[AIDS patients' compliance with antiretroviral treatment: notified difficulties and measures for improvement at a teaching hospital]. / Adesão de pacientes com AIDS ao tratamento com antiretrovirais: dificuldades relatadas e proposiçao de medidas atenuantes em um hospital escola.

This study aimed at identifying the incidence of drug intake errors and the main therapy-related difficulties among AIDS patients as well as at proposing measures to increase patients' adherence to treatment. Sixty-one patients with AIDS assisted by the University Hospital of São Paulo State University at Campinas were interviewed. The most frequent errors concerned the combinations of drugs and the length of fasting. The difficulties reported were adverse effects and the variety of drugs. Based on these data, the authors proposed the use of an illustrated guide for drug-related information. It is hoped that individualized guidance can contribute to minimize errors concerning adherence to therapy.

Needs for assistance and emotional aspects of caregiving reported by AIDS patient caregivers in a day-care unit in Brazil.

The advent of AIDS in families, following the chronic evolution of the illness, has produced crisis situations unknown until now. With the objective of knowing this new reality better, 20 caregivers of AIDS patients were interviewed in southeastern Brazil. The collected data were analyzed using a qualitative method. The results showed difficulties regarding caregiving, such as a lack of orientation, materials, transport, and people to share the role of caregiver, as well as emotional difficulties, such as fears from infection, revulsion, pity, and impotence in the face of death. The role of families is essential in patient assistance, due to the inability of the health system to attend to all AIDS patients. Nevertheless, these families have to receive support mainly from nurses, in order to be helped in executing an aid plan to the ill person at home. Nurses and health care.

[Profile of future nurses' aides in Campinas, SP, in 1995: reasons, expectations and problems related to their education]. / Perfil dos futuros auxiliares de enfermagem da cidade de Campinas, SP, EM 1995: motivos, expectativas e dificuldades relacionadas ao curso.

The present study aims to characterize the profile of people studying in auxiliary nurse courses at the city of Campinas. The predominantly characteristics were: ages between 18 and 30 years old, majority female, single and catholic. The major part of the studied population does not work in nursing area, being the mainly motivation to begin the course the possibility of helping other people. Their difficulties were returning to school, conciliating the study schedule with other activities and paying the course.

[Need of university students for a mental health orientation and education service]. / Necessidades de estudantes universitários para implantação de um serviço de orientação e educação em saúde mental.

The curative feature of health of university students has gained more attention. This study evaluated the needs of university students for an orientational and educational service on mental health. For mental health orientation and education, an individual consultation service, was implanted as well as lectures about the theme. This project gathered data and information important to the effective institutionalization of the service.

[Proposal for a procedure for the detection of ophthalmic disorders in school children]. / Proposição de procedimento de detecção sistemática de perturbações oftalmológicas em escolares.

The proposal for a visual acuity test (A.V.) arose from a survey conducted among School Children of the "Ciclo Básico (C.B.)" i.é., the first two years of Elementary School in S. Carlos, S. Paulo State, Brazil. Nine schools participated in this study. The teachers were properly trained to apply the A. V. and squinting tests according to a standardized procedure. Of 2,025 children tested, 88.1% showed levels of A. V. higher than 0.8, and a squinting prevalence of 2.17%. When the application of the test was over, each school presented its proposals for the systematical application of such tests. These proposals had a common point: the test should be applied by the teachers themselves under the supervision of the coordinators of the C. B. The school nurse would be responsible for giving overall assistance to all the activities of the program at all levels.