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ABSTRACT Objectives: to verify the association between sociodemographic and reproductive characteristics with rural workers’ reproductive autonomy. Methods: a cross-sectional study, with a sample of 346 women and application of the Reproductive Autonomy Scale. Multinomial regression was performed to analyze associations between independent variables and outcomes. Results: in the analysis of subscales “Decision-making”, “My sexual partner or someone else such as a parent”, “Both me and my partner” and “Me”, women experienced greater reproductive autonomy in relation to their partners. For outcomes “Decision about which method to use”, “When to have a baby” or “About unplanned pregnancy”, the highest prevalence was for category “Me”, with statistically significant associations. Conclusions: the sociodemographic and reproductive characteristics among the most vulnerable women, in terms of the social, economic and cultural context in which they are inserted, may be associated with greater difficulties in exercising reproductive autonomy.

Purpose: To determine the association between diagnosis of COVID-19 and the economic class, race/skin color, and adherence to social distancing in Brazilian university students. Methods: This is a nationwide cross-sectional study carried out with online questionnaires applied to Brazilian university students, at 94 universities in the public and private education network. Self-reported age, sex, economic class data, race/skin color, COVID-19 diagnosis, and adherence to social distancing measures were collected. Results: 5,984 individuals were evaluated. No significant association was found between the diagnosis of COVID-19 and economic class and race/skin color in the multivariable analysis. However, we observed that there were significant associations between the diagnosis of COVID-19 and partial adherence to social distancing, with leaving home only for going to work (PR: 1.35; 95% CI: 1.10–1.66; p < 0.01) and with non-adherence to social distancing (PR: 1.96; 95% CI: 1.29–2.97; p

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Introduction: University students deal daily with various stressors that can negatively affect their physical and mental health. Objectives: To evaluate the perceived stress in university students and analyze the relationship between this and nutritional status, socioeconomic and demographic variables. Methods: This is an observational cross-sectional study. Participants were 537 university students (25.27 ± 7.84 years) enrolled at Faculdade Barretos, from May 2015 to June 2017. The participants' socioeconomic and demographic information was collected. Perceived Stress Scale / PSS14 scale was used to assess perceived stress. Nutritional status was assessed by body mass index (BMI). Associations of interest were estimated using Chi-square test, considering a significance level of 5%. Results: Most participants were women (62.7%), single (78.4%), with economic level B (45.4%), residents with parents (72.5%), workers (80.7%). The prevalence was overweight students (pre-obesity and obesity) (48.8%). Of the participants who presented weight variation, 62.2% gained weight during the undergraduate course. Factors associated with perceived stress in college students were gender, economic status, use of antidepressant and/or anxiolytic medications, course performance, and weight variation. Conclusion: Most participants are overweight (pre-obesity and obesity) and belong to the group with the highest stress, but in this study we found no relationship between the perceived stress in students and their nutritional status. Perceived stress was associated with the variables gender, economic level, use of medications, course performance and weight variation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzed the factors associated with sedentary behavior (SB) among Family Health Strategy (FHS) users with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and/or hypertension in the cities handing the four healthcare administrative regions of Pernambuco. Participated 391 diabetic and/or hypertensive enrolled in the FHS, aged > 20 years. Data related to SB from the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and STATA was used for the analysis, considering as outcome the sitting time ≥ 6 hours. The associations between variables and outcome, a binary logistic regression was performed. The prevalence of CS> 6 hours was 21.9% and 23.9% on weekdays and weekends, respectively. Factors associated with SC> 6 hours after adjustment, with p-value <0.05 were: Week - living in the countryside, family income < one minimum wage and being physically inactive; Weekend - Indoors, men, > 60 years of age, family income < one minimum wage and physically inactive. SB is a relevant issue today and emphasizes the importance of broader health care for users with chronic diseases, with public policies that consider the reduction of this behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cultural exchanges resulting from religion are a strong link among social subjects and permeate relations across the most different levels of society, regardless economic status, political preference, age, or gender. This article aims at investigate how the monthly national circulation Salmos & Anjos magazine appropriates symbolic and textual elements of popular Catholicism and reproduces them in their covers, and if preserving the information meaning and ensuring its reception. The research will focus on Jesús Martín-Barbero's (1997) and José Luiz Braga's (2012) central ideas on mediation and mediatization, respectively. Furthermore, it will study the culture vision as an interaction of social practices proposed by Stuart Hall's cultural studies (1980) and Luiz Beltrão's (1965) Folkcomunicação concept, which is closely related to popular religious mediations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Organ transplantation is a surgical procedure considered as an effective treatment for terminal illness. Performing a transplant may improve the quality of life of patients as well as in the different factors that may interfere with this perception. This study aims to evaluate the influence of socioeconomic factors inherent to the transplant on the perception of the quality of life in patients who have undergone organ transplants. Materials and Methods: A descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study was conducted by means of a socioeconomic questionnaire and a quality of life questionnaire, the World Health Organization Quality of Life- BREF. The sample consisted of 258 participants. Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were conducted as well as the Spearman's correlation. The level of significance adopted was p<0.05. Results: The results show that receiving an income of 2 salaries made a significant difference with respect to those participants receiving a lower income. Married participants showed a significant difference in the psychological aspect compared to those with another marital status. Liver transplant patients showed a significant difference in the self-assessment with respect to other transplant recipients. Discussion: Transplants, despite not providing a definitive cure, rehabilitates patients, enabling them to have pleasant experiences that had been forgotten due to the illness itself and that have been able to gradually experience again. Conclusions: Patients perceived a satisfactory quality of life when received high income, had undergone a liver transplant and had a partner, having a positive impact on this perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed to compare health indicators, including the concept of health (CH), level of physical activity (LPA) and anthropometric data, of high school students of private, state and federal schools in the city of Leopoldina -- MG, Brazil. The sample consisted of 388 students, being 205 boys (age: 16.6 ± 1.0 years, BMI: 23.6 ± 3.4 kg/m²) and 183 girls (age: 16.4 ± 1.0 years; BMI: 23.6 ± 2.8 kg/m²). The health understanding infographic and the international physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ) were used to verify CH and LPA, respectively. Anthropometric data were also collected, including body mass, height, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). The majority of students (66.7%) presented BMI within the normal range (boys: 23.6 ± 3.4 kg/m²; girls: 23.6 ± 2.8 kg/m²), and 33.3% was overweight. It was verified that more than half (54.6%) of the students were considered insufficiently active/sedentary, and the majority (56.2%) presented CH classified as preventive. In state and private schools, it was found that the higher the LPA, the lower the WC. It was concluded that the prevalence of sedentary lifestyle in the three educational networks surveyed is still high. It is suggested, therefore, the promotion of strategies of intervention through the school and socio-political-economic measures, aiming at raising the LPA and improving students' understanding of health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aims to analyze the speech of soccer players in activity, who emerged through the social practice of this sport, in order to try identify if there is a relationship between their attitudes and the fact that they are from families with low finance. The methodology adopted was the documentary analysis content technique; reports interpretation in Placar magazine, primary source, was chosen for this paper. From survey of cited magazines were selected nineteen interviews of professional soccer players, divided into the following categories: social ascension, misbehaving inside and outside of field, good behavior inside and outside of field. It is observed through the analysis that there is no relationship between the behavior of soccer players interviewed by the magazine above mentioned and the fact that they coming from humble families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper investigates the relationship between the impact of Bolsa Família Program in the Brazilian population and the result of the presidential elections of 2006. The database involves municipal information provided by MDS, IBGE and TSE. To control the experiment, the eventual influences of other variables in the determination of this relationship had been studied. All those variables come from specific characteristics of the cities, such as: city with predominant urban or not urban population; size of the city population; among others. The results state that the Bolsa Família was, in fact, a very important factor in the determination of the votes in Lula. It was, in itself, responsible by 45% of the total votes in Lula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Stability and Full Employment": the origins of Kaldor's framework for economic fluctuation and growth analysis. Nicholas Kaldor is known as an author who often changed his mind throughout his career. This is the case of his analyses of the process of economic growth, in which he proposed various models leading to quite different and, occasionally, conflicting conclusions. Specifically, Kaldor changed his position concerning the stability of the full employment situation. This paper shows that, in spite of those changes, Kaldor in fact used different versions of the same basic analytical framework and that this framework has its origin in his paper "Stability and Full Employment" published in the Economic Journal in December 1938. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: to identify overweight incidence in adolescents as well as associated environmental, biological, social and economic factors in the municipality of Toledo, Paraná. Methods: a cross sectional study was performed with adolescents enrolled in middle school aged 14 to 19 years old, in day classes of the urban area in the municipality. Body mass/age rates were used to diagnose the risk of overweight exposure. A pre-tested questionnaire was used to survey personal, anthropometric, biologic and life style related data such as: the use of TV, video and computer, practicing of sports and number of meals. To establish social and economic status the criterion used was that of the Economic Classification of Brazil from the National Survey Companies Association. Results: 3.8% of the adolescents were underweight and 10.2% were overweight. A statistically significant association was determined for the incidence of overweight among adolescents who had four or more meals per day (5.5%) and among the ones who had up to three meals a day (16.3%). When stratifying overweight by classes of income, the overweight incidence rate had a tendency of decreasing as the economic class decreased. Conclusions: overweight prevalence is higher than underweight; the last is below the rates determined in other Brazilian municipalities. Less frequency of meals and higher income classes were associated to overweight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: to investigate food habits changes in the population of Brasilia, Federal District through variables such as schooling, income and sex. Methods: A cross sectional study, with a probabilistic sample of 500 homes through interviews of people aged over 15. The interviews were held at the PIano Piloto, Cidades Satélites and Vila Estrutural regions of the Federal District between March 2003 and March 2004. The sample landmark was defined based on Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística census sectors related to the 2000 demographic census. Twenty census sectors were randomly selected among the 2548 in the Federal District. Results: daily food intake consisted of rice, beans, bread, fruit and vegetables. Chicken weekly consumption (85.0%), beef (76.0 %), pasta (69.6%) and eggs (62.0%). The majority (71.0%) reported concern with healthy nourishment. Only 37% of the respondents reported food habits change in the last six months and among them 32.6% change was related to the wish of losing weight, 25.4% to health: concerns and 20.0% to food reeducation. Change was maintained by 84.2% of the respondents. Conclusions: data indicate concern with healthy nourishment and change in food habits. Reasons reported for change are related to aesthetics amid health concerns. Income and schooling are significant predictors of changes in food habits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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