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Barriers to self-care for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a descriptive c...
Oliveira, Dulce; Henriques, Adriana; Nogueira, Paulo; Costa, AndreiaIntroductionDue 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...
Paulo Nogueira: An analytical gaze that turns into poetry
Fortunato, Paula; Nogueira, Paulo; Bello, Pedro S..
Animal representations and forms of speciesism in Environmental Studies Textboo...
Nogueira, PauloIn 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...
Validation of the Portuguese version of the diabetes self-management questionna...
Oliveira, Dulce; Costa, Andreia; Henriques, Adriana; Curado, Maria Alice; Schmitt, Andreas; Nogueira, PauloBackground: Reflecting people with diabetes' self-management activities is often required in both research and clinical practice. This study evaluated the measurement properties of the Portuguese version of the Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire-Revised (DSMQ-R) on a sample of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods: Translation and cultural adaptation were conducted according to guidelines for...
Presentation of the first international research network to foster high-quality...
Ferreira, Ricardo J. O.; Henriques, Adriana; Moe, Rikke H.; Matos, Cristiano; Tveter, Anne-Therese; Osteras, Nina; Nogueira, Paulo; Costa, Andreia SilvaClinical trials are essential for evaluating the efficacy and safety of new treatments and health interventions. However, while pharmacological trials are well-established, non-pharmacological trials face unique challenges related to their complexity and difficulties such as recruitment, retention, intervention standardisation, selection of outcome measures and blinding of clinicians, participants and data coll...
Social prescribing for older adults in mainland Portugal: Perceptions and futur...
Costa, Andreia; Henriques, Joana; Alarcão, Violeta; Madeira, Teresa; Virgolino, Ana; Henriques , Adriana; Santos, Rodrigo Feiteira; Polley, MarieBackground: In order to address health inequalities, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and promote older adults' quality of life, it is necessary to explore non-medical approaches such as social prescribing. Social prescribing is a person-centered approach that allows health professionals to refer patients to services provided by the social and community sectors. This study aimed to explore ...
"You get out of the house, you talk to each other, you laugh…And that's fantast...
Costa, Andreia; Henriques, Joana; Alarcão, Violeta; Madeira, Teresa; Virgolino, Ana; Polley, Marie J.; Henriques, Adriana; Santos, Rodrigo FeiteiraBackground: Social prescribing (SP) is a non-clinical approach, most commonly based in healthcare units, that aims to address non-medical health-related social needs by connecting individuals with community-based services. This qualitative study explores the perception of Portuguese older adults regarding the benefits of SP and their willingness to participate in SP initiatives. Methods: Three face-to-face focu...
Social prescription for the elderly: a community-based scoping review
Sadio, Rute; Henriques, Adriana; Nogueira, Paulo; Costa, AndreiaBackground: The increase in population ageing imposes the need to implement specific actions that guarantee elderly people the possibility of experiencing this phase with quality. The pandemic significantly exacerbated the needs of the elderly, leading to, regarding the loss of functional capacity, quality of life, well-being, mental health, and increased loneliness. Social prescription emerges as an innovative...
Impact of social prescribing intervention on people with type 2 diabetes mellit...
Oliveira, Dulce; Nogueira, Paulo; Costa, Andreia; Henriques , AdrianaAim To identify social prescribing intervention for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the context of primary healthcare and evaluate their impact on improving health, behavior, and economic outcomes. Subject and Methods Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, a literature search was conducted in SCOPUS database (MEDLINE) and via EBSCO Hos...
The Effectiveness of eHealth Interventions in Promoting the Health Literacy of ...
Valentim, Patrícia; Costa, Paulo; Henriques, Adriana; Costa, Andreia; Nogueira, PauloDigital Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) offer significant opportunities to enhance public health, particularly through their strategic use in promoting health literacy. Objectives: This systematic review protocol aims to outline the methodological steps necessary to conduct a systematic review of the effectiveness of digital interventions in improving health literacy among informal caregivers....