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Program for Self-Management of Substance Addiction Consequences: A pilot random...
Seabra, Paulo; Sequeira, Rui; Sequeira, Ana; Miguel, Fernando; Amaral, Paula; Sequeira, CarlosIntroductionMillions of people have their health and social status impacted because of the harmful use of alcohol and drugs.1 ObjectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of a training program for self-management for substance addiction consequences. MethodsAdults integrated in a minimum of 5 weeks on a medication-based programs for alcohol and other drugs were randomly selected on this pilot trial conducted in a sin...
Acceptability and applicability of an intervention programme with substance add...
Seabra, Paulo; BRANTES, ANA; Sequeira, Rui; Arroja Sequeira, Ana Cristina; Simões, Ana Susete De Abreu; Nunes, Inês Robalo; Amaral, PaulaThe complexity of the problems related to the harmful use of substances requires regular questioning of practices. This article aims to explore the acceptability and applicability of an intervention programme for patients with problematic substance use. Qualitative study. Data collection, through a focus group with 6 nurses and 6 semi-structured interviews with patients under treatment. We have used lexicograph...
Designing a Nurse-Led Program for Self-Management of Substance Addiction Conseq...
Seabra, Paulo; Nunes, Inês Robalo; Sequeira, Rui; Sequeira, Ana; Simões, Ana Susete De Abreu; Filipe, Fernando Miguel; Amaral, Paula; Abram, Marissa D.Therapeutic interventions for people with problematic use of psychoactive substances can help tackle specific needs related to substance addiction consequences. This modified e-Delphi study aimed to establish consensus on a training program for self-management of substance addiction consequences. The study was conducted between February and April 2022, with an experts’ sample of 28 participants in the first rou...
Designing a Nurse-Led Program for Self-Management of Substance Addiction Conseq...
Seabra, Paulo; Nunes, Inês; Sequeira, Rui; Sequeira, Ana; Simões, Ana; Filipe, Fernando; Amaral, Paula; Abram, Marissa; Sequeira, CarlosTherapeutic interventions for people with problematic use of psychoactive substances can help tackle specific needs related to substance addiction consequences. This modified e-Delphi study aimed to establish consensus on a training program for self-management of substance addiction consequences. The study was conducted between February and April 2022, with an experts’ sample of 28 participants in the first rou...
Creating collaborative research opportunities at a distance: from Porto to Cluj...
Melo, Carla; Vasconcelos, Sandra; Liberato, Dália; Silva, Cândida; Amaral, Paula; Negrușa, Adina Letiția; Cosma, Smaranda Adina; Fleșeriu, CristinaFocusing on an Interdisciplinary Project (IP) involving Higher Education Institutions from Portugal (School of Hospitality and Tourism – Polytechnic Institute of Porto) and Romania (Faculty of Business – Babeş-Bolyai University), this short paper describes a joint project developed by tourism students attending tourism courses at both institutions. This project, which concentrated on the cities of Porto (Portug...
Lap2Go: Managing start waves for mass running events
Amaral, Paula; Barbeiro, Sílvia; Barreira, Raquel; Cavique, Luís; Correia, Joaquim; Cruz, Manuel; Enguiça, Ricardo; Lopes, Nuno; McPhail, MichaelLap2Go is the portuguese timekeeping leader for sport events (e.g. running, trail running, MTB). The company manages more than 150 events by year, with thousands of participants using chips to sort out the results of all the participants for each event. Sometimes the road running events use start waves as segmentation. Each wave is based on the running rythm of each participant (e.g. under 40 minutes in a 10 Km...
Managing start waves for mass running events
Amaral, Paula; Barbeiro, Sílvia; Barreira, Raquel; Cavique, Luís; Correia, Joaquim; Cruz, Manuel; Enguiça, Ricardo; Lopes, Nuno; McPhail, MichaelLap2go is a Portuguese timekeeping for several types of sport events. The challenge posed by this company is how to better manage the starting waves for mass running events in order to avoid congestions, taking into account each participant natural running pace, the total number of participants and, if possible, the topography and width of the road. As a case study the group has received the time each participa...
Report on “Managing start waves for mass running events”
Amaral, Paula; Sílvia, Barbeiro; Raquel, Barreira; Luís, Cavique; Joaquim, Correia; Manuel, Cruz; Ricardo, Enguiça; Nuno, Lopes; Michael, McPhailExecutive summary Lap2go is a Portuguese timekeeping for several types of sport events. The challenge posed by this company is how to better manage the starting waves for mass running events in order to avoid congestions, taking into account each participant natural running pace, the total number of participants and, if possible, the topography and width of the road. As a case study the group has received the t...
The ITRAX core scanner, a useful tool to distinguish anthropic vs. climatic inf...
Martins, Virgínia A.; Dias, João A.; Bernardes, Cristina; Rubio, Belén; Bernabeu, Ana; Rey, Daniel; Soares, António M.; Sobrinho, FredericoThe main goal of this work is to distinguish anthropic and climatic influences in sediments from the lagoon of Aveiro (Portugal). This study is based on a core (240-cm long) collected in Murtosa Channel. Optical and X-radiographic images and high-resolution elemental profiles were acquired with ITRAX micro-X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanner. Samples collected at each ≈3 cm along the core were analysed for gr...