To evaluate how individuals at different stages of infection with HIV perceive their health status and its association with mood states.
Retirement is a life cycle transition that exposes its protagonists to different states of biological, psychological, social and ecological vulnerability. The project REATIV aims to promote an active ageing and in a first phase of its development had as the overall objective to know the perceptions that individuals have regarding retirement, and found that they perceive it as a continuum, readaptation, gain, lo...
A aposentadoria constitui um a transição do ciclo de vida que expõe os seus protagonistas a estados de diferente vulnerabilidade biológica, psicológica, social e ecológica. O projeto REATIVA visa a promover um envelhecimento ativo e, numa primeira fase do seu desenvolvimento que teve por objetivo geral conhecer as perceções que os indivíduos apresentam relativamente à aposentadoria, descobriu que estes a percec...
This study aims to assess the prevalence of falls, understand their consequences, identify causes and analyze intervention strategies to prevent them. This is a descriptive longitudinal study, from 2007 to 2009, in which nurses recorded patients' falls in a medicine ward, using a scale developed for this end. Most falls occurred with partially dependent patients, with a mean age ranging from 64 to 74 years. The...
This study aims to assess the prevalence of falls, understand their consequences, identify causes and analyze intervention strategies to prevent them. This is a descriptive longitudinal study, from 2007 to 2009, in which nurses recorded patients' falls in a medicine ward, using a scale developed for this end. Most falls occurred with partially dependent patients, with a mean age ranging from 64 to 74 years. The...
This study aimed to evaluate the alcohol consumption phenomenon in public schools in Coimbra, Portugal (7th, 8th and 9th grades) for the implementation of a preventive program of alcohol use/abuse. This is a quantitative, descriptive and correlational study. The sample included 654 students (51.5% female) between 12 and 18 years of age. The Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire - Adolescent form (AEQ-A) and the Ques...