Falls are the fifth leading cause of death and are one of the main causes of hospitalization. The literature about falls prevalence among older adults living in rural/remote communities in South America is scarce. To compare falls prevalence among the elderly in the Andes, Peru, and in the rural area of the municipality of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Two separate cross-sectional studies were conducted in Peru, Andes (N = 413), and Brazil, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul state (N = 1029). We stratified all data analysis according to location (Andes/Rio Grande). Characteristics of the samples were compared and the chi square test for proportions was used. Falls prevalence was then calculated for each independent variable and crude and adjusted prevalence ratios were estimated using Poisson Regression with robust variance. Falls prevalence in the last year was much hi...

Objective: To analyze the association between the division of domestic housework and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) during the COVID-19 pandemic in mothers of preschool children. Materials and methods: This cohort study included mothers who had children in 2019 in the municipality of Rio Grande, southern Brazil. These women were followed up in 2020. The presence of GAD was assessed using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) scale, and the division of domestic housework was evaluated with the "Division of Labor by Gender" instrument. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were conducted. Bivariate associations were tested using Pearson's chi-square (x2), while multivariate analyses were performed using Poisson regression to calculate prevalence ratios (PR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Results: A total of 908 mothers from the 2019 Rio Grande Birth Cohort participated ...