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Contributo de fatores individuais, sociais e ambientais para a decisão de pross...
Pires, R; Pereira, J; Araújo Pedrosa, A; Vilar, D; Vicente, L; Canavarro, MC
Relational and reproductive trajectories leading to adolescent pregnancy in Por...
Pires, R; Pereira, J; Pedrosa, AA; Bombas, T; Vilar, D; Vicente, L; Canavarro, MCINTRODUCTION: The current study aimed to describe the relational and reproductive trajectories leading to adolescent pregnancy in Portugal, and to explore whether there were differences in this process according to adolescents' place of residence. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Data were collected between 2008 and 2013 in 42 public health services using a self-report questionnaire developed by the researchers. The sampl...
Ecological Contexts in Adolescent Pregnancy: The Role of Individual, Sociodemog...
Araújo-Pedrosa, A; Pires, R; Carvalho, P; Canavarro, MC; Dattilio, FAdolescent pregnancy appears today as an intricate tapestry where different dimensions interact. In our study we examined the associations between individual, sociodemographic, familial, and relational variables and their impact on the occurrence of pregnancy and adolescents’ adjustment to it. Participants were Portuguese pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents (N = 833). Ecological contexts were characterized, a...
The Portuguese version of the Body Image Scale (BIS): psychometric properties i...
Moreira, H; Silva, S; Marques, A; Canavarro, MCPURPOSE: The aim of this study was to analyse the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the body image scale (BIS; Hopwood, P., Fletcher, I., Lee, A., Al Ghazal, S., 2001. A body image scale for use with cancer patients. European Journal of Cancer, 37, 189-197). This is a brief and psychometric robust measure of body image for use with cancer patients, independently of age, cancer type, treatment...
Estudo psicométricos do instrumento de avaliação da qualidade de vida da Organi...
Vaz-Serra, A; Canavarro, MC; Simões, MR; Pereira, M; Gameiro, S; Quartilho, MJ; Rijo, D; Carona, C; Paredes, T
The importance of family context in alcoholism
Vaz-Serra, A; Canavarro, MC; Ramalheira, CIn the present study, 56 chronic alcoholics were compared with 56 controls with no excessive drinking habits, all of them male. The drinking habits of their parents were studied, as were parental rearing, dyadic relations with the spouses, attachment to significant people, and the education they gave to their own children. It was noted that the alcoholics' parents had heavier drinking habits and could have acte...