The Positive Youth Development-PYD concept highlighted the importance of strengthening internal and external developmental assets in the youths contexts. This paper examines the psychometric properties of PYD-Short Form (PYD-SF) and its validation for Portuguese youths. The sample included 2700 college students (73.3% girls), with a mean age of 21.3±2.79 years old. Exploratory-EFA and Confirmatory Factorial An...
Introdução: A prevalência de obesidade em adultos e em crianças tem vindo a aumentar, apresentando a idade pré-escolar especial relevância na adoção de hábitos alimentares. Objetivos: Avaliar o valor energético das refeições realizadas no jardim de infância e relacioná-las com o sexo e o meio de residência da criança. Metodologia: Recolha de dados antropométricos e avaliação da ingestão dietética das crianças a...
Background: Acute kidney injury secondary to cast nephropathy is a common complication of multiple myeloma. Extracorporeal light chain elimination by high cut-off haemodialysis has been described as an adjuvant to effective chemotherapy to limit free light chain toxicity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of high cut-off haemodialysis and bortezomib-based chemotherapy on renal function recove...
O presente estudo tem como objetivo compreender de que forma os comportamentos de saúde e de risco dos adolescentes variam nas diferentes regiões geográficas de Portugal (Norte, Centro, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Alentejo e Algarve). Paralelamente, pretende-se analisar alguns fatores macroeconómicos das diferentes regiões de Portugal e sua relação com os comportamentos de saúde e de risco nos adolescentes. O estudo...
Abstract Adolescence’s changes may become more pronounced when living with a chronic condition (CC). This study aims to examined the differences in satisfaction with family life, perception of school competence and “pressure with homework” of Portuguese adolescents’ 1) living with CC; 2) how living with CC affects school participation; taking into account age, gender and family socioeconomic status (SES). Five ...
O objetivo deste trabalho é descrever a metodologia do Registo Nacional de Controlo do Peso e descrever os participantes quanto à sua história individual e familiar relacionada com o peso, tentativas anteriores de redução deste e caraterização psicossocial. A amostra inclui 198 adultos (idade: 39,7 ± 11,1anos; IMC: 26,0 ± 3,9kg/m2), 59% mulheres, que completaram um questionário abordando questões demográficas, ...
Leukopenia in kidney transplant patients is frequent, it causes potentially life-threatening complications, but it is often poorly characterized. Opportunistic infections, immunologic disturbances and drug-related toxicity are principal causes of single or multilineage cytopenias. Tacrolimus-induced leukopenia is a less recognized but frequent complication. We describe one patient with leukopenia developing wit...
The electroreduction behaviour of cysteine was investigated using cyclic, square wave and differencial pulse voltammetric techniques at a platinum working electrode. The reduction of cysteine occurs at a potential of -0.36 V independent of pH. It is a reversible process, controlled mainly by diffusion and in the mechanism of reduction 1 electron per molecule is involved. Using the voltammetric techniques: Cycli...