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Differential response to cognitive stimulation in moderate versus moderately se...
Justo-Henriques, S. I.; Silva, R. C. G.; Carvalho, J. O.; Pérez-Sáez, E.; São João, Ricardo; Ribeiro, O.Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by impairments across several neurocognitive domains, particularly memory and executive function. The study explored the effectiveness of an individual cognitive stimulation (iCS) program on cognitive outcomes in older adults with moderate to moderately severe AD. A multicentre randomized controlled trial was conducted with 80 Portuguese older adults (M-age: 83.0 +/- 7....
Effects of methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) in avoidance behaviour and reprodu...
Ribeiro, O.; Ferreira, J.; Sousa, J. R.; Natal-da-Luz, T.; Ribeiro, C.; Carrola, J. S.Background: The excessive use of psychoactive substances (PAS) is a global problem that directly and indirectly affects human, animal health and environment [1], related with “one health” concept. These substances and their metabolites enter in the wastewater through human excretion and consequently into water systems. The sewage sludge produced in wastewater treatment plants can be used as amendment in agricul...
Butylone effects on the behaviour of zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae
Ribeiro, O.; Félix, L.; Ribeiro, C.; Carrola, J. S.Background: New psychoactive substances (NPS) represent an increasing human health and environmental concern. Despite the efforts to control their production and consumption, new molecules are identified every year. Consequently, their presence in water bodies has been reported raising concern due to potential negative impacts on non-target species such as fish [1], including the synthetic cathinone butylone (B...
Children's play profiles: contributions from child's temperament and father's p...
Santos, C.; Monteiro, L.; Ribeiro, O.; Vaughn, B. E.Using a sample of Portuguese pre-school age children, we aimed to identify different play profiles based on teachers' descriptions of social and non-social behaviors; as well as characterize them in terms of children's characteristics (sex and temperament), and fathers' parenting styles (e.g. warmth and involvement or punitive strategies). The 243 children were distributed across four profiles (identified throu...
Sudden death, motor vehicle accident, cerebellar tumour
Simoes da Silva, Beatriz; Marques, C.; Coelho, S.; Ribeiro, O.; Vieira, Duarte NunoINTRODUCTION Portuguese forensic law determines that all the mortal victims of traffic accidents must be subjected to a forensic autopsy. In this particular case, a traffic accident with minor injury lead to unbalance a previous tumoral pathology with an unusual location (...)
Contributo dos Enfermeiros na Formação Pré‐Graduada
Ribeiro, O.; Cunha, MadalenaO presente estudo propõe-se analisar o “Contributo do enfermeiro na formação pré-graduada”, uma vez que aprender em contexto de Ensino Clínico é cada vez mais uma necessidade imperiosa do estudante de Enfermagem. O estudo de natureza transversal e cariz descritivo correlacional foi desenvolvido numa amostra não probabilística, constituída por 305 enfermeiros, 72.1% do género feminino e 27.9% do género masculin...
Health status, living arrangements, and service use at 100: findings from the O...
Ribeiro, O.; Araujo, L.; Teixeira, L.; Duarte, N.; Brandao, D.; Martin, I.; Paul, CThis paper describes the sociodemographic characteristics, health status, and service use of centenarians living in the community and centenarians residing in an elder care facility/ nursing home and examines their main differences. Participants were 140 centenarians from the populationbased Oporto Centenarian Study (Mage = 101.2; SD = 1.6). Main findings revealed that the majority of the centenarians lived at ...
Domains of father involvement, social competence and problem behavior in presch...
Torres, N.; Veríssimo, M.; Monteiro, L.; Ribeiro, O.; Santos, A. J.Many studies reported that father involvement is associated with a wide range of developmental outcomes, however evidence is weaker when controlling for correlated mother involvement and when using different informants to assess father involvement and children development. Our study aimed to research the association between father involvement and preschoolers’ social competence, controlling for mother involveme...
The impact of healthcare-associated infection on mortality: failure in clinical...
Cardoso, T.; Ribeiro, O.; Aragão, I.; Costa-Pereira, A.; Sarmento, A.Purpose To understand if clinicians can tell apart patients with healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) from those with community-acquired infections (CAI) and to determine the impact of HCAI in the adequacy of initial antibiotic therapy and hospital mortality. Methods One-year prospective cohort study including all consecutive infected patients admitted to a large university tertiary care hospital. Results A ...
Differences in microbiological profile between community-acquired, healthcare-a...
Cardoso, T.; Ribeiro, O.; Aragâo, I; Costa-Pereira, A.; Sarmento, A.INTRODUCTION: Microbiological profiles were analysed and compared for intra-abdominal, urinary, respiratory and bloodstream infections according to place of acquisition: community-acquired, with a separate analysis of healthcare-associated, and hospital-acquired. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Prospective cohort study performed at a university tertiary care hospital over 1 year. Inclusion criteria were meeting the Cente...