Rev Dor. São Paulo, 2011 jul-set;12(3):221-25 RESUMO JUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS: O trauma tem importância no âmbito mundial por ser uma das principais causas de morte e invalidez. A dor aguda sempre acompanha os pacientes vítimas de trauma e os profissionais da saúde têm dificuldade em identificá-la e consequentemente controlá-la. O objetivo deste foi caracterizar a percepção e as dificuldades da equipe de enfermagem frente à identificação, quantificação e manuseio da dor dos pacientes vítimas de trauma e treiná-la para sua avaliação e adequado tratamento. cientes vítima de trauma. Foi aplicado um questionário com perguntas relacionadas à caracterização dos profissionais e a maneira pela qual eles identificam, quantificam e intervêm no tratamento da dor, antes e depois de um curso de capacitação dos profissionais, no qual foram ministradas aulas que abordavam os temas contidos no questionário. RESULTADOS: A maioria dos profissionais incluídos no estudo conhecia o conceito "dor o quinto sinal vital", os instrumentos para quantificar a dor, os medicamentos utilizados no tratamento e seus efeitos adversos, porém com treinamento, o conhecimento sobre a avaliação e tratamento da dor aumentou significativamente. CONCLUSÃO: A maioria dos profissionais de enfermagem tem conhecimento insuficiente sobre a identificação, quantificação e tratamento da dor. O treinamento propiciou a sua atualização, para atuar de forma mais adequada e eficiente no controle e alívio da dor. Descritores: Dor, Medição da dor, Traumatismo múlti-plo, Unidade de terapia intensiva. MÉTODO: SUMMARY BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Trauma is globally important for being one of the major causes of death and disability. Trauma is also followed by acute pain and health professionals have difficulties to identify and control it. This study aimed at characterizing nursing teams perceptions and difficulties to identify, quantify and manage pain of trauma patients and at training the nursing team to adequately evaluate and treat it. METHOD: Prospective and quantitative study involving 51 nursing professionals working in an intensive

Prevalência de depressão e fadiga em um grupo de mulheres com câncer de mamaPrevalence of depression and fatigue in a group of women with breast cancer Prevalencia de depresión y fatiga en un grupo de mujeres con cáncer de mama

Objective: To understand the experience of partners of women with breast cancer. Method: This was a qualitative study, based on the theoretical-methodological framework of existential and phenomenological psychology, and carried out with the partners of women with breast cancer who attended a center for rehabilitation after mastectomy. The data were collected in interviews between June and November 2014, based on a guiding question. Results: Ten partners participated in the study. On discovering the disease, the partners experienced emotional distress caused by the fear of losing their partners. Before this suffering, they demonstrated the ability to react: willingness to provide care, to comfort and to support the women in search of treatment, and together, seek to reverse adverse situations. They also showed sensitivity and recognized the intense emotional suffering of the women caused by the challenges faced throughout the course of treatment. Conclusion: The present study showed the intense suffering of the partners of women with breast cancer and their difficulty to ask for help. Thus, health professionals must be alert, addressing their needs throughout the treatment process to mitigate suffering.

This research aimed to evaluate the level of Spiritual/Religious Coping (SRC) of women with breast cancer. This is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. A total of 94 mastectomized women who participated in the study were enrolled in a rehabilitation center of a higher education institution of São Paulo. Data were collected from October 2013 to June 2014 using a questionnaire with sociodemographic, clinical, and spiritual/religious data, stressor stimulus associated with breast cancer, and the SRCOPE-Short Scale. All participants used SRC, 76.6% at high/very high level, and 23.4% at medium level; positive SRC (mean 3.41; standard deviation 0.59) was more used than negative SRC (mean 1.27; standard deviation 0.40), confirmed by the NSRC/PSRC ratio (mean 0.38; standard deviation 0.14). The SRC proved to be an important coping strategy in stress situations experienced by women with breast cancer and helpful in coping with the disease and the consequences of the treatments.