Characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the disease
This is a descriptive study whose objectives were: to characterize socio demographic, clinical and therapeutic aspects of children and adolescents with rheumatic fever and to describe the experiences of these subjects with the disease as well its treatment. It was developed at a Unified National He...
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| author | Icleia Parente Rodrigues Maria Veraci Oliveira Queiroz Edna Maria Camelo Chaves |
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| description | This is a descriptive study whose objectives were: to characterize socio demographic, clinical and therapeutic aspects of children and adolescents with rheumatic fever and to describe the experiences of these subjects with the disease as well its treatment. It was developed at a Unified National Health System hospital, of reference. In fact, a tertiary care hospital. The sample was constituted of 20 subjects interned with rheumatic fever diagnosis in the years 2004 and 2005. For the data collection it was used 20 medical records and semi-structured interviews applied to (6) six subjects intentionally chosen, including their custodial parents. There is, therefore, the need for efforts of the assistential team to detect and to treat precociously, contributing to the best prognostic and to the quality of life improvement of those attacked by this disease.
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| spelling | doaj-art-43c3a254aa104a238a6664016ac96bb42025-08-21T13:45:51ZengUniversidade Federal do CearáRev Rene1517-38522175-67832010-06-01113Characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the diseaseIcleia Parente RodriguesMaria Veraci Oliveira QueirozEdna Maria Camelo ChavesThis is a descriptive study whose objectives were: to characterize socio demographic, clinical and therapeutic aspects of children and adolescents with rheumatic fever and to describe the experiences of these subjects with the disease as well its treatment. It was developed at a Unified National Health System hospital, of reference. In fact, a tertiary care hospital. The sample was constituted of 20 subjects interned with rheumatic fever diagnosis in the years 2004 and 2005. For the data collection it was used 20 medical records and semi-structured interviews applied to (6) six subjects intentionally chosen, including their custodial parents. There is, therefore, the need for efforts of the assistential team to detect and to treat precociously, contributing to the best prognostic and to the quality of life improvement of those attacked by this disease. https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/4573Rheumatic FeverChildAdolescentNursing. |
| spellingShingle | Icleia Parente Rodrigues Maria Veraci Oliveira Queiroz Edna Maria Camelo Chaves Characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the disease Rev Rene Rheumatic Fever Child Adolescent Nursing. |
| title | Characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the disease |
| title_full | Characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the disease |
| title_fullStr | Characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the disease |
| title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the disease |
| title_short | Characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the disease |
| title_sort | characteristics of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents with the disease |
| topic | Rheumatic Fever Child Adolescent Nursing. |
| url | https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/4573 |
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