Association between biopsychosocial factors and self-reported COVID-19 clinical complications in a Brazilian city.

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the existence of an association between the biopsychosocial profile of people affected and the number of self-reported clinical complications from COVID-19 in a Brazilian city.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional (baseline) study, nested in a cohort study, carried out with 217 confirmed cases of COVID-19, interviewed from January to October 2021, during home visits, in a city in the south of Minas Gerais, Brazil. A structured questionnaire with the KoboToolbox resource was used.

The waiting room: potential for people with arterial hypertension to learn.

Objective: To analyze the meanings assigned by people with systemic arterial hypertension to health education actions in the waiting room.

Method: This is an analytical qualitative study, held in 2016 with 19 people with arterial hypertension from a health unit. The data were collected in households, through a semi-structured interview and field notes, recorded on audio, transcribed and organized by thematic analysis, being analyzed considering Vygostky's Cultural-Historical Learning Theory.

Use of alcohol and other drugs among male university students and its meanings.

Objective: To understand the meanings that male university students assign to the condition of users of alcohol and other drugs.

Method: An exploratory study using a qualitative approach, with inductive analysis of the content of semi-structured interviews applied to 20 male university students from a public university in the southeast region of Brazil, grounded on the theoretical-methodological referential of interpretive anthropology and ethnographic method.

Results: Data were construed using content inductive analysis for two topics: use of alcohol and/or drugs as an outlet; and use of alcohol and/or other drugs: an alternative for belonging and identity.

Representation of nurse's managerial practice in inpatient units: nursing staff perspective.

Objective To understand the meanings that nursing staff gives to nurse's managerial practice in the inpatient unit. Methods This is an exploratory and descriptive research with qualitative approach, conducted in a general hospital in a Southern city of Minas Gerais State. We used the Theory of Social Representations as theoretical framework.

The experience of the illness and of the treatment for the person with systemic arterial hypertension: an ethnographic study.

Objective: To interpret the meanings of the experience of the condition and of the treatment among people with arterial hypertension.

Method: The authors adopted the frames of reference of interpretive and medical anthropology and of the ethnographic method. 22 people with arterial hypertension, and 10 Family Health Strategy health workers, all from Minas Gerais, participated.

The meaning of being a man with intestinal stoma due to colorectal cancer: an anthropological approach to masculinities.

This study analyzes the meanings that men with intestinal stoma attribute to their colorectal cancer experience and its treatment. The medical anthropology framework, gender identity and the ethnographic methods were used. A total of 16 men from 40 to 79 years of age, residents in Ribeirão Preto and neighboring cities, SP, Brazil participated in the study.