Introduction: Antibiotics are widely used in pediatric respiratory conditions, despite most having a viral origin. Parental self-medication of children is also common. This study aimed to analyze the knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes of parents of children under 12 years old regarding antibiotic therapy and the practice of self-medication.Methodology: This was a multicenter, observational, descriptive, and cros...
Thousands of children participate in child camps annually (Feenstra, 2015). Usually, child sports camps (CSC) provide different services (activities program (AP), food, and interaction with staff; Costa et al., 2004) that can influence consumer satisfaction (Tsuji et al., 2007) and their future BI (Sousa et al., 2023). Since CSC have two types of consumers (parents and participants; Lehto et al., 2020), camp ma...
PurposeThis study aims to assess service quality in sport child camps among both participants and parents and its effects on satisfaction and behavioural intentions.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from participants (n = 258) and parents (n = 226) of a sport child camp. A confirmatory factor analysis analysed the psychometric properties of the constructs, and a subsequent structural equation model...
Purpose – This study aims to assess service quality in sport child camps among both participants and parents and its effects on satisfaction and behavioural intentions. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from participants (n5258) and parents (n5226) of a sport child camp. A confirmatory factor analysis analysed the psychometric properties of the constructs, and a subsequent structural equation mo...
O impacto global da pandemia COVID-19 ilustra ainda mais a importância oportuna da investigação na segurança de eventos desportivos como os CFD para crianças. Os resultados demonstram que a segurança contribui para aumentar a satisfação dos participantes e dos seus pais nestes eventos. Participantes e pais mais satisfeitos são mais propensos a voltar aos CFD futuramente, pelo que, os gestores devem manter o foc...
The study of child camps has grown over the last years. Still, the common use of different terminology and the dispersion of the information in literature regarding camps management, makes it difficult to clarify research and hinder the improvement of managerial practices. This study aims to synthetise existent knowledge in child camps’ management, identify inconsistencies and gaps in the literature, and set di...
The purpose of this exploratory descriptive study was to evaluate the participation of state governments (federation units) in the financing of sports and leisure public policies from 2002 to 2016. In order to better understand the regional effect of investment, the information was cut by region. Two central hypotheses were tested, the concentrator effect and the equity effect. The database was formed from the ...
Cortical deafness is an extremely rare clinical manifestation that originates mainly from bilateral cortical lesions in the primary auditory cortex. Its main clinical manifestation is the bilateral sudden loss of hearing. Diagnosis is difficulty due to its rarity and similarity with other language and communication disorders, such as Wernicke's aphasia, auditory agnosia or verbal deafness. Herein, we present a ...
Introduction: A stroke is an event that in an acute way changes the life of a person and their family members. Scientific evidence points towards a need in the health system to establish interventions which favour continuity of care after the acute phase, with emphasis on the rehabilitation period and social and community reintegration. Taking into account the fundamental intervention of the nurse in the transi...