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Understanding differences in well-being between national and migrant adolescent...
Gaspar, T.; Guedes, F. Botelho; Cerqueira, A.; Matos, M. Gaspar de
Burnout as a multidimensional phenomenon: how can workplaces be healthy environ...
Gaspar, T.; Carvalho, M.; Matos, M.Purpose: Burnout was already a significant problem before the pandemics, but in the aftermath became a serious concern and a public health and occupational health priority. This study had two aims. First, it investigated how different healthy workplace dimensions and other health individual-level variables are related to burnout. Second, it examined differences in terms of presentism, absenteeism, quality of li...
Towards a Global Perspective of Environmental Health: Defining the Research Grou...
Virgolino, A.; Antunes, F.; Santos, O.; Costa, A.; Gaspar de Matos, M.; Bárbara, C.; Bicho, M.; Caneiras, C.; Sabino, Raquel; Núncio, Sofia; Matos, O.Environmental health is at the intersection between health and the environment. However, it still has a recent (and narrow) history as a scientific area, mainly addressing human biomonitoring and toxicological issues. Only recently additional environmental ‘layers’, other than the traditional chemical, biological and physical environmental determinants, have been considered. This broader perspective of environme...
Towards a global perspective of environmental health: defining the research gro...
Virgolino, A.; Antunes, F.; Santos, O.; Costa, A.; De Matos, M. G.; Bárbara, C.; Bicho, M.; Caneiras, C.; Sabino, R.; Núncio, M. S.; Matos, O.Environmental health is at the intersection between health and the environment. However, it still has a recent (and narrow) history as a scientific area, mainly addressing human biomonitoring and toxicological issues. Only recently additional environmental ‘layers’, other than the traditional chemical, biological and physical environmental determinants, have been considered. This broader perspective of environm...
Sleep variability and fatigue in adolescents : associations with school-related...
Matos, MG; Gaspar, T.; Tomé, G.; Paiva, T.This study aims to evaluate the influences of sleep duration and sleep variability (SleepV), upon adolescents' school-related situations. The Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey is based on a self-completed questionnaire. The participants were 3164 pupils (53.7% girls), attending the 8th and 10th grades, 14.9 years old, and were inquired about subjective sleep duration during the week and wee...
Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents: subjective well being
Gaspar, T.; Ribeiro, J.; Matos, M. G.; Leal, I.; Ferreira, A. I.The main objective of this study was to build a model, which includes personal and social factors, that helps to highlight factors that promote health-related quality of Life (HRQoL) in children and in adolescents. A sample of 3195 children and adolescents was acquired from 5th and 7th graders from all five Portuguese regions. In this study three independent latent variables were specified - Physical, Psycholog...
Use of tumour markers in an internal medicine department – a baseline and a pos...
Luís, I. V.; Nunes da Silva, J.; Monteiro, P.H.; Pinheiro, L.S.; Nolasco, T.; Dutschmann, R.; Gaspar, T.; Ribeiro, J.; Dias, P.; Duarte, A.F.Background: Tumour markers (TM) are potentially useful in clinical practice, but have a limited role in terms of diagnostic because of their poor sensitivity and specificity. Several guidelines exist on the appropriate use of TM, however they are frequently overused. The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of informative and audit activities about the correct use of TM on the use of TM in an inter...