Fatores de Risco e Proteção para a Situação de Rua

Abstract

This paper is organized in two articles that aim the verification of the risk and protective factors to street situation. The first article describes the risk and protective factors to street situation found in articles published between 2007 and 2017, therefore, the it uses these topics as a guideline to structure its analyses. Twelve papers were elected, which made it possible to stablish resiliency, education and profession, opportunities for selfdevelopment, support programs and intervention, and the street itself as protective factors to the street situation. Family disruption, social environment (exclusion, marginalization and stigmatization), stressful events, family violence associated with alcohol and/or other drugs, adjustment difficulties, fragile self-care and ineffective interventions were classified as risk factors to street situation. The second article details the empirical study which undertook a survey about the participants’ sociodemographic profile, identifying the users’ perception about alcohol and other drugs as risk and protective factors to the street situation. For this purpose, fourteen people were selected as participants, however one of them was excluded due to the noise in the data collection environment which compromised the responses quality. The participants were subdivided into three groups, regarding the time of street residence. They were: group 1 (G1), which was made up by people who were never in a street situation; group 2 (G2), which was made up by people who had already been in a street situation, but were not in it at the moment of the survey, and group 3 (G3), which was made up by people who were in a street situation. Therefore, the results described the participants’ sociodemographic profile. The importance of drawing these profiles relies on the participants’ protection regarding the street situation. For G1, home, family and work are considered protective factors. For G2, these factors were God, support and trust. The drug abuse was considered for G2 and G3 as the main risk factor, followed by factors related to money and the street itself. Social and family support are the key factors to the street situation.