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Portuguese Version of the HLS-EU-Q6 and HLS-EU-Q16 Questionnaire: Psychometric ...
Pedro, Ana Rita; Raposo, Beatriz; Luís, Luís; Amaral, Odete; Escoval, Ana; Simões Dias, SaraHealth literacy refers to the competencies of individuals and the general population to navigate all the areas of health care, making health decisions. Health professionals need a set of skills and information to adapt to people’s health literacy. To succeed, it is crucial to determine the health literacy level of a population, in this case, the Portuguese. This study aims to measure the psychometric properties...
Voices of Polymedicated Older Patients: A Focus Group Approach
Plácido, Ana; Herdeiro, Maria; Simões, João; Amaral, Odete; Figueiras, Ana; Roque, FátimaPolypharmacy in older adults is frequently associated with incorrect management of medicines, which causes drug-related problems and, subsequently, poor health outcomes. Understanding why older adults incorrectly manage their medicines is fundamental to health outcomes, however, it is an issue that remains poorly explored. The aim of this study is to examine older people's perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, and c...
Daily Medication Management and Adherence in the Polymedicated Elderly: A Cross...
Gomes, Daniel; Plácido, Ana; Mó, Rita; Simões, João; Amaral, Odete; Fernandes, Isabel; Lima, Fátima; Morgado, Manuel; Figueiras, Adolfo; Herdeiro, MariaThe presence of age-related comorbidities prone elderly patients to the phenomenon of polypharmacy and consequently to a higher risk of nonadherence. Thus, this paper aims to characterize the medication consumption profile and explore the relationship of beliefs and daily medication management on medication adherence by home-dwelling polymedicated elderly people. A questionnaire on adherence, managing, and beli...
Health professionals perception and beliefs about drug- related problems on pol...
Plácido, Ana; Herdeiro, Maria; Simões, João; Amaral, Odete; Figueiras, Adolfo; Roque, FátimaBackground: Polymedicated older patients are at greater risk of suffering from adverse events. For this reason, the detection of both inappropriate polypharmacy and polypharmacy-associated Drug-Related Problems (DRPs) are essential to improve the health and wellbeing of older adults and to reduce healthcare costs. This work aims to explore health professionals' perceptions and opinions about polypharmacy and th...
From internment to the community - the informal caregiver in the transition
Lima, Teresa; Amaral, Odete; de Almeida, Pureza; Carvalho, Paula; Marques, Tânia; Pinto, Ana Raquel; Coimbra, TâniaBackground: the transition process between inpatient institutions and the home entails changes and adaptations, especially for the informal caregiver. Objectives: to understand the difficulties experienced by informal caregivers in caring for the family member/user at home; Identify the tools used by them to overcome them; Know the support they have for the provision of care at home; Know your opinion about the...
Educação para a saúde na escola
Ferreira, Manuela; Amaral, Odete; Campos, Sofia; Cardoso, Ana PaulaAo longo do ciclo de vida, crianças e adolescentes passam grande parte do seu tempo na escola, reconhecendo-se, atualmente, que este espaço e tempo contém potencial educativo para além da sua missão suprema, expressa na definição da Lei de Bases do Sistema Educativo, em termos de “garantia de uma permanente ação formativa orientada para favorecer o desenvolvimento global da personalidade, o progresso social e a...
Validity and reliability of the Portuguese version of the rapid estimate of adu...
Costa, Hélder; Amaral, Odete; Duarte, João; Correia, Maria José; Veiga, Nélio Jorge; López-Marcos, Joaquin FranciscoBackground: Health literacy is a main factor in health for its improvement, allowing the individuals to have a greater capacity to engage and participate in collective health promotion actions. The evaluation of functional health literacy is essential to determine the ability that each individual has to understand basic health information. The present study aimed to perform the translation and cross-cultural ad...
Validity and reliability of the Portuguese version of the rapid estimate of adu...
Costa, Hélder; Amaral, Odete; Duarte, João; Correia, Maria José; Veiga, Nélio; López-Marcos, Joaquín FranciscoBackground: Health literacy is a main factor in health for its improvement, allowing the individuals to have a greater capacity to engage and participate in collective health promotion actions. The assessment of functional health literacy to determine the ability that each individual has to understand basic health information is essential. The aim of the present study was to translate and perform the cross-cult...
Eating Habits and Food Literacy: Study Involving a Sample of Portuguese Adolesc...
Ferreira, Manuela; Guiné, Raquel; Leitão, A. L.; Duarte, João; Andrade, J.; Amaral, OdeteAdolescents tend to neglect food and their eating pattern is influenced by several factors. Adolescents’ health literacy substantiates their ability to respond to the growing demands of health, being linked to health promotion in several areas, including food. The goal of this work was to analyze the relationship between sociodemographic and contextual variables with secondary school students’ food literacy. A ...
Influência do exercício físico no sono em estudantes do ensino superior
Duarte, Sara; Amaral, Odete; Albuquerque, CarlosIntrodução: O sono é um indicador de saúde e qualidade de vida ao longo do ciclo vital. Diversos são os fatores que podem influenciar, positiva ou negativamente, a qualidade e quantidade do sono, designadamente o exercício físico. Há estudos que referem que os bons hábitos de sono influenciam positivamente a realização de exercício físico e vice-versa. Objetivo: Descrever a influência do exercício físico no son...