Insuficiência renal crônica em crianças - Informação disponível na internet: estudo para uma abordagem digital para o cuidado em saúde a pais e crianças / Chronic renal failure in children - information available on the Internet: study for a digital approach to health care to parents and children

A utilização da Internet pode trazer benefícios ao cuidado em saúde quando utilizada como fonte de informação em saúde geral e bucal e suporte social promovendo o empoderamento dos indivíduos, o que pode ser especialmente importante e benéfico para pais de crianças com doença renal crônica. A DRC inclui todas as condições que são capazes de provocar a perda progressiva da função renal podendo levar à diálise e, como última consequência à necessidade de transplante. Em crianças, a doença é devastadora e apresenta taxas de mortalidade elevadas, sobretudo em pacientes pediátricos em diálise, quando comparadas à de crianças normais. Por sua vez, esses pacientes apresentam diversas manifestações bucais que podem agravar sua saúde já comprometida. A complexidade dessas patologias e a necessidade de cuidados contínuos e intensivos demandam habilidades de pais, que raramente têm experiência e conhecimento prévios para o cuidado. A Internet pode não ser uma fonte primária no auxílio para a tomada de decisão em saúde, mas inúmeras pesquisas têm mostrado que ela se tornou uma fonte de informação em saúde importante para pais de crianças acometidas com alguma doença, a fim de complementar, mas não substituir, as informações fornecidas por médicos e profissionais de saúde, além de dirimir dúvidas e trocar experiências com pessoas

em circunstâncias semelhantes. Assim, diante da gravidade da DRC e das inúmeras manifestações bucais, nós investigamos em um estudo transversal, a utilização da Internet para a busca de informações em saúde por pais de crianças acometidas. O estudo compreendeu 111 pais e cuidadores de crianças com doença renal crônica sob tratamento, em um centro de nefrologia pediátrica brasileiro. Os resultados obtidos, por meio de um formulário, demonstraram que dos pais que buscavam informações de saúde na Internet, 90% (80/89) buscavam por informações sobre o problema de saúde dos seus filhos. Por outro lado, somente 20% (18/89) disseram procurar por informações sobre saúde bucal. A maioria dos pais que buscavam informação sobre a doença usam a Internet diariamente (66%)(53/80). Eles buscaram sobretudo obter mais informações sobre a doença (94%). Além disso, 93% consideraram útil a informação encontrada, sendo que 78% alegaram que entenderam melhor o problema. No entanto, mais da metade (52%) preferiram não comentar com o médico. O estudo traça um perfil de pais e cuidadores de crianças com DRC quanto ao uso da Internet como fonte de informação em saúde. Podemos concluir que há bastante interesse por informações sobre o problema de saúde da criança, mas pouco interesse por informações de saúde bucal. Os resultados obtidos serão úteis para posterior elaboração de conteúdos educacionais e informativos que utilizem a tecnologia de informação e comunicação para o cuidado e educação em saúde e o empoderamento de pais e pacientes com doença renal crônica.

The use of Internet can bring benefits to health care when used as a source of information for oral, general health and also as a social support to promote individual´s empowerment. This fact can be very important for parents of children with chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD includes all conditions that lead to progressive loss of renal function, placing the individual in a dialysis condition and as a last consequence leading him/her to renal transplant. In children, the disease may cause several impairments, presenting high mortality rates compared to healthy children, mainly for individuals who are undergoing dialysis. These patients display several oral manifestations that can affect their systemic conditions in a more severe aspect. The severity of these pathologies and the needs for continuous care demand skills and abilities that are rarely previously delivered to parents/caretakers. The Internet may not be the primary health information source, though several studies have shown that Internet has become an important source of health information for impaired children and their parents.

This information can supplement, but not replace the ones supplied by physicians and other health professionals. Though, by means of this tool, people can also sort out their doubts and exchange information with others who are in similar contexts. Hence, the aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate how the Internet has been used by parents of CKD children, to look for health information. The results were obtained by means of a filled form, and showed that 90% (80/89) of parents/caretakers who use Internet looked for health information about their children´s health problems. On the other hand, only 20% (18/89) of parents/caretakers had looked for information about oral health. More than half (66%)(53/80) of these parents/caretakers use the Internet daily. The most common reason (94%) for using the Internet was to find more information about of the child's condition. Ninety-three percent found the Internet useful. Seventy-eight percent found that the Internet provided further understanding into their child's condition. However, more than half (52%) prefers not to talk to the physician. Based on that, this study aimed to design the profile of parents/caretakers of children with CKD, concerning the use of Internet as a source of health information. It could be concluded that there is a large interest about children´s health problems general, but not too much about oral health information. The results obtained may support to the development of further educational and informative contents that use information and communication technology to support parents/caretakers of CKD children.

Editing, Publishing and Aggregating Video Articles: Do We Need a Scholarly Approach?

The article supports the idea of providing infrastructure and training for preparing and publishing quality video articles. Properly edited, formatted, and verified video items can present graphic contents of interest to the global scientific community. It is suggested to apply traditional attributes of scholarly articles to video items and aggregate them on a specifically designed editing, publishing, and indexing platform, called PubTube. As a mega platform, PubTube may provide space for a variety of open-access sources of information, ranging from short audio-video presentations to research protocols and educational lectures. Video articles on the platform have to pass quality checks by skilled reviewers. Global editorial associations should be prepared to improving the whole process of publishing and aggregating video articles.

Development and Evaluation of the Web-based Wound Care Course for Undergraduate Nursing Students / 간호학회지

PURPOSE: This study developed a web-based wound care course for undergraduate nursing students and evaluated the course's content, system, and student-satisfaction. METHODS: This study was done in three stages, the development of the web-based wound care course, the implementation and evaluation of the course. The course was developed based on the ARCS model. 80 undergraduate nursing students to Y University in Korea used the web-based wound care program during four weeks. After that, they completed questionnaires, evaluating the contents, system, and their satisfaction. RESULTS: Eighteen learning objectives were used to create the web-based wound care course and the course was developed with 7 chapters and 20 subsections. The analysis of the questionnaires showed a mean score for content and system-related items of 3.04 each, out of a possible 4 points. Student satisfaction items had a mean score of 2.89. CONCLUSIONS: The web-based course allowed students access to the course anytime and anywhere, and according to their own learning abilities. However this advantage would only be possible when nurse educators develop qualitative web-based course to meet the demand of a complex health care system as well as the needs of the students and the effectively incorporate it into traditional lectures.