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Exploring the Association between Health Literacy and Diabetes Risk in Adults: ...
Batalha, Maria João; Gabriel, Tiago; Alves, Bartolomeu; Soledade, Ana; Passadouro, Rui; Dias, Sara SimõesIntroduction: Low levels of health literacy (HL) are related to behaviors that increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, in Europe, there is still little knowledge about this relationship, and whether improving HL could be an effective strategy for preventing the disease. Therefore, this study aims to measure the association between HL and the risk of developing T2D in adults living in the...
Health literacy – study protocol for LiSa cohort study
Batalha, Maria João; Gabriel, Tiago; Valentim, Ana; Soledade, Ana; Gomes, Cátia; Alves, Bartolomeu; Santos, Estêvão Soares dos; Passadouro, RuiBackground: Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others, whether at home, at the workplace, in the community, marketplace, healthcare sector, or the political arena. The main aim of this project is to measure health literacy in the adult population living in the ...
Development and psychometric properties of the general public's attitudes towar...
Laranjeira, Carlos; Dixe, Maria dos Anjos; Gueifão, Luís Miguel Aleixo Oliveira; Caetano, Lina; Passadouro, Rui; Gabriel, Tiago; Querido, AnaBackground: To date, no instrument in Portugal has evaluated the attitudes of the population about advance care directives. This paper describes the development and testing of the General Public's Attitudes Toward Advance Care Directives (GPATACD) Scale. Design and Methods: Methodological study. The development of the instrument was based on a literature review, updated in 2018. Face and content validity were v...
Access to medical specialization: the portuguese scenario
Soares dos Santos, Estevão; Moreira, Afonso; Regina Sá, Ana; Gabriel, Tiago; Pinheiro, Vera; Lopes, Pedro; Esteves, HugoIn the European Union each member state is responsible for organizing the specialization of medical doctors in order to ensure their appropriate training and their ability to provide the highest quality of care. However, since 2015, not all medical graduates in Portugal have been able to access a specialized training program. The main aim of this study was to calculate the cumulative number of candidates for me...