O desporto paralímpico possui realidades bem distintas e no Brasil, o esporte adaptado só despontou em nível de excelência, a partir das Paralimpíadas de Atenas (2004), onde através da mídia, permitiu mostrar que pessoas com deficiência tinham capacidade de vencer as barreiras da prática esportiva. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar os principais fatores subjacentes à excelência da natação paralímpica, par...
Background: The pandemic following the rapid spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 virus has hit all continents and caused thousands of deaths worldwide. Evidence has been published on epidemiological and clinical characteristics of population groups considered at risk; however, information for the other population groups, especially for the child population, is needed. In this context, this protocol describes a systema...
Background: The objective of this study is to accomplish a systematic review of the literature describing the associationbetween pubertal maturation and health risk behaviors among adolescents. Methods: It was used the database from MEDLINE/Pubmed, Scopus, Lilacs and Web of Science. The terms used in the research, with its variations, were “puberty”, “maturation”, “maturity”, “risk behaviors”, “risk factors”,“a...
The second version of the Schedule of Growing Skills (SGS-II) was standardized using a sample of 348 UK children, ages 0 to 5 years. It examined ten psychomotor development areas in 14 age ranges. The Portuguese version of SGS-II was published in 2003, re-edited in 2011, and re-published in 2012, but its psychometric properties remained untested. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties...
Introdução: A prematuridade afecta negativamente o desenvolvimento psicomotor (DPM). É consensual que o risco que determina é independente e evidente mesmo em crianças com idade gestacional muito próxima da gestação de termo. Foi propósito deste estudo avaliar o DPM de crianças em idade pré-escolar, nascidas pré termo e não referenciadas como portadoras de qualquer disfunção neurológica, designadamente cognitiv...
Este estudo teve como objetivos verificar a validade fatorial e a validade interna da versão brasileira do Exercise Motivation Inventory-2 (EMI-2) e comparar os principais motivos para prática de exercício tendo em conta os contextos de academia e personal training. Um total de 588 praticantes de exercício da cidade de Pelotas/RS/Brasil (405 de academia e 183 de personal training) preencheram o EMI-2, o qual é ...
The aim of this research was to study the relationship coach-athlete in a junior national team of football during one season by means of two scales applied the players in four moments. Subjects were 14 male athletes of 15-16 years old who participated in all the 4 moments of evaluation. It was used the Portuguese versions of the Inventory of Interaction Coach Athlete (Medford) and the Leadership Scale for Sport...