Direct and indirect effects of poor sleep quality on BMI and waist circumference in a female population-based study in Southern Brazil.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the direct and indirect effects of poor sleep quality on BMI and waist circumference (WC), considering behavioural factors as intermediate variables.

Design: A population-based cross-sectional study design was adopted. Data were collected between February and October 2015.

[Combined HIV prevention? Systematic review of interventions with women from low- and middle-income countries].

The scope of this systematic review was to characterize interventions for HIV prevention that included adult women and was conducted in low- and middle-income countries after 1996, identifying how they covered individual, social and programmatic vulnerabilities. Databases were accessed from 1997 to July 2016 and the studies selected included adult women, with combined strategies or otherwise, only excluding biomedical or mass media interventions. Thus, 72 interventions developed in 32 countries were selected, most of them in African countries and/or in the upper-middle income bracket, with 26 focusing solely on women.

Association between common mental disorders, sleep quality, and menopausal symptoms: a population-based study in Southern Brazil.

Objective: To investigate the association between common mental disorders (CMD), sleep quality, and moderate and severe menopausal symptoms in adult women in southern Brazil.

Methods: This cross-sectional, population-based study investigated a representative sample of 393 women (age 40-69 years) living in an urban area. A standardized and pretested questionnaire that included the Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20 for CMD (Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20 ≥7), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index-BR for sleep disorders (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index >5), and the Menopause Rating Scale for moderate/severe menopausal symptoms (Menopause Rating Scale >8) was used for data collection.

Social inequalities in the use of contraceptives in adult women from Southern Brazil.

Objective: To describe the contraceptive methods used by adult women and the associated socioeconomic and demographic factors.

Methods: Population-based cross-sectional study with 20 to 49-year-old women from São Leopoldo, state of Rio Grande do Sul, in 2015. Three outcomes were considered to analyze the association with demographic and socioeconomic characteristics: use of oral contraceptive pills, tubal ligation and male condom.

Factors associated with not having Pap Smears in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2015: a cross-sectional population-based study.

Objective: to estimate the prevalence of Pap tests not performed in the last three years and never performed in women and to analyze factors.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional study with women aged 20 to 69 years living in São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil, in 2015; prevalence ratios (PR) were calculated using Poisson regression.

Results: among 919 women, prevalence of delayed testing was 17.

Shift work, sleep duration, and body image dissatisfaction among female workers in southern Brazil.

We examined the association between shift work and sleep duration with body image dissatisfaction (BID) among shift-working women in southern Brazil. In this cross-sectional study, data of 505 women shift workers, between 18 and 60 years old, were collected between January and April 2011. BID was assessed using the Stunkard Figure Rating Scale.

Basal cortisol levels and metabolic syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

Objective: To perform a qualitative synthesis (systematic review) and quantitative analysis (meta-analysis) to summarize the evidence regarding the relationship between basal cortisol levels and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adults.

Methods: A systematic search was performed in the PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO databases for observational studies on the association between basal cortisol levels and MetS. The quality of individual studies was assessed by the Newcastle-Ottawa score.

Pharmacotherapeutic profile of users and expenditure on high-cost drugs in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, 2014.

Objective: to describe the pharmacotherapeutic profile of users of the Specialized Program for Pharmaceutical Assistance, and to measure the expenditure on the most prevalent and the most expensive medications.

Methods: descriptive study conducted in São Leopoldo-RS, Brazil, with secondary data regarding information about requests accepted in 2014, through administrative proceedings; delivery notes of the State Health Department/RS were used to assess the costs.

Results: 1,528 users were included in the study, mostly women (56.