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Socioeconomic status, social support, coping, and fear predict mental health st...
Jarego, Margarida; Ferreira-Valente, Maria Alexandra; Sánchez-Rodríguez, Elisabet; Miró, Jordi; Costa, Patrício; Pais-Ribeiro, JoséResearch 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...
How we survived: older adults’ adjustment to the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 ...
Jarego, Margarida; Tasker, Fiona; Costa, Pedro Alexandre; Pais-Ribeiro, José; Ferreira-Valente, AlexandraOlder 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...
How we survived: older adults’ adjustment to the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 ...
Jarego, Margarida; Tasker, Fiona; Costa, Pedro Alexandre; Pais-Ribeiro, José; Ferreira-Valente, AlexandraOlder 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...
Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of a European Portuguese ver...
Jarego, Margarida; Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra; Costa, Rui Miguel; Tavares, Mafalda; Pais-Ribeiro, JoséThe novelty and uncertainty of the pandemic nourished a gener-alized fear of the COVID-19, which seems to have exacerbated the pan-demic’s negative impact. It is thus relevant to monitor fear of COVID-19 and its association with individuals’ mental health, well-being, and behav-iors. Valid and reliable measures of fear of COVID-19 are necessary for that purpose. This study aimed at assessing the psychometric pr...
Pain-related beliefs, coping, and function: an observational study on the moder...
Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra; Sharma, Saurab; Chan, Joy; Bernardes, Sónia; Pais-Ribeiro, José; Jensen, Mark 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...
Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of a European Portuguese ver...
Jarego, Margarida; Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra; Costa, Rui Miguel; Tavares, Mafalda; Pais-Ribeiro, JoséThe prevalence of burnout among university students is increasing with consequences for their academic performance. Attachment theory, as a theory of affect regulation and interpersonal relationships, may be an important framework that helps to explain why some students experience academic burnout while others do not. This study aims to examine the links between attachment orientations and levels of academic bu...
Are prayer-based Interventions effective pain management options? A systematic ...
Jarego, Margarida; Ferreira-Valente, Maria Alexandra; Queiroz-Garcia, Inês; Day, Melissa A.; Pais-Ribeiro, José; Costa, Rui M.; Pimenta, FilipaThis review examined the efects of private and communal participatory prayer on pain. Nine databases were searched. Six randomized controlled trials were included. For private prayer, medium to large efects emerged for 67% to 69% of betweengroup comparisons; participants in the prayer condition reported lower pain intensity (0.59<d<26.17; 4 studies) and higher pain tolerance (0.70<d<1.05; 1 study). Preto post-i...
Immediate effects of hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, and prayer on cold press...
Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra; Dyke, Benjamin P. van; Day, Melissa A.; Carmo, Catarina Teotónio do; Pais-Ribeiro, José; Pimenta, Filipa; Costa, Rui M.Purpose: Previous research supports the usefulness of hypnosis (HYP), mindfulness meditation (MM), and prayer as pain self-management strategies in adults with chronic pain. However, their effects on acute pain have been less researched, and no previous head-to-head study compared the immediate effects of these three approaches on pain-related outcomes. This study compared the immediate effects of HYP, MM, and ...
COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal: Psychosocial and Health-Related Factors Associat...
Pais-Ribeiro, José; Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra; Jarego, Margarida; Sánchez-Rodríguez, Elisabet; Miró, Jordi: The COVID-19 pandemic is a stressful long-lasting event with an increasingly negative impact upon individuals. This study aimed at assessing the magnitude of depression, anxiety, and stress among adults living in Portugal during the first mandatory lockdown of 2020, and the psychosocial and health-related factors associated with these symptoms. A sample of 484 adults (73% women) with an average age of 40 year...
Escala de Satisfação com o Suporte Social em pessoas com Esquizofrenia: análise...
Pinho, Lara; Sousa, Luis; Lopes, Manuel; Valentim, Olga; Pais-Ribeiro, JoséObjective: to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Social Support Satisfaction Scale in people with schizophrenia. Methods: psychometric study, with a convenience sample, consisting of 282 people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The psychometric properties: validity (construct, criterion) and reliability (Cronbach's α) of the Social Support Satisfaction Scale in people with schizophrenia were evaluated. WHO...