Roads are an important source of human economic progress, but also a threat to wildlife populations and natural habitats. Roads are responsible for the direct mortality of hundreds of millions of animals worldwide, with special negative effects for amphibians. Since the middle of the twentieth century, various types of mitigation measures have been constructed to reduce the negative effects of roads. However, d...
The need for reversing the negative impacts of Linear Infrastructure Networks on the environment is increasingly acknowledged as a key to achieving national and international biodiversity commitments. LIFE-LINES project (LIFE14 NAT/PT/001081) employed and essayed a large and diverse number of interventions to reconcile biodiversity conservation and the presence of roads and powerlines. This was achieved through...
Background: Personal emotions and affects have been identified and studied in the context of pandemics, as well as coping strategies centered on emotional regulation or the balance between positive and negative emotions. Objectives: The objectives of this paper are to identify an emotion and affect structure in our sample and analyze the relationship of these dimensions with resilient coping in the context of t...
Introduction Translating knowledge into clinical health contexts faces complex challenges, and research results take time to influence health policies and interventions. The World Health Organization, aware of the need to develop clinical evidence ecosystems, has made a series of recommendations; Goals: This article aims to answer the question: 'What are the contributions of qualitative research to the developm...
Patient-centered care is essential in high-quality health care, as it leads to beneficial outcomes for patients. The objective of this review is to systematize indicators for the care of patients with cardiometabolic diseases based on patient-centered care, extending from the stages of diagnostic evaluation and care planning to intervention. An integrative literature review was conducted by searching seven scie...
(1) Background: Due to the increase in care needs, especially in the elderly, the concept of caregiver has emerged. This concept has undergone changes over the years due to new approaches and new research in the area. It is in this context that the concept of informal caregiver emerged. (2) Objectives: To analyse the evolution of the caregiver concept. (3) Methods: Bibliometric analysis, data collection (Web of...
(1) Background: considering the growing increase in informal caregivers or family caregivers, it is critical to identify the unmet care needs of informal caregivers to improve their experiences, health, and well-being, contributing to the achievement of care needs of the elderly or people with adult dependency and promotion of successful transitions from health services to the community/home. (2) Objective: to ...
Objective: to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Social Support Satisfaction Scale in people with schizophrenia. Methods: psychometric study, with a convenience sample, consisting of 282 people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The psychometric properties: validity (construct, criterion) and reliability (Cronbach's α) of the Social Support Satisfaction Scale in people with schizophrenia were evaluated. WHO...
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...