Health literacy, a more complex concept than knowledge, is a required capacity to obtain, understand, integrate and act on health information [1], in order to enhance individual and community health, which is defined by different levels, according to the autonomy and personal capacitation in decision making [2]. Medium levels of Health literacy in an adolescent population were found in a study conducted in 2013/2014, being higher in sexual and reproductive health and lower in substance use. It was also noticed that the higher levels of health literacy were in the area adolescents refer to have receipt more health information. The health literacy competence with higher scores was communication skills, and the lower scores were in the capacity to analyze factors that influence health. Higher levels were also found in younger teenagers, but in a higher school level, confirming the importance of health education in these age and development stage. Adolescents seek more information in health professionals and parents, being friends more valued as a source information in older adolescents, which enhance the importance of peer education mainly in older adolescents [3]. As a set of competences based on knowledge, health literacy should be developed through education interventions, encompassing the cultural and social context of individuals, since the society, culture and education system where the individual is inserted can define the way the development and enforcement of the health literacy competences [4]. The valued sources of information should be taken into account, as well as needs of information in some topics referred by adolescents in an efficient health education. Schizophrenia is a serious and chronic mental illness which has a profound effect on the health and well-being related with the well-known nature of psychotic symptoms. The exercise has the potential to improve the life of people with schizophrenia improving physical health and alleviating psychiatric symptoms. However, most people with schizophrenia remains sedentary and lack of access to exercise programs are barriers to achieve health benefits. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of exercise on I) the type of intervention in mental health, II) in salivary levels of alpha-amylase and cortisol and serum levels of S100B and BDNF, and on III) the quality of life and selfperception of the physical domain of people with schizophrenia. The sample consisted of 31 females in long-term institutions in the Casa de Saúde Rainha Santa Isabel, with age between 25 and 63, and with diagnosis of schizophrenia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). Physical fitness was assessed by the six-minute walk distance test (6MWD). Biological variables were determined by ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay). Psychological variables were assessed using SF-36, PSPP-SCV, RSES and SWLS tests. Walking exercise has a positive impact on physical fitness (6MWD -p = 0.001) and physical components of the psychological test...

Objetivo: Descrever valores de Capacidade Vital Forçada (CVF), Pressão Inspiratória Máxima (PImáx) e Pressão Expiratória Máxima (PEmáx) em cantores profissionais populares de um município de interior de estado e compará-los com os valores preditos pela literatura. Métodos: Pesquisa quantitativa e retrospectiva, com 18 cantores profissionais populares, com média de idade de 36,6 anos. Foi medida a CVF por meio de espirômetro portátil digital e as pressões respiratórias máximas com manovacuômetro digital. Resultados: Não houve significância estatística entre os três grupos, quanto aos valores preditos, medidos e as diferenças de CVF. Quanto à Pimáx, apenas houve significância entre valores preditos e medidos no grupo de cantoras (p = 0,026); nos grupos masculinos não houve significância (p = 0,121; p = 0,715); e também não houve nas diferenças entre valores preditos e medidos. Nas PEmáx, não houve significância estatística entre valores preditos e medidos nos três grupos e nas diferenças entre os três grupos. Conclusão: A CVF e PEmáx se apresentaram dentro da normalidade prevista nos três grupos estudados, com exceção do grupo de cantoras, em que os valores medidos de PImáx foram menores do que os valores preditos.Palavras-chave: capacidade vital, pressões respiratórias máximas, cantores.

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Introduction: Muscle recruitment is essential for the maintenance of the respiratory system, which under pathophysiological conditions reduces its muscular strength, leading to a decrease in respiratory pressures and subglot air pressure. Purpose: To investigate the correlation among muscle activation that makes up the center of physical force, the maximum phonation time and the sound pressure of adult women. Methods: Collection of maximum phonation time of /a/ and modal sound pressure; assessment of muscle activation transversus, multifidus, pelvic floor and maximal expiratory pressure of ten women (19-28 years old) without vocal complaints and without laryngeal disorders diagnosed by otolaryngologist. The Spearman test was applied. Results: A hundred per cent satisfactory activation of the transversus belly, no significant positive correlation among sound pressure, maximum phonation time and the maximal expiratory pressure values; majority of women with maximum phonation time of /a/ slightly below expectations and sound pressure values within the expected activation and satisfactory the multifidus, perineal muscles and Oxford scale, with positive correlation, but not significant. Conclusion: Among adult women without vocal complaints and no laryngeal disorders studied, no correlation was found among the activation of the muscles that make up the center of physical force, maximum phonation time and the sound pressure, although most women has made satisfactory muscle activation and while slightly below normal values for maximum phonation time and normal sound pressure.

OBJETIVO: verificar o nível de pressão sonora (NPS) modal e o tempo máximo de fonação (TMF) de /a/ de mulheres adultas, sem queixas vocais ou afecções laríngeas, antes, imediatamente após e cinco minutos após a execução da técnica de finger kazoo (FK). MÉTODO: coleta do TMF/a/, medida da frequência fundamental (f0) e seu desvio-padrão e do NPS modal, de 32 mulheres entre 18 e 40 anos de idade sem queixas vocais ou afecções laríngeas antes (M1), imediatamente após três séries de 15 repetições do FK (M2), e cinco minutos após silêncio (M3). Testes Spearman, Tukey e Friedman. RESULTADOS: aumento do NPS modal em M2 (com significância) e em M3; aumento de TMF/a/ em M2 e M3. CONCLUSÃO: no grupo pesquisado de mulheres adultas sem queixas vocais ou afecções laríngeas, houve aumento do NPS modal imediatamente após três séries de 15 repetições da técnica de FK, mostrando que a técnica pode influenciar a pressão sonora, a loudness e a projeção vocal.