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Exploring the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and well-being ...
Alarcão, Violeta; Virgolino, Ana; Stefanovska, Miodraga; Neves, JúliaThe pandemic is aggravating health inequalities, particularly mental health inequalities, while revealing the social determinants of these inequalities, including migration as a social determinant that mediates the interaction of social, economic, cultural, institutional, and structural factors with health indicators. Therefore, it is of most relevance to identify the multiple interconnected factors that influe...
MAternal Mental Health in the WORKplace (MAMH@WORK): a protocol for promoting p...
Costa, Joana; Santos, Osvaldo; Virgolino, Ana; Pereira, Maria Emília; Stefanovska, Miodraga; Silva, Henrique; Navarro-Costa, Paulo; Barbosa, MiguelWomen are exposed to increased burden of mental disorders during the perinatal period: 13–19% experience postpartum depression. Perinatal psychological suffering affects early mother-child relationship, impacting child’s emotional and cognitive development. Return-to-work brings additional vulnerability given the required balance between parenting and job demands. The MAternal Mental Health in the WORKplace (MA...
Reducing sexual and reproductive health inequities between natives and migrants...
Candeias, Pedro; Alarcão, Violeta; Stefanovska, Miodraga; Santos, Osvaldo; Virgolino, Ana; Pintassilgo, Sónia; Pascoal, Patrícia M.; Costa, AndreiaThe increasing number of international migrants (ranging from 153 million in 1990 to ~272 million in 2019) brought to attention the wide variation of national contexts concerning the policy measures to protect migrants' rights and ensuring their equal access to basic and essential services, namely in health. Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) is a key component to the overall health and quality of life and is...
Functional health literacy : psychometric properties of the newest vital sign f...
Santos, Osvaldo; Stefanovska, Miodraga; Virgolino, Ana; Miranda, Ana Cristina; Costa, Joana; Fernandes, Elisabete; Cardoso, SusanaSelf-management of health requires skills to obtain, process, understand, and use health-related information. Assessment of adolescents’ functional health literacy requires valid, reliable, and low-burden tools. The main objective of this study was to adapt and study the psychometric properties of the Newest Vital Sign for the Portuguese adolescents’ population (NVS-PTeen). Classic psychometric indicators of re...
Intersections of immigration and sexual and reproductive health : an umbrella l...
Alarcão, Violeta; Stefanovska, Miodraga; Virgolino, Ana; Santos, Osvaldo; Costa, AndreiaIdentifying the opportunities and barriers of promoting and fulfilling the sexual health rights of migrants remains a challenge that requires systematic assessment. Such an assessment would include estimating the influence of acculturation processes on sexual and reproductive health, and mapping intersectional inequities that influence migrants’ sexual and reproductive health in comparison with the native popul...
Fertility, Migration and Acculturation (FEMINA) : a research protocol for study...
Alarcão, Violeta; Stefanovska, Miodraga; Virgolino, Ana; Santos, Osvaldo; Ribeiro, Sofia; Costa, Andreia; Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Pascoal, Patrícia M.Background: The existing knowledge on the interplay between reproductive and sexual health, migration and acculturation is recent and inconsistent, particularly on the sociocultural motives and constraints regarding fertility. Therefore, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) surveys are needed to provide accurate and comparable indicators to identify and address SRH inequalities, with specific focus on under res...
Defining a brief intervention for the promotion of psychological well-being amo...
Santos, Osvaldo; Lopes, Elisa; Virgolino, Ana; Stefanovska, Miodraga; Dinis, Alexandra; Ambrósio, Sara; Heitor, Maria JoãoBackground: Epidemiologic evidence highlights the harmful consequences of unemployment on health and well-being. This emphasizes the need to design low-cost interventions to prevent the adverse mental health effects of unemployment. The main aim of this study was to create expert-consensus regarding development and implementation of a brief, sustainable, and effective intervention program for promoting mental h...