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Objective: to understand the knowledge of aged women about Sexually Transmitted Infections. Methods: a qualitative study with 11 aged women from a social group at a Basic Health Unit. Data was collected individually through semi-structured interviews, coded using NVIVO software, and analyzed using Thematic Content Analysis. Results: four categories emerged: Sexually Transmitted Infections known by the elderly; Different forms of transmission; Forms of prevention and detection; and Barriers to Knowledge and Sexually Transmitted Infections care. Conclusion: participants' knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections was observed, especially HIV, syphilis, and gonorrhea. There was a gap in knowledge about the distinction between HIV infection and AIDS. The lack of information about active sexuality is a barrier that interferes with safe sexual practice. Contributions to practice: understanding the knowledge of aged women about Sexually Transmitted Infections provides information that can help plan and implement measures to prevent these infections.

Objective: to build care gerontotechnologies to help family caregivers with the difficulties experienced in the context of elderly people with Alzheimer's disease. Methods: strategic action research carried out with seven family caregivers of elderly people with Alzheimer's disease and 12 health academics from a university. Data was gathered from the family caregivers using a semi-structured interview. Three focus groups were held with the academics. The data was submitted to the discursive textual analysis technique. Results: eight difficulties experienced by family caregivers emerged, corresponding to cognitive aspects, Activities of Daily Living and issues relating to family care. It was possible to construct 14 care gerontotechnologies in product form. Conclusion: gerontotechnologies were built to help family caregivers with the difficulties experienced by elderly people living with Alzheimer's disease. Contributions to practice: the gerontotechnologies developed have the potential to contribute to the care process, since they can be used by family caregivers on a daily basic and can be adapted to each reality, based on the unique needs of each elderly person.

To understand the meaning of comprehensive care in the view of teachers and nursing students. Methods: qualitative research conducted with seven teachers and six students of the nursing course of a higher education institution. Data were collected using the Focal Group technique and subjected to thematic content analysis. The comprehensive care construct was used for this article as based on authors who talk with ownership of the theme. Results: the students perceive the comprehensive care as the subjective interaction with others respecting human uniqueness through a gradual construction in order to meet the apparent and non-apparent needs. Conclusion: teachers and students reported that comprehensive care depends on a network of actions and needs to be instigated since academic education.

Se trata de investigación descriptiva, exploratorio, con enfoque cualitativo, cuyo objetivo fue comprender lo que los docentes de enfermería entienden por integralidad. Los sujetos del estudio fueron siete docentes del curso de Enfermería de una institución privada de enseñanza superior de la Región Central de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. La colecta de datos fue basada en la técnica de grupo focal, para el tratamiento de los datos, se utilizó la técnica de análisis temática, de la cual se obtuvo el gran tema: construcción de integralidad, seguido del subtema: proceso continuo y dinámico de construcción y deconstrucción. A partir de los resultados obtenidos, fue posible considerar que la integralidad es un tema en construcción, dinámico, flexible, pasible de nuevas reformulaciones, basadas en vivencias y construcciones de los sujetos. La discusión acerca de la integralidad envuelve la complejidad del ser y hacer, visto que es un proceso en construcción.

It is a research of descriptive-exploratory character, with a qualitative approach, whose objective is to understand what the Nursing teachers see as integrality. The subjects of the study were seven teachers of a private higher education institution located in the Central Region of Rio Grande do Sul. The data collection was based in the focal group technique, whereby a content analysis technique in the theme modality was used for the data treatment, from which the great theme was obtained: Integrality construction, followed by the subtheme: Continuous process and construction and deconstruction. From the obtained results, it was possible to consider that integrality is a theme under construction, dynamics, it is flexible, passive of new reformulation, based on the experiences and constructions of the subjects themselves. It is concluded that the discussion about integrality encompasses the complexity of being and doing, once it is a process under construction.

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