title: [Promoting self-care to patients suffering headache through the oriental perspective of health].
abstract: The present work is an experience report that aimed at elaborating, implementing and evaluating a project of nursing care practice to students of a Nursing graduation course, who presented headaches. Built from a subject of the Nursing Master Course of Federal University of Santa Catarina, the project was based in the concept of competence for self-care of Orem, understood through an oriental perspective of health. Three strategies of care were applied: the pain dairy, the focusing and the cranium-acupuncture, in monthly-weekly meetings and in individual meetings, for a two-month period. The participants related results of pain relief, discover of non-physical causes for pain and increase of welfare. It was possible to verify that the participants presented an individualized process of self-care development and that the strategies selected are suitable for the care.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC.
authors.forename: Solange
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wink
authors.forename: Maria do Horto Fontoura
authors.initials: Mdo H
authors.lastname: Cartana
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006261:Headache / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D008518:Medicine, East Asian Traditional; D012648:Self Care