Ana Maria Bellani Migott

Uso não-médico de medicamentos psicoativos entre escolares do ensino fundamental e médio no Sul do Brasil

The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of and risk factors for the non-medical use of psychoactive medicines among students at public and private schools of Passo Fundo, Southern Brazil. A cross-sectional study was carried out using a questionnaire administered to 5,057 students from the 5th grade of elementary school to the 3rd year of high school. The questionnaire contained questions about the use of amphetamines, tranquilizers, barbiturates, anticholinergics, opioids, appetite stimulants, and anabolic steroids. Of the sample total, 7.7% had consumed tranquilizers sometime during their lives, 6.4% had used amphetamines, 2.2% had used anabolic steroids, and 1.1% had used barbiturates. Female students reported significantly greater consumption of tranquilizers and amphetamines, while anabolic steroid use was more prevalent among males. The pattern of psychoactive medicine consumption among children and adolescents students is comparable with the pattern among adults. The findings of this research suggest the need to include children and adolescents in media campaigns and other education programs to prevent the non-medical use and abuse of psychoactive medicines.

Estilo feminino de gestão em empresas familiares gaúchas

The study investigated the management style of the executive woman in the family-run enterprise in Passo Fundo, Brazil. The guider theories were the transparent management and the learning organizatios, focusing the executive women. They present peculiar characteristics to the learning organizations. The objective was identifying the feminine style of management in family-run enterprises correlating to the managers women profile. The investigated number of executives was 26 through an explorer questionnaire and semi-structured interview. It was evidenced that executives of the family-run enterprises in Passo Fundo cultivate values as the honesty, the human being and the companionship; they stay acting in the family-run enterprise for love feeling to the company; their desires or personal dreams are related to the dreams or managerial desires. They present a leadership style more related to people than to tasks; even so they are very guided for the power, assuming a managerial position more based on the masculine model of administration.