Leila Denise A F Amorim
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 367722 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leila Denise A F Amorim |
| NOMBRES | Leila Denise A F |
| APELLIDO | Amorim |
| FIRMA | AMORIM L D A F |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade Federal da Bahia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1112-2332 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Sociodemographic Factors and Childhood Growth
Children born in later time periods showed better growth trajectories, which may reflect the combined effects of sanitation improvements, economic development, and other societal changes in Brazil during this period. Further research using experimental or quasi-experimental designs is needed to isolate the specific contribution of sanitation to child growth
Family-Based Discrimination, Non-disclosure of Sexual Orientation or Gender identity, and Initiation of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Adolescents
This study analyzed the association between family-based discrimination and non-disclosure of sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI) and the initiation of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among adolescent men who have sex with men (AMSM) and transgender women (ATGW). This analysis used baseline data from the PrEP1519 project. Latent class analysis (LCA) was applied to identify patterns of family-based discrimination a…
Measuring and characterizing the quality of child care in Brazilian primary health care
This study aimed to characterize the quality of child health care and explore its relationship with municipal characteristics. Using data from the external assessment of the first cycle of the Brazilian National Program for Access and Quality Improvement in Primary Care (PMAQ-AB, acronym in Portuguese), this cross-sectional study evaluated 16,566 Family Health Strategy teams. In total, nine binary indicators were created based on recommendations …
Ações intersetoriais e o reconhecimento de uma fonte de cuidado da atenção primária por adolescentes brasileiros
Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar a associação entre o desenvolvimento de ações intersetoriais entre escola/serviços de saúde da atenção primária à saúde (APS) e o reconhecimento de uma fonte usual do cuidado de APS entre adolescentes brasileiros. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, a partir da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar de 2015, realizado com 97.903 adolescentes, com amostragem complexa. A associação entre ações intersetoriais en…
Patterns of metabolic syndrome and associated factors in women from the Elsa-Brasil
This study aimed to identify patterns of metabolic syndrome among women and estimate their prevalence and relationship with sociodemographic and biological characteristics. In total, 5,836 women were evaluated using baseline data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Patterns of metabolic syndrome were defined via latent class analysis, using the following metabolic abnormalities as indicators: abdominal obesity, hy…
Asthmatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
Emerging evidence suggests that vicarious racial experiences of discrimination may negatively influence child health. Few studies have focus on childhood asthma symptoms and potential moderators of such relationship. METHODS: We used two population-based cross-sectional studies from the Social Change Allergy and Asthma in Latin America project in Salvador, Brazil. A total of 1003 children and mothers interviewed in 2006 were included, of whom 873…
Social inequalities between neighborhoods and cardiovascular disease
Studies analyzing relations between cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and environmental aspects in Latin American cities are relatively recent and limited, since most of them are conducted in high-income countries, analyzing mortality outcomes, and comprising large areas. This research focuses on adults with diabetes and/or hypertension under clinical follow-up who live in deprived areas. At the individual level we evaluated sociodemographic and car…
Avaliação de desempenho do controle da tuberculose em municípios brasileiros
OBJETIVO Avaliar o desempenho no controle da tuberculose dos municípios brasileiros. MÉTODOS Estudo ecológico com municípios brasileiros que notificaram pelo menos quatro casos novos de tuberculose, com no mínimo um caso novo de tuberculose pulmonar entre 2015 e 2018. Os municípios foram estratificados de acordo com a população em 300 mil habitantes e foi utilizado o método k-médias para agrupá-los dentro de cada faixa populacional segundo desemp…
Ideal cardiovascular health at Elsa-Brasil
This study aims to assess the non-additivity effects of gender, race, and schooling on ideal cardiovascular health among participants of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health - ELSA-Brasil. This is a cross-sectional study using data from the baseline of ELSA-Brasil, conducted from 2008 to 2010. The American Heart Association defined a score of ideal cardiovascular health (ICH) as the sum of indicators for the presence of seven favorabl…
Características percebidas da vizinhança e a prática de atividade física entre adolescentes e adultos jovens
Os objetivos do estudo foram identificar perfis de vizinhança percebidos por adolescentes e adultos jovens, e estimar sua associação com a realização de atividade física global e de lazer. Utilizaram-se dados de 1.637 indivíduos entre 15 e 24 anos, de um estudo transversal, com amostragem por conglomerados, de uma cidade do Estado da Bahia, Brasil, em 2011. A atividade física foi mensurada pelo International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)…
Bayesian Computation via the Gibbs Sampler for Mixture Models with Gaussian Distal Outcomes
Models with distal outcomes have been commonly used to evaluate the effect of categorical latent variables on an observed dependent variable, which can be binary, counting, or continuous. Several approaches have been recently proposed for modeling continuous distal outcomes. Some recent strategies consider simultaneous modeling of the latent class and its effect on the distal response through the use of the Bayes theorem applied to latent class a…
Social position and anthropometric status among adults in the Elsa-Brasil study
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the association between social position and anthropometric status in women and men Brazilian adult. This was a cross-sectional study that used baseline data collected from 2008 to 2010 for the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil, in Portuguese), in the six major Brazilian state capital cities. A total of 15,105 active and retired civil servants aged from 35 to 74 years. Two …
Obesidade abdominal no Elsa-Brasil
Este estudo avaliou a acurácia de indicadores de obesidade abdominal (OA), definindo uma variável latente como padrão-ouro. Foram estudados 12.232 participantes do ELSA-Brasil de 35 a 74 anos. Avaliou-se três indicadores de OA, estratificados por sexo e raça/cor: circunferência da cintura (CC), razão cintura quadril (RCQ) e índice de conicidade (Índice C). Todos os grupos mostraram elevadas prevalências de OA, maiores entre os homens brancos (~70…
Programa Mais Médicos
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Experiences of Discrimination and Skin Color Among Women in Urban Brazil
Experiences of discrimination are an important aspect of women's life in Brazil, especially Black women. The Experiences of Discrimination scale (EOD) is often used for assessing discrimination in epidemiological studies, although divergent cutoff points have been used to characterize the exposure. We used latent class analysis (LCA) and logistic regression to identify and characterize subgroups of women exposed to discrimination and compared wit…
Factors Associated with PrEP Refusal Among Transgender Women in Northeastern Brazil
Acesso aos serviços de atenção primária à saúde por adolescentes e jovens em um município do Estado da Bahia, Brasil
O estudo teve como objetivo analisar a associação entre o acesso aos serviços de atenção primária à saúde dos adolescentes e adultos jovens e a cobertura da Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF). Trata-se de estudo transversal, a partir de um inquérito domiciliar realizado com 812 indivíduos de 15 a 24 anos de idade, em Camaçari, Bahia, Brasil, por meio de uma amostragem por conglomerados. Variáveis demográficas, socioeconômicas, de saúde e dos servi…
Personal-Level and Group-Level Discrimination and Mental Health
Social networks of men who have sex with men
Social and sexual contact networks between men who have sex with men (MSM) play an important role in understanding the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In Salvador (Bahia State, Brazil), one of the cities in the survey Behavior, Attitudes, Practices, and Prevalence of HIV and Syphilis among Men Who Have Sex with Men in 10 Brazilian Cities, data were collected in 2008/2009 from a sample of 383 MSM using Respond…
Vulnerability in the context of HIV and syphilis infection in a population of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil
Social, individual, and programmatic vulnerability of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the context of the HIV epidemic and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) is a reality in many countries. The survey Behavior, Attitudes, Practices, and Prevalence of HIV and Syphilis in Men Who Have Sex with Men in 10 Brazilian Cities selected 383 MSM in the city of Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil, using the respondent driven sampling (RDS) technique. In…
Measuring the level of social support using latent class analysis
Different instruments have been used to measure social support in epidemiological studies of which the most widely used is the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Scale (SSS-MOS). However, these studies lack measures of the level of social support on health risks. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to distinguish subgroups with different levels of perceived social support and tested the consistency of these subgroups by their associations with…
Fatores associados à incidência de maloclusão na dentição decídua em crianças de uma coorte hospitalar pública do nordeste brasileiro
Objetivos: estimar a incidência de maloclusão na dentição decídua e fatores associados na primeira infância. Métodos: estudo longitudinal com crianças nascidas na cidade de Feira de Santana, Bahia, acompanhadas por 36 meses. Taxas de incidência de maloclusão e razões de densidade de incidência (RDI), com correspondentes intervalos de 95% de confiança, foram obtidas para avaliar associação entre maloclusão e fatores associados. Modelos de regressã…
HIV/Aids coinfection with the hepatitis B and C viruses in Brazil
The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV coinfections among AIDS cases reported in Brazil, and to describe the epidemiological profile of these cases. Coinfection was identified through probabilistic record linkage of the data of all patients carrying the HIV virus recorded as AIDS patients and of those patients reported as carriers of hepatitis B or C virus in various databases from the Brazilian Ministry of Hea…
Structural equation modeling in epidemiology
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is an important statistical tool for evaluating complex relations in several research areas. In epidemiology, the use and discussion of SEM have been limited thus far. This article presents basic principles and concepts in SEM, including an application using epidemiological data analysis from a study on the determinants of cognitive development in young children, considering constructs related to organization of…
Structural equation modeling in epidemiology
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is an important statistical tool for evaluating complex relations in several research areas. In epidemiology, the use and discussion of SEM have been limited thus far. This article presents basic principles and concepts in SEM, including an application using epidemiological data analysis from a study on the determinants of cognitive development in young children, considering constructs related to organization of…
Vulnerability in the context of HIV and syphilis infection in a population of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil
Social, individual, and programmatic vulnerability of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the context of the HIV epidemic and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) is a reality in many countries. The survey Behavior, Attitudes, Practices, and Prevalence of HIV and Syphilis in Men Who Have Sex with Men in 10 Brazilian Cities selected 383 MSM in the city of Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil, using the respondent driven sampling (RDS) technique. In…
Experiences of Discrimination and Skin Color Among Women in Urban Brazil
Experiences of discrimination are an important aspect of women's life in Brazil, especially Black women. The Experiences of Discrimination scale (EOD) is often used for assessing discrimination in epidemiological studies, although divergent cutoff points have been used to characterize the exposure. We used latent class analysis (LCA) and logistic regression to identify and characterize subgroups of women exposed to discrimination and compared wit…
Measuring the level of social support using latent class analysis
Different instruments have been used to measure social support in epidemiological studies of which the most widely used is the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Scale (SSS-MOS). However, these studies lack measures of the level of social support on health risks. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to distinguish subgroups with different levels of perceived social support and tested the consistency of these subgroups by their associations with…
Personal-Level and Group-Level Discrimination and Mental Health
Social networks of men who have sex with men
Social and sexual contact networks between men who have sex with men (MSM) play an important role in understanding the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In Salvador (Bahia State, Brazil), one of the cities in the survey Behavior, Attitudes, Practices, and Prevalence of HIV and Syphilis among Men Who Have Sex with Men in 10 Brazilian Cities, data were collected in 2008/2009 from a sample of 383 MSM using Respond…
HIV/Aids coinfection with the hepatitis B and C viruses in Brazil
The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV coinfections among AIDS cases reported in Brazil, and to describe the epidemiological profile of these cases. Coinfection was identified through probabilistic record linkage of the data of all patients carrying the HIV virus recorded as AIDS patients and of those patients reported as carriers of hepatitis B or C virus in various databases from the Brazilian Ministry of Hea…
Structural equation modeling in epidemiology
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is an important statistical tool for evaluating complex relations in several research areas. In epidemiology, the use and discussion of SEM have been limited thus far. This article presents basic principles and concepts in SEM, including an application using epidemiological data analysis from a study on the determinants of cognitive development in young children, considering constructs related to organization of…
Fatores associados à incidência de maloclusão na dentição decídua em crianças de uma coorte hospitalar pública do nordeste brasileiro
Objetivos: estimar a incidência de maloclusão na dentição decídua e fatores associados na primeira infância. Métodos: estudo longitudinal com crianças nascidas na cidade de Feira de Santana, Bahia, acompanhadas por 36 meses. Taxas de incidência de maloclusão e razões de densidade de incidência (RDI), com correspondentes intervalos de 95% de confiança, foram obtidas para avaliar associação entre maloclusão e fatores associados. Modelos de regressã…
HIV/Aids coinfection with the hepatitis B and C viruses in Brazil
The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV coinfections among AIDS cases reported in Brazil, and to describe the epidemiological profile of these cases. Coinfection was identified through probabilistic record linkage of the data of all patients carrying the HIV virus recorded as AIDS patients and of those patients reported as carriers of hepatitis B or C virus in various databases from the Brazilian Ministry of Hea…
Social networks of men who have sex with men
Social and sexual contact networks between men who have sex with men (MSM) play an important role in understanding the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In Salvador (Bahia State, Brazil), one of the cities in the survey Behavior, Attitudes, Practices, and Prevalence of HIV and Syphilis among Men Who Have Sex with Men in 10 Brazilian Cities, data were collected in 2008/2009 from a sample of 383 MSM using Respond…
Vulnerability in the context of HIV and syphilis infection in a population of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil
Social, individual, and programmatic vulnerability of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the context of the HIV epidemic and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) is a reality in many countries. The survey Behavior, Attitudes, Practices, and Prevalence of HIV and Syphilis in Men Who Have Sex with Men in 10 Brazilian Cities selected 383 MSM in the city of Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil, using the respondent driven sampling (RDS) technique. In…
Measuring the level of social support using latent class analysis
Different instruments have been used to measure social support in epidemiological studies of which the most widely used is the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Scale (SSS-MOS). However, these studies lack measures of the level of social support on health risks. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to distinguish subgroups with different levels of perceived social support and tested the consistency of these subgroups by their associations with…
Personal-Level and Group-Level Discrimination and Mental Health
Factors Associated with PrEP Refusal Among Transgender Women in Northeastern Brazil
Acesso aos serviços de atenção primária à saúde por adolescentes e jovens em um município do Estado da Bahia, Brasil
O estudo teve como objetivo analisar a associação entre o acesso aos serviços de atenção primária à saúde dos adolescentes e adultos jovens e a cobertura da Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF). Trata-se de estudo transversal, a partir de um inquérito domiciliar realizado com 812 indivíduos de 15 a 24 anos de idade, em Camaçari, Bahia, Brasil, por meio de uma amostragem por conglomerados. Variáveis demográficas, socioeconômicas, de saúde e dos servi…
Obesidade abdominal no Elsa-Brasil
Este estudo avaliou a acurácia de indicadores de obesidade abdominal (OA), definindo uma variável latente como padrão-ouro. Foram estudados 12.232 participantes do ELSA-Brasil de 35 a 74 anos. Avaliou-se três indicadores de OA, estratificados por sexo e raça/cor: circunferência da cintura (CC), razão cintura quadril (RCQ) e índice de conicidade (Índice C). Todos os grupos mostraram elevadas prevalências de OA, maiores entre os homens brancos (~70…
Programa Mais Médicos
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Experiences of Discrimination and Skin Color Among Women in Urban Brazil
Experiences of discrimination are an important aspect of women's life in Brazil, especially Black women. The Experiences of Discrimination scale (EOD) is often used for assessing discrimination in epidemiological studies, although divergent cutoff points have been used to characterize the exposure. We used latent class analysis (LCA) and logistic regression to identify and characterize subgroups of women exposed to discrimination and compared wit…
Bayesian Computation via the Gibbs Sampler for Mixture Models with Gaussian Distal Outcomes
Models with distal outcomes have been commonly used to evaluate the effect of categorical latent variables on an observed dependent variable, which can be binary, counting, or continuous. Several approaches have been recently proposed for modeling continuous distal outcomes. Some recent strategies consider simultaneous modeling of the latent class and its effect on the distal response through the use of the Bayes theorem applied to latent class a…
Social position and anthropometric status among adults in the Elsa-Brasil study
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the association between social position and anthropometric status in women and men Brazilian adult. This was a cross-sectional study that used baseline data collected from 2008 to 2010 for the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil, in Portuguese), in the six major Brazilian state capital cities. A total of 15,105 active and retired civil servants aged from 35 to 74 years. Two …
Asthmatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
Emerging evidence suggests that vicarious racial experiences of discrimination may negatively influence child health. Few studies have focus on childhood asthma symptoms and potential moderators of such relationship. METHODS: We used two population-based cross-sectional studies from the Social Change Allergy and Asthma in Latin America project in Salvador, Brazil. A total of 1003 children and mothers interviewed in 2006 were included, of whom 873…
Social inequalities between neighborhoods and cardiovascular disease
Studies analyzing relations between cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and environmental aspects in Latin American cities are relatively recent and limited, since most of them are conducted in high-income countries, analyzing mortality outcomes, and comprising large areas. This research focuses on adults with diabetes and/or hypertension under clinical follow-up who live in deprived areas. At the individual level we evaluated sociodemographic and car…
Avaliação de desempenho do controle da tuberculose em municípios brasileiros
OBJETIVO Avaliar o desempenho no controle da tuberculose dos municípios brasileiros. MÉTODOS Estudo ecológico com municípios brasileiros que notificaram pelo menos quatro casos novos de tuberculose, com no mínimo um caso novo de tuberculose pulmonar entre 2015 e 2018. Os municípios foram estratificados de acordo com a população em 300 mil habitantes e foi utilizado o método k-médias para agrupá-los dentro de cada faixa populacional segundo desemp…
Ideal cardiovascular health at Elsa-Brasil
This study aims to assess the non-additivity effects of gender, race, and schooling on ideal cardiovascular health among participants of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health - ELSA-Brasil. This is a cross-sectional study using data from the baseline of ELSA-Brasil, conducted from 2008 to 2010. The American Heart Association defined a score of ideal cardiovascular health (ICH) as the sum of indicators for the presence of seven favorabl…
Características percebidas da vizinhança e a prática de atividade física entre adolescentes e adultos jovens
Os objetivos do estudo foram identificar perfis de vizinhança percebidos por adolescentes e adultos jovens, e estimar sua associação com a realização de atividade física global e de lazer. Utilizaram-se dados de 1.637 indivíduos entre 15 e 24 anos, de um estudo transversal, com amostragem por conglomerados, de uma cidade do Estado da Bahia, Brasil, em 2011. A atividade física foi mensurada pelo International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)…
Patterns of metabolic syndrome and associated factors in women from the Elsa-Brasil
This study aimed to identify patterns of metabolic syndrome among women and estimate their prevalence and relationship with sociodemographic and biological characteristics. In total, 5,836 women were evaluated using baseline data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Patterns of metabolic syndrome were defined via latent class analysis, using the following metabolic abnormalities as indicators: abdominal obesity, hy…
Ações intersetoriais e o reconhecimento de uma fonte de cuidado da atenção primária por adolescentes brasileiros
Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar a associação entre o desenvolvimento de ações intersetoriais entre escola/serviços de saúde da atenção primária à saúde (APS) e o reconhecimento de uma fonte usual do cuidado de APS entre adolescentes brasileiros. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, a partir da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar de 2015, realizado com 97.903 adolescentes, com amostragem complexa. A associação entre ações intersetoriais en…
Measuring and characterizing the quality of child care in Brazilian primary health care
This study aimed to characterize the quality of child health care and explore its relationship with municipal characteristics. Using data from the external assessment of the first cycle of the Brazilian National Program for Access and Quality Improvement in Primary Care (PMAQ-AB, acronym in Portuguese), this cross-sectional study evaluated 16,566 Family Health Strategy teams. In total, nine binary indicators were created based on recommendations …
Sociodemographic Factors and Childhood Growth
Children born in later time periods showed better growth trajectories, which may reflect the combined effects of sanitation improvements, economic development, and other societal changes in Brazil during this period. Further research using experimental or quasi-experimental designs is needed to isolate the specific contribution of sanitation to child growth
Family-Based Discrimination, Non-disclosure of Sexual Orientation or Gender identity, and Initiation of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Adolescents
This study analyzed the association between family-based discrimination and non-disclosure of sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI) and the initiation of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among adolescent men who have sex with men (AMSM) and transgender women (ATGW). This analysis used baseline data from the PrEP1519 project. Latent class analysis (LCA) was applied to identify patterns of family-based discrimination a…
Medicine (19 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Demography (9 obras) · Environmental health (7 obras) · Latent class model (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Gerontology (6 obras) · Logistic regression (6 obras) · Population (6 obras)