Objetivos: Investigar o padrão de consumo de bebidas alcoólicas entre estudantes do curso de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) e as possíveis implicações para a vida acadêmica. Métodos: Utilizou-se um questionário sobre o consumo de bebidas alcoólicas e de situações vivenciadas após o consumo dessas substâncias, aplicado a 216 estudantes no período 2013.2. Resultados: A prevalência de consumo de bebidas alcoólicas entre os estudantes de enfermagem da UFPB é de 61,57% e as consequências acadêmicas que se destacaram foram: o não comparecimento e chegar atrasado a aulas e estágios, dificuldade em concentra-se ou prestar atenção e dormir durante a aula. Conclusão: Conclui-se que há consequências por causa do consumo de bebidas alcoólicas que podem influenciar de forma negativa o desempenho acadêmico, contudo as consequências orgânicas e comportamentais que o álcool traz obtiveram maiores resultados. Descritores: Saúde Mental, Enfermagem, Estudantes de Enfermagem, Alcoolismo.

Objectives: To identify educational practices in family planning, facilitating factors, difficulties and resulting impacts. Method: This is an integrative literature review, using the three descriptors: "family planning", "health education" and "contraception"; In the databases of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and Nursing Database (BDENF), were searched in January and February 2016. Results: Regarding the accomplishment of educational practices, most of the studies pointed out its accomplishment. The difficulties and facilitators aspects were related to the management of the health service, professional competence and users. Guarantee of family rights and autonomy were the impacts pointed out. Conclusion: The study showed that educational practices in family planning are tools to be encouraged as a guarantee and respect for sexual and reproductive rights. Descriptors: family planning; education in health; contraception.

This is an epidemiological and descriptive study with a quantitative and qualitative character carried out in the city of João Pessoa-PB with 100 users who sought care at the Centro de Zoonoses in the months of October and November 2022. It aimed to evaluate the level of knowledge on Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis in the population assisted at the site. As a result, 68% of users are women with completed high school, most of whom live in the west and south of the city. 80% of the interviewees had already heard about the disease and recognized it as a zoonosis, also known as Kala-azar, as the majority referred. Regarding transmission, 58% of respondents said they knew how it is transmitted, and of these the majority replied that it occurs through the bite of a mosquito.