Community health workers perspective on the COVID-19 impact on primary health care in Northeastern Brazil.

This article evaluates the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on the Family Health Strategy (FHS) team's work routines across a range of northeast Brazilian cities as perceived by community health workers (CHW). Data on COVID-19, CHW activities, and FHS teams were collected in 2021 by a structured questionnaire. A total of 1,935 CHWs from four state capitals (Fortaleza - Ceará State, João Pessoa - Paraíba State, Recife - Pernambuco State, Teresina - Piauí State) and four hinterland cities (Crato, Juazeiro do Norte, Barbalha, Sobral - Ceará State) participated in the study.

Factors associated with violence against women by an intimate partner in Northeast Brazil.

This study examined the prevalence, and associated factors, of violence against women by an intimate partner amongst 369 women who attended nursing consultations at primary care centres in Northeast Brazil. Socio-demographic variables, substance use, mental health and the forms of violence were analysed. IPV was a reality for 65.

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of young people and adults: a systematic review protocol of observational studies.

Introduction: Since the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic, the spread of the new coronavirus has been the focus of attention of scientists, governments and populations. One of the main concerns is the impact of this pandemic on health outcomes, mainly on mental health. Even though there are a few empirical studies on COVID-19 and mental health, so far, there is no systematic review about the impact of COVID-19 on mental health of young people and adults yet.

Alcohol and other drug use, and mental distress in the women's universe.

Objective: to analyze the relationship between alcohol and other drug use, and mental distress among women.

Method: an analytical cross-sectional study conducted with 369 women in Piauí State. Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, Non-Student Drugs Use Questionnaire and Self-Reporting Questionnaire and inferential statistics were used.

Domains of common mental disorders in women reporting intimate partner violence.

Objective: to verify associations between the types of intimate partner violence and the domains of common mental disorders in women.

Method: cross-sectional study with 369 women. The information was obtained through the instruments Self-Reporting Questionnaire and Conflict Tactic Scales.

Prevalence of anxiety disorders as a cause of workers' absence.

Objective: to analyze the prevalence of various anxiety disorders among mental and behavioral disorders as a cause for the leave of absence of workers in the state of Piauí.

Method: transversal census-based study performed with data from the National Social Security Institute. Four-hundred twelve leaves of absence of workers due to anxiety disorders in the 2015-2016 biennium were included.

Types of non-psychotic mental disorders in adult women who suffered intimate partner violence: an integrative review.

Objective: Identifying the types of non-psychotic mental disorders in adult women who suffered intimate partner violence in the literature.

Method: An integrative review carried out in the MEDLINE, CINAHL, LILACS, Web of Science and SCOPUS databases.

Results: We selected 19 articles published in international journals in English, with a predominance of cross-sectional study studies (78.

Self-inflicted violence by exogenous poisoning in an emergency service.

Objective: To analyze the self-inflicted violence by exogenous poisoning reported in a health service.

Methods: Epidemiological, retrospective and analytical study in an emergency care in the city of Teresina, Piauí. The study took place in January and February of 2015, upon review of all cases of self-inflicted violence by exogenous poisoning reported to the Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration, from 2009 to 2014.

The school health program: teachers' perceptions.

Objective: Understand teachers' perception of a school health program and its relationship with health education activities developed at school.

Methodology: Descriptive qualitative study, in which interviews with 10 teachers at a public school in the city of Barbalha, Ceará, Brazil were conducted. Data were analyzed in thematic categories.

Seroprevalence of hepatitis C and factors associated with this in crack users.

Objective: to investigate the seroprevalence of hepatitis C in crack users in Piauí.

Method: seroepidemiological survey, undertaken in the Psycho-Social Care Centers for Drugs and Alcohol (CAPS AD) in Piauí in the period December 2011 to May 2012. A questionnaire was administered and blood samples were collected for serological research.

Prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use among pregnant adolescents.

Aim: to identify alcohol use and the associated factors in pregnant adolescents of the municipality of Teresina-PI.

Method: this is cross-sectional study with 256 pregnant adolescents whose data were obtained through questionnaires covering socioeconomic, pregnancy and alcohol consumption characteristics and through the application of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, an instrument developed by the World Health Organization for screening for the excessive use of alcohol. Descriptive statistical analysis was performed using the chi-square test and odds ratio.

The violence in everyday of prostitution of women: invisibility and ambiguities.

Objective: To reveal the meaning of violence in everyday female prostitution.

Method: we used a phenomenological approach of Martin Heidegger. The survey was conducted in Teresina / Piauí / Brazil, with 11 women members of the Association of Prostitutes of Piaui.

The meanings of death and dying: the perspective of crack users.

The consumption of crack can constitute in an inauthentic form of the existence that leads a person to live improperly the being-toward-death. Given this reality, this study aimed to comprehend the significance of death and dying for the user of crack and to unveil the meanings attributed to this significance. This qualitative study was conducted, based on the phenomenological method, with 12 crack users, in the therapeutic process, in a Psychosocial Care CenterAlcohol and Drugs (CAPSad), in the period from February to April 2011, in Teresina, Piauí.

[Death and dying process: evidences from the literature of nursing].

The objective was to identify the profile of production and analyze perceptions, feelings and confrontations on the process of death and dying in the practice evidenced in nursing scientific production in the period 1994 to 2009. There was a qualitative, descriptive research, developed through a systematic literature review with metasynthesis from the meta-ethnographic method. Ten studies met the inclusion criteria, this set was subjected to quality assessment checklist with Critical Appraisal Skills Programme.

[Dealing with the phenomenological interview with prostitutes: experience report].

This article aims at describing our experience in obtaining statements using the phenomenological interview. Eleven prostitutes were interviewed in Teresina, PI. Along this journey we have had several remarkable moments such as: the strategy of approaching the interviewee, the site of the interviews and the own emotional narration of the prostitutes.

[Sexual violence against children in a family environment attended by SAMVVIS, Teresina, PI].

This study deals with the characterization of sexual violence in children seen at the Services for the Assistance of Women Victims of Sexual Violence (SAMVVIS) from 2004 to 2007 in Teresina, PI. Data collected from 229 charts indicate that the age of the children varies from less than one year up to 12 years of age. The identification of the aggressor was the neighbor (29.

[Knowledge of nurses about the Service for Assistance to Women Victims of Sexual Violence].

This quantitative study is to collect data of the knowledge of nurses about the Service for Assistance to women victims of sexual violence (SAMVVIS), in a public maternity hospital in Teresina, PI. Data was collected in February and March of 2008 from 61 nurses. The results show that the majority are aware of the service (90.

[Maternal experiences in the reality of having an autistic son: an understanding for nursing].

This study has as objective to describe the experience of being mother of an autistic child. A qualitative approach was accomplished according to the phenomenological concepts of Martin Heidegger. Fourteen mothers of autistic children had been interviewed, with semi-structured questions, tape-recorded and transcribed integrally.