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Enablers, Barriers and Strategies to Build Resilience Among Cancer Survivors: a...
Fernandes, JB; Domingos, J; Almeida, AS; Castro, C; Simões, A; Fernandes, S; Vareta, D; Bernardes, C; Fonseca, J; Vaz, C; Dias, AR; Fernandes, TCancer is a life-threatening illness affecting all dimensions of a person's health. Cancer survivors must build resilience to face this adversity and continue their life projects. The present study explores the enablers, barriers, and strategies to build resilience among cancer survivors. This qualitative, descriptive exploratory study will use purposive sampling to recruit cancer survivors and healthcare profe...
Adrenal Vein Sampling in the Management of Primary Aldosteronism: The Added Val...
Manique, I; Amaral, S; Matias, A; Bouça, B; Serranito, S; Torres, J; Gutu, O; Bilhim, T; Coimbra, E; Rodrigues, I; Godinho, C; Cortez, L; Silva-Nunes, JIntroduction: Primary aldosteronism is the most common cause of secondary hypertension. Adrenal vein sampling is the gold standard for subtyping primary aldosteronism. However, this procedure is technically challenging and often has a low success rate. Our center is one of the very few performing this technique in our country with an increasing experience. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the ro...
Adrenal Vein Sampling: How We Do It
Resende Neves, T; Proença Caetano, A; Manique, I; Amaral, S; Godinho, C; Bilhim, T; Coimbra, EPrimary aldosteronism is the most common cause of secondary hypertension. When unilateral disease is present, patients can be treated curatively by adrenalectomy. Adrenal vein sampling (AVS) is considered essential for discrimination between unilateral versus bilateral disease. Knowledge of normal and variant anatomy of the adrenal veins is important to avoid misleading results and increase technical success. T...
Questionnaires measuring movement behaviours in adults and older adults: Conten...
Rodrigues, B; Encantado, J; Carraça, E; Sousa-Sá, E; Lopes, L; Cliff, D; Mendes, R; Silva, MN; Godinho, C; Santos, RBackground Sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity are constituent parts of a 24h period and there are several questionnaires to measure these movement behaviours, the objective was to systematically review the literature on content and measurement properties of self- and proxy-reported questionnaires measuring movement behaviours in adults and older adults. Methods The databases PubMed, CINAHL, PsycIN...
Predictors of physical activity promotion in clinical practice: a cross-section...
Silva, CS; Mendes, R; Godinho, C; Monteiro-Pereira, A; Pimenta-Ribeiro, J; Martins, HS; Brito, J; Themudo-Barata, JL; Fontes-Ribeiro, C; Teixeira, PJBackground: Physical activity is a major determinant of physical and mental health. International recommendations identify health professionals as pivotal agents to tackle physical inactivity. This study sought to characterize medical doctors’ clinical practices concerning the promotion of patients’ physical activity, while also exploring potential predictors of the frequency and content of these practices, inc...
O3-2 Evaluation of implementation and impact of a national mass media campaign ...
Silva, MN; Godinho, C; Salavisa, M; Silva, CS; Santos, R; Mendes, R; Owen, K; Teixeira, P; Bauman, ABackground Portugal has one of the highest rates of physical inactivity in Europe. To raise the profile of physical activity (PA) among adults, the Portuguese National Physical Activity Promotion Program of the Directorate-General of Health developed and implemented a national mass media campaign in 2019 named ?Follow the Whistle?. The campaign was based on social marketing principles and behavior change theory...
Assessment of Good Practices in Community-Based Interventions for Physical Acti...
Franco, S; Godinho, C; Silva, CS; Avelar-Rosa, B; Santos, R; Mendes, R; Silva, MNTools to identify good practices in the design, implementation, and evaluation of physical activity community-based interventions (PACIs) are key to address the physical inactivity pandemic. Existing tools tend to be extensive and with limited applicability to assess small-scale PACIs. This work aimed to report the development and preliminary validity results of a simple, practical, and user-friendly tool to ev...
Towards an in-depth understanding of physical activity and eating behaviours du...
Silva, MN; Gregório, Maria João; Santos, R; Marques, A; Rodrigues, B; Godinho, C; Silva, CS; Mendes, R; Graça, Pedro; Arriaga, M; Freitas, G<jats:p>Rapid worldwide decreases in physical activity (PA), an increase in sedentary behaviour (SB) and poorer dietary patterns have been reported during COVID-19 confinement periods. However, as national variability has been observed, this study sought to describe PA, SB and eating patterns, and to explore their gender as well as other socio-demographic correlates and how they interrelate in a representative ...
Physical Activity Promotion Tools in the Portuguese Primary Health Care: An Imp...
Mendes, R; Nunes, Silva, M; Santos, Silva, C; Marques, A; Godinho, C; Tomás, R; Agostinho, M; Madeira, S; Rebelo-Marques, A; Martins, H; Teixeira, PJBackground: This paper aims to discuss how physical activity (PA) brief assessment, brief counseling, and self-monitoring tools were designed and implemented in the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS), and to report on their current use by health professionals and citizens. Methods: Three digital tools to facilitate PA promotion in primary health care (PHC) were developed: 1) a PA brief assessment tool was...
"Follow the Whistle: Physical Activity Is Calling You": Evaluation of Implement...
Silva, MN; Godinho, C; Salavisa, M; Owen, K; Santos, R; Silva, CS; Mendes, R; Teixeira, PJ; Freitas, G; Bauman, ATo raise perceived capability (C), opportunity (O) and motivation (M) for physical activity (PA) behaviour (B) among adults, the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health developed a mass media campaign named “Follow the Whistle”, based on behaviour change theory and social marketing principles. Comprehensive formative and process evaluation suggests this media-led campaign used best-practice principles. The cam...