A5017612643- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Health and Conflict Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology
- Indigenous Health and Education
- Cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders research
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Foreign Body Medical Cases
- Neonatal skin health care
- Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
- Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery
- Male Reproductive Health Studies
- T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
University of Konstanz
2020-2025
Scientific Research and Development (Germany)
2024
i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto
2016-2020
Universidade do Porto
2013-2020
Instituto de Saúde
2016-2018
Hospital Braga
2010-2017
Despite the recognized need to address prevention of sexual violence against adolescents in Nigeria, significant research gaps persist understanding patterns, determinants, and impacts such violence, particularly regarding regional variations specific developmental needs across different stages. This study provides Nigerian prevalence estimates disaggregated by gender, rural/urban, in/out-of-school populations, while also identifying socio-demographic cultural determinants related increased...
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)....
This paper explores the health information-seeking practices of healthy young adults and how they assess rank sources information through a qualitative study. The findings show that participants (a) are strongly committed to searching for about lifestyle, especially via Internet; (b) healthcare professionals were perceived as most reliable source advice; (c) online information, although frequently accessed experienced empowering, is seen potentially unreliable source. Findings evidence...
Gender differences (GD) in mental health have come under renewed scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. While rapidly emerging evidence indicates a deterioration of general, it remains unknown whether pandemic will an impact on GD health. To this end, we investigate association and its countermeasures affecting everyday life, labor, households with changes aggression, anxiety, depression, somatic symptom burden. We analyze cross-sectional data from 10,979 individuals who live Germany...
Considering the increasing levels of stress and sleep problems among university students, this study aims to evaluate relationship between stress, quality, lifestyle habits in population. To end, a survey was conducted with students from various higher education institutions state São Paulo, using self-assessment questionnaire that included DASS-21 tool measure symptoms depression, anxiety, as well questions about health habits. Thus, it observed significant portion suffers high many also...
Introduction: Armed conflict severely impacts health, with indirect deaths often exceeding direct casualties by a factor of 2 to 4, disproportionately affecting women and children. Although the magnitude these effects is well-documented, mechanisms driving them remain insufficiently understood. This study shifts focus from supply-side factors, such as destruction infrastructure, demand-side processes, particularly healthcare-seeking behavior, broader exposure individual-level violent...
To explore the perceptions of constraining and facilitating factors to patient-centered communication in clinical encounters patients with type 2 diabetes providers involved their care.Patients (n = 12) 33) care northern Portugal.Seven focus groups.Grounded theory, using open, axial, selective coding.Patients focused on patient-provider relationship, while emphasized when exchanging information regarding disease treatment-related behavior. Patients both agreed some constraints (power...
Objective: Providing country-level estimates for prevalence rates of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), COVID-19 exposure and food insecurity (FI) assessing the role persistent threats to survival—exemplified by FI—for mental health crisis in Africa. Methods: Original phone-based survey data from Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania Uganda (12 consecutive cross-sections 2021; n = 23,943) were analyzed estimate GAD. Logistic regression models mediation analysis using structural equation...
Improvements in asthma integrated care might be achieved through in-depth knowledge about how health literacy is dispersed a group. This study intends to map out mediators (those who makes his/her skills available others for them accomplish specific purposes) and they enable self-management patients with asthma.Twenty interviews were conducted Primary Care Center of Porto using the McGill Illness Narrative Interview. Data thematically analyzed as case-based...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis affecting everyone. Yet, its challenges and countermeasures vary significantly over time space. Individual experiences of the are highly heterogeneous impacts span interlink multiple dimensions, such as health, economic, social political impacts. Therefore, there need to disaggregate "the pandemic": analysing experiences, behaviours at micro level from disciplinary perspectives. Such analyses require multi-topic pan-national survey data that collected...
In this paper we give an overview of relevant findings a three years long case study that was carried out in the Madeira Island, Portugal. It addresses thirty old project music and drama education primary schools, which involves all children within school curriculum, but also extra-curriculum activities. The used mainly qualitative methodologies for approach, statistical analysis concerning questionnaires were sent to classroom teachers, supporting parents. Findings indicate magnitude...
War and crises affect mental health, social attitudes, cultural norms, which can exacerbate the state of long-term insecurity. With decades armed conflict, Democratic Republic Congo is one example, violence has become normalized in civilian settings. In this study, we tested effectiveness NETfacts health system, an integrated model evidence-based individual trauma treatment (Narrative Exposure Therapy [NET]) a trauma-informed community-based intervention (NETfacts). Alongside changes...
Educating the public about donating and receiving gametes (i.e., oocytes sperm) is needed to increase awareness, decrease stigmatisation, improve donor recruitment ensure continu...
Background Involving patients and family members in care is a growing area of research practice as more express the desire to participate constituents patient team. In this study, we aim understand patients' perceptions participation asthma self-management, particularly concerning health information seeking behavior.Methods Semistructured interviews with 35 were conducted at Immunoallergology wards both central public hospital private Porto, Portugal. Data collected through McGill Illness...
O Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2 (DM2) é uma doença crônica que afeta milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo. Nos últimos anos, surgiram novas classes medicamentos prometem melhorar manejo do DM2, entre eles a tirzepatida, um agonista dual dos receptores peptídeo semelhante ao glucagon 1 (GLP-1) e polipeptídeo inibitório gástrico (GIP), ainda não comercializada no Brasil. Esse fármaco se destaca combinar redução efetiva da hemoglobina glicada (HbA1c) à perda ponderal importante, características...
Introduction: In selected clinical situations is recommended to investigate the child with fever, including performing blood culture.Aim: To analyze positive cultures for pathogenic bacteria in a pediatric department, most common agents, its evolution, respective antibiotic susceptibility and correlation some data.Methods: Retrospective analysis of microbiological data pathogens isolated from children aged one month 17 years, admitted department between 2003 2012.Results: During study...
Introduction: Toilet training is an important stage in child development. There are few studies and guidelines our bibliographic research found no national epidemiological data on this subject. The aim of the present study was to determine patterns toilet a Portuguese population, factors that may be related its timing duration, methods used. Methods: In cross-sectional we selected convenience sample children who were seen three primary healthcare centers. Data collected using questionnaire...