Digital Narratives: The Impact of Instagram on Mothers of Children with Congenital Toxoplasmosis.

Background: Congenital toxoplasmosis leads to severe complications in childhood and presents significant global health challenges. In Brazil, the prevalence of toxoplasmosis during pregnancy and congenital cases ranges from 0.3 to 8 per 1000 live births.

Accessibility to prenatal care at the Street Outreach Office: nurse perceptions in northern Brazil.

Objectives: to understand nurse perspectives regarding homeless pregnant women's accessibility to prenatal care.

Methods: a qualitative study, with analysis based on the concept of accessibility. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 11 nurses who work at the Street Outreach Office in northern Brazil.

Representations of COVID-19: the pandemic in the context of international commuting migration from mining.

Objective: To analyze the conceptions about COVID-19 among Brazilians who carry out commuting to work in clandestine mines located on the borders between Brazil, French Guiana and Suriname.

Method: This is qualitative research, from an analytical perspective, based on Social Representation Theory. Semi-structured, audio-recorded interviews were carried out with 10 Brazilians who experience work routine in clandestine mining on the border between Brazil, French Guiana and Suriname.

Sexual assault and vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections among homeless Brazilian women: a cross sectional qualitative study.

Background: Homeless women have complex life conditions and are often exposed to violence, sexual exploitation, rape, prostitution, reproductive disorders, survival sex trading, unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The aim was to explore the existence of sexual aggression and vulnerability to STIs among homeless Brazilian women.

Methods: Fifteen interviews were conducted with homeless women who were admitted to a women's shelter in a large city in Brazil.

Vulnerabilities to illnesses in women living on the border of the Guiana Shield mines.

Objective: To analyze the the vulnerabilities to illnesses in women living on the border of the Guiana Shield mines: Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname.

Method: Descriptive, exploratory field study with a qualitative approach. Data collection took place with 19 women who were living in the mining context, in April 2018.

Parental stress during pregnancy and maternity.

Objective: To identify factors related to parental stress of women during pregnancy and the child's first month of life.

Method: Prospective longitudinal study in two stages. Analysis of home interviews with 121 participants, Gestational Stress Scale, and Parental Stress Scale.

Assisting Homeless Women in a City in Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of a Street Outreach Office: The Perceptions of Health Professionals.

This study aimed to understand the perception of Street Outreach Office professionals regarding the health care offered to homeless women during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a qualitative and descriptive study developed with nine health professionals of a Street Outreach Office team from a large city in the countryside of São Paulo State (Brazil) from December 2020 to April 2021. Data were obtained through interviews using a semi-structured script with questions about care practices directed to homeless women.

Characterization of adolescent sexual practices.

Objective: to characterize adolescents' sexual practices and their association with sociodemographic variables, sources of information and behavioral habits.

Method: a descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study conducted with 85 adolescents from public elementary and high schools in a city in the state of São Paulo. Data were collected through a structured, self-administered and anonymous questionnaire.

Attention to Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health at the Street Outreach Office.

The aim of study was to understand care strategies for homeless women, focusing on aspects of sexual and reproductive health from the perspective of Street Outreach Office strategy professionals. This is a qualitative study carried out in a large city in the countryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Data were collected from December 2020 to April 2021 through semi-structured interviews, and the results were obtained through content analysis and thematic modality.

Women who live in mining on the French-Brazilian border: daily challenges.

Objectives: to describe the daily life of Brazilian women who work in mining.

Methods: a descriptive, qualitative study, with analysis based on the theory of Symbolic Interactionism. Non-participant observations, field diary writing, sociodemographic form, non-directive interviews, recorded and transcribed in full, were carried out with 19 women who work in mining areas on the French-Brazilian Amazon border.

Emotional consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in adolescents: challenges to public health.

Objective: To describe adolescents' everyday activities and emotional consequences related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: Qualitative study grounded in Alfred Schütz's social phenomenology, involving 22 students at two public schools in a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Interviews were conducted, had their audio recorded, and were analyzed according to a thematic categorization.

Anxiety and its influence on maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy.

Objective: to identify the levels of anxiety and breastfeeding self-efficacy in puerperal women at the intervals of 60, 120, and 180 days postpartum; and to verify the influence of anxiety on breastfeeding self-efficacy among these puerperal women.

Method: an analytical, longitudinal and prospective study, conducted with 186 puerperal women, and which used a sociodemographic and obstetric characterization questionnaire, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale - Short Form. The analyses were performed by means of descriptive statistics, and Fisher's Exact Test was used.

Relationship of the type of breastfeeding in the sexual function of women.

Objective: to relate the type of breastfeeding in the women's sexual function.

Method: a cross-sectional study conducted with 150 women in the postpartum period registered in the Family Health Strategy of a large Brazilian municipality. Two instruments were used: one for characterizing sociodemographic, obstetric and breastfeeding variables, and the Female Sexual Function Index for the sexual function.

Women's sexual health six months after a severe maternal morbidity event.

Objective: to investigate female sexual function in women six months postpartum and to compare sexual function among women who had and who did not have severe maternal morbidity (SMM).

Method: a cross-sectional study conducted with 110 women in the postpartum period, with and without SMM. Two instruments were used, one for the characterization of sociodemographic and obstetric variables and the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) for sexual function.

Common mental disorders and associated factors: a study of women from a rural area.

Objective: Identifying the prevalence of Common Mental Disorders and analyzing the influence of sociodemographic, economic, behavioral and reproductive health variables on Common Mental Disorders in women of childbearing age living in the rural area of Uberaba-MG, Brazil.

Method: An observational and cross-sectional study. Socio-demographic, economic, behavioral and reproductive health instruments were used, along with the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) to identify common mental disorders.

Experiences with severe maternal morbidity: a qualitative study on the perception of women.

Objective: to know and analyze the experiences of women who developed an episode of Severe Maternal Morbidity.

Method: this is a qualitative study, in which we interviewed 16 women admitted to a tertiary level hospital, as a result of this morbid state. We used content analysis in data processing.

Preconception health behaviors associated with pregnancy planning status among Brazilian women.

Objective: The objective of this study is to assess preconception health behaviors among Brazilian women, and analyze the effect of pregnancy planning status in carrying out preconception measures.

Method: This is a cross-sectional quantitative study conducted with 807 women, of whom 649 had a planned or ambivalent pregnancy. Preconception health behaviors were assessed by the Brazilian version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy.

Severe lactational mastitis: particularities from admission.

Objective: to identify characteristics of women who have suffered severe lactational mastitis.

Method: a descriptive, retrospective, documentary, quantitative study was performed. Data were collected from patient records of 114 hospitalized women from January of 2009 to December of 2013.

Intimate partner violence and anxiety disorders in pregnancy: the importance of vocational training of the nursing staff in facing them.

Objective: to identify the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, trait and state anxiety, and intimate partner violence during pregnancy.

Method: observational, cross-sectional study developed with 358 pregnant women. The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist - Civilian Version was used, as well as the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and an adapted version of the instrument used in the World Health Organization Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence.

Depressive disorder in pregnant Latin women: does intimate partner violence matter?

Aims And Objectives: To identify the association of antenatal depressive symptoms with intimate partner violence during the current pregnancy in Brazilian women.

Background: Intimate partner violence is an important risk factor for antenatal depression. To the authors' knowledge, there has been no study to date that assessed the association between intimate partner violence during pregnancy and antenatal depressive symptoms among Brazilian women.

[Intimate partner violence in pregnancy: identification of women victims of their partners].

Objective: To identify women in situations of violence by intimate partners during the current pregnancy among users of prenatal care services.

Methods: Observational, cross-sectional study conducted from May 2012 to May 2013 in a prenatal service in Ribeirão Preto - SP, with 358 pregnant women from the 36th week of pregnancy. Data were collected through interviews.

Mental health of women who suffer intimate partner violence during pregnancy.

Objective: To identify the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy and mental disorders in women in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle.

Methodology: A review was conducted of papers published in Portuguese, English and Spanish regarding the study theme. The databases explored were PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS and PsycINFO.