ORIGINAL ARTICLE Health Behaviours Among Users of Drugs: in a Brazilian Sample Sandra Cristina Pillon 1 & Josélia Benedita Carneiro Domingos 1 & Natália Priolli Jora Pegoraro 1,2 & Maria Fernanda Rosa de Almeida 1 & Denis da Silva Moreira 3 & Goolam Hussein Rassool 4 & Manoel Antônio dos Santos 5 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 Abstract This study examines health behaviours among 140 substance misusers from an outpatient department. A cross-sectional study was undertaken at an addiction centre in southern Brazil. Data were collected from a sample population who completed a set of questionnaires about their sociodemographic information, Severity Alcohol Dependence Data, Severity of Dependence Scale, Health Behaviour Questionnaire, and the Addiction Severity Index. For data analysis, Fisher’ s exact test, analysis of variance, Pearson’ s and Int J Ment Health Addiction DOI 10.1007/s11469-017-9773-8 * Sandra Cristina Pillon pillon@eerp.usp.br Josélia Benedita Carneiro Domingos joselia.rocci@hotmail.com Natália Priolli Jora Pegoraro natalia_jora@hotmail.com Maria Fernanda Rosa de Almeida mf.mariafernanda@yahoo.com.br Denis da Silva Moreira denisunifal@gmail.com Goolam Hussein Rassool husseinrassool@gmail.com Manoel Antônio dos Santos masantos@ffclrp.usp.br 1 Faculty of Nursing at Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2 Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center for Alcohol and Drugs (CAPS ad), Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil