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Feeding practices among Portuguese parents of 5- to 10-year-olds: Psychometric ...

Parents, as primary caregivers, are responsible for most decisions related to children's lifestyle. One of the key elements in children's lifestyle is parents' feeding practices and given the relevance of these practices for children's weight and health-related outcomes, it is important to have valid and reliable measures available to address them in both research and practice. In the current study, we examined...

Delivering Group Lifestyle Triple P through digital practice: A case study with...

The purpose of the current study was to explore the delivery of the Group Lifestyle Triple P (GLTP) parent group programme through digital practice. Eight mothers of obese children aged 6–11 were recruited from a university hospital. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study sought to characterise the perceived changes throughout the intervention and explore the outcome measures on children’s BMI z-score, weigh...

Group Triple P intervention effects on children and parents: a systematic revie...

Supporting parents through the delivery of evidence-based parenting interventions (EBPI) is a way of promoting children’s rights, given the known benefits to child development and family wellbeing. Group Triple P (GTP) is an EBPI suitable for parents of children aged 2–12 years, who experience parenting difficulties, and/or child behavior problems. Even though GTP has been intensively studied, information lacks...

Qualidade em educação pré-escolar

Representação na linha numérica: Um estudo exploratório em crianças de idade pr...

A capacidade de estimar é uma aptidão numérica que se manifesta muito precocemente, estando presente em diversas tarefas quotidianas e envolvendo diferentes tipos de conhecimento (Siegler & Booth, 2004). As crianças em idade pré-escolar têm dificuldades em fazer estimativas, apesar de já apresentarem outras competências matemáticas, como saber contar. Essas dificuldades prendem-se com uma representação inadequa...

Quality in Preschool Education

From 1992 to 2007 Joaquim Bairrão coordinated several studies in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Porto University that originated a body of knowledge on different types of characteristics of early child care and education settings and about the relation between such characteristics and child development. The purpose of this paper is to enlighten the research path of the team he coordinated...