Adolescents and young adult cancer survivors often experience high levels of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), which significantly impacts their emotional well-being and quality of life. The lack of studies on this target population in Portugal leads to a gap of knowledge that informs the development of interventions and solutions aimed at AYA cancer survivors. This study aimed to analyze the moderating effect o...
Adolescentes e jovens adultos (AYAs) com cancro têm frequentemente reportado elevado medo de recorrência. A investigação tem-se debruçado nesta temática, contudo as medidas utilizadas não se encontram validadas para AYAs. Este estudo pretendeu assim validar a escala FCR7 para avaliação do medo de recorrência do cancro na população portuguesa de AYAs. A recolha ocorreu em formato online, sendo recrutados 92 AYAs...
A investigação tem sugerido que adolescentes e jovens adultos (AYAs) diagnosticados com cancro apresentam desafios únicos no curso da doença. A recorrência do cancro emerge como uma das suas principais preocupações e acompanha estes jovens ao longo do seu desenvolvimento. Este estudo objetivou explorar a relação entre variáveis sociodemográficas, clínicas, medo de progressão e o distress psicológico em AYAs com...
Research usually investigates adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer in combination with younger and older cancer patients and survivors. However, AYAs with cancer are a unique group, and their caregivers' experience may also differ from other caregivers of cancer survivors. This systematic review aims to understand the impact of a cancer diagnosis on family caregivers, comparing the experience of careg...
Career counseling evolved to practices that attribute a central importance to context variables and meaning-making processes. Accordingly, there is a call for the assessment of client’s subjectivity and cultural specificity, considering the interface between work and life concerns. The idiographic assessment of outcomes, using individualized measures that involve clients in the definition of person-specific ite...
Patient involvement in healthcare, in general, and in substance misuse in particular, has become a topic of paramount importance (Rutter et al., 2004). Patient involvement can be conceptualised as listening to the patients’ perspective and encouraging patients to take an active role in the care they are receiving. This approach is advocated by international authorities in health and social care such as the Unit...
Individualized measures are relevant for the assessment of therapeutic results and allow patients to identify the aspects that they value the most in assessing their clinical improvement. PSYCHLOPS, as an individualized measure, invite the patient to create their own items. The items created by the patients were compared with the contents of standardized measures. A sample composed by 107 patients admitted for ...
O presente artigo apresenta uma revisão da literatura e dos dados oficiais referentes ao bullying em contexto escolar em Portugal. Pretendeu-se analisar este fenómeno de acordo com o Modelo da Pirâmide de Lavergne e Tourigny (2000), destacando as diferenças conceptuais e metodológicas entre as diversas formas de recolha de dados sobre as situações de bullying. A revisão encontrou estatísticas oficiais desde 200...