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Artigo Científico Acesso fechado Características associadas a utilização do narguilé em adultos jovens uma Universidade do Sul do Brasil(2020) Freiberger, Natanyelle SteffenIntrodução: As formas alternativas de tabaco vêm ganhando popularidade no mundo. O narguilé́ se refere a um instrumento que contém água na sua base, por onde passa a fumaça do tabaco antes da inalação, sendo tão prejudicial quanto o cigarro convencional. O uso de narguilé expõe os fumantes à nicotina e produtos de combustão assim como concentrações relevantes de outros compostos tóxicos. Objetivo: Caracterizar os padrões de consumo e exposição ao narguilé em adultos jovens em uma Universidade do Sul do Brasil. Metodologia: Estudo analítico observacional, de caráter transversal, composto por estudantes universitários usuários de narguilé. Foi aplicado um questionário e realizou-se análise das características da amostra e das variáveis estudadas, apresentando as frequências absoluta e relativa, bem como medidas de tendência central e dispersão. Resultados: Foram incluídos 117 usuários que possuíam, em média, 20 anos, sendo a maioria mulheres e estudantes de áreas da saúde. A idade média da primeira experimentação foi de 16 anos. A frequência de consumo é, em média, duas vezes ao mês e o tempo por sessão foi superior a 30 minutos em 62% dos casos. Quase a totalidade da amostra não se considera viciada e 53% acredita que o narguilé é menos viciante e que seu uso seja menos ou igualmente prejudicial ao cigarro. Conclusão: A maioria dos usuários teve o primeiro contato com o tabaco através do narguilé ainda na adolescência. O ato de fumar narguilé parece associado a uma percepção equivocada sobre os efeitos reais do narguilé sobre a saúde.Artigo Científico Acesso fechado Função pulmonar de adultos jovens usuários de narguilé: uma série de casos(2019) Santos, Isabela Cristina de SouzaThe objective of this study was to evaluate the pulmonary function of young adult waterpipe users. It is about a case report composed of seven individuals submitted to spirometric and anthropometric evaluation. Questionnaires about breathing symptoms from the British Medical Research Council were applied as well as questions regarding waterpipe consumption. From the seven individuals, none of them presented breathing symptoms. The average age was 22 ± 1.82 years old and it was verified that the beginning of waterpipe use occurred on average at 16.42 ± 1.27 years old. Besides that, flavored tobacco was the most used substance in the sample (71.43%). The evaluation of the pulmonary function showed that there was no loss at the expiratory volume forced at the first second, at the forced vital capacity, and at the relationship between these two variables. On the other hand, the peak expiratory flow presented an approximate reduction of 20%. The findings suggest that waterpipe smoke may associated with a decline of the peak expiratory flow; however, more studies related to this theme are necessary.Artigo Científico Acesso fechado Prevalência de uso de narguilé e fatores associados em universitários(2019) Souza, Juliano de; Souza, Maria Eduarda deThe habit of smoking waterpipe (shisha or hookah) has been more and more common among the youth. In recent years, its use has expanded mainly in western countries due to the growth of the international tobacco industries. The present study aims at verifying the prevalence of waterpipe use/experimentation and associated factors in students of a university in the South of Brazil. A transversal study was conducted with the application of a questionnaire with 28 questions, viewing at the epidemiologic investigation on the waterpipe use. In the study, there were 427 university students included. From this total, 52.3% had already experienced waterpipe once in their lives. Among the waterpipe users, 62.1% reported that the average time spent in a session is more than 30 minutes; 50.9% demonstrated a preference for using flavored tobacco; 44% referred to the use of waterpipe as the first tobacco based product used and 22% believed that waterpipe was less harmful when compared to cigarettes. Individuals that had smoked waterpipe for the first time before 18 years old and that used flavored tobacco presented more chances of remaining in longer waterpipe sessions (RP = 1.75 [CI 95% 0.97 – 3.18], p = 0.019; RP = 2.83 [CI 95% 1.15 – 7.00], p = 0.024; respectively).Artigo Científico Acesso fechado Qualidade de vida de sobreviventes de sarcoma quando crianças, adolescentes e adultos jovens: uma revisão da literatura(2020) Ferreira, Joice MayraObjective: To summarize the quality of life (QOL) outcomes present in treated patients and sarcoma survivors as children, adolescents and young adults. In addition, to present which instruments are most frequently used to assess this population. Methods: This is a literature review with scientific articles published in the last 10 years on the subject (2010-2020). The search was performed in the Embase, Medline, PubMed and Web of Science databases. A total of 241 articles were found, of which, after applying the eligibility requirements, 11 articles were included in this review. Results: In the research included in this study, 11 different instruments were used to measure QOL, with SF-36 (n = 4) and PedsQL (n = 3) the most used. The most studied sarcomas were osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma, and soft tissue sarcomas appeared in the sample of four studies. In all surveys, the age of most participants was less than 39 years old, both at diagnosis and treatment and at the time of the survey. Conclusions: The findings of this review suggest that survivors of sarcoma as children, adolescents and young adults have worse QoL, especially in the physical domains when compared to healthy controls. Marriage and the presence of children may favor higher QOL scores, as well as those submitted to conservative limb surgery. Further studies in the area and the creation and standardization of instruments to measure the QOL in this population are necessary, since the survival of these patients has increased and the QOL has decreased.