title: [Nursing diagnoses in children with congenital heart disease: differences by gender and age].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the relationship between gender and age and development of nursing diagnoses in children with congenital heart disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study conducted on forty five children with congenital heart disease. Those nursing diagnoses with a frequency greater than 50% were selected for the association analysis, to which the chi-squared or Fisher tests were applied. The Levene test for homogeneity of variance and then the t-test was used to compare the mean age between children with and without the nursing diagnosis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The children had mean age of 4.74 months (SD=3.78 months) and 66.7% (30) were boys. The female gender was associated with the nursing diagnosis activity intolerance (P=.009) and delayed growth and development (P=.013). The presence of the nursing diagnoses impaired gas exchange, ineffective breathing pattern, ineffective tissue perfusion, decreased cardiac output and activity intolerance was associated with younger children. On the other hand, the children who presented risk of infection and delayed growth and development had higher mean of age.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The population of girls had a higher risk for activity intolerance and delayed growth and development. Furthermore, younger children showed a higher risk for diagnoses related to respiratory and cardiovascular problems.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad Federal de Ceará, Brasil. viviane.silva@ufc.br
authors.forename: Viviane
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martins Da Silva
authors.forename: Marcos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Venícios De Oliveira Lopes
authors.forename: Thelma
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Leite De Araujo
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Amorim-Beltrão
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bruno Resende-Chaves
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D012737:Sex Factors