Students' attitudes toward medical informatics were evaluated with self-administered questionnaires, answered by 140 (77%) first-year medical and dental students. Fourteen per cent classified their computer literacy as negligible and 49% as deficient. Ninety-six per cent had used a computer before and 59% used one regularly. Nineteen per cent had computer education in secondary school and a further 16% attended courses given by a computer company. Only 16% read regularly about informatics. These results are similar to those observed in more industrialized countries, except that high-school education is more deficient. To 93% of these students, computer literacy is important for doctors, and to 85% computers may be very useful in many areas of health care. In the opinion of 66% of students, the computer-based patient record will be available within the next 3 to 10 years. Women showed lesser computer literacy (77% computer illiteracy to 39% in men), but there were no relevant differences in attitudes, behaviour and beliefs towards medical informatics between gender, for the same level of computer literacy. Computer education in the undergraduate curriculum was demanded by 92%, and 75% of these preferred an elective course. Weekly hours suggested for lectures should be 1 (54%) or 2 (42%), and for hands-on practice 2 (54%) or 4 (31%) hours. The curriculum should include medical applications (83% of students), information science theory and technology (44%), micro-informatics (44%), bibliographic database search (27%), programming languages (23%) and statistical packages (23%). Gender, computer literacy or course did not correlate significantly with students' opinions about the contents of undergraduate education.

Objective: to understand the feelings of families before drug dependence. Method: exploratory, analytical and qualitative study carried out with families of drug users, which are followed up by the Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Álcool e Drogas (Psychosocial Care Center for Alcohol and DARUGS). The collection of data took place by in-depth interview, with the support of field diary. Three visits were done, on average, for each family. The software IRAMUTEQ was adopted for textual corpus organization and was discussed in the light of Michel Maffesoli. Results: nine families participated in the research; from the analysis, four classes arose: “My life has changed a lot because of drugs”; “I fear leaving him alone”; “I trust and have faith in God”, and “I am always worried in my own house”. Final considerations: the families revealed how much drug dependence did not only affect the user, but also the whole family, provoking in the family complex feelings and emotions.

RESUMO Objetivo Analisar a tendência das taxas de internação por transtornos mentais e comportamentais devido ao uso de drogas no Brasil. Métodos Estudo ecológico de séries temporais, das internações de residentes no Brasil, no período de 2005 a 2015, registradas no Sistema de Informações Hospitalares do Sistema Único de Saúde. Realizou-se análise de tendência e diferença relativa das taxas, por triênios extremos e do modelo de regressão polinomial para todo o período. Resultados As taxas de internação por uso de drogas aumentaram em média 0,96 ao ano, com declínio após o ano de 2012. A região Norte exibiu tendência crescente para ambos os sexos (0,56 ao ano) e na região Nordeste, o sexo masculino apresentou tendência decrescente (-0,33 ao ano). Em relação às mulheres, houve aumento das taxas em todas as faixas etárias. Detectou-se aumento nas taxas de internação entre idosos, e a região Norte apresentou diferença relativa mais expressiva (4,7 para homens e 2,7 para mulheres). Conclusão A tendência das taxas de internação devidas ao uso de drogas mostrou-se crescente, com queda da curva de tendência apenas ao final do período. As mulheres e os idosos tiveram aumento das taxas de internação em relação aos períodos iniciais e finais da amostra.

ABSTRACT Objectives: To analyze the distribution and spatial autocorrelation of the hospitalization rates for cardiovascular diseases in adults, and to verify the correlation with socioeconomic and health factors in Brazil. Methods: An ecological study of hospitalization rates for cardiovascular diseases in adults from 2005 to 2016. Spatial dependence was analyzed by the Moran Global and Local autocorrelation coefficients. The correlation between hospitalization rates and socioeconomic and health variables was calculated using the Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Results: The highest hospitalization rates were observed in the states of Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, and Mato Grosso, with high-high autocorrelation clusters for ischemic heart disease. The hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases were strongly correlated with low schooling, alcohol consumption, and diagnosis of hypertension. Conclusion: The high rates of hospitalization in the states mentioned, linked to socioeconomic and health factors, suggest public policies focused on the theme.

Objective: to apprehend the guidelines provided by the interdisciplinary team to the user’s family member at a Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Álcool e Drogas (Psychosocial Care Center for Alcohol and Drugs). Methods: descriptive-exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, carried out in a Psychosocial Care Center for alcohol and drugs in the southern region of Brazil, using the Psychiatric Reform as a conceptual basis. Data collection took place from June to August of 2019 through semi-structured interviews with a multidisciplinary team. The data were organized and operationalized in the IRAMUTEQ® software, and submitted to content analysis, thematic modality. Results: two classes emerged: “Guidelines referring to moments of crisis and the family members’ arrival to the service” and “Difficult factors and strategies to enhance the guidance to family members”. Final Considerations: The guidelines focus on pathology and the service itself. Participants highlighted embracement, the group for families, qualified listening, and cooperation with primary care as ways to enhance the service to families.

Objetivo: apreender o quotidiano conflituoso de famílias que vivenciam o uso de drogas. Métodos: estudo qualitativo, realizado junto a 15 familiares, acompanhados em Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Álcool e Drogas. Coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de entrevistas em profundidade, gravadas e transcritas na íntegra. Dados organizados pelo software Iramuteq®, categorizados por meio da análise temática e discutidos à luz da sociologia compreensiva. Resultados: emergiram as seguintes classes: Interdependência entre família e pessoa dependente de droga; Perpetuação e repetição da dependência de drogas no seio familiar; Harmonia conflituosa das relações intrafamiliares; e Importância da espiritualidade para relacionamento e enfrentamento da dependência de drogas. Conclusão: apreendeu-se que as famílias que vivenciam a dependência de drogas possuem, no quotidiano, conflitos e distensões, os quais suscitam sofrimento, violência, fragilização dos vínculos e codependência. Para enfrentar tais situações, apoiaram-se na espiritualidade.

Objective to compare the skill of informal caregivers to care for dependent people undergoing educational planning discharge intervention with and without follow-up at home. Method this is a quasi-experimental, randomized, simple pilot study, with pre and post-test, not blind, however, with blind assessment of the outcomes, with two follow-up interventions. It was carried out between October 2019 and January 2020 in Maringá, Brazil, with 21 informal caregivers of dependent people, randomized to Intervention Group I and Intervention Group II. Group I underwent an educational intervention consisting of guidance and training during the hospitalization period, with follow-up after hospital discharge by nurses at home, and participants in Group II received only guidance at the hospital. To assess the difference in the level of skill, the COPER 14 instrument was used, applied at times 0, week 1 and week 4, submitting the results to analysis of variance. Results group I had more than twice as much (mean score=8.94) of skill as Group II (mean score=3.90), with a significant increase in practically all the variables analyzed. A significant increase in the score ranks was detected between the variables cognitive and behavioral skill (1.19 - 3.00, p=0.001), psychomotor (1.13 - 3.00, p=0.001) and relational (1.75 - 2.75, p=0.037) in Group I. Conclusion the educational intervention given to the Intervention Group I (IG-I) was effective in increasing the skill of informal caregivers of dependent people. Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials RBR-5rzmzf.

Hypertension is a disease of high prevalence, affecting about seven million people in the world. The knowledge of risk factors, such as anthropometric, socioeconomic and health profiles, allows programming interventionist measures in health promotion. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the sociodemographic and clinical profile of people with arterial hypertension, accompanied by the Family Health Strategy in a municipality in the northwest of the state of Paraná. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 417 people from February to June 2016. Data were collected applying a user satisfaction instrument of the services provided by Primary Care, using the variables related to the sociodemographic and clinical profile of the interviewees. For the treatment of variables, descriptive statistics were used. Of the participants, 62.4% were elderly, of which 31.9% were over 70 years old, 68% were female, with incomplete elementary education and belonging to economic classes C1, C2 and DE. Of those interviewed, 39.8% were classified as having an overweight body mass index, 35.7% were obese and 68.8% had an abdominal circumference above the recommended parameters. Although blood pressure was not statistically significant, most users had some degree of change in systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels. These findings contribute to subsidize the planning of actions that meet the demands of the population assisted.