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Background: Psychoactive substance use associated with tuberculosis is an urgent public health issue in the contemporary world. Objective: To characterize the profile and psychoactive substance use ofpatients undergoing tuberculosis treatment and to analyze the association between health-related variables, consumption, and treatment adherence, from the perspective of Brief Interventions (BI). Methodology: Descriptive correlational epidemiological study, with 114 patients, from 2016 to 2017. The Self-Reporting Questionnaire and the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test 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 BI. Cannabis use was more frequent among smokers (p = 0.009). As for the frequency of treatment adherence, 40% of participants smoked, 21.1% drank alcohol, 10.5% used cannabis, and 13.7% used cocaine. Conclusion: These results demonstrated the vulnerability of this population to psychoactive substance use based on treatment adherence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Treating nocturnal enuresis with an alarm device is one of the most effective ways to eliminate bedwetting. An effective treatment must have results that last at least one year. The objective of this work is to follow-up children and adolescents that passed by an intake interview for enuresis treatment at Institute of Psychology of the University of Sao Paulo. Thirty-six families were contacted, 24 were treated and 12 only passed by the initial interview. The telephonic contact established the current situation of bedwetting for each child. Over 80% of the treated chidren remained dry, while two of them (9%) relapsed. On the other hand, only three of the non-treated children achieved dryness spontaneously. This data reassures the necessity of treatment for enuresis and states the efficacy of the program. However, the small number of participants is a limitation of this study. A replication with a larger amount of patients is necessary to verify these tendencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]