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Aspects of protection and social vulnerability of teenagers in public all-day s...
Pires,Laurena Moreira; Souza,Márcia Maria de; Medeiros,MarceloABSTRACT Objective: identify and analyze aspects related to social vulnerability of a group of teenagers of a public all-day school with regard to harmful and abusive use of psychoactive drugs. Methods: a strategic social study, with a qualitative approach, was carried out with 49 teenagers of a public all-day secondary school. Focus groups were carried out between 2016 and 2017, and the resulting material was ...
“Sobrevivendo”: vulnerabilidade social vivenciada por adolescentes em uma perif...
Oliveira,Patrícia Carvalho de; Reis,Mary Lopes; Vandenberghe,Luc; Souza,Márcia Maria de; Medeiros,MarceloEstudo qualitativo, teoricamente sustentado no conceito de vulnerabilidade social conforme Castel e, metodologicamente, na perspectiva construtivista da Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados. O objetivo foi compreender, sob a óptica da Bioecologia do Desenvolvimento Humano, os fenômenos sociais vivenciados por adolescentes atendidos em um Centro de Referência em Assistência Social (CRAS). As estratégias utilizadas para...
Use of illicit drugs by adolescents and young adults of an urban settlement in ...
Guimarães,Rafael Alves; Souza,Márcia Maria de; Caetano,Karlla Antonieta Amorim; Teles,Sheila Araujo; Matos,Marcos André deSummary Objective: To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with illicit drug use by adolescents and young adults of a formal urban settlement. Method: Cross-sectional study including adolescents and young adults 12-24 years of an urban settlement in the Midwest Region of Brazil. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and analyzed using Stata, version 12.0. We used Poisson regression mode...
Prevalence, risk factors and hepatitis B immunization: helping fill the gap on ...
Carvalho,Paulie Marcelly Ribeiro dos Santos; Matos,Marcos André de; Martins,Regina Maria Bringel; Pinheiro,Raquel Silva; Caetano,Karlla Antonieta AmorimData are limited in Brazil on hepatitis B infection among homeless individuals, a marginalized population with high risk of sexually transmissible infections (STI), including hepatitis B. The aim of this study was to investigate hepatitis B epidemiology in homeless persons lodged in a public shelter in Goiânia, Central Brazil. From August 2014 to June 2015, 353 individuals were interviewed and tested for marker...
Concepções sobre drogas por adolescentes escolares
Faria Filho,Edson Arantes; Queiros,Pollyanna Siqueira; Medeiros,Marcelo; Rosso,Claci Fatima Weirich; Souza,Márcia Maria deRESUMOObjetivo:analisar concepções de adolescentes escolares da educação básica sobre drogas em geral.Método:abordagem qualitativa de grupos focais com 16 adolescentes estudantes. Os dados coletados foram analisados por Análise de Conteúdo, onde emergiram as seguintes categorias “Significado de drogas”; “Convivendo com o uso de drogas”; “Opiniões, crenças e atitudes em relação ao uso de drogas” e “Prevenindo o ...
Sexual behavior of school-aged adolescents in the city of Goiânia, Goiás
Sasaki,Reinaldo Satoru Azevedo; Souza,Márcia Maria de; Leles,Cláudio Rodrigues; Malta,Deborah Carvalho; Sardinha,Luciana Monteiro VasconcelosOBJECTIVE: To investigate the characteristics of sexual behavior in school-aged adolescents and possible differences regarding sex and type of school. METHODS: Cross-sectional study using data from the National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE) 2009, carried out by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, in partnership with the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The sample consisted o...
Brain schistosomiasis in mice experimentally infected with Schistosoma mansoni
Lambertucci,José Roberto; Fidelis,Thiago André; Pereira,Thiago Almeida; Coelho,Paulo Marcos Zech; Araujo,Neuza; Souza,Márcia Maria deIntroduction Human neuroschistosomiasis has been reported in the literature, but the possibility of modeling neuroschistosomiasis in mice is controversial. Methods In two research laboratories in Brazil that maintain the Schistosoma mansoni life cycle in rodents, two mice developed signs of brain disease (hemiplegia and spinning), and both were autopsied. Results S. mansoni eggs, both with and without granuloma...
Dynamics of Capillaria-hepatica-induced hepatic septal fibrosis in rats
Gaban,Lidiane; Ramos,Cleber Douglas Lucinio; Barbosa Júnior,Aryon Almeida; Souza,Márcia Maria de; Andrade,Zilton de AraújoINTRODUCTION: The pathogenesis of septal hepatic fibrosis, induced in rats by Capillaria hepatica infection, was studied with the aid of a large collection of stored paraffin blocks, representative of the different evolutive phases of fibrosis which appeared in 100% of infected rats. METHODS: Studies were conducted involving histology, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and morphometric methods, in order ...
Capillaria hepatica-induced hepatic fibrosis in rats: paradoxical effect of rep...
Oliveira,Ludmila; Souza,Márcia Maria de; Andrade,Zilton A.Multiple exposures to parasitic agents are considered an important factor in the genesis of the most severe forms of the diseases they cause. Capillaria hepatica-induced septal fibrosis of the liver in rats usually runs without signs of portal hypertension or hepatic failure. After determining the hepatic profile of 15 animals during the course of a single infection, we submitted 20 rats to multiple Capillaria ...