A5032314931- Sleep and related disorders
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Linguistics and Education Research
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Science and Education Research
- Psychology and Mental Health
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Youth, Drugs, and Violence
- Education Pedagogy and Practices
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Resilience and Mental Health
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
- Occupational Health and Burnout
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Education and Digital Technologies
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Billings Clinic
2024
São Paulo State Technological College
2021-2024
Redes Energéticas Nacionais (Portugal)
2023
University of Aveiro
2014-2023
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
2023
Centre for Health Technology and Services Research
2015-2021
ISPA - Instituto Universitário
2019
Universidad Autónoma del Perú
2019
Universidade do Porto
2015-2017
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
2016
Objective. To determine the prevalence of snoring and its potential associations with sleep problems, such as daytime symptoms, medical conditions, school performance, behavioral disturbances in Portuguese children attending primary school. Methods. A previously validated questionnaire was sent to parents 1381 schools a parish Coimbra, Portugal. assess disturbances, version Rutter's Children's Behavior Questionnaire for completion by teachers used. Results. Of 988 questionnaires returned...
Like previous pandemics, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has direct and indirect effects, including in mental health. To evaluate immediate psychological impact of COVID-19, we conducted an online survey Portugal (24–27 March 2020), using Impact Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) Depression, Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21). From 10,529 participants (M = 31.33; SD 9.73), 83.4% were women, had a mean age 31.2 years, 70.9% active workers. anxiety, stress rated as moderate to severe 11.7%,...
Recent research has documented the association between attachment and cortisol rhythms. During pregnancy, when patterns are likely to be activated, elevated levels of associated with negative effects for mother foetus. The aim present study was examine adult style rhythms in pregnant women. Eighty women third trimester pregnancy participated study. Adult assessed using Attachment Scale – Revised (AAS-R). Participants collected 4 samples salivary at two different days; 3 were morning...
Policing is a stressful occupation, which impairs police officers’ physical/mental health and elicits burnout, aggressive behaviors suicide. Resilience coping facilitate the management of job stress policing, can be operational or organizational. All these constructs are associated, they must assessed by instruments sensitive to policing idiosyncrasies. This study aims identify organizational stress, resilient strategies among officers, as well analyze psychometric properties Portuguese...
Multiple myeloma is a treatable, but currently incurable, hematological malignancy of plasma cells characterized by diverse and complex tumor genetics for which precision medicine approaches to treatment are lacking. The Myeloma Research Foundation's Relating Clinical Outcomes in Personal Assessment Genetic Profile study ( NCT01454297 ) longitudinal, observational clinical newly diagnosed patients with multiple (n = 1,143) where samples using whole-genome sequencing, whole-exome sequencing...
Virtual Reality (VR) has been identified as one of the most promising resources for developing empathy towards stigmatized groups it allows individuals to experience a situation close reality from another person's perspective. This quasi-experimental study aimed examine impact on empathy, knowledge, and attitudes people with schizophrenia VR simulation that reproduces psychotic symptoms while performing cognitive task compared watching 2D video and, thus, how these experiences could reduce...
The privileged processing of threat stimuli, even in the absence visual awareness, has been associated with a subcortical superior colliculus (SC)-pulvinar pathway to amygdala, bypassing cortex. However, this heavily disputed by studies showing that cortical activity cannot be ruled out fear processing. A recent study using continuous flash suppression (CFS) showed rapid detection faces relies on high spatial frequencies, which involve areas. In present study, we also used CFS and...
Based on successive samples totaling more than 5000 higher education students, we scrutinized the reliability, structure, initial validity and normative scores of a brief self-report seven-item scale to screen for continuum nighttime insomnia complaints/perceived sleep quality, used by our team decade, henceforth labeled Basic Scale Insomnia complaints Quality Sleep (BaSIQS). In study/sample 1 (n = 1654), items were developed based part larger survey sleep–wake patterns. The test–retest...
We present a study with 10 subjects being exposed to three sessions of simulated heights in virtual reality (VR) system. Among the participants we highlight 66-year-old man blind his left eye. The show significant progress anxiety, avoidance, and behavior measurements when confronted real height circumstances. results obtained 1 year later at follow-up are statistically Behavioral Avoidance Test (BAT) Attitudes Toward Heights Questionnaire (ATHQ), but not Acrophobia (AQ).
Electroencephalography (EEG) based affective computing is a new research field that aims to find neural correlates between human emotions and the registered EEG signals. Typically, emo- tion recognition systems are personalized, i.e. discrimination models subject-dependent. Building subject-independent harder problem due high variability be- tween individuals. In this paper we propose unified system for efficient of positive negative in group 26 users. The users were exposed arousal images...
This work reports the initial psychometric characterization of Morningness-Eveningness-Stability-Scale improved (MESSi) for Portuguese young-adults (N = 466). A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed a three-factor model (i.e. Morning Affect, Eveningness and Distinctness) in our data, as originally proposed. Furthermore, construct validity evidence relation to external variables morningness/eveningness satisfaction with life), well adequate reliability internal consistency test-retest...
The study of executive functioning in prisoner populations is important to the task elucidating underlying neuropsychological causes criminal behavior; these deficits should also be considered offender rehabilitation efforts. A general sample offenders (N = 42), further divided into three subtypes crimes (violent, property, and drug trafficking), was tested using a battery measures compared with group non-offenders 28). Offenders performed worse than on mental flexibility planning measures,...
Assessing morningness-eveningness preferences (chronotype), an individual characteristic that is mirrored in daily mental and physiological fluctuations, crucial given their overarching influence a variety of domains. The current work aimed to investigate the best factor structure instrument recently presented asses this characteristic: Morningness-Eveningness-Stability-Scale improved (MESSi). For first time, originally proposed three-factor was pitched against uni- two-factor solution....
Heritage language speakers struggle in European classrooms with insufficient material provided for second (SL) learning and assessment. Considering the amount of instruments pertinent studies English SL, immigrant students are better prepared than their peers Romance settings. This study investigates how factors such as age home can be used teaching environment to predict examine development outcomes SL verbal reasoning vocabulary tasks. Hundred six Portuguese participants, learners, between...
Acrophobia is a chronic, highly debilitating disorder preventing sufferers from engaging with high places. Its etiology linked to the development of mobility during infancy. We evaluated efficacy various types movement in treatment this within virtual reality (VR) environment. Four men and four women who were diagnosed acrophobia tested environment reproducing balcony hotel. Anxiety behavioral avoidance measures taken as participants climbed outdoor stairs, moved sideways on balconies, or...
Objective(s) To fully understand the dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) it is necessary to role personality. The current understanding which personality characteristics are associated with IPV victimization is, however, far from comprehensive. Given this gap in literature, our objective was examine associations between dimensions psychobiological model and psychopathological symptoms women who had experienced IPV. Methods Using a case-control design, group were living shelters ( n =...
A third version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III) was developed internationally aiming to respond new trends in working conditions, theoretical concepts, and international experience. This article aims present preliminary validation studies for Portuguese middle COPSOQ III. is an exploratory cross-sectional study viewing cross-cultural adaption III Portugal, ensuring contents face validity performing field-testing order reduce number items obtain insight into data...