Fear of Covid-19 and health-related outcomes: results from two Brazilian population-based studies.

Fear is a reaction that can influence multiple aspects of health and life. During the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been serious pathophysiological, social, behavioral and mental consequences that can be related to fear. This study aimed to assess the fear of Covid-19 and its association with sociodemographic, behavioral and health variables. Data were gathered from two cross-sectional population-based studies conducted in 2020 with adults from two cities from Southern Brazil. The Fear of Covid-19 scale was used to evaluate fear of Covid. Exposure variables were socioeconomic, demographic, health and pandemic-related factors. Adjusted Poisson regression was performed to assess the association between fear of Covid-19 and the exposure variables. A total of 2,152 subjects were assessed. Higher fear of Covid-19 was found among women and in individuals with symptoms of Covid-19. Living alone, being richer, and testing positive for Covid-19 were associated with lower prevalence of fear. Higher prevalence of fear of Covid-19 was related to worse sleep quality, worse health perception, sadness, higher stress, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation. There was a linear association between fear of Covid-19 and health outcomes. The results provide evidence that fear of Covid-19 seems to be associated with socioeconomic, demographic, health and pandemic-related factors.

Family orientation group as a strategy for care in chemical codependency.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the importance of the family support group in the treatment of codependency, based in reports made by relatives of a therapeutic community for drug addicts. METHODS: Study conducted in a therapeutic community for alcohol and other drug addicts in a city in the southern extreme of Brazil. This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research with eight drug addict relatives. Data collection occurred through semi-structured interviews and the use of a field diary, focusing on the family orientation group as a space for the health promotion of family members of psychoactive substance users. RESULTS: Through discursive analysis, it was found that the family orientation group constitutes an important tool of educational character, capable of responding to the family demands of chemical dependence, as well as rethinking and modifying attitudes and characteristic behaviors of co-dependence. CONCLUSIONS: The support group is fundamental as a care strategy for codependent families, and may act more effectively when professionals are trained to intervene in the phenomenon of codependency.

[Family labor: desired distribution of housework and childcare between spouses]. / Trabalho familiar: distribuição desejada do trabalho doméstico e cuidados dos filhos entre cônjuges.

This study investigates the desired distribution of family labor between spouses who have jobs and children of 6 years or less. This is a quantitative study developed with the participation of 92 couples living in the city of Rio Grande, state of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil. The desired distribution of housework and children care is predominantly an equal one, though the woman was seen as more responsible for the care of children. Management/repairing were subitems of the housework analysis, and were considered to be activities that should be mostly done by men. Knowing the changes of contemporary families will allow nursing to be less exclusionary and more flexible in its family nursing actions.