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Primary Health Care Professionals' Perspective on Male Family Planning Appointment

Introduction: Family planning (FP) activities are a diverse set of services and methods that contribute to reproductive health and quality of life. The National Reproductive Health Programme advocates creating conditions that facilitate access for both sexes. This research aimed to assess health professionals' perceptions of FP consultations for men.Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study. A convenience samp...

Albuminuria Testing in a Primary Care Facility in the North of Portugal

Introduction. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Diagnosis involves a minimum of 3 months of impaired kidney function or kidney damage. This study aimed to evaluate the use of albuminuria testing as a CKD screening tool in a primary health care (PHC) facility in the North of Portugal.Methods. Observational retrospective study involving a sample of 400 adults regis...

An Apparent Anus

Current challenges in the sustainable valorisation of agri-food wastes: a review

<jats:p>In the upcoming years, the world will face societal challenges arising, in particular, from the impact of climate change and the inefficient use of natural resources, in addition to an exponential growth of the world population, which according to the United Nations (UN) estimations will be 9.8 billion in 2050. This increasing trend requires optimized management of natural resources with the use of valu...

Bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity from spent coffee grounds as a pow...

<jats:p>Coffee is one of the world’s most popular beverages, and its consumption generates copious amounts of waste. The most relevant by-product of the coffee industry is the spent coffee grounds, with 6 million tons being produced worldwide per year. Although generally treated as waste, spent coffee grounds are a rich source of several bioactive compounds with applications in diverse industrial fields. The pr...

Valorization of Spent Coffee Grounds as a Natural Source of Bioactive Compounds...

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide, whose production and consump tion result in large amounts of waste, namely spent coffee grounds, constituting an important source of compounds for several industrial applications. This work focused on the establishment of the volatile fingerprint of five spent coffee grounds from different geographical origins using headspace solid-phase microextraction cou...

Mindfulness: use in stress management for nursing professionals

Objective: To identify the available evidence about the use of Mindfulness by nursing professionals to reduce stress. Method: The assumptions of the integrative review were used in the databases National library of Medicine and Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences. Using articles available in full, online, free, in Portuguese and English, between the years 2015 to 2019. 349 articles were f...

Quality of life in patients with chronic kidney disease

AIM: To compare the dimensions of quality of life in the stages of chronic kidney disease and the influence of sociodemographic, clinical and laboratory data. INTRODUCTION: The information available on the quality of life of patients on conservative treatment and the relationship between the quality of life and glomerular filtration rate is limited. METHODS: 155 patients in stages 1-5 of chronic kidney disease ...