Response to college students' mental health needs: a rapid review.

Objective: To present strategic options to support the adoption of mental health strengthening policies for university students in the field of health, to be implemented by university institutions.

Methods: Rapid review, without period delimitation, with searches carried out from May to June 2020, in 21 sources of bibliographic data, including gray literature. The following keywords were used: mental health, students and university.

Realist evaluation for programs and services in the health area: an integrative review of the theoretical and methodological literature.

Objective: to identify and analyze the concepts of the realist evaluation and the methodologies recommended for its development in the health area.

Method: an integrative review, which included theoretical and methodological studies published in the following databases: COCHRANE Library, EVIPNet, Health Systems Evidence, LILACS, PDQ-Evidence, PubMed, Rx for Change, and SciELO, in addition to Teses-CAPES and Google Scholar, for the gray literature. The mediation category underlay the analysis.

Workers' occupational health surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The aim of this scoping review is to describe the characteristics of occupational surveillance systems available in low- and middle-income countries.

Introduction: Well-established workers' health surveillance systems provide important data to guide public health decision-making. A previous review on occupational health surveillance systems in developed countries found that insufficient collection of information and resources affects the work of policymakers and researchers.

Harm reduction: trends being disputed in health policies.

Objective: to identify the underlying harm reduction trends in Brazilian drug policies.

Method: The research, qualitative in nature, used in-depth interviews with experts in the field. The recorded and transcribed material was analyzed via the content analysis method.

Emancipatory drug practices: building projects with Primary Healthcare workers.

Objective: To build projects for implementing emancipatory drug practices with Primary Healthcare workers.

Method: An emancipatory action research based on historical-dialectical materialism developed at the Vila Prudente/Sapopemba Health Technical Supervision of the city of São Paulo with the participation of Primary Healthcare workers (care providers and management).

Results: Seventeen (17) health workers participated in sharing 13 workshops.

Realist review as a methodology for using evidence in health policies: an integrative review.

Objective: To identify and analyze the concepts of realist review and the recommended methodology for its development in the health area.

Method: An integrative review which sought theoretical-methodological qualitative or quantitative studies through 11 data sources which analyzed or proposed theories and/or realist review methodology.

Results: Twenty-three (23) studies, mainly published in the United Kingdom, were included.

Drug content in games for mobile devices.

Objective: To analyze drug content in games for mobile devices.

Method: An exploratory study implementing a qualitative approach. The collective health critical perspective was taken in relation to the ideology of prohibitionist education and the foundations of emancipatory education in the area of drugs.

Inclusive and emancipatory approaches to occupational therapy practice in substance-use contexts.

Background.: Occupational therapy practice is enhanced through clear understanding of its epistemological foundations. In the area of substance use, practices are strongly functionalist.

Action research in the healthcare field: a scoping review.

Objective: This scoping review aimed to explore international literature related to the application of action research in studies in the healthcare context.

Introduction: Action research is an approach that involves collaboration to develop a process through knowledge building and social change. Several viewpoints of action research have been introduced as the different traditions of developed action research.

Experiences and shared meaning of teamwork and interprofessional collaboration among health care professionals in primary health care settings: a systematic review.

Background: During the last decade, teamwork has been addressed under the rationale of interprofessional practice or collaboration, highlighted by the attributes of this practice such as: interdependence of professional actions, focus on user needs, negotiation between professionals, shared decision making, mutual respect and trust among professionals, and acknowledgment of the role and work of the different professional groups. Teamwork and interprofessional collaboration have been pointed out as astrategy for effective organization of health care services as the complexity of healthcare requires integration of knowledge and practices from differente professional groups. This integration has a qualitative dimension that can be identified through the experiences of health professionals and to the meaning they give to teamwork.

Effectiveness of rifampicin chemoprophylaxis in preventing leprosy in patient contacts: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence.

Background: Individuals in contact with patients who have leprosy have an increased risk of disease exposure, which reinforces the need for chemoprophylactic measures, such as the use of rifampicin.

Objectives: The objective of the review was to synthesize the best available evidence regarding the effectiveness of rifampicin chemoprophylaxis for contacts with patients with leprosy, and to synthesize the best available evidence on the experience and acceptability of rifampicin chemoprophylaxis as reported by the contacts and health professionals involved in the treatment of leprosy or Hansen's disease.

Inclusion Criteria Types Of Participants: In the quantitative component, individuals in contact with leprosy patients were included.

Everyday representations of young people about peripheral areas.

Objectives:: to understand everyday representations of young people about the peripheral areas, with the purpose of establishing topics to drug education media programs.

Method:: Marxist approach, with emancipatory action research and the participation in workshops of 13 youngsters from a public school of the peripheral area of São Paulo.

Results:: there are contradictory everyday representations about the State's role, which, on the one hand, does not guarantee social rights and exert social control over the peripheral areas and, on the other hand, is considered the privileged interlocutor for the improvement of life and work conditions.

Emancipatory action research with young schoolchildren: experience report.

Objective: To report an emancipatory action research experience and discuss its potentialities as a way to problematise the realities of the young participants. The aim of the action research was to create a drug awareness media programme.

Method: Experience report of emancipatory action research with 13 young students of a public school, in São Paulo, from February to September 2014.

Implementation of evidence-based health care using action research: An emancipatory approach.

The aim of the study is to discuss the emancipatory approach to action research as an appropriate methodology for workers' meaningful implementation of evidence-based health care. Implementation of evidence-based health care using action research is well supported by the literature. There are various approaches to action research, and they are coherent with the objectives and methods elected to develop the investigation.

An Evidence-Based Approach to Scoping Reviews.

Objective: Scoping reviews are used to assess the extent of a body of literature on a particular topic, and often to ensure that further research in that area is a beneficial addition to world knowledge. The aim of this paper reports upon the development of a methodology for scoping reviews based upon the Arksey and O'Malley framework, the Levac, Colquhoun, and O'Brien, and the Joanna Briggs Institute methods of evidence synthesis.

Methods: A working group consisting of members of the Joanna Briggs collaborating organizations met to discuss the proposed framework for the methodology and develop a draft for the scoping review methodology based on the Arksey and O'Malley framework and the work of Levac et al.

Work Process in Primary Health Care: action research with Community Health Workers.

The aim of this article was to describe and analyze the work of community health workers (CHW). The main objective of study was to analyze the development process of primary health care practices related to drug consumption. The study is based on the Marxist theoretical orientation and the action research methodology, which resulted in the performance of 15 emancipatory workshops.

Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews.

Reviews of primary research are becoming more common as evidence-based practice gains recognition as the benchmark for care, and the number of, and access to, primary research sources has grown. One of the newer review types is the 'scoping review'. In general, scoping reviews are commonly used for 'reconnaissance' - to clarify working definitions and conceptual boundaries of a topic or field.

Practices in primary health care oriented toward the harmful consumption of drugs.

Objective To analyze the practices of primary care focused on the harmful consumption of drugs. Method This is a qualitative study, developed with a dialectical-critical approach. Data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews with 10 employees of a basic health unit (UBS).

Evidence in public health: steps to make it real.

This study addresses the methodological trends in the development of systematic reviews in public health, and examines the reviews of the Cochrane Public Health Group in order to exemplify syntheses of evidence in public health and its implementation and impact on practice and research.

Context of the beginning of tobacco use in different social groups.

Objective: analyze contextual aspects of the beginning of tobacco use in different social groups, from everyday representations about the act of smoking.

Methods: five focus groups were conducted to promote discussion about the context of beginning of tobacco use, with groups of people who represented different patterns of social reproduction. The data analysis was based on the theory of social representations, which contextualizes how each group presents the tobacco consumption.

[Integrative review: concepts and methods used in nursing].

Unlabelled: Integrative review (IR) has an international reputation in nursing research and evidence-based practice. This IR aimed at identifying and analyzing the concepts and methods recommended to undertaking IR in nursing. Nine information resources,including electronic databases and grey literature were searched.