Analisis of the investigations in nursing and the use of theory of cultural care - DOI: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v8i1.7784

Abstract

It is a bibliographic research with a descriptive approach which aimed to identify and analyze the study objects of thesis and dissertations, focusing the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory. Were selected twelve thesis and six dissertations, from a Post graduate Program in Nursing of a public university on Northeast of Brazil, which represent 8.9% of the scientific production of the program since its creation in 1998 until 2004. From the Cultural Care Universality and Diversity emerged the categories: manifestation of client’s cultural behavior and actions of nursing cultural care. The Cultural Care Theory contributed to researches in Nursing with focus at areas of women health, child health and practice of care. The health-disease process is affected by social, economic and cultural influences, being necessary to know the client’s cultural context in order to allow the health actions to achieve the expected results. It was concluded that the Theory of Cultural Care facilitates to know the beliefs, values and myths among the people, with the aim to provide and develop different ways of taking care.