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Prevalence of Outpatient Use of Medicines by the Elderly Population in Portugal...
Carmona Araújo, Ana; Fernandes, Elisabete; Franco Ruivo, Inês; Machado, Maria do Céu; Faria Vaz, António; Furtado, CláudiaIntroduction: Like in other countries, the age pyramid in Portugal has been changing considerably, with a substantial increase in the size of the older population and a significant reduction in the number of young people. With aging, co-occurrence of several conditions becomes frequent, often leading to the use of multiple medications (polypharmacy). Polypharmacy in the older population is particularly relevant...
Validation of the European Portuguese Version of a Pediatric Palliative Needs A...
Simões, Maria João Palaré; Tavares, Filipa; Machado, Maria do CéuIntroduction: The Pediatric Palliative Screening Scale (PaPaS Scale) was designed to help professionals to identify life-limiting or life-threatening children/young people with complex chronic conditions who would benefit from pediatric palliative care and facilitate their timely and appropriate referral. The aim of this study was to translate, culturally adapt and validate the PaPaS Scale for the Portuguese pe...
Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based...
Vasconcelos, Alexandra; Bandeira, Nelson; Sousa, Swasilanne; Pereira, Filomena; Machado, Maria do Céu© The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party ...
Contributions to the improvement of healthcare management for cardiovascular pa...
Campos Fernandes, Adalberto; Abreu, Ana; Pinto, Fausto J.; Mota-Filipe, Helder; Machado, Maria do Céu; Carrageta, Manuel© 2022 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia. Published by Elsevier Espa ̃na, S.L.U. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/); Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is among the leading causes of morbidity, disability and mortality in Portugal. Despite the considerable decline in cardiovascular mortality as a result of improved healthcare access, diag...
The Ethics of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Improve Public Health
Goiana-da-Silva, Francisco; Cruz-e-Silva, David; Bartlett, Oliver; Vasconcelos, Joana; Morais Nunes, Alexandre; Ashrafian, Hutan; Miraldo, MarisaThe World Health Organization highlights fiscal policies as priority interventions for the promotion of healthy eating in its Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases. The taxation of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) in particular is noted to be an effective measure, and SSBs taxes have already been implemented in several countries worldwide. However, although the evidence base su...
Very Low Birth Weight Infants in a Portuguese Intensive Care Unit and the Vermo...
Saldanha, Joana; Moniz, Carlos; Machado, Maria do CéuIntroduction: Our neonatal service is part of a differentiated perinatal hospital and has contributed to the Vermont Oxford Network for more than 15 years. This data base includes data on the morbidity and mortality of newborns born in the member hospitals with birth weight between 401 and 1500 g and/ or from 22 to 29 weeks and six days of gestation, or those admitted to these hospitals with up to 28 days of ag...
Informed Consent - Vision and Perspectives of Adolescents, Parents and Professi...
Machado, Maria do Céu; Sousa, Rodrigo; Stone, Rosário; Barreto, Maria Inês; Garcês, Filipa; Cruz, Carla; Gomes, Susana; Rodrigues, MarianaIntroduction: According to the Convention on the Rights of Children and the national standards of the Portuguese Directorate-General for Health, adolescents have the right to make decisions about their own health. The aim of this study was to identify the dynamics of the implementation of assent and informed consent in hospital settings.Material and Methods: Cross-sectional and multicentre study based on survey...
Quality-of-life outcomes of a weight management program for adolescents based o...
Freira, Silvia; Fonseca, Helena; Williams, Geoffrey; Ribeiro, Marta; Pena, Fernanda; Machado, Maria do Céu; Lemos, Marina Serra© 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved; To compare motivational interviewing (MI) with conventional care regarding the health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) of adolescents with overweight/obesity. Methods: RCT with parallel design, involving two groups: intervention group (MI group [MIG]) and control group (conventional intervention group [CIG]). The intervention included three 30-minute interviews 3 months ...
The prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents from 1988 to 2014: resu...
Marques, Adilson; Matos, Margarida Gaspar de; Machado, Maria do Céu; Naia, Ana; Mota, JorgeABSTRACT - Objective: Using a national representative sample of Portuguese adolescents, this study aimed to report the prevalence of overweight and obesity over 16 years, from 1998 to 2014. Methods: The total sample comprised 26,479 adolescents (12,711 boys and 13,768 girls) aged 11–16 years (mean age ± SD = 13.5 ± 1.7) from the Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children (HBSC) Portuguese survey cohorts from 1998 ...
Prevenção e promoção na saúde mental das crianças, adolescentes e jovens : tert...
Matos, MG; Machado, Maria do Céu; Raimundo, Raquel; Moleiro, Pascoal; Figueiras, Maria João; Neufeld, Carmen BeatrizFundação Minerva - Cultura - Ensino e Investigação Científica / Universidade Lusíada; As usual in this Forum held in the opening section of the Annual Congress of CIPCA (International Congress of Children and Adolescents Psychology) we have with us several guests from diverse professional areas related to health and well-being, whom we’ve inquired “How prevention is viewed and operationalized “ within the profe...