Sociodemographic, clinic and health characterization of people with venous ulcers attended at the family health strategy

Objetivo: caracterizar os aspectos sociodemográficos, de saúde e assistenciais das pessoas com úlceras venosas atendidas pela Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF) em Maceió-Alagoas. Método: pesquisa transversal, com abordagem quantitativa, realizada em 36 unidades da ESF com 59 pessoas com úlceras venosas por meio de formulário estruturado. Resultados: as pessoas com úlceras venosas estavam em tratamento > 1 ano (69,5%), eram do sexo feminino (71,2%) e ≥ 60 anos (67,8%). A maioria era não tabagista e não alcoolista, e 100,00% tinham dois ou mais fatores de risco e antecedentes pessoais patológicos, cada. Possuía tempo de lesão > 6 meses (64,4%), dor na úlcera/membro (86,4%) e leito com ≤ 30% de granulação/epitelização (78,0%). Conclusões: as pessoas com úlcera venosa apresentavam: baixo nível socioeconômico, doenças crônicas e características da lesão desfavoráveis contribuindo para cronicidade das lesões.

[Female teenager students: what they know about induced abortion complications]

This study aimed to identify the knowledge about induced abortion complications and its relation to age. This is a cross-sectional study performed in schools of Maceió, state of Alagoas, Brazil, with students 12 to 19 years old. The sample was calculated considering post-abortion curettage data. The Epi Info computer program was used for data analysis. From 2,592 female adolescents studied 65.64% didn't know about any complications of induced abortion. The most mentioned complications were death and sterility. Clinical manifestations of abortion were wrongly mentioned by them as complications. Signification was found between the knowledge of the complications sterility, hemorrhage, and age. Death was significant fo rgirls under 15 and sterility for the older ones. The conclusion is that female adolescents don't have a correct knowledge of induced abortion complications, which shows the risk suffered by the ones that induce it. Thus, there is a need to further clarify the issue and for sexual education.

[Abortion in adolescence: who committed it in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil]

This quantitative and cross study aims at establishing a profile of female teenagers, from 12 to 19 years old, that committed abortion in a representative random sample of 2592 adolescents in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil, in 2005. There were found 149 abortions, where most of them (81.9%) did not have a job, (85%) lived with the parents, (85.2%) were single, (69.8%) studied in a public school and (70.5%) were in high school. The majority had one abortion 93%, but it stands out that 8.5% of them aborted twice and 2.6% four times, showing this data the inadequate attention to teenagers reproductive health. In order to have an abortion, 63.8% of them had support, 83.9% did not have physical complications and 89.3% did not need hospitalization. The conclusion is that the teenagers are getting pregnant and still attending school, looking for abortion as a solution for a not planned pregnancy and that the lack of need of hospitalization post abortion contributes to the statics lack.