Introduction: A cancer diagnosis is a life-changing event that often causes distress, adversely affecting quality of life and survival. Interest in interventions aimed at supporting emotional, social, and behavioural adaptation has grown, establishing them as a key quality indicator in oncology care. Objective: To map nursing interventions that promote coping in cancer patients. Methodology: A scoping review wa...
Com uma população cada vez mais en-velhecida, confrontada com mudanças Lsi-cas, psicológicas e sociais importantes, com o declínio das capacidades funcionais e o aumento da dependência, a principal res-posta à pessoa idosa, em Portugal, passa, ainda, pela ins.tucionalização em Lares de Idosos tradicionais. Estes são, hoje, resi-dências de caráter sobretudo assistencial, que dão assistência a pessoas com muitos ...
O comportamento de compulsão alimentar, é caraterizado pelo consumo excessivo de alimentos, acompanhado por uma perda de controle sobre a ingestão. Estudos revelam que os alimentos consumidos em um padrão de compulsão alimentar eram maioritariamente alimentos ultraprocessados. Objetivos: Avaliar a relação entre o consumo de alimentos ultraprocessados e comportamentos de compulsão alimentar nos estudantes do Ins...
In this paper we study some methods to reduce the bias for maximum likelihood estimation in the general class of alpha power models, specifically for the shape parameter. We find the modified maximum likelihood estimator using Firth's method and we show that this estimator is the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE) in this class. We consider three special cases of this class, namely the expone...
The focus of this work lies on the production of a multifunctional materials that allows the combination of photocatalysis and adsorption in a unique polymeric substrate. For this purpose, Au/TiO2 and Y2(CO3)3 nanoparticles were immobilised on a poly (vinylidene fluoride hexafluoropropylene), (PVDF-HFP), substrate, and the characterisation of these materials was performed, as well as the pollutant removal effic...
Objective: to analyze the psychometric properties of the short form of the Portuguese version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule in people with schizophrenia. Methods: a Psychometric study was carried out, in a convenience sample, composed of 282 people with the diagnosis of schizophrenia. The psychometric properties were evaluated: validity (construct, criterion) and reliability (Cronbach's α) of the...
Intervenção Interdependente: Eletroconvulsivoterapia
The study broach about Service Level Agreement (ANS) in the Port Maintenance area of the Ilha Guaíba Terminal (Tig-Vale). The Purpose is to analyze the impact on ANS on asset delivery, aiming the improvement in performance and maintenance/operation interface in TIG. It presents an exploratory and qualitative case of study with documentary research. The results show that before the ANS, there were no condition o...
Pneumotórax é uma patologia comum observada em contexto pré-hospitalar nomeadamente secundário a lesão traumática. Pode cursar com dificuldade e insuficiência respiratória e de uma forma mais grave, apresentar-se ou evoluir para hipertensivo com instabilidade hemodinâmica associada, sendo extremamente importante a sua identificação através de uma avaliação clínica pormenorizada. Atualmente, a avaliação ecográfi...
Increasingly, lifelong learning is of growing importance and it refers to the constant experiences and needs of individuals adapting to the development of their personal and social skills in relation to the contexts and circumstances in which they are inserted. For this, one of the primary requirements to be able to enjoy a high Quality of Life. For the family, the diagnosis of disability in children is a parti...