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Habilidades sociais em gêmeos adolescentes
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Background: Desirable behaviors are expected in adolescence, as they have had, during childhood, their space for interpersonal development. The challenges of adolescence added to twinning challenges join forces to go through the construction of several subjective factors, such as learning new social skills. Objective: The aim of this study was to understand how the development of social skills occurs in teenage twins. Methods: A qualitative and exploratory research was conducted by means of a semi-structured interview. The participants were twelve dizygotic twins, Brazilians and without exceptionalities. The ages ranged from twelve to seventeen years old, and the pairs were composed by twins of the same gender. After analyzing the contents, there were three categories identified, which were grouped into six subcategories: 1) Interpersonal Relations – Family Context and Social Context; 2) Twinhood – Perception and Positive and Negative Factors and 3) Social Skills – Deficits and Repertoire Variability. Results: The results pointed out that twinhood impacts the social skills deficit such as communication, and consequently in autonomy abilities, civility and making and maintaining friendships. The social skills developed by one of the twin teens does not always reflect on the pair. The partnership that occurs between the pairs is not directly linked to the acquisition of social skills, causing each one to build their own repertoire individually. Conclusion: The study highlights the importance of expanding the look at the behavior of monozygotic twins in future studies.
Key-words: twins, twinhood, fraternal twins, teenagers, social skills.
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O impacto do Omega-3 no tratamento da leucemia em crianças e adolescentes
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There are several types of neoplasms, and leukemias are the types that most affect children and adolescents. Affecting the bone marrow which is responsible for manufacturing blood formants. In Brazil, cancer represents the leading cause of death among children and adolescents aged between 1 and 19 years. This research is a literature review study and aimed to define the impact of omega-3 in the treatment of leukemia in children and adolescents. A literature review was carried out in the electronic databases PubMed and Scielo with articles published between 2009 and 2019. Studies show the importance of nutritional treatment with immunomodulators for patients with cancer, especially the use of omega-3 as a strategy to improve the clinical condition. The study results indistinctly that indistinctly considerable health benefits, including anti-inflammatory effects and antioxidant effects with the use of omega-3 fatty acids in cancer patients.
Keywords: Children, Adolescents, Acute myeloid leukemia, Immunological factors.
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Vivências de crianças e/ou adolescentes que esperam por adoção tardia
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Introduction: Adoption has always been considered complex with regard to the fact that most of the time it happens to solve the couple's infertility problem, and it is still not the first choice made by them, who before resort to clinical procedures in an attempt to realize the dream of motherhood / paternity. Material and methods: This research aims to analyze the experiences of children and / or adolescents who are waiting for adoption. A qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research was carried out with a case study design. The sample used in this research was composed of two children over seven years old waiting for adoption, the instrument used was a semi-structured interview containing seven questions and the data analyzed through content analysis. Results and discussions: Most children and adolescents seem to be aware of the reasons that caused them to be removed from their biological families, and placed in institutional settings, however, it is often in the shelter that they receive the attention and care that they did not have. in their families of origin, making institutionalization a better experience. Considerations: For children and / or teenagers who are in the shelter, adoption is a way to build or in some cases reconstruct many things, including their history, their interior that may have been shattered by those who had a duty to cherish for their well-being, but who did not do so, chance to really know what a family is, to receive a love that will not hurt them.
Keywords: children, adolescents, institutionalization, adoption.
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