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Validation of app and phone versions of the Control of Allergic Rhinitis and As...
Jácome, C.; Pereira, R.; Almeida, R.; Amaral, Rita; Correia, M. A.; Mendes, S.; Vieira-Marques, P.; Ferreira, J. A.; Lopes, I.; Gomes, J.; Vidal, C.Assessment of asthma control at every opportunity is recommended. Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT) is a patient reported outcome measure commonly used to assess asthma control in clinical practice.It includes ten questions answered in a 4 point Like rt scale that address upper and lower airway symptoms, sleep interference, limitation of activities , and the need to increase medication over a...
Evasão escolar: análise das causas da evasão escolar no curso Técnico em Admini...
Araujo, L.; Galinha, Sónia Maria Gomes Alexandreo presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar a problemática da evasão escolar no curso Técnico em Administração Integrado ao Ensino Médio na Modalidade de Educação de Jovens e Adultos no um Campus Gama do Instituto Federal de Brasília. Considera-se como evasão escolar a desistência/abandono do aluno durante o curso, cuja duração é de dois anos e meio. A evasão escolar faz parte de uma realidade da história da e...
Patient-physician discordance in assessment of adherence to inhaled controller ...
Jácome, C.; Pereira, A.; Almeida, R.; Ferreira-Magalhães, Manuel; Couto, M.; Araujo, L.; Pereira, M.; Correia, M.; Loureiro, C.; Catarata, M.Objective: We aimed to compare patient's and physician's ratings of inhaled medication adherence and to identify predictors of patient-physician discordance. Design: Baseline data from two prospective multicentre observational studies. Setting: 29 allergy, pulmonology and paediatric secondary care outpatient clinics in Portugal. Participants: 395 patients (≥13 years old) with persistent asthma. Measures: Data o...
Evaluation of nasal patency in children: Data of737 consecutive rhinomanometry ...
Gonçalves, I.; Jacinto, Tiago; Amaral, Rita; Pereira, A.; Araujo, L.; Couto, M.; Fonseca, J.; Amaral, RitaRhinomanometry is a simple and useful method for objective evaluation of nasal airway patency. However, there is a lack of published studies in pediatric patients. We aimed to evaluate nasal patency assessed by rhinomanometry and its variation after administration of an intranasal vasoconstrictor in children.
Health status, living arrangements, and service use at 100: findings from the O...
Ribeiro, O.; Araujo, L.; Teixeira, L.; Duarte, N.; Brandao, D.; Martin, I.; Paul, CThis paper describes the sociodemographic characteristics, health status, and service use of centenarians living in the community and centenarians residing in an elder care facility/ nursing home and examines their main differences. Participants were 140 centenarians from the populationbased Oporto Centenarian Study (Mage = 101.2; SD = 1.6). Main findings revealed that the majority of the centenarians lived at ...
The Brazilian national dam safety information system (SNISB)
Portela, E. A.; Barateiro, J.; Araujo, L.; Onzi, A.; Charneca, N.; Anderaos, A.; Aquino, F.; Massenet, A.; Freitas, P.Many countries have enacted dam safety laws at the national level and have been applying them to dam safety management activities. In Brazil, the first Dam Safety Regulation was published in 2010. The National Dam Safety Information System (SNISB, by its Portuguese acronym) is an instrument of the Brazilian National Dam Safety Policy (PNSB), which was established by the Federal Law nº 12.334/2010. The SNISB con...
Hazard potential classification of dams using a simplified methodology
Melo, J.; Araujo, L.; Oliveira, M. M.; Martins, T.; Pinto, M.; Freitas, P.The National Dam Safety Policy in Brazil (NDSP) assigns the classification of dams to the regulating agencies, all dams having to be classified in terms of hazard potential. The lack of appropriate basic data, such as topographic maps, makes it impossible to rely on well-established methodologies and requires effort and creativeness to find appropriate alternative approaches. This paper describes a simplified m...