Hyperglycaemia affects more than 30% of adults hospitalized for non-critical illness and is associated with an increased risk of adverse clinical outcomes. Insulin therapy is widely used for its safety and efficacy. However, given the growing availability of new drugs and new classes of antidiabetic agents with benefits beyond glycaemic control, challenges arise regarding their use in the hospital setting. This...
Pharmacists facing ethical dilemmas have shown weaknesses in principled reasoning and disclosure. The chapter describes research on Portuguese community pharmacists' moral reasoning and narrative ethics. A cross-sectional survey comprising vignettes with practice ethical dilemmas, their possible justifications, and an open box for textual accounts was used as the research tool. More than 270 pharmacists replied...
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Recent findings have demonstrated an increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity and overweight in Portugal, urging the need to study modifiable risk factors such as parental feeding practices. The Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) is an important self-report measure assessing a broad range of responsive and non-responsive feeding practices. However, the CFPQ has not yet been validated in...
Recent findings have demonstrated an increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity and overweight in Portugal, urging the need to study modifiable risk factors such as parental feeding practices. The Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) is an important self-report measure assessing a broad range of responsive and non-responsive feeding practices. However, the CFPQ has not yet been validated in...
Introdução O desenvolvimento dos adolescentes centra-se na construção de autonomia e independência face à supervisão parental. Este desafio torna-se mais complexo perante um diagnóstico de diabetes tipo 1, o que exige responsabilização do adolescente face à gestão da doença. Nesta fase revela-se crucial a implementação de intervenções promotoras de competências de autogestão. Objetivo Mapeamento de intervenções...
Background: Development during adolescence involves building autonomy and progressive independence from parental supervision. At this stage, it is important to implement interventions to promote self-management skills in adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes, allowing an empowered transition to adulthood regarding decision-making and self-management. Aim: Mapping the interventions that promote self-management skills...
Enquadramento: A implementação de programas focados nas competências de autogestão em adolescentes com diabetes tipo 1 revelam ser um importante contributo no desenvolvimento de autonomia e tomada de decisão face à gestão da diabetes. Os campos de férias são contextos apropriados para a intervenção de enfermagem na área da promoção da saúde, adesão e gestão do regime terapêutico dos adolescentes. No entanto, um...
Purpose: Parents’ underestimation of young children’s weight can reduce their engagement and readiness to implement changes in children’s diet and physical activity. Childcare teachers can support parents’ identification of children at risk for being overweight only if they can accurately do this themselves. Design: Quantitative, cross-sectional study. Setting: Fifteen kindergartens near Lisbon, Portugal. Subje...
Introdução: O desenvolvimento dos adolescentes centra-se na construção de autonomia e independência face à supervisão parental. Este desafio torna-se mais complexo perante um diagnóstico de diabetes tipo 1, o que exige responsabilização do adolescente face à gestão da doença. Nesta fase revela-se crucial a implementação de intervenções promotoras de competências de autogestão. Objetivo: Mapeamento de intervençõ...