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Objective: to evaluate community health workers' and quality of home visits associated factors. Method: a cross-sectional study of 38,865 teams and 140,444 Primary Care Access and Quality Improvement Program users. We established the "quality of home visits" and its association with the characteristics of the municipalities, teams and individuals, estimated by the prevalence ratio and 95% confidence intervals. Results: 139,362 (99.2%) users said the health team had community workers. The prevalence of quality was 51.9%. After adjustments, the prevalence was higher in the Northeast (Prevalence Ratio: 1.19 [1.18-1.21]), smaller municipalities (PR: 1.06 [1.03-1.09]), among teams with area definition (PR: 1.15 [1.06-1.25]), evaluation of indicators (PR: 1.14 [1.12-1.17]) and user satisfaction (PR: 1.11 [1.08-1.13]), that considered risk and vulnerability criteria for defining the number of people under responsibility (PR: 1.05 [1.04-1.07]) and without an uncovered population of workers (PR: 1.03 [1.01-1.04]); among users with chronic diseases (PR: 1.02 [1.01-1.05]) and with someone at home with walking difficulties (PR: 1.05 [1.02-1.07]). Conclusion: the importance of organizing the teams' work process for the quality of the worker's home visits and their role in health equity is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The scope of this study was to measure the prevalence of negative self-perceived health and depressive symptoms in elderly adults according to the presence of urinary incontinence, after a follow-up of nine years. This is a prospective population-based cohort study entitled Bagé Cohort Study of Aging, from Rio Grande do Sul. A total of 1,593 elderly adults were interviewed in the baseline study (2008) and 735 between September 2016 and August 2017. The "urinary incontinence (UI)" exposure was assessed in the baseline study and the outcomes "negative self-perceived health" and "depressive symptoms" in 2016/17. The odds ratio and 95% confidence interval were calculated by Logistic Regression and adjusted for demographic, social, behavioral and health conditions. The prevalence of UI was 20.7% in 2008 and 24.5% in 2016/17; the incidence was 19.8%, being 23.8% among women and 14.6% among men (p = 0.009). Elderly adults with UI at the baseline study had a 4.0 (CI95%: 1.8-8.8) and a 3.4 (CI95%: 1.8-6.2) greater chance to develop negative self-perception of health and depressive symptoms, respectively, after nine years of follow -up, compared to those without UI. The results show a greater probability of mental problems among elderly adults with UI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To evaluate the cumulative incidence of depression and its associated factors in the older population living in the urban area of the municipality of Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, a prospective cohort study was conducted from 2008 to 2016/2017. The analysis was restricted to 615 older adults with complete information on the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), both at baseline and at follow-up, and who did not present depression in 2008. To calculate crude and adjusted incidence ratios and 95% confidence interval, Poisson regression with robust variance adjustment was used, including the baseline variables. A hierarchical model of four levels of determination was used. The variables were controlled for those of the same or of higher levels, and the p-value ≤ 0.20 was established to remain in the analysis model. In 2008, 523 older people did not have depression and 92 had been screened with the disease. In 2016/2017, of the 523 individuals without depression in the baseline measure, 10.3% tested positive at screening (incident cases), whereas 89.7% of the older adults remained free of the condition. Of the 92 older adults with depression in 2008, 32.6% continued to present depressive symptoms at follow-up and 67.3% had remission of symptoms. Leaving home once or never and being incapable of doing functional and instrumental activities of daily living were associated with a higher risk of positive screening for depression. The results reinforce the multidimensional and dynamic character of depression, which alternates short and long episodes, and may become recurrent and chronic.