BANCO DOUT SPSS RHAYSSA E QUINIDIA - artigo.sav

Cross
- sectional and quantitative study, carried out at Primary Health Care in the
city of Parnamirim/Rio Grande do Norte/Brazil. The city has 30 family health
units that cover the whole territory, which are distributed in six districts.

The population was constituted by
individuals with active venous ulcer, accompanied at the Health Units of the
Parnamirim Family. For the beginning of the research, visits were made to all
health units to verify with the nurses and family health agents the number of
people with active venous ulcer. At the end of the visits, 62 patients were
informed.

To be
included in the research, the respondents were in the inclusion criteria:

• Be
over 18 years old;

•
Being attached to some basic health unit;

• Have
at least one active venous ulcer.

The
exclusion criteria were:

•
Completely healed ulcer;

•
Ulcer of mixed or non-venous origin;

• Individuals
who belong to areas of health teams that the nurses or health agents
responsible are on leave or vacations at the time of collection, due to the
difficulty of locating them without their help.

Home visits were made to
the patients, where three of them were excluded because they were not found
after three visits. Thus, from the calculation for finite populations9,
a sample of 54 people, representative of all districts and health units, was
established.

Data were collected between August and October
2017. Three instruments were used:

• A structured form of sociodemographic,
health and care characterization10;

• Short Form 36 (SF-36), composed of 36
questions and divided into eight domains and two dimensions, with a score
ranging from zero to 100, where the higher the score the better the QoL 7.

• Charing Cross Venous Ulcer Questionnaire
(CCVUQ), which evaluates QoL
in people with VU, in its translated and validated version for Brazil. This
instrument is divided into four domains: social interaction, domestic
activities, aesthetics and emotional state and can generate a total or domain
score, both ranging from zero to 100, growing negatively8.

Data
were organized into tables in Microsoft Excel and exported to a program of
statistical data packages, in which descriptive and inferential analyzes
(frequency, minimum, maximum, mean, standard deviation and Spearman
correlation) were performed considering the significance value p <0.05. The
following criteria were used for the Cronbach's α test to verify the
consistency of the scales: up to 0.39 = weak; between 0.40 and 0.69 = moderate;
0.70 to 1 = strong11.

The project was
approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio
Grande do Norte, with CAAE nº 65941417.8.0000.5537, with compliance with the
norms for research with human beings according to Resolution 466/201212.
For the participants of the research the objectives and importance of this
study were clarified and the signing of the Term of Free and Informed Consent
(TCLE) was requested.