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Portuguese translation and psychometric testing of the cardiac self-efficacy scale

Introduction Self-efficacy plays a pivotal role in the ongoing management of patients recovering from myocardial infarction.1 Evaluating patients’ cardiac self-efficacy is essential for healthcare professionals to structure person-centred care interventions that enable individuals to effectively self-manage their condition.2 Objective To translate and test the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version o...

Nursing Interventions in the Management of Climate-related Disasters: Documenta...

Introduction    Extreme weather events reflect climate variability and are influenced by climate change, resulting in high rates of morbidity, mortality, and mental health problems. In this context, health systems require integrated responses throughout the disaster management cycle, and nursing assumes a strategic role, supported by its proximity to communities and skills such as continuous asse...

Perceptions of fall prevention and engagement in social prescribing activities ...

Background: Falls are a major cause of injury, functional decline, and reduced quality of life among older adults, posing a significant public health challenge. Social prescribing is gaining relevance in gerontology, offering structured strategies to engage individuals in preventive activities, including fall prevention strategies, through engagement in community-based activities. Aim: To examine older adults’ ...

Perceptions of Fall Prevention and Engagement in Social Prescribing Activities ...

Background: Falls are a major cause of injury, functional decline, and reduced quality of life among older adults, posing a significant public health challenge. Social prescribing is gaining relevance in gerontology, offering structured strategies to engage individuals in preventive activities, including fall prevention strategies, through engagement in community-based activities. Aim: To examine older adults' ...

Representações animais e formas de especismo no manual de estudo do meio do 1º ...

Segundo John Berger (2020), em Porquê Olhar os Animais?, o olhar entre o animal humano e o não humano perdeu-se. Tal perda histórica tornou-se irremediável para uma ideia de cultura contemporânea baseada no extrativismo capitalista e em formas imagéticas e ideológicas de dissociação cognitiva e entorpecimento psíquico (Joy, 2018). Pode argumentar-se que um tal entorpecimento se constituiu num forte instrumento ...

Barriers to self-care for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a descriptive c...

IntroductionDue to its complexity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) requires people to adopt different self-care behaviors. The domains of self-care: medication adherence, blood glucose testing, diet, physical activity, and self-monitoring are essential in its management. Identifying barriers to self-care is crucial to controlling T2DM2 ². ObjectiveIdentify the main barriers to self-care for people with T2DM. Me...

Animal representations and forms of speciesism in Environmental Studies Textboo...

In Why Look at Animals? (2009), John Berger argues that the mutual gaze between animals and humans has been lost. This historical rupture, he suggests, has become irreversible within a contemporary cultural landscape shaped by capitalist extractivism and characterised by visual and ideological forms of cognitive dissociation and psychic numbing (Joy, 2018). This numbing, it can be argued, has functioned as a po...

Ciclo de debates TERRA Viva: Kit de Sobrevivência: o impacto das ondas de calor...

Na sua participação no ciclo de debates TERRA Viva, a investigadora Fátima Alves do GI Sociedades e Sustentabilidade Ambiental do Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Laboratório Associado Terra da Universidade de Coimbra e da sua Extensão na Universidade Aberta de Portugal foi clara: “o calor mata — e mata cada vez mais”. As ondas de calor são hoje uma urgência científica e social, ...

Validity and reliability of the European Portuguese version of the PainDETECT Q...

Paulo Nogueira: An analytical gaze that turns into poetry

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