Food allergy (FA) is a chronic condition that can markedly affect family quality of life (QoL). Children’s food neophobia (FN) may increase dietary management difficulties and parental stress, while maternal personality traits can shape family adjustment. This study examined the associations between maternal neuroticism, child FN, and the perceived impact of FA on family QoL, also considering the influence of c...
As Portugal prepares to implement surrogacy legislation, it enters a realm fraught with legal, ethical, and psychological complexities. Across the globe, jurisdictions exhibit diverse approaches to surrogacy, reflecting cultural, ethical, and legal diversity. This necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the implications of surrogacy within different legal systems. Moreover, the psychological impact on sur...
Objective This 15 years longitudinal study aimed to examine whether difficulties in cognitive processing of emotions persisted after long-term recovery from anorexia nervosa (AN), and its link to anxiety and depression. Method Twenty-four females, who were tested longitudinally during their acute and recovered AN phases, and 24 healthy control (HC) women, were screened for anxiety, depression, alexithymia, emot...
A pandemia COVID-19 constitui um importante desafio de saúde pública com implicações no bem-estar psicológico. Este estudo qualitativo procurou identificar fatores psicológicos associados à doença. Constou uma entrevista telefónica a 13 sujeitos internados com diagnosticados de COVID-19 e outros 13 que não tiveram a doença. Avaliaram-se os fatores de stress, as suas consequências psicológicas, as estratégias de...
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a mental disorder that causes serious damage to one's health and well-being, especially in the young [...].
Atualmente, constata-se um crescimento no uso de jogos como ferramentas de apoio ao tratamento de diferentes doenças mentais (Eichenberg & Schott, 2017; Calvo & Peters, 2014). Porém, a prevenção e tratamento da anorexia nervosa possui poucos recursos lúdicos que contemplem a complexidade da doença (Cardoso, Peçaibes, Giesteira, & Castro, 2021; Peçaibes, et al., 2021; Peçaibes, Cardoso, & Giesteira, 2019; Peçaib...
A 61-year-old man presented with a superior visu- al field defect on his right eye (RE), for 3 months, but he delayed coming to the emergency department for fear of coronavirus. His best-corrected visual acuity of the RE was 1.25/10 and biomicroscopy generated unremarkable findings. A large, dome-shaped, pigmented, and peripheral lesion with an adjacent exsudative retinal detachment was seen on ophthalmoscopy a...
Abstract: This study aimed to analyse the relationship between the perception of compassion at work (consciousness, empathy, evaluation, response type) and compassionate “actions and organizational characteristics” on job crafting (increasing structural job resources, increasing social job resources, increasing challenging job demands, decreasing hindering job demands). The study collected quantitative data fro...
Basaloid follicular hamartoma (BFH) is a normally benign, uncommon, malformative lesion involving the hair follicles, which usually poses challenges in the differential diagnosis with other benign and malignant tumours, especially basal cell carcinoma, due to significant clinical and morphological overlap. Here, we report the case of a 53-year-old male who presented with a mass in the upper left eyelid evolving...
This study aimed to analyse the relationship between the perception of compassion at work (consciousness, empathy, evaluation, response type) and compassionate “actions and organizational characteristics” on job crafting (increasing structural job resources, increasing social job resources, increasing challenging job demands, decreasing hindering job demands). The study collected quantitative data from 231 prof...