Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women worldwide and carries a considerable psychosocial burden. Interventions based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and compassion-based approaches show promise in improving adjustment and quality of life in people with cancer. The Mind programme is an integrative ACT and compassion-based intervention tailored for women with breast cancer, which aims to p...
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women worldwide and carries a considerable psychosocial burden. Interventions based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and compassionbased approaches show promise in improving adjustment and quality of life in people with cancer. The Mind programme is an integrative ACT and compassionbased intervention tailored for women with breast cancer, which aims to pre...
Background This work aims to study the spatio-temporal evolution of a woman’s age at menarche in the central region of Portugal. One of the concerns of the study is early or late menarches; thus, we consider percentile regression to build the respective curves as opposed to the more traditional mean regression approach. Methods We analysed the data from N = 452 348 women born in the period 1920–1973 who attende...
Young people and their families around the world are especially vulnerable to macroeconomic hard times. This study sought to provide a more comprehensive view on how families with emerging adult children can successfully overcome economic distress. Specifically, we examined the links between economic strain-that is, the subjective perceptions of one's current and future financial situation-family ritual meaning...
Playgroups are community-based services that bring together young children and their caregivers for the purpose of play and social activities. Preliminary evidence shows that playgroup impacts may be dependent on the quality of the playgroup. However, to date, there is no reliable and valid measure of playgroup quality. In this paper we describe the development and validation of the Playgroup Environment Rating...
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Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death and the leading cause of a single infectious agent (above HIV/AIDS). In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated 10.0 million people developed TB and 1.3 million deaths (range, 1.2–1.4 million) among HIV-negative people with an additional 300 000 deaths from TB (range, 266 000–335 000) among HIVpositive people. Studies that understand the socio-d...
A Declaração de Paris, de 17 de março de 2015, da União Europeia, intitulada Promoção da cidadania e dos valores comuns da liberdade, tolerância e não discriminação através da educação poderá ser entendida como um marco recente e, talvez, um ponto de viragem na abordagem política da educação para a cidadania. Este estudo pretendeu conhecer e analisar a evolução da política da educação para a cidadania a nível s...
O hesitante desenvolvimento da educação para a cidadania e a controvérsia acerca das conceções de cidadania a serem incluídas na educação poderão ter contribuído para a sua atual débil consolidação, a nível europeu. Esta é, também, a realidade da educação para a cidadania, em Itália, que se carateriza por um conjunto de atividades fragmentadas a necessitar de sistematização. Diferentes conceções de cidadania sã...