Development of a participatory research strategy involving autistic people with different levels of support needs.

This article describes the development of a participatory methodological study involving autistic people with varying levels of support needs in the design and validation of an instrument devised to assess the effects of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and the strategies used to cope with the crisis. The development of the instrument involved the following stages: Definition of the domains to be assessed (researchers in consultation with experts and autistic people); Design of the instrument (researchers with the co-participation of autistic people); Validation of the instrument (by experts and autistic people, led by the researchers); and Final approval of the instrument (co-participation between researchers and autistic people). In addition to making the instrument more robust, the participation of autistic people in the design and application of the instrument reinforced the importance of strategies to include autistic people in research as both study participants and co-researchers.

The discourse change in drugs users or addicts care: critical discourse analysis of a federal Act.

Brazilian drug policies have undergone changes over time, bearing marks for each historical period and experienced sanitary-political interests. Nowadays, an anti-reformist character was perceived in changes concentrated on Law no. 13,840, of June 5, 2019.

Possibilities of ethnomusicology applied to the field of public health.

This article analyses methodological possibilities of ethnomusicology in the field of public health, starting from an experience that triangulated ethnomusicological theories with discourse analysis (DA). After an introduction to applied ethnomusicology, it is followed by a description of methodological aspects of the experience in question. Subsequently, the conduction of the ethnomusicological step and the triangulation process was described.

"I am not a blue angel": Sexuality from the perspective of autistic adolescentes.

Despite the difficulties in living their sexualities, the sexual education of autistic people is often neglected. In this sense, this research aims to identify autistic people's demands on their sexualities, in line with the neurodiversity paradigm. This qualitative research was carried out from September 2017 to October 2018, with 14 autistic children aged 15 to 17 enrolled in regular schools.

The Impact of Urinary Incontinence on Sexual Function: A Systematic Review.

Introduction: Many studies have been developed to investigate the relationship between urinary incontinence (UI) and female sexuality especially how it interferes on the sexual function of affected women, but many questions remain unclear.

Objectives: To summarize the relevant scientific literature published in the last 10 years that focused on the study of the impact of UI on the sexual function of incontinent women.

Methods: The PubMed and Bireme databases were searched using the keyword string "urinary incontinence" and "sexual function" or "sexual satisfaction" or "sexuality" for studies focusing the impact of UI on the sexual function of affected women older than 18 years, published in the last 10 years.

Weaknesses in the work process in Health Care for Women in situations of sexual violence.

This paper aimed to identify in the discourses of managers and workers assisting women in situations of sexual violence the conditions that compromise the care to these women, and the structuring of the network. This is a qualitative study conducted with 19 professionals of these services through semi-structured interviews. The method of discourse analysis underpinned the analytical process, evidencing two discursive formations: weaknesses that affect the work process, and limitations imposed by professional practice.

Objection of conscience or ideological instrumentalization? An analysis of discourses of managers and other professionals regarding legal abortion.

This article sought to understand objection of conscience based on an analysis of the ideological formations that permeate access to legal abortion in cases of sexual violence in the perspective of workers and managers who work at reference centers. It is a qualitative research with semi-structured interviews of 20 workers (six of whom were also managers) of these services. The study used discourse analysis.

Costs and mortality rates of surgical approaches to hysterectomy in Brazil.

Objective: To analyze the costs of hysterectomies performed in Brazil due to benign conditions, and to assess its hospital admittance and mortality rates.

Methods: A retrospective cohort was carried out from January 2010 to December 2014, analyzing all hysterectomies (n = 428,346) registered on the DATASUS database between January 2010 and December 2014. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire and analyzed using the SPSS 20.

["Give her booze and she'll loosen up": gender violence in Northeast Brazilian forró lyrics and parties].

Violence against women is primarily a socially produced issue of gender-hierarchy cultural values. This study aimed to unveil the meanings assigned to sexual violence against women in the forró lyrics by adolescent boys living on the outskirts of Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil. Our point of departure was ethnomusicology, the theory of which contends that studies of regional songs and their performances transcend the geographic space in which they are performed, to the extent that they reflect universally disseminated practices in the legitimation of violence.

Realities and perspectives of adolescent mothers in their first pregnancy.

Objective: to understand the trajectory of adolescents regarding the first pregnancy, contemplating realities and perspectives.

Method: qualitative study, based on the Schütz theoretical framework, with 30 adolescents assisted in an outpatient clinic for adolescents in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. From the narrative interviews carried out in the first semester of 2013, in the return for the first consultation of the puerperium, the communicative processes were identified, the central ideas and units of meanings expressed in the themes were abstracted: I was dating and became pregnant; realities and perspectives.

Endometriosis and Ovarian Cancer: an Integrative Review (Endometriosis and Ovarian Cancer).

Despite being initially considered a benign disease, it is widely thought nowadays that endometriosis and especially ovarian endometriomas are neoplastic conditions with the potential to become malignant. This review was conducted to summarize, in a concise and systematic manner, the available scientific data relating endometriosis to ovarian cancer, published in the past five years. After reading abstracts and applying our predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, a final list of 11 scientific papers was obtained and subjected to review.

[Factors associated with the report and adolescent abuse in primary healthcare].

This study aimed to analyze factors associated with the reporting of child and adolescent abuse in primary healthcare. It is a cross-sectional study conducted with 381 professionals (physicians, nurses and dental surgeons) from three healthcare regions of the state of Ceara, Brazil. It used a self-administered questionnaire asking for socio-demographic data, vocational education and training, instrumentation and knowledge on the issue, identification and reporting of abuse cases.