É com imensa satisfação que assumimos a Coordenação da Comissão Permanente de Publicação, Divulgação e Comunicação Social da Sociedade Brasileira de Enfermagem Pediátrica, incluindo em seu bojo a função de Editora Chefe da Revista da SOBEP. Estabelecemos como meta, para a gestão 2009-2011, a indexação do periódico em bases reconhecidas nacional e internacionalmente. Para alcançarmos esta meta, nosso compromisso é manter a periodicidade (dois exemplares por ano) e regularidade da revista, com a publicação de artigos relevantes para o ensino, […]

Abstract Prospective study, descriptive, quantitative, develoed in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in a school hospital of the city of Recife-PE. The objective was to analyze the frequency of preterm births in the NICU and the factors associated with prematurity. The population consisted of 140 records of preterm newborn. The data were collected between July to September 2008. A questionnaire was used as an instrument to collect. Ranking the biological variables of the newborn (weight, sex and gestational age); obstetric […]

Abstract This is a descriptive quantitative research, whose objective was to characterize the relatives of children in a children’s inpatient unit at a hospital in the city of Taubaté-SP and known as the companion evaluates the care received by him during the child’s hospitalization. The project was approved by the Ethics in Research of the University of Taubaté, in the CEP / UNITAU Nº 026/08. The sample consisted of 77 attendants. Data were collected through a form with closed and […]

Abstract The phenomenon of violence against children and adolescents is materialized through various forms, ie physical and psychological violence, neglect, and particularly the sexual abuse and exploitation. The latter are the focus of this work which seeks to describe the context of sexual violence against children and adolescents. The research is of quantitative character, which data source was the official reports of the Police Precinct for the Protection of Children and Adolescents in Porto Velho, Rondonia. The analysis was performed […]

Abstract Introduction: children with advanced cancer, in terminal stage and with no possibility of cure, present different signs and symptoms resulting from disease progression. We seek which signs and symptoms were the most reported in the literature in order to plan actions to help controlling them. Purpose: to review of the literature on the scientific production related to the signs and symptoms manifested by children with cancer in palliative care. Results: three categories were identified: “most common signs and symptoms […]

Abstract Previous note of qualitative research that aims to understand how a child experiences HIV. Participants are pre-school and school children in outpatient treatment. Data were collected during a Therapeutic Play session and submitted to qualitative content analysis. These data revealed the following: children understand they have a disease shared with their parents, which is a secret; they are afraid of death; they are concerned about respiratory manifestations and fever; they see health professionals as hostile and untrustworthy and the […]