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The aim of this study is to evaluate the investigation actions of home contacts of tuberculosis (TB) index cases in the Tuberculosis Control Program (TCP) of Pelotas/RS - Brazil. This cross-sectional descriptive study was based on data from the records of index cases. The sample consisted of 163 contacts of 68 subjects with pulmonary TB in treatment in the TCP between June and August, 2009. These contacts were predominantly female, over 10 years of age and the daughters of index cases. The requested examination was a chest radiography and bacilloscopy. Active TB was found in 1.8 % of contacts. Results show that assistance for TB patients in Pelotas-Brazil, which is centralized in a single specialized service, hinders the investigation of home contacts. Primary care is required to narrow the gap between professionals and the family, and facilitate early diagnosis and interruption of the TB transmission chain in a timely manner.
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Community-Acquired Infections/prevention & control , Contact Tracing , Family Health , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/prevention & control , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Brazil , Child , Child, Preschool , Community-Acquired Infections/diagnosis , Community-Acquired Infections/epidemiology , Cross-Sectional Studies , Environmental Exposure , Female , Humans , Income/statistics & numerical data , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Middle Aged , Multicenter Studies as Topic/statistics & numerical data , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification , Program Evaluation , Radiography , Sputum/microbiology , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/diagnosis , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/diagnostic imaging , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/epidemiology , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/microbiology , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/transmission , Urban PopulationABSTRACT
This study aimed to describe the profile of the families of users of psychosocial care centers (CAPS) in southern Brazil. This is a quantitative, cross-sectional study, with a descriptive approach. It is connected to the research "Evaluation of CAPS in southern Brazil (CAPSUL)". Data collection was conducted from May to June, 2006. 936 families of CAPS users answered a structured questionnaire. A database in the computer program Epi-info 6.04 was built, and statistical analysis was performed through Software Stata 7. It was evident that family caregivers are predominantly women averaging 49.2 years of age, with low education, married without a paid job and taking care by themselves of the family member with mental disorders. These results underscore the need for health services to develop actions in order to include these families in the focus of care of the multiprofessional patient care team.
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Caregivers , Mental Health Services , Brazil , Cross-Sectional Studies , Humans , Mental DisordersABSTRACT
This study aims to describe the profile of hypertensive and diabetic patients from three primary health units in the city of Pelotas, southern Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, that are registered in the Ministry of Health's HiperDia system. This is a cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. A form based on the registration form of the HiperDia system was used as a research instrument. This system provides important information about the population served. The collected data were entered into the Epi-Info 6.04 computer program and analyzed in the STATA 9.0 software. The subjects of the study are predominantly female, aged above 50 years. Predominant risk factors are overweight, sedentary lifestyle, heredity and chronic cardiovascular complications. We concluded that the profile of the subjects of the study is similar to that of SisHiperDia's national database.
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Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiology , Hypertension/epidemiology , National Health Programs , Primary Health Care/statistics & numerical data , Registries , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Brazil/epidemiology , Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology , Comorbidity , Cross-Sectional Studies , Databases, Factual , Diabetes Complications/epidemiology , Diabetes Mellitus/therapy , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Hypertension/therapy , Male , Middle Aged , Obesity/epidemiology , Sedentary Behavior , Socioeconomic Factors , Surveys and Questionnaires , Young AdultABSTRACT
The study evaluated the completeness of the information in the records of the Hyperday of a Basic Unit of Health (BUH) in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Transversal delineation was used through the collection of secondary data. Copies of 567 records filled out in BUH between 2002 and 2008 were analyzed. Data were classified as "filled out" and "no filled out" in a precodified questionnaire. Among data of obligatory completion, the largest percentages of incompleteness observed were in the identification field, particularly numbers of the national health card (95.6%), zip code (47,2%) and federal unit of birth (27.3%). Among the data of optional completion, the largest gaps were identified in the fields of no medicamental treatment (97.0%) and capillary glycemia (56.7%). In relation to the fields of clinical data, all of them had low incompleteness. The results demonstrate that the SisHyperday in study has a good completion in most part of the analyzed variables.
