Objectives: to analyze characteristics of homeless people and factors associated with living on the streets. Methods: a census-type sectional survey carried out between 2015 and 2018, in the municipality of Maringá-Paraná. A total of 701 homeless answered a structured questionnaire with sociodemographic data, living conditions, and drug use. We used Pearson’s correlation test for the association analysis of the variables at a 95% confidence level. Results: men (90.7%) the average age of 37.7 years had been homeless for an average of 5.39 years. Most had little education (54.2%), and homelessness was due to drug use (47.2%) and family disagreements (38.9%). Conclusions: drug use and family disagreements were the main reasons for homelessness. Time on the street, gender, and drugs were associated with a negative correlation to be homeless; and age, mean daily income, the number of daily meals, having been in prison, and having an income source were associated with positive correlation.

IntroductionSince 2020, the world has been going through a viral pandemic with a high morbidity and mortality rate along with the potential to evolve from an acute infection to post-acute and long-COVID, which is still in the process of elucidation. Diagnostic and prognostic research is essential to understand the complexity of factors and contexts involving the illness’s process. This protocol introduces a study strategy to analyse predictors, sequelae, and repercussions of COVID-19 in adults and older adults with different disease severities in the State of Paraná, Brazil.Methods and analysisA mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. The quantitative data will be conducted by an ambispective cohort study, which will explore the manifestations of COVID-19 for 18 months, with nearly 3000 participants with confirmed diagnoses of COVID-19 (reverse transcription-PCR test) between March and December of 2020, retrieved from national disease reporting databases, over 18 years old, living in a Brazilian State (Paraná) and who survived the viral infection after being discharged from a health service. Data collection will be conducted through telephone interviews, at two different occasions: the first will be a recall 12 months after the acute phase as a retrospective follow-up, and the second will be another prospective interview, with data of the following 6 months. For the qualitative step, Grounded Theory will be used; participants will be selected from the cohort population. The first sample group will be composed of people who were discharged from the intensive care unit, and other sample groups will be composed according to theoretical saturation. The qualitative data will follow the temporal design and classification of the disease provided for in the cohort.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval was granted by the State University of Maringá, under opinion number: 4 165 272 and CAAE: 34787020.0.0000.0104 on 21 July 2020, and Hospital do Trabalhador (Worker’s Hospital), which is accountable for the Health Department of the State of Paraná, under opinion number: 4 214 589 and CAAE: 34787020.0.3001.5225 on 15 August 2020. The participants will verbally consent to the research, their consent will be recorded, and the informed consent form will be sent by mail or email. Outcomes will be widely disseminated through peer-reviewed manuscripts, conference presentations, media and reports to related authorities.

Objetivou-se compreender os motivos para o não uso de drogas por membros de famílias expostas a fatores de risco para o uso, pela convivência em território com elevada circulação de drogas. Estudo descritivo e qualitativo, utilizando referencial de Hidden Population para acesso à população vulnerável e de difícil acessoe amostragem por Respondent Driven Sampling, com a finalidade de alcançar a população “escondida”. A cadeia de referência foi composta de 90 famílias e as respostas foram processadas por análise de conteúdo temática, resultando em três temas: interação familiar, religiosidade e fatores intrínsecos e motivos para o não uso de drogas; redes de apoio e convivência influenciando o não uso de drogas; e fatores ocupacionais e de ensino e o afastamento do cotidiano das drogas. Mesmo em uma vizinhança permeada pelo tráfico e violência, foi possível identificar fatores protetores e famílias cujos membros nunca haviam feito o uso de drogas.

Objective: to assess risk related to drug use in men admitted to a psychiatric hospital and to identify associations with sociodemographic, socioeconomic variables, and risk conditions. Method: a cross-sectional study with the application of a screening test in 209 participants hospitalized for mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances. Statistical analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and adjustment of a binary logistic regression model for moderate or high risk of drug use. The odds ratio measured the strength of association. Results: high use in life was observed, with alcohol and tobacco experimentation in adolescence. A high prevalence of related risk was observed for alcohol, tobacco, smoked and inhaled cocaine, and marijuana. Moderate and elevated risks were found for tobacco (22.5% and 62.5%, respectively), alcohol (13.5% and 73%), marijuana (16% and 32.5%), smoked cocaine (3% and 41%) and inhaled cocaine (9% and 19.5%). Conclusion: the results showed high use in life, with an age of early experimentation. Tobacco and alcohol are the main drugs used by hospitalized men.

Objetivo: Descrever o risco relacionado ao consumo de tabaco e álcool em trabalhadores metalúrgicos. Métodos: Estudo transversal com 180 trabalhadores de uma metalúrgica de grande porte, que responderam um questionário que abrangia variáveis sociodemográficas e dois instrumentos para rastreamento do consumo de drogas de abuso.Utilizaram-se estatística descritiva e regressão logística multinomial. Resultados: A maioria dos respondedores tinha entre 26 aos 45 anos, era casada, com filhos, católica, branca, com até 11 anos de escolaridade e conviveu com familiar usuário de álcool ou tabaco. Os níveis de risco moderado e elevado de consumo de tabaco e álcool foram, respectivamente, 19,4 e 3,3% e de 32,8% e 3,3%, sendo associados a:faixa dos 36 aos 66 anos, moradia não própria, ser católico, apresentar absenteísmo e convívio com familiar usuário. Conclusão: Os níveis de risco encontrados neste estudo foram semelhantes aos da população geral de homens. A maioria dos usuários de tabaco se encontrava nos níveis de risco que permitiam benefícios de políticas de cessação tabágica. Verificou-se, ainda, padrão do tipo binge drinking na maioria dos usuários de álcool, representado risco para morbimortalidade para causas externas.