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How we survived: Older adults’ adjustment to the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 ...
Jarego, M.; Tasker, F.; Costa, P. A.; Pais-Ribeiro, J.; Ferreira-Valente, A.Older adults were found to be the most susceptible group to suffer the physical health consequences of a COVID-19 infection and were considered vulnerable to the negative effects of the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet unlike many young adults did not generally experience an increased rate of mental health problems. Our study explored the strategies older adults in Portugal deployed during the mandat...
Socioeconomic status, social support, coping, and fear predict mental health st...
Jarego, M.; Ferreira-Valente, A.; Sánchez-Rodríguez, E.; Miró, J.; Costa, P.; Pais-Ribeiro, J.Research has shown that both the COVID-19 pandemic and the governmental measures implemented to tackle it severely impacted people’s mental health worldwide. This study aimed at monitoring adults’ mental health status during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and assessing demographic, socioeconomic, and psychosocial variables as mental health status development's potential predictors. A total of 105 adult...
'But we survived': older adults' strategies to cope with the lockdowns due to t...
Jarego, M.; Tasker, F.; Costa, P. A.; Pais-Ribeiro, J.; Ferreira-Valente, A.Background: Older adults are one of the most vulnerable groups to severe illness associated with the SARS-COV-2 virus. Therefore, it would be expected that the elderly would suffer great impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their mental health. However, it seems not to be the case, possibly due to contextual aspects and the strategies used by them to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study aimed at exploring t...
Pain-related beliefs, coping and function: An observational study on the modera...
Ferreira-Valente, A.; Sharma, S; Chan, J.; Bernardes, S. F.; Pais-Ribeiro, J.; Jensen, M. P.Chronic pain is a multidimensional experience and pain treatments targeting psychosocial factors reduce pain and improve function. These treatments often overlook the sociocultural factors that influence pain and the psychological factors associated with function in people with chronic pain. Although preliminary findings suggest that cultural background may influence pain and function via their effects on belie...
The hospital anxiety and depression scale, in patients with multiple sclerosis
Pais-Ribeiro, J.; Martins-Silva, A.; Vilhena, E.; Moreira, Inês; Santos, Ernestina; Mendonça, DenisaPurpose: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a long-lasting disabling disease with psychological implications. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a questionnaire developed to screen anxiety and depression among patients in hospital settings. The objective of this report was to study the metric properties of the Portuguese version of HADS regarding MS. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study....
Consentimento informado na investigação psicológica com imputáveis e inimputáve...
Marques, Emília Tavares; Pais-Ribeiro, J.Submitted by Letícia Silva (silvalcs@stj.jus.br) on 2016-03-02T19:43:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 consentimento_informado_investigacao_ribeiro.pdf: 225581 bytes, checksum: 809c4d480a69718bd26a64b836947d63 (MD5); Approved for entry into archive by Roberta Marins (rmarins@stj.jus.br) on 2016-06-15T18:20:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 consentimento_informado_investigacao_ribeiro.pdf: 225581 bytes, checksum: 809c4d480a...
Optimism on quality of life in Portuguese chronic patients: moderator/mediator?
Vilhena, E.; Pais-Ribeiro, J.; Silva, I.; Pedro, L.; Meneses, R.; Cardoso, H.; Martins-Silva, A.; Mendonça, D.OBJECTIVE: optimism is an important variable that has consistently been shown to affect adjustment to quality of life in chronic diseases. This study aims to clarify if dispositional optimism exerts a moderating or a mediating influence on the personality traits-quality of life association, in Portuguese chronic patients. METHODS: multiple regression models were used to test the moderation and mediation effects...
Psychosocial factors as predictors of quality of life in chronic Portuguese pat...
Vilhena, E.; Pais-Ribeiro, J.; Silva, I.; Pedro, E.; Meneses, R.; Cardoso, H.; Martins-Silva, A.; Mendonça, D.BACKGROUND: Chronic illnesses are diseases of long duration and generally of slow progression. They cause significant quality of life impairment. The aim of this study was to analyse psychosocial predictors of quality of life and of subjective well-being in chronic Portuguese patients. METHODS: Chronic disease patients (n = 774) were recruited from central Portuguese Hospitals. Participants completed self-repor...
Predictors of quality of life in Portuguese obese patients: a structural equati...
Vilhena, E.; Pais-Ribeiro, J.; Silva, I.; Cardoso, H.; Mendonça, D.Living with obesity is an experience that may affect multiple aspects of an individual's life. Obesity is considered a relevant public health problem in modern societies. To determine the comparative efficacy of different treatments and to assess their impact on patients' everyday life, it is important to identify factors that are relevant to the quality of life of obese patients. The present study aims to eval...
Comorbilidades microvasculares da Diabetes Mellitus: Implicações na percepção d...
Sepúlveda, E.; Poínhos, Rui; Constante, M.; Pais-Ribeiro, J.; Freitas, P.; Pignatelli, D.; Carvalho, D.[abstract]