Resultados: 138

Social determinants of health and vulnerabilities to sexually transmitted infections in adolescents

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the association between social determinants of health and the vulnerability of adolescents to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Method: Cross-sectional study, performed with 287 students aged 11 to 17 years, in the outskirts of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, from August ...

Time series of hospitalizations of adolescents due to mental and behavioral disorders

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the trend of hospitalizations of adolescents due to mental and behavioral disorders in Paraná, from 1998 to 2015. Method: ecological study of time series. Data were analyzed by means of segmented linear regression modeling for time series, estimated for each of the four ...

Sexualidade na percepção de adolescentes estudantes da rede pública de ensino: contribuição para o cuidado

Objetivo: Discutir a percepção de adolescentes acerca da sexualidade no espaço escolar. Método: estudo descritivo e exploratório, de natureza qualitativa, realizado com quarenta e seis adolescentes em três escolas públicas do município de Macapá, capital do Estado do Amapá. A coleta de dados oc...

Fatores de risco simultâneos para doenças crônicas não transmissíveis em adolescentes escolares brasileiros

Objetivo: Estimar a prevalência da simultaneidade de fatores de risco para doenças crônicas não transmissíveis e o agregamento não aleatório destes, além dos fatores associados em adolescentes escolares brasileiros. Método: Estudo epidemiológico, transversal, analítico, desenvolvido com dados ...

Validation of Brazilian educational technology for disseminating knowledge on leprosy to adolescents

ABSTRACT Objective: Elaborate and validate an educational technology for adolescents on leprosy, focusing on preventing the disease and reducing stigma. Method: First, a prototype of the educational technology was elaborated and later analyzed by 17 adolescents and 7 researchers' experts in the leprosy...

Leprosy educational practices with adolescents: an integrative literature review

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify scientific evidence in the literature regarding educational actions on leprosy developed with adolescents. Method: an integrative review of the literature, with the following research question: what are the leprosy educational practices currently being developed with ad...

Educational workshop with adolescents on leprosy: case report

ABSTRACT Objective: To report the experience of professors and students in the development and implementation of an educational workshop on leprosy with adolescents. Method: This is a case report from actions contained in a university extension project. Results: The workshop program was elaborated with...

Adolescents´ perception of harms, benefits and intention to use marijuana within the context of regulatory changes in Belize

Texto & contexto enferm; 28 (spe), 2019
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the perception of harm and benefits from using marijuana in adolescents', to determine lifetime, past year and past month prevalence of marijuana use; and to analyze the relationship between marijuana use and the perception of harm and benefits from using marijuana. Met...

Health in the school: perceptions of being adolescent

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand adolescents' perceptions on school health. Method: Qualitative and descriptive research grounded on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, which was developed with 90 adolescent students from a federal school of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Data were produced by gather...

Sociodemographic and health situation of teenage students according to sex

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the association between sex (male and female) and sociodemographic, reproductive and sexual variables in teenagers and identify the highest rates of social and health issues among them. Method: This was a cross-sectional study conducted with 239 adolescents enrolled in a p...