Objective: To analyze the perception of nurses on the decentralization of care to people living with HIV. Method: Exploratory, descriptive, qualitative study conducted with primary health care nurses based on Imogene King’s Open Systems Theory (personal, interpersonal, and social). The data were obtained through interviews; a sociodemographic/professional questionnaire and a semi-structured script were employed, processed by the IRAMUTEQ software and analyzed through Descending Hierarchical Classification. Results: Study participants amounted to 32 nurses. Five classes emerged from the analysis: “diagnostic revelation process”; “professional training”; “preventive measures”; “barriers and potentials in the process of decentralization”; and “stigma and prejudice”. Conclusion: In the process of reorganization of the healthcare model for people living with HIV in primary health care, an important contribution by nurses in strengthening the local healthcare decentralization was identified.

Objective: To investigate the nursing professionals’ biosecurity in confronting COVID-19. Methods: This is a Survey type study. Nursing professionals were invited via messaging apps, using self-applied data collection forms. The sample selection (n=693) was non-probabilistic. A descriptive data analysis was conducted. Results: considering the biosafety aspects in facing COVID-19, 79.0% of the participants had not received training or considered it insufficient, 69.3% reported the lack of personal protective equipment during work, and 81.8% did not feel safe with the internal flux adaptations for handling COVID-19 cases. Conclusion: Continuous and effective nursing team training and personal protective equipment availability are necessary, as well as internal flow adjustments for attending suspected or confirmed cases.

Objective: to assess quality of life, anxiety and depression in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Method: a cross-sectional, quantitative study, conducted in a reference hospital for the treatment of pulmonary diseases. Seventy patients were assessed, using a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, Beck’s anxiety and Depression Inventories and the SF-36 Quality of Life Scale. Results: the participants had better quality of life in the vitality, mental health and social role functioning domains (median=50.0) and worse in limitation by physical and emotional role functioning (median=0.0 points). Anxiety, depression and oxygen dependence were associated with poorer results in the quality of life domains. Conclusion: all patients were classified with severe anxiety level and moderate depression predominance. Patients had low quality of life scores in all domains.

Objetivos: caracterizar os aspectos clínicos e epidemiológicos dos idosos acometidos pela febre de Chikungunya. Métodos: estudo transversal e retrospectivo de casos confirmados de febre de Chikungunya em idosos. Para as variáveis categóricas foram calculadas as frequências e percentuais. Utilizou-se o teste qui-quadro para comparação de proporções das distribuições das variáveis intragrupos. Resultados: foram avaliados 300 idosos com predominância de mulheres (63,0%), idade média de 70,49 anos, cores parda e preta (92,0%), moradores da zona urbana (95,3%), notificados na fase crônica da doença (57,3%), que necessitaram de hospitalização (74,3%) e com comorbidades (63,0%). Os sintomas mais prevalentes foram febre e artralgia (100,0%), cefaleia (98,0%) e lombalgias (96,3%). Conclusão: os casos de febre de Chikungunya tendem a ser mais graves em pacientes idosos e com maiores repercussões clínicas, em especial com a presença de sintomas álgicos.

RESUMOObjetivo: avaliar a adesão aos tuberculostáticos e a qualidade de vida de pacientes com tuberculose pulmonar. Método: trata-se de um estudo quantitativo, do tipo série de casos, com 18 pacientes, utilizando-se um questionário, a escala de qualidade de vida SF – 36 e o teste de Morisky e Green. Armazenaram-se os dados em planilhas do Excel 2013 e os analisaram com recurso de estatística descritiva e inferencial, utilizando o SPSS 24.0. Apresentaram-se os resultados em de tabelas. Resultados: pontua-se que 12 pacientes (66,7%) tinham alta adesão e seis (33,3%) tinham média adesão aos tuberculostáticos. Avalia-se que, acerca da qualidade de vida, os domínios aspectos sociais (68,75 ± 25,28) e saúde mental (80,00 ± 16,09) alcançaram as médias mais elevadas. Conclusão: conclui-se que a tuberculose compromete a qualidade de vida das pessoas infectadas, pois, além da implicação física, há o comprometimento emocional e psíquico. Torna-se relevante capacitar os profissionais de saúde para o diagnóstico precoce da tuberculose, visando à melhoria da qualidade do atendimento, com ganhos para a qualidade de vida dos usuários e a maior adesão ao tratamento. Descritores: Tuberculose Pulmonar; Adesão à Medicação; Qualidade de Vida; Grupo de Risco; Serviços de Saúde; Fatores Socioeconômicos.   ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the adherence to tuberculostatics and the quality of life of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Method: this is a quantitative case series study with 18 patients using a questionnaire, the SF-36 quality of life scale and the Morisky and Green test. Data were stored in Excel 2013 worksheets and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS 24.0. Results: were presented in tables. Results: 12 patients (66.7%) had high adherence and six (33.3%) had medium adherence to tuberculostatics. The social aspects (68.75 ± 25.28) and mental health (80.00 ± 16.09) reached the highest means of quality of life. Conclusion: it is concluded that tuberculosis compromises the quality of life of infected people, since, in addition to the physical implication, there is emotional and psychic impairment. It is relevant to train health professionals for the early diagnosis of tuberculosis, aiming at improving the quality of care, with gains for users' quality of life and greater adherence to treatment. Descriptors: Pulmonary tuberculosis; Adhesion to Medication; Quality of life; Risk Group; Health services; Socioeconomic Factors.RESUMEN Objetivo: evaluar la adhesión a los tuberculostáticos y la calidad de vida de pacientes con tuberculosis pulmonar. Método: se trata de un estudio cuantitativo, del tipo serie de casos, con 18 pacientes, utilizando un cuestionario, la escala de calidad de vida SF - 36 y la prueba de Morisky y Green. Se almacenaron los datos en hojas de cálculo de Excel 2013 y los analizaron con recurso de estadística descriptiva e inferencial, utilizando el SPSS 24.0. Se presentaron los resultados en tablas. Resultados: se puntualiza que 12 pacientes (66,7%) tenían alta adhesión y seis (33,3%) tenían media adhesión a los tuberculostáticos. Se evaluó que, sobre la calidad de vida, los dominios aspectos sociales (68,75 ± 25,28) y salud mental (80,00 ± 16,09) alcanzaron las medias más elevadas. Conclusión: se concluye que la tuberculosis compromete la calidad de vida de las personas infectadas, pues, además de la implicación física, hay el compromiso emocional y psíquico. Se torna relevante capacitar a los profesionales de salud para el diagnóstico precoz de la tuberculosis, buscando la mejora de la calidad de la atención, con ganancias para la calidad de vida de los usuarios y la mayor adhesión al tratamiento. Descriptores: Tuberculosis pulmonar; Adherencia a la medicación; Calidad de vida; Grupos de riesgo; Servicios de salud; Factores socioeconômicos.