Family ties of crack cocaine users cared for in a psychiatric emergency department
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Family ties of crack cocaine users cared for in a psychiatric emergency department.
This study characterizes the family ties of crack cocaine users cared for in a psychiatric emergency department in southern Brazil. It is a qualitative study with a series of cases carried out in the city of Maringá, PR, Brazil from April to June 2010. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, analyzed using content analysis, and organized into two categories: family ties as facil...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0104-1169
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-11692011000500014