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Despite global demand, the large-scale effects of social-emotional learning (SEL) programming in developing countries remain underexplored. Using a randomized control trial, this study examined the effectiveness of a school-wide SEL intervention--"Programa Compasso" (PC)--among 3,018 sociodemographically diverse, Portuguese-speaking children (M[subscript age] = 9.85 years) attending 90 public primary schools across Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2017. Average impacts of PC on children's executive function, emotion knowledge, and behavior problems after one school year were null. Moderation analyses did, however, reveal evidence for positive impacts of PC on children's labeling of emotional expressions and inhibitory control within low-homicide communities (d = 0.15 SDs), and null effects on these same outcomes in high-violence areas. Implementation and cultural considerations are discussed.

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Purposes: to verify the performance of elderly in tests of auditory processing at the delivery of the hearing aids, after a month of use and after the auditory training. Methods: the study was carried out with 11 elderly people, between 60 and 79 years old, wearing hearing aids, at Centro de Saúde Clélia Manfro. All patients were submitted to Speech in Noise tests, normal or expanded Random Gap Detection Test and to the binaural integration stage of the Dichotic digits test, in three different moments: at the delivery of the hearing aids, after a month of use, and after five auditory training sessions. Results: in relation to sex, 7 (63.64 %) were women. The mean age was 71.27 (± 5.33). The average time of daily use of the hearing aids was 10.18 hours (± 2.44), and of sensory deprivation was 5.82 years (± 5.29). All participants gradually increased the scores in tests of auditory processing, reaching better performance after the auditory training, and the comparison between the three moments resulted statistically significant (p< 0.001). Conclusion: the process of adaptation to the hearing aids as well as the auditory training led to an improvement in speech recognition with and without competing message as reflecting the period of acclimatization after the second evaluation and the effect of auditory training after the third assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase in the incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and mortality from them has been recognized worldwide. In Brazil, the impact of COVID-19 on CVD must be evaluated., Objectives: To assess the impact of the current pandemic on the numbers of hospital admissions (HA), in-hospital deaths (ID), and in-hospital fatality (IF) from CVD by use of national epidemiological data from the Brazilian Unified Public Health System., Methods: Time-series observational study using comparative analysis of the HA, ID, and IF due to CVD recorded from January to May 2020, having as reference the values registered in the same period from 2016 to 2019 and the values projected by linear regression methods for 2020. The statistical significance level applied was 0.05., Results: Compared to the same period in 2019, there was a 15% decrease in the HA rate and a 9% decrease in the total ID due to CVD between March and May 2020, followed by a 9% increase in the IF rate due to CVD, especially among patients aged 20-59 years. The HA and IF rates registered in 2020 differed significantly from the projected trend for 2020 (p = 0.0005 and 0.0318, respectively)., Conclusions: During the first months of the pandemic, there were a decline in HA and an increase in IF due to CVD in Brazil. These data might have resulted from the inadequate planning of the CVD management during the pandemic. Thus, immediate actions are required to change this scenario. (Arq Bras Cardiol. 2021; [online].ahead print, PP.0-0).