Background/Objectives: Young female cancer survivors often face specific informational needs related to the physical and emotional effects of cancer and its impact on life plans, particularly fertility and parenthood. However, few tools are tailored to assess these needs during this critical life stage. This study aimed to (i) validate a multidimensional measure—the Satisfaction with Information Provided to You...
Introduction: Cancer treatments can affect male fertility. However, the reproductive concerns of this population remain little explored. There is a need to invest in understanding how concerns related to fertility and parenting affect psychosocial adjustment, in order to improve counseling in this context. To this end, it is a priority to provide reliable and valid measures for assessing this construct. Objecti...
BACKGROUND-AIM: Several non-pharmacological interventions have been explored for non-central nervous system (CNS) cancer survivors reporting cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI). Cognitive rehabilitation (CR) is considered the first-line intervention for CRCI. This study aimed to explore access to and acceptability of CRCI interventions and explore expectations regarding CR. METHODS: The sample included 1...
Introduction: Cognitive rehabilitation interventions (CRIs) for cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) have shown promis ing results. However, the acceptability of CRIs in the context of CRCItreatment has not yet been assessed among cancer survivors. Due to the absence of suitable instruments designed to assess the acceptability of CRIs in this population, we developed the Accept ability regarding Cognitive...
Introduction/ Objective: Breast cancer survivors (BCS) frequently experience cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI), which has a negative impact on their quality of life. Studies indicate that cognitive rehabilitation is effective at improving CRCI. However, the literature is scarce on the perspectives of this population towards these interventions. Thus, this study aimed to explore acceptability and prefer...
A investigação tem demonstrado um crescente investimento no desenvolvimento de programas de intervenção dirigidos às dificuldades cognitivas relacionadas com o cancro. No entanto, os fatores que influenciam a adesão estão ainda pouco explorados. Este estudo objetivou analisar as barreiras e facilitadores à participação em programas de reabilitação cognitiva (PRC) em sobreviventes de cancro. Foi administrado um ...
O impacto de uma doença oncológica na fertilidade masculina está bem estabelecido. No entanto, as preocupações reprodutivas desta população permanecem subexploradas, verificando-se a necessidade de investir na disponibilização de medidas de avaliação psicológica confiáveis e válidas. O presente estudo objetivou traduzir, adaptar e explorar preliminarmente as propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Preocupações ...
A doença oncológica apresenta uma crescente incidência a nível mundial registando cerca de 630 novos casos por 100,000 indivíduos a partir dos 45 anos. O impacto emocional negativo desta condição está bem-estabelecido sendo importante reconhecer fatores que afetam a qualidade de vida, considerando diferentes fases do ciclo de vida. O presente estudo objetivou explorar potenciais preditores do funcionamento emoc...
Firefighters have high exposure to traumatic events and have an increased risk of developing symptoms related to trauma. The current study assessed the psychological morbidity, empathy and alexithymia of volunteer firefighters compared to career firefighters and to non-firefighter comparators from the general population. Group differences were assessed using multivariate comparisons and univariate tests and dis...
High variation in the low-level proprieties of visual stimuli and varying degrees of familiarity with famous faces may have caused a bias in the results of investigations that tried to disentangle the processes involved in familiar and unfamiliar face processing (e.g., temporal differences in the detection of the first event-related potentials specialized in face processing may have been caused by different method...