Telmo Mota Ronzani

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Realizou-se revisão integrativa no Portal de Periódicos da Capes sobre competência cultural em articulação aos processos de educação, organização e gestão do trabalho na Atenção Primária à Saúde. Selecionaram-se 25 artigos, publicados, em sua maioria, em países Norte-globais (12). Somente 4 artigos têm origem latino-americana. As concepções de comp...

El uso de psicofármacos es hoy un problema de salud pública debido al elevado consumo a nivel mundial. En el contexto de las poblaciones tradicionales, la bibliografía sobre el uso de estos medicamentos es escasa, por lo que se realizó un estudio descriptivo sobre el uso de psicofármacos en comunidades indígenas y quilombolas de los estados de Mina...

Nos textos deste livro, não se explicitam, mas ficam implícitas, as consequências da “humana divinação”, quer no âmbito do corpo, da alma ou do social, origem(ens) de serviços, exclusores ou não, dos muitos que ficam(ram) fora, na geografia das oportunidades; dos vulnerados de toda ordem, matáveis pela cor e raça ou oferecidos ao crime através das...

A Psicologia Comunitária Latino-americana é compreendida a partir da sua relação direta com a formação social, política e econômica do continente. Dessa forma, o presente estudo teve como objetivo realizar uma revisão sistemática da produção acadêmica da Psicologia Comunitária na América Latina e Caribe. A busca pelos descritores “Community Psychol...

RESUMEN Este artículo tuvo como objetivo realizar una revisión sis-temática de la literatura sobre las habilidades para la vida como estrategia de prevención de problemáticas psicoso-ciales en la adolescencia, analizando las características y eficacia de dichos programas. La búsqueda de artículos se realizó durante octubre de 2022, seleccionando es...

To evaluate the association between contact, education and knowledge and the stigmatization of drug use/users among health professionals. This was a cross-sectional study with 449 professionals from health care services from Latin-American countries. Sociodemographic data and experience, contact and knowledge about drug treatment, and the Attributi...

Older adults, as the most vulnerable group, are affected by decreased functional abilities and changes in physical status, such as cognitive, social, and psychological function. This study aims to investigate the validation of the Spiritual Well-being Scale (SWBS) and its role in predicting hope in Iranian older adults. 812 Iranian older adults—age...

The attribution of responsibility for the emergence and controllability of drug dependence is associated with negative outcomes, including stigmatization, making it relevant to measure it. We collected evidence of the validity of the Attribution Questionnaire for Drug (AQ-D) dependence adapted to Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. A total of 449 hea...

A systematic literature review on social determinations and consumption of psychoactive substances was realized. The research was accomplished in some databases, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, using the descriptors "Social Determinants in Health" and the Boolean descriptor AND for the term "Disorders Related to Substance Use". Then, 78 article...

RESUMO Realizou-se revisão sistemática da literatura sobre determinantes sociais e dependência de substâncias psicoativas. A pesquisa foi feita em algumas bases de dados utilizando-se, nos idiomas português, inglês e espanhol, os descritores “Determinantes Sociais em Saúde” e o descritor booleano AND para o termo “Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de...

The scientific literature consistently points out that groups historically targeted by social stigma experience deleterious effects in different spheres of life. Despite its gravity and pervasiveness, there are still gaps in the investigation of the topic, such as that focused on the Courtesy Stigma, which is experienced by people who have affectiv...

Drug use is one of the factors associated with high-risk pregnancies, while healthcare professionals’ beliefs and attitudes can potentially hinder healthcare delivery. This study aimed to identify the attitudes of professionals towards pregnant drug users. A bibliographic search was conducted between 2000 and June 2022 in the following databases: S...

O artigo objetivou identificar e analisar desafios e potencialidades no trabalho de psicólogas(os) nas políticas públicas brasileiras na conjuntura pandêmica. É um estudo exploratório-descritivo de abordagem mista. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de questionário virtual com 123 psicólogas(os) que trabalhavam nas políticas públicas no país....

O presente artigo apresenta os resultados de uma revisão sistemática da literatura que objetivou vislumbrar o estado da arte da relação histórica entre psicologia e movimentos sociais na realidade brasileira. Foram realizadas buscas nos bancos Periódicos CAPES e Redalyc e foram considerados artigos empíricos cujo interesse e análise contemplassem u...

We aimed to evaluate concurrent use of alcohol and tobacco among hospitalized patients as well as to compare the use of both substances among people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and those with other diagnoses. A cross-sectional study took place in a hospital in Minas Gerais (Brazil). Structured surveys...

Since the first report of a possible association between psycho-tropic drug exposure in utero and childhood neurological disorders , clinicians have faced a dilemma regarding the management of women with mental disorders during both the time that they are trying to conceive and pregnancy. Ongoing efforts have been made to enhance perinatal psychiat...

Older adults, as the most vulnerable group, are affected by decreased functional abilities and changes in physical status, such as cognitive, social, and psychological function. This study aims to investigate the validation of the Spiritual Well-being Scale (SWBS) and its role in predicting hope in Iranian older adults. 812 Iranian older adults—age...

Introduction Government and health organizations in the US and the UK have taken different stances on e-cigarettes policy. To explore the potential effects of these policies we describe e-cigarette user characteristics, intentions to quit, and perceived attitudes toward vaping. Methods We used the online crowdsourcing platform Prolific to conduct...

The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) is widely used as an evaluation tool for mindfulness. Objectives: The present study aimed to validate the Persian version of the MAAS in Iranian substance abusers. Methods: This descriptive-analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted in Tehran during April 2017-December 2018 on 753 male Iranian subst...

Objective: A clinical trial carried out in patients hospitalized for clinical and surgical conditions. This study evaluated the effectiveness of text messaging interventions (TM) versus telephone counseling (TC) to promote smoking cessation among hospitalized smokers in a middle-income country. Seven-day abstinence was measured during follow-up ph...

Health professionals are in a strategic position to help people with substance use disorders (SUDs) who seek health services for support or treatment. However, it is known that professionals' attitudes towards people who use alcohol and other drugs are marked by stigmatizing attitudes that create barriers to access quality treatment and make it dif...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify priority variables to evaluate alcohol brief interventions from the perspective of experts in the field in Latin America. Method: A two-round Delphi procedure was carried out through online surveys of 465 individuals from 18 Latin American countries, including core outcome set developers, rese...

This article aimed to conduct a literature review regarding the instruments used to measure the stigma of courtesy, in the databases related to the field of investigation (PsychNET, PubMed, Virtual Health Library Brazil - Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde [BVS] Brasil, Capes Publications Portal, Scientific Electronic Library Online [SciELO], and Electron...

Alguns desafios têm perpassado a aproximação da Psicologia latino-americana com os contextos rurais, como as lacunas teóricas a respeito da categoria rural. Assim, este artigo discutiu as concepções utilizadas pela Psicologia latino-americana para definir rural, a partir de sua produção cientifica. Para a busca de artigos científicos que versassem...

El presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo realizar una revisión teórica para aportar a la comprensión de la problemática del consumo de sustancias psicoactivas en contextos de vulnerabilidad social, teniendo como público objeto de estudio a los jóvenes. El trabajo intenta exponer la situación actual de los jóvenes en Argentina a partir de las informac...

This paper presents the protocol of support from Keep Calm, an e-health service via chat for people suffering from psychological distress relatedto COVID-19. A flowchart diagram of one-session chats was developed. Eachsession consisted of three steps: evaluation, support and conclusion. For eachstage, decision-making milestones on what to do next w...

This study aimed to clarify the drug use in rural contexts in Latin America and Caribbean. This is a systematic review following the Prisma protocol in the databases: Lilacs, PePSIC, PsycINFO/PsycNET, PubMed e SciELO. The final sample consisted of 20 articles; the results indicate a prevalence in considering the "drug problem" from an epidemiologic...

Abstract: This paper presents the protocol of support from Keep Calm, an e-health service via chat for people suffering from psychological distress relatedto COVID-19. A flowchart diagram of one-session chats was developed. Eachsession consisted of three steps: evaluation, support and conclusion. For eachstage, decision-making milestones on what to...

Resumo: O presente artigo tem como objetivo realizar uma revisão sistemática da literatura sobre a inserção da psicologia em contextos rurais na América Latina, considerando seu caráter de ciência e profissão e o fato de ter sido desenvolvida eminentemente em torno de fenômenos verificados em contextos urbanos. Foi realizada busca nas bases de dado...

Resumo Realizou-se a análise da implementação em nível nacional dos Centros Regionais de Referência (CRRs). Um questionário com 97 questões abertas e fechadas foi respondido por coordenadores de 51 CRRs das cinco regiões brasileiras. Um estudo de casos múltiplos ex-post-facto foi viabilizado, recorrendo à triangulação entre a análise estatística de...

O presente trabalho tem como escopo compreender, a partir da tradição marxista, a "questão" das drogas como um complexo mediador entre indivíduo e sociedade, centrando-se em sua relação com processos de alienação no âmbito da sociedade capitalista. Isto é, em como a relação indivíduo-drogas no momento histórico atual contribui para aprofundar a ali...

This article aims to understand the conceptions about drugs in homeless population. To this end, it proposes a debate on the relationship between the war against drugs, the criminalization of poverty and the right to the city. The methodological procedure consists of five months of particip nt observation and six interviews with men in street situa...

RESUMEN. Este artículo relata una experiencia en Psicología Social Comunitaria con el primer grupo de Educación de Jóvenes y Adultos, en una escuela del asentamiento Denis Gonçalves del Movimiento de Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST), que culminó con la construcción del libro de memorias Costura da vida: a história de vida do homem e da mulher...

BACKGROUND Smoking is still the leading cause of preventable death. Governments and healthcare providers should make available more and accessible resources to help tobacco users stop. OBJECTIVE This study describes a pilot longitudinal study that evaluated the efficacy of a computerized intervention compared to the brief intervention for smoking...

Background: Smoking is still the leading cause of preventable death. Governments and health care providers should make available more accessible resources to help tobacco users stop. Objective: This study describes a pilot longitudinal study that evaluated the efficacy of an internet-based intervention compared to the brief intervention for smok...

The health and social policy devices focused on the user of alcohol and other drugs have undergone several theoretical and practical reformulations in the last hundred years. The practices in defense of human rights and of a broader care aimed at health promotion and prevention from a biopsychosocial perspective, even if legally present in the publ...

Given the complex plot of alcohol and other drugs use, in this chapter we propose a possible way of approaching it, which derives specifically from the community level. This proposal arises from Latin American Community Psychology, which suggests to think and act from the text of those territories indeed, in order to unveil the senses and meanings...

The objective of this chapter is to present a possibility of reading, analysis, and approach from the community field before entering into the complex topic of drug use. We clarify that this will not be the only way to work on this theme, but another possibility and one more contribution. For this, we propose articulation through Community Social p...

In this chapter, we give an overview of some perspectives of work in relation to the consumption of alcohol and other drugs from Community Psychology. This chapter outlines a historical and conceptual trajectory to try to understand how some principles and some accumulated experiences, mainly in the reality of Latin America, guide us to work in a c...

Substance dependence is one of the most stigmatized health conditions in the world, contributing to its worsening, social exclusion and discrimination. Aware of society's negative perception of their condition, these people can internalize stigma from negative beliefs, feelings and behaviors about themselves. One of the interventions with positive...

This paper is a narrative review of literature that aimed to present the contributions of Community Social Psychology (PSC) to the theme of alcohol and other drug use. For that, a history was drawn up on the development of policies and normative instruments that regulate the area of alcohol and other drugs, as well as on the constitution of the PSC...

A população em situação de rua (PSR) apresenta-se hoje como expressão máxima da questão social. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar os sentidos do trabalho entre pessoas em situação de rua usuários de drogas. Foi realizada uma investigação etnográfica que se valeu de observação participante e entrevistas em profundidade realizadas com 6 homens em si...

A população em situação de rua (PSR) apresenta-se hoje como expressão máxima da questão social. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar os sentidos do trabalho entre pessoas em situação de rua usuários de drogas. Foi realizada uma investigação etnográfica que se valeu de observação participante e entrevistas em profundidade realizadas com 6 homens em si...

In this chapter, we discuss the impacts of the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in rural communities, considering the social determinations involved in the use of drugs by those populations, as well as processes of iniquity in health and barriers to access to health care produced by those determinations. We describe challenges involved in t...

This paper presents the development and implementation of a brief chat-based intervention for mental health support toward people suffering from the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil and Argentina. During the development phase, we proposed a protocol that comprised: 1) screening and needs assessment; 2) health education based on active lis...

Si bien los consumos de sustancias psicoactivas son una práctica que se remonta a los albores de la humanidad, en el último siglo se han constituido en un problema que interpela a la comunidad científica, a las agencias estatales de control, a los profesionales que actúan en los más diversos ámbitos, a la comunidad toda. Siendo una cuestión complej...

Interventions to reduce stigma related to people who use drugs can improve their quality of life and adherence to treatment. This review aimed to identify and analyze studies on interventions to reduce the stigma related to people who use drugs. Searches were performed in the following databases, without period delimitation: PubmMed, APA PsycNET, S...

Background: People with mental disorders use tobacco as a strategy for coping with various symptoms and the side effects of prescribed medications. In addition to being harmful to their health, tobacco use also interferes with their treatment process. Objective: To examine tobacco use among patients being treated for mental disorders in a public he...

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This study aimed to assess the literature for brief interventions in Latin America. Methods: We searched articles that were published between 2005 and 2016. Results: After removing duplicates and applying exclusion criteria, 29 studies were evaluated. The number of sessions, length, and definition of brief intervention varied across studies as well...

Gain- and loss-framed messages about smoking behavior have commonly been used to promote cessation. However, there are still no clear conclusions as to what kind of message is more effective for motivating smokers to quit. This study compared the effectiveness of loss- and gain-framed messages in the online recruitment of smokers via Facebook Adver...

Objetivos: el uso abusivo y la dependencia de alcohol y otras drogas es muy común entre las comunidades y visto como un problema de salud pública, que requiere cuidados y tratamientos; así la presente revisión sistemática tiene como objetivo analizar las publicaciones científicas respecto de las actitudes, creencias y comportamientos estigmatizante...

The present research is part of a project carried out in different countries of Latin America. The aim is to understand how the dimension of ethics appears in the Community Psychology (PC) training. We analysed 23 teaching plans of PC which are offered in Psychologies courses of public and private institutions in Minas Gerais (MG), Brazil. We accom...

O presente estudo é parte de um projeto realizado em diferentes países da América Latina, que tem como objetivo compreender como a dimensão ética se manifesta na formação em Psicologia Comunitária (PC). Para tanto foram analisados 23 ementas e planos de ensino desta disciplina ofertada em cursos de Psicologia de instituições públicas e privadas de...

The proposed chapter aims to make a theoretical reflection that articulates the categories poverty, stigma, and drug use. This discussion is necessary because drug use and abuse as well as trafficking are often wrongly associated with the subordinate classes. Thus, it contributes to increase their degree of vulnerability and marginalization. The re...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to estimate the need for population-level services for alcohol and other drug abuse in support of local planning. Method: Data were drawn from a subsample of 2,942 interviewees from the São Paulo Megacity Study, which evaluated mental health in the general population (18 years and older) of residents in t...

Resumo O presente artigo tem como objetivo realizar uma revisão sistemática sobre os determinantes pobreza, estigma, raça e vulnerabilidade entre a população em situação de rua usuária de drogas. Para tal, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática utilizando as bases de dados Scielo Br, PepSiC, PubMed e Redalyc. Ao final dos procedimentos foram selecio...

O estudo visa analisar os conteúdos divulgados pelas principais revistas de circulação na mídia digital brasileira acerca do consumo de crack. Pesquisa documental, exploratório-descritiva, com abordagem qualitativa das três revistas semanais com maior circulação no país. O acesso foi através dos sites das revistas, as palavras-chave: "crack", "óxi"...

In the Brazilian context, the Prevention Course to Drug Use for Public School Educators is developed. This study seeks to identify factors cited by the educators as favorable or unfavorable to the implementation of prevention projects. Data collection was carried out in three stages: in the first stage (T0), a sample consisted of 1494 course partic...

Resumo O presente estudo objetiva avaliar, através da Análise de Redes Sociais (ARS), o papel do Centro de Atenção Psicossocial - Álcool e outras Drogas (CAPSad) sobre a rede de atenção aos usuários de drogas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória, de corte transversal e abordagem quantitativa na rede de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Nela, foram iden...

Objective: Text messaging interventions are effective. Despite high utilization of smart phones, few studies evaluate text messaging for cessation in middle/lower income countries. Initiating tobacco treatment in hospitals is an effective but underutilized approach for reaching smokers. We evaluated a hybrid phone counseling/text messaging interve...

This guide directs and suggests SBI implementation processes in Latin America, mainly in the area of primary healthcare and other areas that include community-based services. But, this is more than just a . model or structure that must be followed in a strict or rigid manner, because we present the foundations, as well as possible paths to follow b...

Este estudo teve por objetivo analisar os saberes e práticas dos Agentes Comunitários de Saúde (ACS), direcionados a usuários de álcool e outras drogas à luz da estratégia de redução de danos. Como característica específica do público deste estudo, foram escolhidos ACS que participaram do curso Caminhos do Cuidado. Utilizando-se o método qualitativ...

Drug abuse is considered one of the most stigmatizing health conditions. Growing evidence has shown that stigma is associated with the different impairments of stigmatized individuals. The impacts of social stigma include insufficient access to health care, worse indicators of education and employment and, consequently, a negative effect on income....

This introductory chapter outlines the social bases related to drug use. First, the parallel between capitalist development and the commercial exploitation of drug use is discussed, demonstrating how, historically, such substances were an important source of capital and the reason for exploration of certain territories. Next, it is shown how moral...

This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon. Given its complexity, drug use demand...

This study aimed to analyze the knowledge and practices of Community Health Agents trained by the Care Pathway Project, aimed at users of alcohol and other drugs from the perspective of the Harm Reduction strategy. Data showed that even those professionals who reported knowing the concept of harm reduction and the possibility of using this approach...

This study aimed to analyze the knowledge and practices of Community Health Agents trained by the Care Pathway Project, aimed at users of alcohol and other drugs from the perspective of the Harm Reduction strategy. Data showed that even those professionals who reported knowing the concept of harm reduction and the possibility of using this approach...

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar um método de georreferenciamento e análise de sistemas de cuidado aos usuários de drogas baseado em tecnologias e processos de acesso livre que podem ser utilizados em diferentes cenários. O método é constituído de três etapas: 1) definição conceitual dos sistemas e das redes de atenção aos usuários de droga...

Introduction: Web-based interventions for smoking cessation are an innovative strategy to reduce the burden of smoking. Although many web-based interventions are freely available in many languages and have proven to be effective, so far no study has covered in detail the association between depression and smoking. Objective: The aim of this study...