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- Title
Identificando necessidades de cuidadores de crianças com hidrocefalia.
- Authors
da PaixÆo Oliveira, Dbora Moura; Pereira, Carlos Umberto; da PaixÆo Freitas, Zira Moura
- Abstract
Little is discussed about the singular necessities of hydrocephalus children caregivers. We tried to identify the necessities of caregivers of hydrocephalus children from prenatal care to the child birth. Th is is a descriptive and quantitative study using the standard interview technique among caregivers attended on the clinic of a university hospital from November 2007 to August 2008. Th e sample comprised 54 caregivers with a mean age of 27.3 ± 7 years, with predominance of female. The study identified among caregivers seven singular necessities: employment and income, housing, assistance, food supplementation with folic acid, prenatal diagnosis, guide to assume the care and knowledge about the hydrocephalus causes. To identify the hydrocephalus caregivers necessities draws attention for the necessity to see these families as object of care.
- Subjects
QUANTITATIVE research; CAREGIVERS; HYDROCEPHALUS in children; EMPLOYMENT; FOLIC acid; PRENATAL diagnosis
- Publication
Enfermagem Brasil, 2010, Vol 9, Issue 6, p355
- ISSN
1678-2410
- Publication type
Article