O presente estudo tem como objetivos: desvelar percepções de enfermeiros acerca da acupuntura como prática assistencial de enfermagem; identificar fatores dificultadores/facilitadores para a implantação da acupuntura como técnica complementar à assistência de saúde; discutir aspectos contraditórios e os dilemas ético-legais que perpassam a prática da acupuntura pelo enfermeiro em serviços de saúde pública. Pesquisa de campo exploratória foi realizada com 33 enfermeiras, de 11 Unidades de Saúde, da Região Sudeste do Município de São Paulo, que oferecem atendimento de acupuntura por profissionais médicos. Os dados coletados nas entrevistas foram examinados com base na Análise de Conteúdo de Bardin (2004) e Minayo (2007) e distribuídos em quatro categorias principais: (1) percepções de enfermeiros acerca da acupuntura na assistência à saúde; (2) fatores dificultadores e (3) facilitadores da prática da acupuntura pelo enfermeiro em serviços de saúde pública e (4) dilemas ético-legais na prática da acupuntura vivenciados pelos enfermeiros. Debates sobre percepções referentes à acupuntura revelaram credibilidade de pacientes na eficácia da técnica em uma grande variedade de enfermidades, especialmente em doenças crônicas, dor e estresse. Foi considerada como uma terapêutica holística, agindo com menos efeitos colaterais em situações em que a alopatia é ineficiente. Como fatores dificultadores foram encontrados: sobrecarga de trabalho, falta de recursos materiais e humanos e uma política de saúde que não favorece a implantação da acupuntura pelo enfermeiro. Entre os fatores facilitadores foram indicados: possibilidade de capacitação técnica do enfermeiro e de implantação do serviço de acupuntura multiprofissional pela Secretaria de Saúde, além de mais e melhor informação para a população e para profissionais, com a vantagem da proximidade já existente entre enfermeiro e usuário. Quanto aos dilemas ético-legais, questionou-se a acupuntura como prática limitada à classe médica, o preconceito quanto ao que o enfermeiro faz e pode fazer, a necessidade de regulamentação pelas autoridades competentes e, por fim, qual o perfil do profissional que poderia exercer a acupuntura, segundo as enfermeiras entrevistadas. Face ao novo paradigma emergente da saúde, na busca de um cuidado menos biologicista, mais integral e holístico, a acupuntura como prática complementar à assistência na saúde pública emerge como uma nova/velha terapêutica, trazendo muitos benefícios à saúde da população. O desafio que se coloca ao enfermeiro é a conquista da acupuntura como saber e fazer do enfermeiro, participando da implantação responsável, ética e multiprofissional da acupuntura em benefício da população / The objective of the present study were to unveil nurses´ perceptions on acupuncture as a nursing care practice; to identify difficulting or facilitating factors for implementation of acupuncture as a complementary procedure for health care; and to discuss contradictory issues, ethical and legal dilemmas which carry through the acupuncture practice by nurses in public health services. An exploratory research on field was held with 33 nurses, from 11 Health Units, located in the south-east region of São Paulo city, where acupuncture is practiced by physicians. Collected data through interviews were analyzed based on Bardin (2004) Content Analysis and Minayo (2007), distributed within four main categories: (1) nurses´ perceptions on acupuncture in health care; (2) difficulting factors and (3) facilitating factors related to acupuncture felt by nurses in public health services and (4) ethical and legal dilemmas on acupuncture practice experienced by nurses. Debates on perceptions related to acupuncture showed credibility by patients on the procedure efficacy in a large variety of illness, particularly on chronicle ones, pain and stress. It was considered as a holistic therapy, acting with less collateral effects, when allopath is inefficient. Difficulting factors found were: working overload, lack of material and human resources and the health policy which is not favorable for implementation of acupuncture done by nurses. Among facilitating factors were indicated: possibility of enabling nurses with technical qualification as well as implementation of acupuncture services by a multi-professional team through the Secretariat of Health; more and better information for people and professionals and the advantage of existing closeness between nurses and patients. Regarding the ethical and legal dilemmas, the issue of acupuncture as a practice limited to the medical group was raised, as well as the prejudice related to what nurses do or may do, the need of regulation by competent authorities and also who would be the professionals to practice acupuncture according to the interviewed nurses. Considering this emerging new health paradigm and looking for a less biologist and more integral and holistic caring, acupuncture as a complementary practice to public health care comes forth as new/old therapy, bringing many benefices to the public health. The challenge imposed to nurses is the conquest of the acupuncture as the knowing and the doing of the nurse, participating in responsive, ethical and multi-professional implementation of acupuncture practice for the people benefit

Estudaram-se os efeitos da influência do Reiki na evolução do granuloma induzido experimentalmente pela inoculação do BCG no coxim plantar de hamsters, assim como os efeitos da mesma terapia em camundongos portadores do tumor ascítico de Ehrlich in vivo e in vitro. No modelo de inflamação granulomatosa crônica, utilizou-se 40 hamsters machos, os quais após serem inoculados com BCG no dia 0 no coxim da pata posterior direita, foram separados em dois grupos contendo 20 animais em cada. Um grupo denominado controle o qual não recebeu nenhum tratamento, e um grupo denominado Reiki, o qual recebeu reiki por 15 minutos, diariamente, a uma distância de 30 cm. Imediatamente antes da inoculação foi realizada a medida do diâmetro da pata a ser inoculada, sendo que as medições continuaram até o momento do sacrifício dos animais, sendo realizadas em dias alternados. No modelo de tumor ascítico de Ehrlich, foram utilzadas 26 camundongos fêmeas, as quais foram injetadas com células de Tumor de Ehrlich pela via intraperitoneal, sendo este considerado dia 0 do experimento. Em seguida estes camundongos foram separados em 3 grupos: controle (n=8), reiki A (n=9) e reiki B (n=9). Grupo controle não recebeu nenhum tipo de tratamento, grupo Reiki A recebeu reiki por 10 minutos, diariamente, à uma distância de 30 cm e grupo Reiki B recebeu manipulação e uma técnica diferente de Reiki. Os animais então foram observados diariamente até o dia de óbito. Em relação ao edema de pata, foi observada diminuição deste nos hamsters inoculados com BCG e tratados com Reiki. Com respeito à avaliação da taxa de sobrevida em camundongos com tumor ascítico de Ehrlich, observou-se maior taxa de sobrevida nos camundongos inoculados pertencentes ao grupo Reiki A. / We studied the effects of the influence of Reiki in the evolution of the experimental induced granuloma by the inoculation of BCG in the footpad of hamsters, and the effects of the same therapy in mice with Ehrlich ascitic tumor in vivo and in vitro. In the chronic granulomatous inflammation model, it was used, 40 male hamsters, which, after been inoculated with BCG in day 0, it was separated in two groups with 20 animals per group: control and reiki. The control group received no treatment, and reiki group, which was treated with Reiki by 15 minutes, daily, from 30 cm of the box. Immediately before the inoculation, the footpad diameter was measured, and after this measure was made in every other day, until complete 54 days. In the Ehrlich ascitic tumor model, it was used, 26 female mice inoculated with Ehrlich tumor cells, by intraperitoneal via, in the day 0. After that, the mice were separated in three groups: control (n=8), reiki A (n=9) and reiki B (n=9). The control group received no treatment, reiki A group received Reiki treatment by 10 minutes, daily, from 30 cm of the box, and reiki B group, which was manipulated and received a different way of Reiki treatment. The mice were observed daily until death in order to analyze survival rate. As regards granuloma evaluation it was observed a reduced footpad edema in hamsters inoculated with BCG and treated with Reiki. In relation to survival rate assay, it was observed an increased lifespan of those mice of the reiki A group.

This dissertation uncovers a strand in early twentieth century British literature that is currently missing from readings of modernism - a fascination with portraying meditative states of mind. Modernist authors were intrigued by the mind's capacity to be in constant movement between the present, past, and future - what they represented as a stream of consciousness. This study examines the potential of the "still," calm, and concentrated mind in modernist visions of consciousness by exploring how the meditative mind takes a different shape in theme and form in the writings of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Aldous Huxley. Drawing from the works' preoccupation with physical practices such as spiritual and ritual dance, relaxation techniques, Yoga, the Alexander Technique, and meditative walking, this study highlights the role of the body in views on consciousness in modernist literature. This dissertation argues that looking at modernism through the lens of meditation allows us to see the period not only in terms of the split, wounded self in the fast-paced modern metropolis but reveals its yearning for what the authors in this study call "wholeness," "mind-body harmony," and "the spirit of peace" - a search for peace attainable within, if not without, an attempt to cure the self in the fracturing modern world through experiencing the mind at peace.

Estudaram-se os efeitos da influência do Reiki na evolução do granuloma induzido experimentalmente pela inoculação do BCG no coxim plantar de hamsters, assim como os efeitos da mesma terapia em camundongos portadores do tumor ascítico de Ehrlich in vivo e in vitro. No modelo de inflamação granulomatosa crônica, utilizou-se 40 hamsters machos, os quais após serem inoculados com BCG no dia 0 no coxim da pata posterior direita, foram separados em dois grupos contendo 20 animais em cada. Um grupo denominado controle o qual não recebeu nenhum tratamento, e um grupo denominado Reiki, o qual recebeu reiki por 15 minutos, diariamente, a uma distância de 30 cm. Imediatamente antes da inoculação foi realizada a medida do diâmetro da pata a ser inoculada, sendo que as medições continuaram até o momento do sacrifício dos animais, sendo realizadas em dias alternados. No modelo de tumor ascítico de Ehrlich, foram utilzadas 26 camundongos fêmeas, as quais foram injetadas com células de Tumor de Ehrlich pela via intraperitoneal, sendo este considerado dia 0 do experimento. Em seguida estes camundongos foram separados em 3 grupos: controle (n=8), reiki A (n=9) e reiki B (n=9). Grupo controle não recebeu nenhum tipo de tratamento, grupo Reiki A recebeu reiki por 10 minutos, diariamente, à uma distância de 30 cm e grupo Reiki B recebeu manipulação e uma técnica diferente de Reiki. Os animais então foram observados diariamente até o dia de óbito. Em relação ao edema de pata, foi observada diminuição deste nos hamsters inoculados com BCG e tratados com Reiki. Com respeito à avaliação da taxa de sobrevida em camundongos com tumor ascítico de Ehrlich, observou-se maior taxa de sobrevida nos camundongos inoculados pertencentes ao grupo Reiki A. / We studied the effects of the influence of Reiki in the evolution of the experimental induced granuloma by the inoculation of BCG in the footpad of hamsters, and the effects of the same therapy in mice with Ehrlich ascitic tumor in vivo and in vitro. In the chronic granulomatous inflammation model, it was used, 40 male hamsters, which, after been inoculated with BCG in day 0, it was separated in two groups with 20 animals per group: control and reiki. The control group received no treatment, and reiki group, which was treated with Reiki by 15 minutes, daily, from 30 cm of the box. Immediately before the inoculation, the footpad diameter was measured, and after this measure was made in every other day, until complete 54 days. In the Ehrlich ascitic tumor model, it was used, 26 female mice inoculated with Ehrlich tumor cells, by intraperitoneal via, in the day 0. After that, the mice were separated in three groups: control (n=8), reiki A (n=9) and reiki B (n=9). The control group received no treatment, reiki A group received Reiki treatment by 10 minutes, daily, from 30 cm of the box, and reiki B group, which was manipulated and received a different way of Reiki treatment. The mice were observed daily until death in order to analyze survival rate. As regards granuloma evaluation it was observed a reduced footpad edema in hamsters inoculated with BCG and treated with Reiki. In relation to survival rate assay, it was observed an increased lifespan of those mice of the reiki A group.

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In Lebanon, estimates of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use among college students are not available. CAM practices are not well regulated and some products contain unsafe substances. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and predictors of CAM use among Lebanese college students using the health belief model. A quantitative cross sectional research design was used. An online survey was administered to 126 Lebanese college students with the aim of determining the most important predictors of CAM use. A majority (89%) of surveyed students reported the use of CAM in the last 12 months. Based on the findings of a multiple logistic regression analysis, perceived susceptibility (OR = 1.781), perceived barriers (OR =.809), and cues to action (OR = 1.650), 95% CIs [1.185, 2.678], [.658, .995], [1.049, 1.821], respectively, significantly predicted CAM use. Results indicate that people who perceive themselves more susceptible to diseases, who do not perceive barriers to CAM use, and who follow more cues to action are more likely to use CAM than others. These factors provide pathways for facilitating positive social change by developing stricter governmental policies to ensure consumer safety and to promote high quality products, and by driving the development of public awareness interventions about CAM use and related health risks.

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to a group of diverse medical and healthcare systems, practices, and products not treated as conventional medicine. The body of literature on stress and stress management among young adults has not addressed the use of CAM modalities for stress management among this population. The theoretical foundation of the study was based upon the transactional model of stress and coping, which describes stress as an interaction between an external stressor and the resources available to eliminate the stressor. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether variables such as exposure to CAM, stress level, dispositional coping style, sociodemographic variables, and social support influence young adults' use of CAM modalities for stress management. This study sought to determine to what extent dispositional coping, exposure to and knowledge of CAM, and sociodemographic variables affect young adults' use of CAM modalities for stress management. This study also sought to answer whether there is a difference in the perceived stress of participants who use CAM modalities and those who do not. A quantitative cross-sectional correlational study was employed, using a survey methodology, to identify whether the factors identified in the study influence young adults' use of CAM modalities. Results showed that knowledge of CAM and dispositional coping style significantly influence the use of CAM modalities; sociodemographic variables do not influence the use of these modalities. Furthermore, the use of CAM modalities was found to have a significant relationship to stress level. The findings of the current study suggest the CAM techniques can be adapted and introduced into college settings so that students can better manage their stress levels

Improved health indicators, mental and physical health outcomes, and sustainable lifestyle practices have been found among yoga practitioners. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of mixed styles of yoga practice on the health and behaviors of yoga practitioners. The relationship between yoga and body mass index (BMI), self-reported disease diagnosis, participation in other types of physical activity, adoption of healthy and sustainable lifestyle and dietary behaviors, perceived improvements in medical conditions that yoga was used to treat, quality of life resulting from yoga practice, and the reasons for beginning and continuing yoga were observed and tested in this study. Participants (N = 383) were adult yoga practitioners who were recruited using systematic sampling in Facebook social media. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression, ANOVA, McNemar Chi square, and Spearman's correlation. Mean BMI for all yoga styles were in the normal range; however, ashtanga yoga was a significant predictor of low BMI. Self-reported disease diagnosis was significantly lower after beginning yoga practice. The majority of participants also engaged in other types of physical activity and adopted many healthy lifestyle practices. However, general/hatha and other styles of yoga were associated with adopting a greater number of other physical activities and general/hatha, ashtanga, and yoga therapy styles were associated with adopting a greater number of healthy and sustainable lifestyle and dietary behaviors. Medical conditions that yoga was used to treat and quality of life were perceived to be improved as a result of yoga practice. Results of this study confirm previous research findings that demonstrate numerous positive health outcomes from yoga practice.

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a significant public health issue. Up to 20% of women are affected by depression following childbirth. PPD is associated with anxiety, poor adjustment and health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and may lead to a woman's personal suffering, conflict with family members (especially in the relationship with partner) and developmental delays in children. Given the high prevalence of PPD and deleterious effects on both women and their families, adequate treatment is critical. While existing PPD treatments have strong efficacy data, the treatment literature suggests that many depressed postpartum women either do not receive treatment or receive suboptimal care. Further, barriers to care including medication side effects for breastfeeding women, stigma, and treatment preferences influence treatment decision-making. Thus, it may be worthwhile to examine the efficacy of a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment option for PPD that is associated with minimal risk and consistent with maternal preferences. The current investigation examined the efficacy of a Gentle Vinyasa Flow yoga intervention for PPD. Fifty-seven postpartum women with a score of ≥12 on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups − yoga n = 28) or wait-list control (WLC) ((italic)n(/italic) = 29). The yoga intervention lasted 8 weeks, and consisted of 16 classes taught by a certified yoga instructor in a studio and the recommendation to practice once a week at home with the use of a DVD that included a 30 minute yoga sequence. The primary outcome, depression, was assessed using the clinician-rated HDRS and self-report measures. The HDRS was administered over the telephone by blinded raters at baseline and after 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks of treatment. Secondary outcomes were anxiety, postpartum adjustment, and HRQOL, with exploratory outcomes including mindfulness and physical activity. These outcomes were assessed using self-report measures completed on the same schedule as that for the HDRS. Growth curve modeling was used to test the hypotheses that women in the yoga group would experience a significantly greater rate of change over the course of the 8-week intervention on primary and secondary outcome measures, relative to the WLC group. As predicted, controlling for age and social anxiety at baseline, women in the yoga group experienced a greater rate of change in depression and well-being scores over the course of the 8-week intervention. The yoga group also experienced a significantly greater rate of improvement on scores of anxiety, postpartum adjustment, HRQOL, and mindfulness over the 8-week intervention, relative to the control group. These findings support yoga as a promising CAM intervention for PPD; large-scale replication studies are warranted. The findings also shed light on potential mediator and intervention-relevant variables for future research. Yoga is an acceptable and low-risk treatment option that may have broader clinical implications for the PPD treatment literature, and the field of CAM more generally.