16 documents found, page 1 of 2
The psychotherapist’s persuasiveness: Relation to the working alliance and faci...
Sequeira, A.; Sousa, D.; Afonseca, M.; Vaz, A.; Santos, J. M.; Silva, A.The psychotherapist’s persuasiveness has been suggested as a crucial skill for therapeutic success. However, it remains one of the psychotherapist interpersonal skills least studied. This correlational and observational study examined the relationship between the psychotherapist’s persuasiveness and working alliance and the relationship between the psychotherapist’s persuasiveness, and facilitative interpersona...
Development and validation of the facilitative interpersonal skills scale for c...
Santos, J. M.; Barata, M.; Rathenau, S.; Amaro, I.; Vaz, A.; Sousa, D.; Severino, M.; Teixeira, M.Objective: Psychotherapy studies have revealed that therapist characteristics are responsible for 5% to 9% of outcome variance. The therapist-facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) have been shown to predict both alliance and outcomes, indicating that higher FIS therapists are more effective than lower FIS therapists. The current study focused on the development and validation of the FIS-client version (FIS-C)...
Psychotherapist’s persuasiveness in anxiety: Scale development and relation to ...
Afonseca, M.; Sousa, D.; Vaz, A.; Santos, J. M.; Batista, A.Communicating a persuasive rationale that explains the client’s problems and how psychotherapy can relieve them, has been proposed as a crucial determinant of outcomes that combats the client’s state of distress, promotes positive expectations, and facilitates the working alliance. However, it remains 1 of the least investigated psychotherapist’s facilitative interpersonal skills without a validated measure. Th...
Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Elderly Population of Alentejo...
Marques, Maria do Céu Mendes; Vaz, A.; Leite, A.F.; Araújo, C.; Condeço, C.R.; Ribeiro de Deus, J.The objective of this chapter is to identify cardiovascular risk factors in the elderly and their prevalence in the elderly population of Alentejo. The research question was elaborated according to the PI[C]OD methodology. The prevalence studies included allow the authors to identify the risk factors with the greatest impact on cardiovascular diseases, with the analysis of at least one of the factors (hypertens...
Design of an antifungal surface embedding liposomal Amphotericin b through a mu...
Alves, Diana; Vaz, A.; Grainha, Tânia; Rodrigues, Célia F.; Pereira, Maria OlíviaMicrobial colonisation of urinary catheters remains a serious problem for medicine as it often leads to biofilm formation and infection. Among the approaches reported to deal with this problem, surfaces functionalization to render them with antimicrobial characteristics, comprises the most promising one. Most of these strategies, however, are designed to target bacterial biofilms, while fungal biofilms are much...
Co-immobilization of Liposomal amphotericin B and antimicrobial peptides to pre...
Alves, Diana Filipa Barros; Vaz, A.; Rodrigues, Tânia; Rodrigues, Célia Fortuna; Pereira, Maria OlíviaThe drawbacks arising from microbial colonisation of indwelling devices have been well established, as evidenced by a massive body research on antimicrobial coating strategies. Most of these strategies, however, are designed to target bacterial biofilms, being fungal biofilms or mixed biofilms much less taken into account. In real-life settings, fungi will be inevitably found in consortium with bacteria, so the...
Efficacy of Bacillus subtilis for the control of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actin...
Vaz, A.; Pereira, A. M.; Brito, L. M.; Moura, M. L.Bacterial canker of kiwifruit, caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa), is a disease included on the EPPO A2 List because it is currently increasing in the Mediterranean region. Climatic conditions determine the multiplication and dispersal behavior of Psa and may influence its biological control (BC). However, information regarding the influence of climatic conditions on growth of the Psa bacterium...
Interstitial lung disease and pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension in neurofibr...
Rodrigues, D.; Oliveira, H.; Andrade, C.; Carvalho, L.; Guimarães, S.; Moura, C.; Vaz, A.Although previously reported, the existence of a neurofibromatosis (NF)-associated diffuse lung disease (DLD) still lacks solid evidence. We report a case of a 68-year-old non-smoking female with NF1, pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) and an interstitial lung pattern. Initial findings included progressive dyspnea, hypoxemia and sparse centrilobular ground-glass micronodules on high-resolution computed t...
Quem são os clientes das travestis trabalhadoras do sexo em Portugal?: Breve ca...
Ramalho, N.; Vaz, A.Em Portugal, os estudos sobre os clientes do trabalho sexual tendem a ser escassos e, particularmente, sobre os clientes das travestis trabalhadoras do sexo são totalmente inexistentes. A dupla estigmatização proveniente do recurso a serviços sexuais comerciais e o interesse sexual por travestis condena este conjunto de clientes a uma quase invisibilidade social e científica. Com o objetivo de contribuir para a...
Ulcerative colitis: let's talk about extent
Vaz, A.; Eusébio, Marta; Antunes, A.; Queiros, P.; Gago, T.; Belo, T.; Caldeira, Paulo; Guerreiro, H.Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory disease in which clinical course varies substantially between patients. The extent of the disease is usually pointed out as one of the factors responsible for this variation. With this study, we pretended to evaluate the differences in natural history and pharmacological therapy prescription between left-sided and extended UC.