In situations of juvenile delinquency, abuse, or neglect, determination of child custody relies on interviews with parents. This study aims to examine the effects of the interviewer’s empathy on parents’ anxiety, and to explore how parents experience these situations. A measure of anxiety was applied to 41 parents under evaluation for child custody before and after the assessment interview. Professionals’ empathy was rated by both parents and professionals after each appointment. Parents participated in semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed through statistical and content analyses. The decrease in anxiety was significantly greater for parents who perceived professionals as “perfect” than for parents who perceived professionals as “less than perfect” in empathy. Parents’ and professionals’ empathy scores correlated positively, but the association between professionals’ self-rated empathy and parents’ anxiety was nonsignificant. Reactions to the justice system’s intervention emerging in the semistructured interviews were “unjustifiable intrusion,” “disconcerting information,” and “reality confirmation.” Each associated differently with parents’ expectations for the assessment interview (respectively, that the process be over quickly, that it be over successfully, and that help start quickly). Our results support the important effects, from parents’ perspectives, of empathy in assessment interviews in the context of juvenile criminology.
It was investigated the level of anxiety among students of the undergraduate course in Dentistry of FOP-Unicamp and verified its association with self-esteem. Most students who had high levels of self-esteem (76.3%) had low levels of anxiety and those with low levels of self-esteem were 3.93 times more likely to have increased levels of anxiety. Female undergraduate students were 2.85 times more likely to present high levels of anxiety than the male participants.
It was investigated the level of assertiveness among students of the undergraduate course in Dentistry of FOP-Unicamp and verified its association with self-esteem and other socioeconomic variables. The mean age of the students was 21 years, of which 79.16% were female and 43.22% had low self-esteem. Regarding assertiveness, 82.30% presented adequate characteristics, any of the participant students had low assertiveness levels, and 17.70% had levels associated with aggressive characteristics, and there were no significant association between assertiveness and self-esteem.
Esse estudo visa investigar o conhecimento das mães sobre a Síndrome da Morte Súbita do Lactente, que é definida como a morte de qualquer lactente com menos de um ano de idade por causas desconhecidas mesmo após a investigação completa do caso. A maioria das mães (70%) alegou já ter ouvido falar da SMSL, sendo que aquelas que não conheciam tiveram 6,23 vezes mais chance de errar a definição da Síndrome. As mães que apresentavam menor grau de instrução (p=0,0004) e menor renda mensal familiar (p=0,0003) tinham mais chance de errar a definição da SMSL.
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