Knowledge of sex workers about HIV/AIDS and its influence on sexual practices.

Objective: assess the knowledge of sex workers about HIV/AIDS and its influence on sexual practices.

Method: Ninety women participated in the study. The Scientific Knowledge Test about HIV/AIDS and sexual practices was used.

Assistive technology and active aging according to professionals working in community groups.

Objective: To identify the knowledge of professionals about assistive technology and its importance in the elderly's life.

Method: Exploratory descriptive qualitative study performed with professionals working in three community groups in the city of Cajazeiras (state of Paraíba/PB). Data were collected through an interview with semi-structured script and analyzed according to the Content Analysis Technique.

Knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes of older women in HIV/AIDS prevention.

Objective: To analyze the knowledge, religious beliefs and the adoption of preventive measures against HIV/AIDS of non-Catholic elderly women.

Method: A qualitative study, carried out in religious institutions of a municipality in the state of Ceará, Northeast Brazil, with 78 elderly women. Of these, 64 were evangelicals, seven spiritualists and seven Jehovah's Witnesses.

Social representations of integrative community therapy by the elderly.

Objective: To elicit the social representations of the elderly regarding integrative community therapy (ICT).

Method: This is an exploratory study conducted with 273 elderly people in a municipality of northeastern Brazil, in 2014. It is based on the theory of social representations and the free-association test for the inductor term "integrative community therapy".

Bioethical analysis to the therapeutic use of Cannabis: Integrative review.

Introduction:: Despite being considered as a contravention under some countries' legislation, the therapeutic use of Cannabis sativa has been growing in Brazil, due to the promising results observed in many pathologies. Such a scenario has fostered the need to deepen discussions on the subject and possibly revise legislation governing the substance use and access.

Objectives:: Identify the types of stigma related to the therapeutic use of Cannabis and describe the strategies people use to overcome stigma.

Assessment of risk of falls in elderly living at home.

Objective: to assess the risk of falls in elderly, by comparing the sociodemographic and cognitive factors, history of falls and self-reported comorbidities.

Method: cross-sectional and quantitative study with 240 elderly. Data were collected based on the social profile, through the instrument of risk of falls and assessment of falls, by univariate analysis, bivariate and multiple logistic regression.

[Preventive practices in the elderly and vulnerability to HIV].

Objective: To know the vulnerability of the elderly to the HIV infection in the context of preventive practices.

Method: Exploratory qualitative study, lead from December 2012 to May 2013, with 37 nursing Coexistence Groups in João Pessoa--Paraiba. The Focus Group was elected as the research technique, and the empirical material obtained was subjected to a Content Analysis Technique, thematic modality.

Beliefs of older adults about their vulnerability to HIV/Aids, for the construction of nursing diagnoses.

Objective: to know the beliefs of older adults about their vulnerability to HIV/Aids, and to identify nursing diagnoses.

Method: a field research implemented in Family Health Units, in João Pessoa, Brazil. The sample included 250 older adults of both genders with data collected from April to July of 2011.

Changes and events over life course: a comparative study between groups of older adults.

Objective: to identify the changes which had occurred over the last year in the life of older adults, as well as the values attributed to these changes.

Method: this is a multicentric, cross-sectional study, of the inquiry type, undertaken in three cities of the Brazilian Northeast, investigating two distinct groups of older adults.

Results: among the 236 older adults interviewed, it was observed that 30.

[The symptomatology of self-referred depression by elderly people who live in a shantytown].

The scope of this quantitative exploratory study was to evaluate the symptomatology of self-referred depression by the elderly, taking socio-demographic variables into consideration. The data collected by means of semi-structured interviews and the Abbreviated Geriatric Depression Scale involving 240 elderly residents in João Pessoa in the state of Paraíba between October and December 2010 were analyzed by Excel and SPSS software. It was found that 75.

[Social representations of elders' quality of life].

This study aimed to identify elders' social representations of quality of life. This is an exploratory study with a sample of 240 elders, of both sexes. For data collection we used a Free Association Test with Words, using the inductive stimulus 'quality of life" and sociodemographic variables.

[Social representations about occupational risk in the perspective of the health worker].

We aimed to identify the meanings constructed about occupational risk by health workers through the structural approach to social representation. 220 health professionals from a public hospital in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, participated in this research. The technique of free evocation of words was used and data were examined through an articulated analysis of frequency average and evocation order Results shows that central systems have different compositions in three groups: disease and death for doctors, perforating and danger for nurses and contamination, disease, infection and danger for dentists.

[Thinking health under the perspective of Brazilian immigrants living in Portugal].

This study aimed at determining the social representations on health and immigrants constructed by Brazilians. Samples consisted of one hundred Brazilian male and female immigrants living in Lisbon, Portugal. The technique of free evocation, which uses as inductive words "health "and "immigrant", were used for data collection.