ABSTRACT
Trata-se de um estudo com abordagem quantitativa, com o objetivo de investigar o uso de plantas medicinais em crianças na faixa etária de zero a 12 anos internadas no Hospital Infantil Arlinda Marques, da cidade de João Pessoa (PB), entre agosto de 2000 a junho de 2001. Um roteiro de entrevista semi-estruturado foi empregado junto aos 132 acompanhantes das crianças para a obtenção dos dados. Os resultados evidenciaram que as doenças que mais acometeram as crianças foram: 1) pneumonia (26 por cento), 2) infecções intestinais (13 por cento), 3) anemia (8 por cento), 4) afecções renais (7 por cento). Cerca de 27,3 por cento dos acompanhantes usaram plantas medicinais em suas crianças antes de procurarem o Serviço Hospitalar e 41,7 por cento associaram plantas com alguma medicação. Diante destes resultados pode-se concluir que a utilização de plantas medicinais em crianças para o tratamento de doenças possui seus riscos e benefícios que precisam ser avaliados pelos profissionais de saúde.
The aim of this study is to investigate the use of medicinal plants in children of zero to 12 years hospitalized in the "Hospital Infantil Arlinda Marques", City of João Pessoa, State of Paraíba, Brazil between August 2000 and June 2001. For the collection of the data a half-structuralized script interview was applied to 132 children's companions. The results evidenced that the illnesses which mostly affected the children were: 1) pneumonia (26 percent), 2) infections of the intestines (13 percent), 3) anemia (8 percent), 4) kidneys illnesses (7 percent). About 27,3 percent of the companions had used medicinal plants in the children before going to the hospital service; 41,7 percent had associated plants with some medicines. Based on this, it can be concluded that the use of medicinal plants in children for the treatment of illnesses has its risks and benefits that need to be evaluated by health professionals.
ABSTRACT
The importance of personality psychopathology has been recently recognized, since it may influence the manifestation and prognosis of the other psychiatric conditions. The systematic evaluation of patients for personality disorders (PD) has been favored by some structure instruments developed in the past few years. The aim of this study was to translate into Portuguese and evaluate the applicability and interrater reliability of the "Structure Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders" (SIDP-R). The subjects were 40 patients with DSM-III-R obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and 40 nonpsychiatric patients from a university outpatient service. All 80 interviews were made simultaneously by two raters, with independent scoring. The coefficient of agreement (Kappa) was calculated for nine individual PDs and ranged from 0.55 to 1.00. The OCD patients had significantly (p <0.01) more PDs (70 percent) than the nonpsychiatric group (15 percent). No significant sex differences were found in the prevalence of PDs. There was much diagnostic overlap, specially between avoidant and dependent PDs. The Portuguese version of the SIDP-R had good applicability and satisfactory interrater reliability and may be a useful instrument to assess axis II disorders