A5081112772- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Ethics in medical practice
- Public Health in Brazil
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Health Education and Validation
Hospital de São João
2016-2024
Universidade do Porto
2015-2024
University of Minho
2002-2024
Centre for Research in Anthropology
2022-2024
Institute of Molecular Pathology and Pathomorphology
2024
Hofstra University
2024
Duke University
2023
IPO Porto
2021-2022
i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto
2016-2021
Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre
2021
The political and financial investments in the implementation of forensic DNA databases ethical issues related to their use expansion justify inquiries into performance general utility. main function a database is produce matches between individuals crime scene stains, which requires constant input individual profiles stains. This conditioned, among other factors, by legislation, namely criteria for inclusion periods time conditions retention and/or deletion. article aims provide an overview...
This study embraces a patient-centred and narrative-oriented notion of health literacy, exploring how social networks personal experiences constitute distributed literacy (DHL) by mapping out mediators each individual they enable self-management skills knowledge conditions. Semi-structured interviews with 26 patients type 2 diabetes were conducted in Primary Care Center Porto (Portugal) from October 2014 to December 2015. Data collected based on McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)....
Background: Successful human milk supply in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) requires the development of family-centered services. Objective: This study aimed to assess parent perceptions factors that help or hinder providing very preterm infants (VPI) NICU according sociodemographic, reproductive, and obstetric characteristics. Methods: cross-sectional quantitative included 120 mothers 91 fathers VPI hospitalized a level 3 located Northern Health Region Portugal (July 2013-June 2014)....
In Portugal, health literacy has started to be addressed through national policies, but research on the topic is still scarce. We aimed estimate prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of limited in Portugal using an existing instrument, Newest Vital Sign.Following cross-cultural adaptation a sample 249 participants was evaluated assess reliability construct validity Sign; latter tested assuming physicians would score highest, followed by researchers, then engineering researchers finally...
Este estudo revisou o uso de exames laboratoriais como preditores coledocolitíase, com foco em marcadores bioquímicos amplamente disponíveis, Gama-Glutamil Transferase (GGT), Fosfatase Alcalina (FA) e Bilirrubinas (BIL). Foram analisados 15 estudos, majoritariamente retrospectivos, abordando a acurácia desses na identificação cálculos no ducto biliar. A GGT destacou-se marcador isolado mais preditivo, sensibilidade superior 84% especificidade acima 80%, além valor preditivo negativo próximo...
The evaluation of the gender-specific prevalence cardiovascular risk factors across socioeconomic position (SEP) categories may unravel mechanisms involved in development coronary heart disease. Using a sample 1704 community dwellers Portuguese urban center aged 40 years or older, assessed 1999–2003, we quantified age-standardized nine established (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, smoking, sedentariness, abdominal obesity, poor diet, excessive alcohol intake and...
The ethical aspects of biobanks and forensic DNA databases are often treated as separate issues. As a reflection this, public participation, or the involvement citizens in genetic databases, has been approached differently fields forensics medicine. This paper aims to cross boundaries between medicine by exploring flows issues presented two domains subsequent conceptualisation trust legitimisation. We propose introduce concept ‘solidarity’, traditionally applied only medical research...
Knowledge about parental quality of life (QoL) is paramount to family-centred and integrated healthcare on prematurity, but evidence limited. We aimed explore mothers’ fathers’ perspectives their QoL 4 months after a very preterm childbirth. This cross-sectional mixed methods study using convergent design. Parents infants were systematically recruited at all level III neonatal intensive care units in the Northern health region Portugal for one year. Four childbirth, 61 mothers 56 fathers...
Objective To assess awareness of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and to identify the reasons surrounding its use non-use by familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) carriers. Method Between January May 2013, a self-administered questionnaire was applied representative sample Portuguese FAP carriers, aged between 18 55 years followed at Northern surveillance unit. Odds ratios (OR) respective 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were estimated using multivariate logistic regression....