With a view to improving the provision of care in the field of Psychology in the context of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR), the GIPPMA - Working Group and Intervision in Psychology at MAR was created in 2019. This informal group includes Psychologists who carry out their work activities in hospitals of the Portuguese National Health Service (North Zone), a faculty professor/researcher, and master student...
Many people undergo fertility treatment to have biological children, but around four in ten patients complete all treatment cycles without having the children they desire. This triggers intense grief from which patients report taking on average 2 years to recover. Fertility guidelines and regulators stress the need to support patients through this process, but there is a scarcity of evaluated interventions to t...
Com este trabalho, pretende-se dar a conhecer as instruções de administração e o estudo de validação da versão portuguesa da Escala de Preocupações Reprodutivas Após o Cancro (RCACS). Os resultados sugerem que a versão portuguesa da RCACS apresenta adequadas propriedades psicométricas, demonstrando ser uma medida confiável e válida para a avaliação de preocupações relacionadas com a fertilidade e a maternidade ...
Breast cancer diagnosis can threaten fertility and biological motherhood in women of reproductive age due to the gonadotoxic efects of treatments. Much evidence documents these women fertility-related concerns and distress, but no study has attempted to understand how implicit cognitive processes can contribute to this maladjustment. In this research, we explored whether reproduction-related stimuli interfere w...
The current study examined whether an attentional bias exists for reproduction-related visual cues among breast cancer survivors and its relationship with fertility concerns and emotional distress. Breast cancer survivors (n ¼ 38) aged 18–40 were compared to 37 healthy women recruited from the general population. Attentional bias was investigated using a visual dot-probe task and response times (RT) were measur...
With a view to improving provision of care in the field of Psychology in the context of Medically Assisted Procreation (PMA), the GIPPMA - Working Group and Intervision in Psychology at PMA was created in 2019. This informal group includes Psychologists who carry out their work activities in a hospital of the SNS (North Zone) and a professor/researcher. The GIPPMA emerged on the personal initiative of these pro...
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the 18-item Reproductive Concerns After Cancer Scale (RCACS) among young adult female cancer survivors. Methods: The psychometric validation was conducted based on a convenience sample of 192 cancer survivors aged between 18 and 40 years. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to test the factor st...