Introduction: Chemotherapy treatment can cause a set of adverse symptoms, with negative implications for the cancer patient´s well-being and quality of life, which can be minimized with-nurse-led interventions focused on promoting the self-management of these symptoms. Objective: To assess the perception of self-efficacy and quality of life in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, supported in person and via...
Abstract Introduction: The patient with sarcoma undergoing surgery, upon hospital discharge, requires the knowledge and skills for symptom’s self-management such as pain and those related to the surgical wound. Objectives: To gather a consensus of a set of therapeutic guidelines for self-management of pain and surgical wound care in sarcoma’s patient after surgery. Method: The Delphi technique was employed with...
Purpose: Since pain and symptoms related to the surgical wound are common in the postoperative period, it is essential to know about interventions to enable the patient to self-manage these symptoms. Objective: This review aimed to identify therapeutic guidelines to support the self-management of pain symptoms and those related to the surgical wound in people with oncological disease undergoing surgery, after c...
Background: type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease that affects mostly children and young people. In its treatment, insulin therapy is essential. Insulin can be administered by Multiple Daily Injections (MDI) or by continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) system. The latter has advantages, but the adaptation process is demanding. Objective: to identify mother’s views regarding the PSCI system in t...
Background: COVID-19 is an infectious disease that due to its high transmissibility has quickly became pandemic. Health professionals and nurses have a higher risk of exposure because they are at the forefront of combating this pandemic. Objectives: the study aims to explore the knowledge, attitudes, perception of risk and perception of protection of nurses against COVID-19, and possible associations between th...
O módulo “Desconstruindo a divisão Natureza-Sociedade” (8h) da 1ª edição da PósGraduação “Uma Só Saúde/One Health” que teve lugar na Escola Superior Agrária do Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo.
C918-3B10-A36E | Diogo Guedes Vidal; N/A
A empatia é reconhecida como competência pessoal, relacional e profissional. Um dos objetivos do projeto DEON do Núcleo Académico da Psicologia da Rede Académica das Ciências da Saúde da Lusofonia, é avaliar a empatia nos psicólogos de Angola, Brasil, Moçambique e Portugal. Não havendo conhecimento da existência de escalas para avaliar a empatia na prática profissional, procedeu-se à construção de uma Escala. A...
Introduction: Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) has been prioritised in the metabolic control of type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in children and adolescents. Objective: To assess the quality of life and treatment satisfaction in adolescents with T1DM using CSII and analyse the role of quality of life in predicting treatment satisfaction among these adolescents. Methods: The sample comprised 77 ado...
Enquadramento: A promoção da gestão do regime terapêutico em pessoas com doença crónica, requer medidas fiáveis e válidas, para avaliação da motivação para o tratamento. Objetivo: Avaliar as propriedades psicométricas da versão portuguesa do Questionário de Autorregulação (QAR) para o tratamento medicamentoso, numa amostra de pessoas com doença crónica. Metodologia: Estudo metodológico, com recurso à análise fa...