O reconhecimento da importância da família na promoção, manutenção e recuperação da saúde da criança e do adolescente é um dos eixos principais deste número da Revista. Contudo a visão de família ainda está muito restrita à participação de ambos os pais ou somente da mãe. Enfatiza-se a importância do fornecimento de informações às mães acerca da saúde da criança e incentiva-se a participação destas no cuidar de enfermagem as crianças hospitalizadas. A busca da compreensão e minimização dos efeitos […]

Abstract This is a quantitative descriptive exploratory study. The goals were to characterize children Diabetes mellitus type I who were under intensive insulin treatment and presented insulin lipodystrophy. Data were gather from 104 children’s chart (under 13 years old), attended at the Instituto da Criança, from 2004 to 2005. Variables analyzed were: previous knowledge about diabetes, insulin (type, administration way, self-administration, sites used and rotation) and lipodystrophy incidence. All children received previous counseling about diabetes; the most used insulin was […]

Abstract It was studied the mothers’perceptions about baby bonding by facing with meningomyelocele congenital disorder. The aims was to identify the mothers’ feeling about those children, and their difficulty in building bonding to them. The data had been gathered through semi-structuralized interviews, with mothers of children with meningomyelocele, under eight months old, hospitalized at neonatal unit, Rio de Janeiro. The results showed that the more mothers were engaged in the current and future treatment of their babies the more were […]

Abstract The present study carried through in the joint lodging of Maternity Center at the city of Rio de Janeiro. The descriptive research had an objective to investigate what kind of information about phototherapy mothers had received and to analyze if such information was sufficient for their need of knowledge. Fifteen mothers of newborns who were under phototherapy were interviewed individually. It was observed that the information were centered in the yellowish color of baby skin as a rationale for […]

Abstract This is a scientific article grounded on the professional and educator experience of the authors, considering the hospital health practice and the caring for the hospitalized adolescent. It tries relevant questions related to the adolescents hospitalization trial and their implications. The aims was to describe the screening hospitalization to the adolescence in a critic-reflexive perspective, and characterize the resulting reactions of the screening of hospitalization in that phase of the human development. Through the study it showed up the […]

Abstract The governmental statistic are showing a rise in prevalence of pregnancy in adolescence, by leading these young social group to cope with early pregnancy and premature motherhood with all risks involved. The purposes of this review were: (a) identifying scientific studies that portray motherhood in adolescence and the problematic of caring for premature child; e (b) analyzing the relations among premature motherhood and child care. A literature review has been brought forward concerning pregnancy in adolescence and premature motherhood […]