Objective To analyze cases of violence against transvestites and transsexuals based on their sociodemographic profile. Method Cross-sectional, descriptive research performed in Cajazeiras / Paraíba, consisting of 16 transvestites and transsexuals. Data collection took place in April 2014 and was analyzed descriptively. Results The typology of violence that victimized transvestites and transsexuals were: verbal (91.96%), psychological (58.33%) and physical (33.33%), often between 24 hours and six months preceding the survey. Regarding the spatiality: the street, school and health services were all scenarios of aggression. With respect to the offending agent, the findings point towards neighbors, family members and health professionals. All forms of violence happened between agents and spaces of aggression. Conclusions Violence among this population, silence around the situations of abuse became more pronounced as did its invisibility in the social and institutional context, reflecting the inhibition of human rights and concealment of reality.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with anxiety among multiprofessional health residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Cross-sectional study, conducted in July 2020 with multiprofessional health residents (n = 67) from a university hospital. We used the Beck Anxiety Inventory to assess anxiety. Analyzing data through the chi-square test, likelihood ratio, and multiple analysis using Poisson regression with robust variance. Results: The proportion of moderate/severe anxiety was 31.3%, which showed significant association with working in sectors involving COVID-19 and directly with suspected/confirmed cases of COVID-19. During the multiple analysis, we found prevalence of anxiety in participants who needed psychological support after entering their residence and those who used psychotropic meds. Conclusion: The results seem to indicate that residents had their mental health impaired during the pandemic, but the maintenance of the variables in the model also suggests that they sought help to control anxiety.

Objectives: to analyze the role of nurses in suspected or confirmed cases of violence against children and adolescents in Primary Health Care. Methods: an analytical research, with a qualitative approach. Thirty nurses participated in the study, and data were collected by means of an individual form and a semi-structured interview. The data received lexicographic analysis by the software IRaMuTeQ (Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires) organized by Bardin’s content analysis. Results: five categories emerged, in which it was possible to consider that the nurses’ approach in cases of violence was based on the identification of violence through physical examination during nursing consultations, health promotion actions in the school environment, request for support from the multi-professional team, and transfer of responsibilities. Final Considerations: it is inferred that the fragility in the professional training of nurses to address situations of violence against children and adolescents produces deficits in comprehensive care for victims.

O objetivo foi analisar os efeitos temporais (idade, período e coorte) na mortalidade por homicídios femininos nos estados da Região Nordeste do Brasil, no período de 1980 a 2017. Estudo ecológico de tendência temporal em que foram utilizados modelos APC com uma abordagem bayesiana e o método determinístico INLA (Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations) na inferência dos parâmetros. As taxas de homicídios femininos, para cada estado da região estudada, foram padronizadas pelo método direito, após correção dos registros de óbitos quanto à qualidade da informação e à subnotificação. Além disso, obtiveram-se dados segundo raça/cor, local de ocorrência e meio pelo qual a agressão foi perpetrada. No período estudado, após a correção dos registros de óbito, a Região Nordeste apresentou taxa média de 5,40 óbitos por homicídios a cada 100 mil mulheres, com aumento significativo em todos os estados nos anos 2000. Em todos os estados houve aumento do risco de óbito (RR) por homicídio na segunda e terceira década de vida e efeito de proteção para as mulheres mais velhas. Com exceção de Sergipe, constatou-se aumento do risco de óbito em quinquênios dos anos 2000. Na Região Nordeste e estados da Paraíba, Pernambuco e Piauí, verificou-se efeito protetor para mulheres de gerações mais antigas. Ainda, a maior proporção de óbitos ocorreu em mulheres negras, no domicílio, sendo perpetrado por arma de fogo. Os achados do presente estudo podem estar correlacionados ao processo de disseminação da violência ocorrido no Brasil, nos anos 2000, assim como a ineficiência do Estado brasileiro em proteger as mulheres vítimas de violência.

Resumo Objetivou-se analisar a prevalência e os fatores associados à ideação suicida em travestis e transexuais. Estudo transversal, realizado entre 2015 e 2016 com travestis (n = 22) e transexuais (n = 36) associadas a quatro organizações civis do Rio Grande do Norte. Avaliou-se a diferença entre as categorias por meio dos testes qui-quadrado, exato de Fisher e de razão de verossimilhança. Realizou-se a análise múltipla por meio da regressão de Poisson com variância robusta. A prevalência de ideação suicida foi de 41,4% (IC 95%: 41,3-54,51%), sendo de 13,79% entre travestis (IC 95%: 4,91-22,66%) e 27,61% entre transexuais (IC 95%: 16,08-39,08%). Observou-se que apresentaram maior prevalência de ideação suicida os participantes com histórico de violência na escola (RP = 2,05; IC 95%: 1,08-3,87) e classificados com níveis depressivos moderado/grave (RP = 3,86; IC 95%: 1,51-9,83). Contexto escolar desfavorável e presença de sintomatologia depressiva parecem prejudicar a saúde mental e colaborar com a ideação suicida de pessoas transexuais e travestis.

Introduction: Breast cancer is an important public health problem worldwide, with important disparities in incidence, mortality, and survival rates between developed and developing countries due to inequalities regarding access to measures for the prevention and treatment of the disease. In Brazil, there are higher rates of incidence and a downward trend in mortality in regions of greater socioeconomic development. Objective: To evaluate the effect of age, period, and birth cohort on breast cancer mortality in women aged 20 years and older in the states of the Northeast Region of Brazil, an area of high socioeconomic vulnerability, from 1980 to 2019. Methods: The death records were extracted from the DATASUS Mortality Information System website (Department of National Health Informatics) from the Ministry of Health of Brazil. Estimable functions were used to estimate the age-period and cohort models (APC) using the Epi library from the R statistical software version 6.4.1. Results: The average breast cancer mortality rate for the period was 20.45 deaths per 100,000 women. The highest coefficients per 100,000 women were observed in the states of Pernambuco (21.09 deaths) and Ceará (20.85 deaths), and the lowest in Maranhão (13.58 deaths) and Piauí (15.43 deaths). In all of the locations, there was a progressive increase in mortality rates in individuals over 40 years of age, with higher rates in the last five-year period (2015–2019). There was an increase in the risk of death for the five-year period of the 2000s in relation to the reference period (1995–1999) in the Northeast region and in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Maranhão, Paraíba, and Piauí. In addition, there was an increased risk of death for women born after the 1950s in all locations. Conclusion: The highest mortality rates in all five-year periods analyzed were observed in states with greater socioeconomic development, with an increase in mortality rates in the 2000s, and a higher risk of death in the younger cohorts.