Conhecimento de universitárias sobre os riscos e benefícios associados aos contraceptivos orais combinados

Modelo do estudo: Estudo observacional transversal descritivo. Objetivo: Avaliar o conhecimento de universitárias sobre riscos e benefícios associados aos contraceptivos orais combinados (COC). Método: A população do estudo foi composta por uma amostra de conveniência de estudantes de medicina do sexo feminino. Os dados foram coletados no período de outubro a novembro de 2017 por meio de um questionário estruturado, autoaplicável e composto por 34 questões divididas em dados sociodemográficos, antecedentes contraceptivos e conhecimentos sobre riscos e benefícios associados ao uso dos COC. Resultados: Participaram desta pesquisa 86 estudantes. A maioria das participantes estava na faixa etária entre 18 e 25 anos (76,74%), era usuária dos COC (86,05%) e iniciou seu uso por indicação médica (94,59%). Poucas delas conheciam os efeitos benéficos dos COC na redução dos cânceres de endométrio (31,40%), ovário (18,60%) e colorretal (8,14%). Por outro lado, os conhecimentos dos riscos de trombose venosa profunda (97,67%) e acidente vascular encefálico (88,37%) foram satisfatórios. Adicionalmente, mais da metade das universitárias associou o uso dos COC a ganho de peso (56,98%). Conclusão: O desequilíbrio entre os conhecimentos sobre benefícios e riscos dos COC não pode ser subestimado, sendo relevante que os profissionais de saúde identifiquem equívocos relacionados aos benefícios e efeitos colaterais dos COC, a fim de proporcionarem um aconselhamento contraceptivo efetivo.Type of study: Descriptive cross-sectional observational study. Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of university students concerning the risks and benefits associated to combined oral contraceptives (COC). Methods: The study group consisted of a convenience sample of female medical students. Data was collected from October to November 2017 through a structured, self-applying questionnaire consisting of 30 questions divided into sociodemographic data, contraceptive antecedents and knowledge of risks and benefits associated with the use of COC. Results: 86 university students participated in this study. Most of them were aged between 18 and 25 years (76.74%), were COC users (86.05%) and started using it by medical indication (94.59%). Few of them knew the beneficial effects of COCs in the reduction of endometrial (31.40%), ovarian (18.60%) and colorectal (8.14%) cancers. On the other hand, knowledge of the risks of deep vein thrombosis (97.67%) and stroke (88.37%) was satisfactory. Additionally, more than half of the university students associated the use of COC with weight gain (56.98%). Conclusion: The imbalance between knowledge about COC risks and benefits cannot be underestimated, and it is relevant that health professionals identify COC benefits and side effects misconceptions in order to provide an effective contraceptive counselling

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data