marked by motor and non-motor signals. Due to the advancement of motor symptoms, a patient with PD may develop postural abnormalities, such as Pisa Syndrome. Little is known about the pathophysiological mechanisms that cause such complications, however, theories about the etiology are now consolidated in the exploratory field of neuroscience.

Nutritional Psychiatry is a term used to describe a field of research, and a way of approaching the prevention and treatment of mental illness, which focuses on diet and nutrition. Among the complexity of the determinants of Mental Health problems, the emerging evidence from Nutrition shows relevant factors in the high prevalence of mental disorders, suggesting that diet is as important for Psychiatry as for Cardiology, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology.

Health professionals, especially nurses, are often compelled to make decisions in face of bioethical issues commonly related to intensive care environments. Due to their complexities and particularities, these issues end up generating great physical and emotional strain on the professional. Therefore, this study raised the hypothesis that artificial intelligence techniques could assist nurses in making bioethical decisions. For this, a group of four specialists in the field of nursing prepared and answered a questionnaire based on a hypothetical ICU scenario.