[Excerto] 1. Quando falamos de morte assistida falamos exatamente de quê? A morte (voluntária) assistida pressupõe um pedido de ajuda, feito pelo doente, para que se antecipe a sua morte, porque se encontra em situação de sofrimento intolerável e/ou em estado terminal e/ou com doença ou lesão grave e irremediável (ou incurável e definitiva). Este pedido é voluntário e reiterado pelo doente de forma consciente, ...
Purpose: This study examines the impact of different modes of treatment on depression, anxiety, traumatic stress and quality of life in colorectal cancer patients and their partners. Methods: The sample was comprised of 114 oncology patients and 67 partners. All patients were diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Participants were recruited from an Oncology Hospital in the North of Portugal and had been submitted t...
The purpose of this study was the adaptation of the “Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale” (Zigmond & Snaith, 1993) and the “Impact of Events Scale” (Weiss & Marmer, 1977) and simultaneously to assess the surgery, surgery/chemotherapy and surgery/radiotherapy in patients with colorectal cancer in terms of depression, anxiety and pos-traumatic stress. The sample includes 114 patients with colorectal dia...
A Esclerose Múltipla (EM) é uma doença crónica de evolução imprevisível caracterizada por uma variedade de sintomas físicos, psicológicos e sociais. Este estudo avaliou as representações da doença, morbilidade psicológica e qualidade de vida nos doentes e ajustamento à doença, satisfação marital e morbilidade psicológica nos cuidadores. Participaram 100 doentes com Esclerose Múltipla e 72 cuidadores. Os resulta...
The authors present a case report of a female patient with 58 years old, previously healthy, in whom extensive jejuno-ileal ressection was made because of superior mesenteric artery thrombosis, at Luanda hospital. She was transferred to our hospital and the diagnosis of portal, superior mesenteric and esplenic axis venous throm bosis was made. The diagnostic evaluation revealed deficit of protein C and S. T...