A5100651831- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Sleep and related disorders
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Family Support in Illness
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
University of Coimbra
2016-2025
Universidade Nilton Lins
2025
Universidade Federal de Sergipe
2024
Centre for Health Technology and Services Research
2015-2024
i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto
2024
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão
2024
Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image
2013-2023
Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra
2013-2022
Instituto Politecnico de Setubal
2022
University of Aveiro
2008-2022
Thyroid hormones are crucial during development and in the adult brain. Of interest, fluctuations levels of thyroid at various times throughout life can impact on psychiatric disease manifestation response to treatment. Here we review research function assessment schizophrenia, relating interrelations between pituitary-thyroid axis major neurosignaling systems involved schizophrenia's pathophysiology. These include serotonergic, dopaminergic, glutamatergic, GABAergic networks, as well...
Aim. To examine if perfectionism predicts self-reported sleep disturbances over time. Methods. The Hewitt–Flett Perfectionism Scale was used to assess self-oriented, socially-prescribed (SPP) and other-oriented perfectionism. Sleep disturbance evaluated with two items: difficulty in falling asleep waking up many times during the night. Out of 870 students who participated at baseline, 592 305 completed same measures 1 year (T1) 2 years later (T2), respectively. Results. Subjects reported...
Recent studies have documented the high prevalence of burnout among medicine and dentistry students, with potentially catastrophic consequences for both students patients. Both environmental personality factors play a part in burnout; perfectionism, common trait students' personalities, has been linked to psychological distress increasing vulnerability burnout. Self-compassion, i.e., treating oneself kindly through hardship, recently emerged as buffer between perfectionism distress. While...
: To investigate the predictive/protective role of negative affect/positive affect in late pregnancy on outcome postpartum depression. A total 491 pregnant women participated study. The participants were asked to fill out a series questionnaires, which included Profile Mood States, Beck Depression Inventory-II, psychosocial variables and socio-demographic characteristics participate psychiatric interview. After delivery, 272 mothers again study filled similar questionnaires. Negative was...
Eating disorders are an increasingly prevalent health problem among adolescent girls. It is well known that biological, psychosocial, and family-related factors interact in the development of this group disorders. However, mechanisms underlying interaction between these variables still poorly understood, especially Portuguese adolescents. The aim study was to investigate relationship eating behaviors, body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, perfectionism a sample
Abstract The purpose of the present study was to investigate factor structure Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) in pregnancy and postpartum. Women were asked fill BDI-II their last trimester at 3 months after delivery. A total 331 pregnant women, with a mean age 29.7 years (SD = 4.6), 354 mothers, aged 30.6 4.6 years), answered BDI-II. first group mainly nulliparas (65.6%) second mostly primiparas (57.4%). Factor analyses principal components solution varimax rotation performed. Based on...
The main objective was to investigate the association between perfectionism and eating behaviour in a non-clinical sample of adolescents both genders.997 middle high school students completed Portuguese versions child-adolescent scale (CAPS) attitudes test -25 (EAT-25).In genders, total score sociallyprescribed (SPP) were positive significantly correlated with EAT all dimensions: Drive for Thinness (DT), Bulimic Related Behaviour (BRB), Social Pressure Eat (SPE). In girls, self-oriented...
Background: The increasingly fast development of mobile health technologies holds significant value for individuals dealing with mental conditions. However, inadequate consideration patients' preferences and expectations undermines real-world outcomes, including sustained adherence. Driven by the belief that specific characteristics, such as youth higher education, obsessive-compulsive disorder make them suitable digital adoption, we investigated mHealth-related desirability factors within...
Este estudo abordou a aprendizagem colaborativa mediada por tecnologias digitais e redes sociais, buscando responder à seguinte pergunta: como essas ferramentas podem apoiar melhorar os processos de nas escolas? O objetivo geral foi analisar as implicações do uso das sociais plataformas no contexto educacional, promovendo interação construção coletiva conhecimento entre alunos. A metodologia adotada bibliográfica, com análise artigos, livros outros materiais acadêmicos sobre o tema. No...
O envelhecimento populacional mundial e o aumento do tempo para aposentadoria no contexto brasileiro impulsionam a presença de idosos mercado trabalho, exigindo estratégias inclusão adequadas às suas necessidades. Mesmo com maior mercado, os ainda enfrentam preconceitos como idadismo capacitismo, que dificultam sua laboral. Diante exposto, objetivo estudo foi analisar desafios enfrentados pelos processo ênfase nas barreiras sociais, culturais estruturais, discutindo essas questões interferem...
This study investigates the association between sleep disturbances, body mass index (BMI) and eating behaviour in a sample of undergraduate students. The comprises 870 medicine dentistry students from Coimbra University (62.5% females), aged 17 25 years. Eating Attitudes Test-40 was used to measure behaviour, two questions were applied addressing difficulties initiating (DIS) maintaining (DMS). A disturbance (SDI) calculated sum DIS DMS scores. Body determined self-reported weight height....
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...
To explore 1) if perfectionism, perceived distress/coping, and cognitive emotion regulation (CER) are associated with predictive of negative/positive affect (NA/PA); 2) CER distress/coping perfectionism they mediate the perfectionism-NA/PA associations. There is a distinction between maladaptive adaptive in its association NA/PA. may maladaptive/adaptive NA/PA associations.344 students (68.4% girls) completed Hewitt & Flett Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scales, Composite Scale,...