Aim To evaluate the adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) and the level of nutritional literacy (NL) among university students from different academic fields of study, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A total of 1114 first-year undergraduate students at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, were included in this study. A self-administered online questionnaire was applied that included quest...
Abstract - Aim: To evaluate the adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) and the level of nutritional literacy (NL) among university students from different academic fields of study, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A total of 1114 first-year undergraduate students at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, were included in this study. A self-administered online questionnaire was applied that i...
Rescue workers have a stressful and risky occupation where being engaged is crucial to face physical and emotional risks in order to help other persons. This study aims to estimate work engagement levels of rescue workers (namely comparing nurses, firefighters, and police officers) and to assess the validity evidence related to the internal structure of the Portuguese versions of the UWES-17 and UWES-9, namely,...
Trabalho de Projeto do Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Biomédica apresentado à Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia; A doença de Parkinson é a segunda doença neurodegenerativa mais comum, afetando cerca de 1% da população mundial com idade superior a 65 anos. Caracteriza-se principalmente pela degenerescência dos neurónios dopaminérgicos na substância negra, envolvendo também diferentes regiões cerebrais. Avanço...
Em Portugal, escasseiam estudos sobre instrumentos que avaliem competências de tomada de decisão responsável. Neste sentido, o presente estudo pretendeu analisar propriedades psicométricas da medida de Negociação Interpessoal do Relationship Questionnaire, numa amostra de 197 alunos dos 2º e 3º ciclos do ensino básico português. Especificamente, avaliaram-se a sua validade factorial, fidedignidade e validade di...
This paper systematically reviews empirical research published from 2002 to July 2015 investigating journalists’ occupational stressors, coping strategies, and the impacts of these variables on the health and well-being of such professionals, whether on their daily work or as special envoys to critical scenarios. A meta-analytic approach was displayed to analyse the association between exposure to traumatic eve...
The development of measures of children and adolescents’ subjective well-being is crucial to the conceptualization and evaluation of positive mental health. The aim of this study was to investigate the factorial structure and invariance of the Mental Health ContinuumShort Form (MHC-SF—adolescents) across children and youths. Participants were from two different samples: 208 elementary school children (sample 1)...
Recently, mindfulness-based social-emotional learning (SEL) approaches have been taught to children in some schools. Due to deficient methodological consistency observed in most studies, their results should be interpreted with caution. Moreover, research on how mindfulness-based SEL approaches benefit teachers is scarce, and the majority of these studies have been conducted in English-speaking countries; there...
School engagement is a multidimensional construct characterized by vigour, dedication, and absorption towards academic work that is related to school achievement. This study aimed to examine the measurement invariance of a school engagement measure - the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Students (UWES-S) - across secondary school pupils and university students. Two samples of secondary school pupils (n = 251) and ...
The main goal of this study was to examine the relationship among burnout, engagement, well-being, and academic performance in Portuguese secondary school pupils. The existence of gender related differences in these relationships was also investigated. The sample was composed of 489 pupils who attended an academic track at secondary school. Results of multi-group structural equation modelling indicated that hig...