The scientific production about communication in the Brazilian journal Interface

Introdução: Considerando a importância de Interface entre as revistas de Saúde Coletiva e enquanto espaço de produção de saberes e práticas nesse campo na América Latina, este trabalho teve como objetivo mapear a produção científica que investigou a comunicação, em suas diversas dimensões, durante os 20 anos desse periódico (de 1997 a 2017). Metodologia: Trata-se de estudo descritivo dos aspectos quantitativos e qualitativos da produção sobre comunicação mediante análise de conteúdo.  Resultados: Nesse período, a revista publicou 1.343 manuscritos. Desse total, 154 manuscritos tiveram a comunicação como um dos seus objetos, o que representou 11,47% do total de artigos. Predominaram os estudos empíricos (52,60%), seguidos dos teóricos (25,97%). Os campos temáticos identificados foram: Mídias (26,62%); Saúde Coletiva (26,62%); Formação profissional (16,88%); Relacionamento profissional, paciente, família e serviço (14,29%); Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (9,09%); e Comunicação e Sociedade (1,30%). Conclusão: Essa diversidade temática demonstra a riqueza e heterogeneidade do campo Comunicação e Saúde. Entretanto, o baixo número de publicações relacionadas à comunicação evidencia a escassez da produção científica sobre esse objeto no campo da Saúde Coletiva.Introduction: Considering the importance of the Brazilian journal Interface among the Collective Health journals and as a space of production of knowledge and practices in the area in Latin America, this work aimed at mapping the scientific production related to communication in its various dimensions throughout the magazine’s 20 years of existence (1997 to 2017). Methodology: This is a descriptive study of the quantitative and qualitative aspects of production on communication through content analysis. Results: During this period, the journal published 1,343 manuscripts among which 154 were related to communication, representing 11.47% of all papers. Empirical studies were predominant (52.6%), followed by theoretical studies (25.97%). The identified thematic fields were: Media (26.62%); Collective Health (26.62%); Professional education (16.88%); Professional relationship, patient/family/service (14.29%); Information and Communication Technologies (9.09%); and Communication and society (1.3%). Conclusion: This thematic diversity demonstrates the Communication and Health field’s wealth and heterogeneity of topics. However, the low number of publications related to communication highlights the lack of scientific production on this matter in Collective Health

Reasons for medical follow-up dropout among patients with arterial hypertension: the patient's perspective

A hipertensão arterial é um expressivo problema de saúde pública enquanto fator de risco para as doenças cardiovasculares e principal grupo de causas de mortalidade no Brasil. A baixa adesão e o abandono do tratamento estão entre os principais obstáculos às estratégias individuais de controle. Estudam-se os motivos do abandono do seguimento médico em uma coorte de pacientes em tratamento de hipertensão arterial, em serviço de atenção primária à saúde, acompanhados por um período de quatro anos. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com cinquenta pessoas com hipertensão que abandonaram o seguimento médico. As respostas foram analisadas mediante a técnica de análise temática de conteúdo. Os motivos relatados para o abandono do seguimento mostraram predomínio de razões ligadas ao próprio serviço de saúde - sua organização, estrutura e a relação médico-paciente - e, ainda, tratamento em outro serviço de saúde. Razões de natureza psicossocial, como a ausência de sintomas, a melhora e/ou a normalização da pressão arterial e o consumo de álcool também contribuíram para o abandono do cuidado. Estudar os motivos do abandono na perspectiva do próprio sujeito permitiu verificar a riqueza e diversidade de problemas envolvidos no cuidado requerido.Arterial hypertension is a relevant public health problem as it is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, the major cause of mortality in Brazil. Low compliance and treatment dropout are among the main obstacles to individual control strategies. This study aimed at assessing the reasons for failure in medical appointment follow-up among a cohort of patients under treatment for four years in a primary care service. Thus, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 50 individuals who had dropped out of medical appointments. Statements were assessed by using thematic content analysis. The reported reasons for dropping out were most frequently related with the healthcare service itself - its organization and structure, and doctor-patient relationship - or treatment at another healthcare service. The reasons related with the patients themselves, such as absence of symptoms, improvement and/or normalization of arterial hypertension, as well as alcohol consumption contributed to the discontinuation of the treatment. To study the reasons for treatment dropout through the patients' eyes showed the abundance and diversity of problems involved

Interprofessional education in Brazil: Building synergic networks of educational and healthcare processes

Univ Fed Rio Grande do Norte, Escola Multicampi Ciencias Med, Caico, BrazilUniv Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Saude Educ & Soc, Santos, BrazilPontificia Univ Catolica Rio Grande do Sul, Fac Serv Social, Porto Alegre, RS, BrazilUniv Fed Minas Gerais, Dept Fisioterapia, Belo Horizonte, MG, BrazilUniv Estado Rio Grande do Norte, Dept Enfermagem, Campus Profa Maria Elisa de Albuquerque Maia, BR-59900000 Pau Dos Ferros, BrazilUniv Estadual Paulista, Fac Med Botucatu, Dept Saude Publ, Botucatu, SP, BrazilUniv Sao Paulo, Escola Enfermagem, Sao Paulo, BrazilUniv Kingston, Ctr Hlth & Social Care Res, London, EnglandUniv London, London, EnglandUniv Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Saude Educ & Soc, Santos, BrazilWeb of Scienc

A Latin American, Portuguese and Spanish consensus on a core communication curriculum for undergraduate medical education

The autors would like to acknowledge the contributions of the participantsin the panel of experts. Their comments have helped us to reach moresuitable learning outcomes.They also want to thank the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid, Spain)the financial support for the achievement of the projectTo present learning outcomes in clinical communication for a Core Curriculum for medical undergraduate students in Latin America, Portugal and Spain (LAPS-CCC) and to establish an expert network to support a transnational implementation. Through an iterative process, an international group of 15 experts developed an initial set of learning outcomes following a review and discussion of relevant international and local literature. A two-round Delphi survey involving 46 experts from 8 countries was performed. Quantative and qualitative analisis permited the definition of the final consensus. The initial proposal included 157 learning outcomes. The Delphi process generated 734 comments and involved the modification, deletion and addition of some outcomes. At the end of the process, a consensus was reached on 136 learning outcomes grouped under 6 competency domains with a high overall acceptance (95.1 %). The learning outcomes of this proposal provide a guide to introduce, support and develop communication curriculae for undergraduate medical studies in the countries involved or in other Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking countries. The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12909-016-0610-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users