title: Patients with HIV/Aids and ulcer risk: nursing care demands.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze the demand for nursing care and the risk of pressure ulcers (PU) of patients with HIV/Aids.
  
  
  METHODS
  quantitative survey, carried out from December 2012 to March 2013 in a public hospital of Teresina, state of Piauí, Brazil.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the sample of 31 patients was predominantly male, mean age 36.6 years, average care demand 49.4%, most showing some risk of developing PU. The variables correlated with PU risk were care demand and clinical outcome (death). Those associated with care demand were age and clinical outcome (death).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the results showed that patients require moderate nursing care needs and most of them present risk of developing PU.
authors.affiliation: Residência Multiprofissional em Terapia Intensiva, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Teresina, PI, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lanara Alves
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, RR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Manuella Carvalho
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Feitosa
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil.
authors.forename: Grazielle Roberta Freitas da
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil.
authors.forename: Illoma Rossany Lima
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Leite
authors.affiliation: Clínica Médica, Hospital de Urgência de Teresina, Teresina, PI, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Esther
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Hospital São Paulo, Teresina, PI, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rômulo Diego Monte
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Soares
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000451:nursing*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D055815:Young Adult