Luciane Sá de Andrade

The Role of Social Support for Patients with Mental Disorders in Primary Care in Brazil

ABSTRACT The aim of this article was to identify the health care providers and other agencies in a given region where psychiatric patients included in the study reside. In addition, we evaluated how these patients perceive social support for specific needs related to mental health. This study was carried out using fieldwork and face-to-face semistructured interviews with 25 patients who were receiving psychiatric treatment through primary health care. We performed structural analysis of the data focusing on relationship structure. We identified that a significant number of health care providers were involved with the patients; however, some of them were ignored by patients interviewed. Participants cited mostly general practitioners, psychiatrists, and nurses, as professional references.

Revisão sistemática da literatura sobre intervenções antibullying em escolas

This paper presents a systematic literature review addressing rigorously planned and assessed interventions intended to reduce school bullying. The search for papers was performed in four databases (Lilacs, Psycinfo, Scielo and Web of Science) and guided by the question: What are the interventions used to reduce bullying in schools? Only case-control studies specifically focusing on school bullying without a time frame were included. The methodological quality of investigations was assessed using the SIGN checklist. A total of 18 papers composed the corpus of analysis and all were considered to have high methodological quality. The interventions conducted in the revised studies were divided into four categories: multi-component or whole-school, social skills training, curricular, and computerized. The review synthesizes knowledge that can be used to contemplate practices and intervention programs in the education and health fields with a multidisciplinary nature.

CONSUMO DE DROGAS E CONHECIMENTO SOBRE SUAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS ENTRE ESTUDANTES DE GRADUAÇÃO EM ENFERMAGEM

Objective: to analyze the use of psychoactive substances and the knowledge of the consequences of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine use among first-year and final-year undergraduate nursing students. Method: descriptive cross-sectional study, with 141 nursing undergraduates from a public university in the state of São Paulo. Data was collected using the Questionnaire for Screening the Use of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Substances and a questionnaire on the knowledge of the consequences of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine use. Fisher’s exact test, Pearson’s chi-square and Student’s t-test were applied for analysis. Results: alcohol and marijuana were the substances most commonly used by students. Concerning students’ knowledge of the consequences of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine use, the majority answered more than 50% of the questionnaire correctly, which is considered a good level of knowledge. Furthermore, 86.5% answered more than half of the questions correctly in relation to alcohol, 68.8% to marijuana and 76.6% to cocaine. Regarding the mean scores on the knowledge of the consequences of substance use between first-year and final-year students, there was a statistically significant difference for alcohol (p=0.026) and cocaine (p<0.001), with final-year students obtaining higher scores. Conclusion: the hypothesis that knowledge of the consequences of drug use affects drug use was confirmed only for marijuana. The results highlight the need to consider reviewing content being taught to undergraduate nursing students on psychoactive substance use. DESCRIPTORS: Drug abuse. Alcohol. Knowledge. Students. Nursing.

Promoção da saúde na educação básica: percepções dos alunos de licenciatura em enfermagem

RESUMO Objetivo: Analisar como estudantes de um Curso de Licenciatura em Enfermagem compreendem o conceito de promocao da saude, sua percepcao sobre o trabalho do enfermeiro na educacao basica e sobre as praticas de promocao da saude para formacao enquanto enfermeiro-educador. Metodos: Estudo qualitativo, descritivo e exploratorio, realizado em 2015, com 11 estudantes de uma Universidade Publica do interior do estado de Sao Paulo. Os dados foram coletados atraves de entrevistas semiestruturadas e analisados segundo analise de conteudo, modalidade tematica. Resultados: Identificou-se tres nucleos tematicos: “Promocao da Saude: superando o modelo hegemonico da racionalidade tecnica”; “O trabalho do enfermeiro na educacao basica:intersetorialidade e interdisciplinaridade” e “Promocao e educacao em saude na escola: a pratica educacional dialogica e reflexiva”. Conclusao: A concepcao e as praticas de promocao da saude favorecem o processo de formacao e potencializam as acoes dos enfermeiros licenciados na efetivacao das mudancas sociais e empoderamento dos individuos. Palavras-chave: Promocao da saude. Educacao em enfermagem. Educacao em saude. Estudantes de enfermagem.