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Relationships between insecure attachment (anxious and avoidant), fear of intimacy and romantic jealousy (suspicious and reactive) were explored in this study. The Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire, the Fear-of-Intimacy Scale, and the Multidimensional Jealousy Scale were administered to a sample of 210 ethnically diverse adults via Qualtrics Panels. Anxious attachment, fear of intimacy, and suspicious jealousy were positively correlated. Conversely, negative associations were noted between avoidant attachment and reactive jealousy, and between fear of intimacy and reactive jealousy. Mediation analysis revealed that fear of intimacy mediated the effect of anxious attachment on suspicious jealousy and marginally mediated the effect of avoidant attachment on suspicious jealousy. These results are consistent with the transactional model of jealousy and they uniquely specify that fear of intimacy is a significant mediator of the relationship between anxious attachment and suspicious jealousy.

Fish plays a great role on nutritional status by providing essential amino acids, vitamin and nutrients that are deficient in staple foods. The review was conducted to review the potential physical and biological impacts of climate change on fisheries and to highlights some mitigation and adaptation measures to promote fish production. The impacts of climatic change on fisheries in developing countries classified as physical and biological changes. Physical changes including water surface temperature rise, ocean acidification, sea level rise, salinity, flooding and change in harvesting sector. Biological changes including changes in primary production change in fish distribution and fish diseases. Elevated water temperatures affect fish physiological processes, there by affecting reproduction and survival of the fish larvae. The impacts of increased flooding of the freshwater bodies will be negative through destruction of fish feeding and breeding habitats, or positive in expansion of aquatic habitats for primary production. Rise in the sea level lead to intrusion of more salty water into the river areas thus affecting distribution of fish and high wind can interfere catching and trade activities. These climatic factors interferes food security directly through limiting the availability of fishes to human diet and indirectly by reducing cash revenue obtaining from fish trade to purchase other food items. Therefore, implementing adaptation and mitigation pathways safeguard this sector and improve food security.

The research work was aimed to find the exact optimized operating temperature, time, pH and substrate which is important for the production of wort and fermented beer in both mashing and fermentation processes. Here, the barley was used as a basic source of substrate and enzymes. To determine the optimum operating temperature, pH, time and substrate under mashing and fermentation processes, Central Composite Experimental Design (CCD) was used. The results showed that, the maximum % malt extracts (92.36 %), fermentable sugar (10.53 oBx) were observed at 70oC, 120 min., pH value of 4.5 and 30 gm substrate source addition. After optimizing the wort, the fermentation experiment was conducted accordingly the combination which was given by design expert software. The maximum degree of attenuation value (86 %) was observed at 20oC, 96 hr, and pH value of 4.4 and 75 gm substrate source added. Therefore, good barley type and optimum condition for mashing and fermentation process were found to be significant effect for high wort, and distillery beer.

Background: Iodine deficiency disorder is a common and preventable global public health problem that causes irreversible mental retardation. IDD is more prevalent in developing countries, especially in mountain areas. Therefore this study aimed to assess the magnitude and associated factors of goiter among adolescent girls. The knowledge and utilization of iodine-rich foods and iodized salt of adolescent girls in the highland area of North Shewa zone, Central Ethiopia was also assessed. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from October 5, 2018, to December 30, 2019. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 477 adolescent girls from 12 schools. A pre-tested structured self-administered questionnaire, anthropometric measure and thyroid gland examination were used for data collection. The collected data were entered into Epi Data 3.1 software and analyzed using Anthro plus and SPSS version 21 software. Results: The overall prevalence of goiter was 50.4% of which 35.4% were palpable and 15.0% were visible goiter. Being post-menarche (AOR=3.241, 95% CI= (1.288-8.152)) and thin (AOR=1.124, 95% CI= (1.068-14.680)) adolescent girl increased the risk goiter. Two hundred seventy (60.8%) adolescent girls had awareness about salt iodization and 54.5% girls said it is important to prevent goiter. Though packed salt was used by 58.2% only 30.6% of households of adolescent girls add salt immediately before the end of cooking or after cooking. Conclusions: Goiter is a serious health problem that affects about half of adolescent girls in the study area. The risk of developing goiter was higher among girls who initiated menstruation and suffered from thinness. There is low awareness about iodized salt and packed salt utilization. In addition to universal salt iodization as a strategy to eliminate IDD, emphasis to awareness creation on salt iodization and its proper utilization is required.

Introduction: Historically, women were given birth in the home by the help of midwives, but they heard changes from the increase in the performance of professionals with interventional practices, especially in the hospital environment. Today, even in the hospital setting, the humanized care in childbirth remit the values of a natural childbirth as something physiological. Objective: To describe the experience lived as a nursing student about the role of the nurse in humanized childbirth care in a Maternity Hospital in the city of Rio Largo. Method: This is a descriptive study of the experience of the Nursing Work Placement in the city of Rio Largo in the period from 11 to September 29, 2017. Results: It was possible to observe how the humanized care at birth changes the behavior and perception of pain in the parturient. During labor, women were encouraged to use non-pharmacological methods among these methods; the use of the Swiss ball, stool, lumbosacral massage and the calm environment. Assistance was provided in a humane way. Conclusion: It is necessary that nurses take care, so that they have a humanized care focused on childbirth care to minimize the perception of painful stimuli in women, using non-pharmacological methods, without interventional practices allowing women to be protagonists of their childbirth.

Introduction: The provoked or induced abortion, in its definition, is the act of stopping pregnancy for external and intentional reasons before extrauterine viability. The physical and emotional consequences that abortion entails, which can lead to irreversible sequelae, and even to the death of women, miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy before the 20th week. Leading to a feeling of pain not only by mourning, but also for the suffering of abortion (Sell, Sandra Elisa, et al.; 2015). For Sescato, Souza and Wall (2008), pain is considered a sensory and subjective experience. pain is also related to several factors that influence your perception, such as fear, mental stress, tension, fatigue, loneliness, social and affective helplessness, and ignorance of what is happening. Objective: To describe the experience experienced by a nursing student during nursing care in abortion situation. Methodology: This is a descriptive study of the report of experience in a public maternity hospital in the municipality of Maceió-AL, in 2015. Results: During nursing care provided to a woman in an abortion situation, it was noticeable through physiognomy that she had severe pain. Faced with an exhaustive routine of health professionals, care without directly worrying about pain making care mechanically, thus, and there is no concern in trying to calm the patient not passing information about the procedures and techniques to be performed, forgetting even to identify themselves. Conclusion: In view of the experience experienced, the importance of a team qualified to assist patients in complex situations such as abortion, with adequate reception, was evidenced, taking into account the moment of physical and emotional pain suffered by the patient, seeing him thus, holistically.

Introduction: The Interdisciplinary Actions Project in Maternal Health-InfantiI consists of a strategy focused on maternal and child health care, as an extension project of the Federal University of Alagoas, Arapiraca Campus, focusing on interdisciplinarity covering the courses: Nursing, Psychology and Social Assistance. From the experiences in the project, a situation of gestational loss caught the attention of the members of the project. According to the Ministry of Health, fetal death is characterized as the death of the product of pregnancy before expulsion or complete extraction of the maternal body. Indicates death the fact that, after separation, the fetus has no sign of life. Objectives: To report the experience of a woman who suffered gestational loss accompanied by project members during action in a maternity ward. Methodology: Descriptive study of the type of experience report based on the experience of nursing and psychology students from the Federal University of Alagoas. The experience in question took place in May 2018, in a maternity ward in the city of Arapiraca-Alagoas. Results: During the actions of the project we had contact for two consecutive days with a full-term pregnant woman, primiparous, accompanied by the husband and mother. She reported pain in the lumbar region and in the lower womb. On the first day she was in the latency phase of labor and was advised by the on-call nurse to wander to help in uterine dynamics. The next day, the parturient was in active labor, was accompanied by her mother and the psychology student, until then everything went smoothly. On this occasion the nurse asked us to hide the fetal heartbeat, however, we could not detect them and inform them, that initially managed to perceive fetal bradycardia and then no longer identified them. With this, the parturient was referred to the operating room urgently, but…

Introduction: In the past, the obstetric practices adopted in maternity wards adopted an interventionist character, marked by authoritarianism. With the objective of assuring women the right to reproductive planning, humanized attention to pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, the Federal Government established the Network Stork within the SUS (Unic Health System). One of the main objectives of the National Guidelines for Assistance to Normal Labor, updated in March 2017, is to reduce unnecessary interventions in the process of attending normal childbirth and, consequently, its injuries. Objectives: To show the perspective of nursing students regarding nursing care for pregnant women in labor. Methodology: This is an experience report by students in the discipline of Clinical Teaching in Women’s Health, undergraduate course in Nursing of Faculdade Estácio de Alagoas – FAL, Jatiúca campus, from August to December 2017. Results: It was possible to put into practice the techniques of care acquired in the classroom, ranging from the importance of emotional and psychological support to adopting measures that aimed to reduce pain and promote comfort. Conclusions: Although there are ordinances aimed at the humanization of childbirth care, the nurses still employ interventionist practices of a violent nature. Therefore, it is imperative that guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health be followed in all areas, since once these measures have been adopted, the quality of childbirth care improves considerably, as does the experience of childbirth from the point of view of the patient.

Introduction: Health technology refers to the application of knowledge in order to promote health, prevent, treat diseases and rehabilitate people. Are examples of technologies in health: medicines, health products, procedures, organizational, educational systems, for information and support and assistance programmes and protocols by which attention and health care are provided to the population. Second Merhy, classifies the technologies of health as follows: health technologies, take hard and Harsh. In practice in the maternity ward to the discipline of women’s health II from the Federal University of Alagoas, foster care is encouraged through the use of Light Health Technologies, which are relational technologies, such as those related to the production of the bond production, host, empowerment; providing a trust and humanized assistance, allowing professional-patient-service walk together to the same solution. Objective: To report the academic experience in practice, in the handling of health technologies, in the accompaniment of a parturient in labor, demonstrating your importance to the service. Methodology: This is a case studies drawn from the experience the nursing student, assisted by teachers linked to women’s health discipline II. The practical activity happened in the maternity of Our Lady of Fátima de Arapiraca, Alagoas, in July 2018. Using health technologies take in areas such as reception, sorting, prepartum, postpartum and childbirth in order to promote the mother a humanized assistance and led for the same. Results: The practices were able to combine theoretical and practical knowledge in order to perform in hospitals, functions performed in areas as host, classification, prepartum, postpartum and childbirth in order to promote the mother a humanized assistance and carried out by the same. The scholars were able to see and make use of lightweight technologies, to assist in labor and childbirth of parturient women. The gaze on the mother could be reformulated and strengthened, since…

Objective: To identify the understandings of sugarcane workers on the contribution of ergonom-ics in the prevention of low back pain. Understanding that knowledge of issues pertinent to this field is fundamental, members of Uninassau’s academic health and safety union have held talks with sugarcane cutters. Results: These professionals seek in the cane cut a way to support their families. We believe in the potential of each sugarcane cutter that participated in an active and collaborative way during the activities. Starting from the qualitative and descriptive approach of this experience report, we find methodological subsidies in oral history, as a way of listening and dialoguing with the subjects during the conversational wheels. Considering the purpose of the study, several lines were observed during the wheels. Conclusion: They indicate that although cane cutters understand ergonomics as a relevant element in the prevention of postural con-straints and consequently the prevention of pain in the lumbar before, during or after their work activities, their understandings about the working environment in the cut do not seem to have any impact in consolidating a broader and more critical formation.