Drug use and perceived social support in a sexual minority.

Aim: To evaluate the perception of social support in a sexual minority and to associate it with the risk of drug addiction.

Method: Cross-sectional study, with 254 self-declared gay, bisexual, lesbian, or transsexual participants in the city of Fortaleza, between October and December 2019. Data analyzed by descriptive statistics and likelihood ratio tests.

Verbal communication of the parturient nurse's dyad in the active phase of labor.

Objectives: to analyze verbal communication between the nurse and the parturient during the active phase of labor in two Lusophone countries.

Methods: quantitative analytical study. Sample of 709 interactions between nurses and parturients using verbal communication during the active phase of labor in Brazil and Cape Verde.

Non-verbal nurse-parturient communication in labor in Portuguese-speaking countries.

Objective: to analyze nonverbal communication between nurse and parturient during the active phase of labor in two Portuguese-speaking countries.

Method: a quantitative and analytical study, whose sample consisted of 709 interactions that used the nonverbal communication of nurses and parturients. The analyzed variables were: distance; posture; axis; contact; emblematic gestures; illustrator gestures and regulatory gestures.