Brazil is, at the time of writing, the global epicenter of COVID-19, but information on risk factors for hospitalization and mortality in the country is still limited. Demographic and clinical data of COVID-19 patients until June 11th, 2020 were retrieved from the State Health Secretariat of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Potential risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalization and death were analyzed by univariate and multivariable logistic regression models. A total of 10,713 COVID-19 patients were included in this study; 81.0% were younger than 60 years, 55.2% were female, 89.2% were not hospitalized, 32.9% had at least one comorbidity, and 7.7% died. The most common symptoms on admission were cough (67.7%) and fever (62.6%); 7.1% of the patients were asymptomatic. Cardiovascular diseases (23.7%) and diabetes (10.3%) were the two most common chronic diseases. Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified an association of all explanatory variables, except for cough and diarrhea, with hospitalization. Older age (odds ratio [OR] = 3.95, P < 0.001) and shortness of breath (OR = 3.55, P < 0.001) were associated with increase of odds to COVID-19 death in hospitalized patients. Our study provided evidence that older age, male gender, Asian, indigenous or unknown race, comorbidities (smoking, kidney disease, obesity, pulmonary disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease), as well as fever and shortness of breath increased the risk of hospitalization. For death outcome in hospitalized patients, only older age and shortness of breath increased the risk.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5216/ree.v14i2.15259Objetivou-se avaliar neste trabalho a percepção de qualidade de vida de catadores de material reciclável, identificando variáveis sociodemográficas que potencialmente a influenciam, comparando resultados com outro estudo semelhante. Trata-se de estudo observacional e transversal que utilizou o questionário World Health Organization Quality of Life – 100 com 96 catadores de um município de Minas Gerais, em 2010. Os resultados mostram que os domínios com piores escores foram o psicológico, o das relações sociais e o do ambiente. Ser morador de rua, jovem, com mais escolaridade e sem companheiro contribuiu para os piores escores da avaliação global de qualidade de vida dos catadores. Há similaridade entre resultados deste estudo e de um realizado com trabalhadores de uma universidade, evidenciando-se escores diferenciados nos domínios das relações sociais e do ambiente. Conclui-se que os resultados constituem-se em subsídios para o fortalecimento de políticas públicas destinadas aos catadores de materiais recicláveis.

Objetivo: ddescrever a cessação do tabagismo entre usuários da estratégia saúde da família. Método: estudo longitudinal realizado em duas unidades de atenção básica no período de junho a dezembro de 2016 com usuários tabagistas participantes do Programa de Tratamento do Tabagismo. A cessação do tabagismo foi descrita segundo variáveis sociodemográficas e variáveis relacionadas à história tabagística e à participação no Programa. As análises bivariadas se basearam no teste exato de Fisher, nos testes não paramétrico U de Mann-Whitney e Correlação de Spearman); foi adotado nível de significância de 5%. Resultados: verificou-se que sexo masculino, uso de medicamento e número de sessões que o indivíduo participou relacionaram-se estatisticamente à cessação do tabagismo. Conclusão: O presente estudo evidenciou que a cessação do tabagismo é influenciada pelo sexo masculino, participação nas sessões propostas pelo programa de tabagismo e uso de medicamentos oferecidos pelo Sistema Único de Saúde.

Background Psychoactive substance use associated with tuberculosis therapy is an urgent public health issue in the contemporary world. Objective To characterize the profile and psychoactive substance use of patients undergoing tuberculosis treatment and to analyze the association between health-related variables, consumption, and treatment adherence, from the perspective of Brief Interventions. Methodology Descriptive transversal epidemiological study, carried out in primary care units, with 114 patients undergoing tuberculosis treatment, from June 2016 to July 2017. The Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) and the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) were used. Results Smokers who drank alcohol (p = 0.058) and those who reported not having chronic diseases (p = 0.024) had a need to receive brief interventions. Cannabis use was more frequent among smokers (p = 0.009). With regard to cocaine use, a significant association was found between smoking and the number of chronic diseases. In this sample, 40% of smokers, 21.1% of alcohol drinkers, 10.5% of cannabis users, and 13.7% of cocaine/crack users adhered to treatment. Conclusions These results demonstrated the vulnerability of this population to psychoactive substance use based on treatment adherence and the importance of using Brief Interventions for monitoring, especially in primary care settings. Key messages The study showed an opportunity to apply the diagnostic strategy of brief intervention in this population in primary care. It showed an impact on the change in behavior of these patients, in view of greater adherence to treatment and improvement in quality of life.

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