title: Classification of family risk in a Family Health Center.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify and classify the degree of family risk in a Family Health Center by means of a multidimensional evaluation instrument.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study, with a quantitative and descriptive design, which evaluated 927 families registered in the center, which covers five micro-areas. The Coelho and Savassi Scale was applied, this consisting of 13 sentinels of evaluation of the social risk, using secondary data available in the File A of the families' medical records, in the last trimester of 2011. The data was analyzed using the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) for Windows software, version 18.0.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the families studied, 68.5% were classified as not being at risk. It was ascertained that the smallest proportion of at-risk families (8.2%) was found in micro-area 1, and that micro-area 4 had the highest proportion (55.9%). The most-prevalent risk situations were poor conditions of basic sanitation, systemic arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus and drug addiction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study's results make it possible to create support for the planning of home visits, to implement health surveillance actions, and for health professionals to better understand the vulnerabilities of the families attended.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto AlegreRS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Priscila Tadei
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Nakata
authors.forename: Lenice Ines
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Koltermann
authors.forename: Kellyn Rocha
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: de Vargas
authors.forename: Priscilla Wolff
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.forename: Êrica Rosalba Mallmann
authors.initials: ÊR
authors.lastname: Duarte
authors.forename: Idiane
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rosset-Cruz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005192:Family Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018570:Risk Assessment; D055815:Young Adult