The effectiveness of a rotavirus vaccine in preventing hospitalizations and deaths presumably due to acute infectious diarrhea in Brazilian children: a quasi-experimental study.

Introduction: Rotavirus is the main etiologic agent of acute infectious diarrhea in children worldwide. Considering that a rotavirus vaccine (G1P8, strain RIX4414) was added to the Brazilian vaccination schedule in 2006, we aimed to study its effectiveness and safety regarding intestinal intussusception.

Methods: A quasi-experimental trial was performed in which the primary outcome was the number of hospitalizations that were presumably due to acute infectious diarrhea per 100,000 children at risk (0-4 years old).

[Alcohol consumption in pregnancy: performance of the Brazilian version of the questionnaire T-ACE].

Objective: To assess the performance characteristics of the Brazilian version of the Tolerance, Annoyed, Cut down and Eye-opener (T-ACE) questionnaire to screen alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

Methods: Observational, cross-sectional study in a sequential sample of 450 women in the third trimester of pregnancy, attended in a maternity ward in a city of Southeastern Brazil, in 2001. The following instruments were used: a questionnaire to gather sociodemographic data, the T-ACE, a questionnaire to verify history of alcohol consumption throughout gestation, and a clinical interview to identify the harmful use of and dependence on alcohol, according to ICD-10 diagnostic criteria.

[Performance assessment of CAGE screening test among psychiatric outpatients].

Descriptive and transversal study to evaluate the performance of CAGE among psychiatric outpatients at a tertiary-level university hospital. Convenience sample composed of patients from HCFMRP-USP (n=127). The instruments used were CAGE and the diagnostic interview based on ICD-10 criteria for harmful use and alcohol dependence.

[Critical evaluation of the Primary Care Information System (SIAB) and its implementation in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil].

As the health information system used by the Family Health Program teams, the Primary Care Information System (SIAB) is a potential tool for follow-up of registered families and local planning, thus motivating the present study. Semi-structured interviews were held with key individuals in this health information system chain, among Family Health Teams in the municipality of Ribeirão Preto and surrounding region, São Paulo State, Brazil, with the objective of analyzing certain characteristics in the system, including: knowledge and having received training to handle it and utilization for local planning and social control. The study concluded that the SIAB is an easy system to handle, but that it presents some limitations already found in other health information systems, such as: difficulty in identifying individuals in the program, limited number of diseases reported, and limited utilization to back planning and decision-making at the local level.

[Psychiatric morbidity and alcohol use by pregnant women in a public obstetric service].

Objective: To investigate the relationship between alcohol consumption and emotional distress in pregnant women, and to verify whether women with problematic alcohol consumption (abuse or dependence) have more emotional distress than those with non-problematic alcohol consumption.

Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was carried out in a clinical sample from a public obstetric service in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. A non-probabilistic convenience sample of patients who were consecutively recruited comprised 450 pregnant women.