[Promoting self-care to patients suffering headache through the oriental perspective of health].

Autor: Wink S; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC., Cartana Mdo H
Jazyk: portugalština
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2007 Mar-Apr; Vol. 60 (2), pp. 225-8.
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-71672007000200019
Abstrakt: The present work is an experience report that aimed at elaborating, implementing and evaluating a project of nursing care practice to students of a Nursing graduation course, who presented headaches. Built from a subject of the Nursing Master Course of Federal University of Santa Catarina, the project was based in the concept of competence for self-care of Orem, understood through an oriental perspective of health. Three strategies of care were applied: the pain dairy, the focusing and the cranium-acupuncture, in monthly-weekly meetings and in individual meetings, for a two-month period. The participants related results of pain relief, discover of non-physical causes for pain and increase of welfare. It was possible to verify that the participants presented an individualized process of self-care development and that the strategies selected are suitable for the care.
Databáze: MEDLINE