ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To adapt the Leisure Attitude Measurement to the Brazilian culture and to evaluate the face and content validity of the Brazilian version for older population. METHODS: Methodological study of cross-cultural adaptation in five stages: initial translation; synthesis of translations; back translation; evaluation by a committee of experts using a face and content validity assessment instrument; pre-test with 36 elderly, selected by convenience, with the application of a pre-test evaluation instrument. Data were analyzed descriptively and internal consistency measured […]

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To examine whether the level of complexity of the services structure and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients in hemodialysis are associated with the prevalence of poor health self-assessment. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated 1,621 patients with chronic terminal kidney disease on hemodialysis accompanied in 81 dialysis services in the Brazilian Unified Health System in 2007. Sampling was performed by conglomerate in two stages and a structured questionnaire was applied to participants. Multilevel multiple logistic regression […]

The nature of inconsistencies between attitudes and practices is examined in terms of social-psychological theories. To facilitate diagnosis in health education, a model for the analysis of situational factors which affect a person’s behavior is presented.

A survey of the attitude towards a health center was made among a sample of inhabitants of two districts of S. Paulo city (Brazil). Indirect Questioning was carried out using an attitude scale created after Thurstone & Chave. Reliability tests made it possible to reduce the original scale from 55 to 24 items which can eventually be utilized in further surveys. The statements of the scale comprised 4 areas considered to be basic for the conceptual definition of attitudes regarding […]

It was verified the extent of the information of the urban population of Botucatu, SP (Brazil) on health questions. Knowledge and opinions about frequency and severity of thirteen symptoms and signs of disease were researched in 1005 families sampled. The answers were analyzed according to age, sex, level of education and socio-economic level. They showed a tendency compatible with scientific medical knowledge. In the comparison of the sexes, by age, (young adult) women gave more value to the frequency and […]

Psychosocial aspects which arise with regard to people directly or indirectly involved with AIDS: patients, relatives and professional staff, are studied. The results show that the population assisted in the Ribeirão Preto region is predominantly young, male and drug-addicted. The patients with “positive” results show reactions similar to those described by Kluber-Ross (1977) for terminal patients. The behavior observed in relatives forms a continuum which varies from the negation of the illness to the overprotection of the patient. For the […]

INTRODUCTION: Determining the prevalence of mental disturbances in childhood and adolescence gives us a better knowledge of their distribution in a given age group and provide us data for planning, implementing and evaluating health care programs. This survey was centered on complaints of “nervous problems” in a population group ranging from 1 to19 years old as a tool to measure mental illness prevalence in that age group. METHODS: A group of 141 children and teenagers with complaints of nervous problems […]