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Clinical relevance of an online self‐management intervention in Haemodialysis: ...

Background The ‘Connected We St@nd’ programme is an Internet-mediated self-management intervention that combines health education with psychosocial support, with evidenced feasibility and acceptability in haemodialysis. Objectives To evaluate the clinical relevance of the programme and to better understand which intervention outcomes/health-related self-report measures are most sensitive to reflect changes betw...

The connected we st@nd programme: A feasibility pilot study of an online self-m...

Objective: The 'Connected We St@nd' is an online self-management intervention programme for people receiving in-centre haemodialysis and family caregivers that combines an educational and psychosocial support component. This study aimed to evaluate its feasibility and acceptability before proceeding to a large-scale trial. Design: This was a pre-post single-arm feasibility pilot study conducted with adults unde...

Adaptation and validation of the Person‐centered Care Assessment Tool (P‐CAT) t...

Background: The relevance of person-centred care as an optimising approach to the quality of care provided to older adults has sparked the development of important instruments that measure this approach at residential care facilities and requires vali-dation for the Portuguese population.Objectives: This study aims to adapt and validate the Person-centered Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT) to the Portuguese populati...

Person-Centered Care for Older Adults at Residential Care Facilities in the Ibe...

The aging of a population leads to a higher need for gerontological care. Person-centered care for older adults (PCCOA) offers a higher standard of quality at residential care facilities (RCFs). This systematic review is aimed at synthesizing Portuguese and Spanish studies on PCCOA, describing the process of implementation of PCCOA; exploring the impact of interventions based on PCCOA and determining the measur...

Caring and Working during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of Portuguese Resi...

Residential care facilities (RCF) for older people are facing high demands due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to explore the workers’ perspectives on the changes in work and care dynamics amidst the first wave of the pandemic at Portuguese RCF. This is a descriptive, quantitative, and cross-sectional study. An online questionnaire about pandemic-induced changes in work and care dynamics was...

Staff Assessment Person-Directed Care Questionnaire: Adaptation and Validation ...

Person-centered care aims to increase and guarantee the quality of care at residential care facilities for older adults. The implementation and development of this approach requires validated assessment tools, which are still lacking in Portugal. This study aims to adapt and validate for the Portuguese population the internationally and widely used essential instrument that is the Staff Assessment Person-Direct...

From the drama of unoccupied time and isolation due to Covid-19’s pandemic to t...

During the pandemic, restrictive measures were implemented at Portuguese residential care facilities (PRCF), such as isolating residents and ceasing collective activities. It is important to understand how PRCF are implementing activities that allow residents to occupy their time and fight isolation. As such, we aim to analyze whether: 1. new activities were implemented for residents (identifying which were car...

Age-Friendly Cities Performance Index: proposal of model

The aim of this research was to build an index model capable of assessing and monitoring the performance of cities as age-friendly ones. The hierarchy of the variables was determined using the "Hierarchical Process Analysis" technique based on the weight assigned by the social actors in a selected municipality in northern Portugal (Trofa). The "Principal Component Analysis" resulted in the Age-Friendly Cities P...

Factors Associated With Positive Self-Rated Health: Comparing Older Adults in B...

A scoping review protocol to map the evidence on self-reported health and neuro...