Male Mental Health and Violence Exposure in Brazilian Primary Care, 477 Participants

A cross-sectional study of 477 men aged 18-60 from two primary healthcare centers in São Paulo, Brazil. The research analyzes the association between mental suffering and experiences of violence, including witnessing violence in childhood. The dataset was created by Fernando Pessoa de Albuquerque from the Universidade de São Paulo.

Use Cases

• Modeling the association between mental suffering and exposure to violence based on reported experiences.
• Analyzing the influence of psychoactive substance use on the relationship between violence and mental health.
• Studying the attributable fraction of repetitive physical and/or sexual violence for mental suffering in men.
• Investigating the role of sociodemographic factors like age, marital status, and education in mental health outcomes.

Strengths

• Study includes 477 male participants, providing a defined sample size.
• Reports a specific prevalence of mental suffering at 29.4% within the sample.
• Analysis uses a confirmatory Poisson model with robust variance adjusted for multiple variables.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to being sourced from a single city in Brazil.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Fernando Pessoa de Albuquerque, Universidade de São Paulo

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study with sequential sampling of male users from two primary healthcare centers. Data collected via interviews and medical record review.

Geography

São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil