Effective management of symptoms – a nursing intervention

Joint Event on 49^th World Congress on Advanced Nursing Research & 27^th International Conference on Clinical Pediatrics

June 10-11, 2019 Berlin, Germany

Eunice Emilia Santos Lopes Martins Henriques

Lisbon School of Nursing, Portugal

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Effective symptom management is considered an essential component of nursing care practice for different clinical conditions, but it is particularly important in chronic diseases (Sidani, 2001), as is the case with HIV infection. Thus, the purpose of this research was to develop a nursing intervention program that demonstrates its effects on symptom management and consequently adherence to antiretroviral therapy in the person with HIV infection. This is a study who the sample was 73 participants with symptoms of anxiety, fatigue, fear, depression and headaches. The majority of participants (95.9%) reported never having failed the therapy, 24.7% took the therapy as they learned, "every time", 57.5% reported adhering to instructions, 91.8% said did not forget, 28.8% reported "never having stopped taking". As for the reason for not taking, at 15% was simply forgetting. Regarding evaluation pre and post intervention of the manual of symptom management strategies use, by the Wilcoxon test, the differences were shown to be statistically significant in the symptoms anxiety, fear and fatigue confirming the theoretical construct that the use of the manual improved these three symptoms. On the other hand, the use of the manual helped to reduce the failures in antiretroviral therapy, with statistically significant differences. The study showed that symptom management is a sensitive indicator of nursing care, where the intervention of the nurse, wherever it takes place, privileges the quality of communication and relation with the sick person and helps to improve the management of its symptoms, as well as adherence to antiretroviral therapy.

Biography :

Nurse since 1983. Clinical Exercise in Intensive Care and Cardiology. Lecturer at the Nursing School since 1991. Specialist in Medical-Surgical Nursing (MC) since 1994. Master in Nursing Sciences since 2001. Dissertation with the theme: Empathic understanding and sociomoral development in nurses who care for the AIDS patient. Coordinating Professor since 2006, Nursing area in infectious disease. In 2007, coordination of the Nursing Degree Course (CLE), which he maintains until 2014. During this period he is the director of several CLE units. Co-director of the UC of Ethics and Deontology of CLE. She is a UC regent (which includes ethical issues associated with renal disease and transplantation) of the Master in Nursing MC - Nephrological Nursing; regent of UC of the Master's Degree in Nursing in Person in Critical Situation. She is a Doctorate in Nursing, at the University of Lisbon, awaiting discussion of thesis.

E-mail: emusvosvi@csuchico.edu