Loneliness is a subjective, and unpleasant experience. This paper aimed at investigating the psychometric features of the short version of the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6), and its correlates in a Brazilian sample. To achieve this purpose two studies were conducted. The first study examined the factor structure of the ULS-6, its internal consistency and measurement invariance (MI) by gender. The sample...
Racial discrimination and racism are still present in everyday society, reverberating in various aspects of the lives of the black population, including in higher, secondary and primary education, where prejudice is intense and affects the permanence of this ethnic-racial group. The aim of this article is to analyze the evidence available in the scientific literature on experiences of racial discrimination and ...
In the present research, we investigated how individual love dispositions and personality traits predict satisfaction with love life. The sample comprised 531 participants, of whom 257 were Brazilian and 274 Portuguese. Their mean age was 23.36 (SD = 5.91) years. There were no significant differences between men and women, and between Brazilian and Portuguese participants in satisfaction with love. Love disposi...
Objetivo: avaliar as repercussões da COVID-19 e do isolamento social durante a pandemia na saúde mental de estudantes de graduação em enfermagem. Métodos: estudo descritivo transversal, realizado no Ceará, Brasil, com 347 estudantes. Os dados foram coletados por meio de questionário para obtenção de dados sociodemográficas e informações sobre aspectos relacionados à pandemia, além do Inventário de Saúde Mental-...
Objective: to present the characteristics of self-mutilation in students from a public school in the interior of the state of Ceará, Brazil. Methodology: cross-sectional study with 995 high school students from an integral public school. Data collection was carried out in person. The Self-Mutilation Behavior Scale and Student's t test and Analysis of Variance were used to compare the variables of interest. Resu...
This article aims to analyze the impact on the mental health of 73 university students from Ceará, after the onset of the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, considering the main facts that occurred, from the point of view of the following axes: triggering or worsening of mental disorders; suffering and (self) medication; and suicidal ideation, to understand the impact caused by COVID-19. A qualitative appr...
The objective was to analyze the experiences of racial discrimination suffered by black people. Exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, part of the larger research entitled: Experiences of Discrimination Suffered by Black People, carried out from September to November 2021, with 205 black participants from Brazilian states. The instrument used was the Scale of Experienc...
Este artigo teve por objetivo sumarizar estudos que abordam materiais educativos, de apoio e tecnologias educacionais a cuidadores de pessoas com transtorno mental. Revisão integrativa, com a pergunta de pesquisa: o que tem sido publicado nas bases científicas sobre material educativo e de apoio aos familiares de pessoas com transtorno mental? Realizou-se a busca pela estratégia PICO, em setembro e outubro de 2...
Based on the above, a critical-reflective review of the scientific literature was carried out on the use of mental health support applications in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s about a narrative review, based on broad publications, appropriate to describe and discuss the development of a given subject, from a theoretical or conceptual point of view. The search was carried out by surveying the productions ...
Este artículo tuvo como objetivo identificar las principales condiciones que llevaron a la hospitalización de usuarios de crack acompañados en un centro de atención psicosocial de alcohol y otras drogas. Se trata de un estudio exploratorio-descriptivo, documental y retrospectivo, realizado a partir de la consulta de las historias clínicas de 213 usuarios de crack en tratamiento en un centro de atención psicosoc...