title: [Alcohol and drugs: preliminary survey of Brazilian nursing research].
abstract: This bibliographic study surveys knowledge about alcohol and drugs produced by Brazilian nursing until 2004 and registered in online databases, in order to identify the presence of this theme; the origin of this knowledge and means of dissemination, as well as to analyze tendencies in this production. We used: BIREME, CAPES, USP Base of Dissertations and Theses. Abstracts with nurses as the authors or co-authors served as the basic material. Using common descriptors in this area, we found 218 abstracts. Production increased from the 1990's onwards (29.8% of the total). Scientific articles (50.4%) and theses (37.2%) were predominant. Knowledge tended towards three theme categories: use of alcohol and other drugs (62.9%); vulnerable populations (27.5%), and users of alcohol and other drugs (9.6%). Alcohol and drugs appeared as comorbidities in many studies and 38.4% of the articles were published in journals from other health areas.
authors.affiliation: margarit@eerp.usp.br
authors.forename: Margarita Antonia Villar
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Luis
authors.forename: Ana Carolina Fuza
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Lunetta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology; D001938:Brazil; D015897:Comorbidity; D003625:Data Collection; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015399:Nursing Research; D011247:Pregnancy; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D014754:Violence