Background: Generativity has been associated with resilience and life satisfaction in older age, including among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) older adults. Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Loyola Generativity Scale (LGS) and Generative Behavior Checklist (GBC) for Spanish LGBT+ older adults (over the age of 50). Methodology: A psychometric study was conducted with 141 ...
O artigo pretende caracterizar o nível de consciência morfológica no 1º ciclo e analisar a possível relação entre a consciência morfológica e a leitura e escrita. A amostra é constituída por 20 crianças, que frequentam o 2º (n=10) e o 4º ano de escolaridade (n=10). A recolha de dados foi realizada através da Grelha de Avaliação da Linguagem - Nível Escolar, da Bateria de Avaliação da Consciência Morfológica, da...
Purpose: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) frequently face pragmatic impairments which may result in learning, socialization, and mental health difficulties, therefore early intervention is crucial. In Portugal, the Pragmatic Intervention Programme (PICP) has been recently developed and validated, but its effects are unknown. This study aims to determine the ...
Oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) is common after stroke. Its presence submits the patient to clinical instability, which can cause complications such as aspiration pneumonia, dehydration, malnutrition and death. The objective was to compare effectiveness of traditional therapy (TT) with associated NMES versus traditional therapy in the rehabilitation of patients with OD after stroke and the effects on their quality...
Study Design. Cross-sectional. Objective. This study aims to describe how pain at multiple body sites is associated after controlling for other predictive factors such as age, sex, sleeping hours, time spent in physical activity, and time spent in screening based activities in adolescents aged 13 to 19 years. Summary of Background Data. The prevalence of multisite pain in adolescents is high, but studies invest...
O hiperparatireoidismo primário (HPT1) tem uma prevalência entre 1:300 e 1:2000 na população. No entanto mais de 90 % dos casos não são diagnosticados. A definição de HPT1 assintomático é controversa uma vez que os doentes na sua maioria apresentam algum tipo de sintomatologia. Os doseamentos de cálcio são muito importantes na detecção de doentes pouco sintomáticos, particularmente entre as mulheres pós-menopáu...