Healthy lifestyles are commonly associated with improved physical and mental health. Sleep patterns, nutrition, physical exercise, consumption of psychoactive substances, among others, can strongly influence positive mental health. The aims are: characterize lifestyles based on positive mental health clusters, considering the cross-sectional cohort sample of higher education students, and analyse the lifestyles...
INTRODUCTION. Young students’ transition to higher education is a particularly challenging and a stressful event, likely to trigger emotions that can potentially a+ect their adaptation to a new and more demanding learning environment. This issue has been a focus of growing interest for researchers involved in mentorship programmes developed by higher education institutions, which are intended to contribute to a...
The health-disease processes in childhood are inevitably characterized by fearful experiences. The study of this problem aims to clarify the performance of the emotional labor of nurses, focusing on the analysis of the fears (normal/developmental) of children aged 6 to 12 years, in pediatric emergency rooms. The choice of a quantitative methodology led to the application of a questionnaire to a sample of 82 chi...
Os processos saúde-doença na infância caracterizam-se inevitavelmente por experiências de medo. O estudo desta problemática almeja explicitar o desempenho do trabalho emocional dos enfermeiros, com enfoque na análise da experiência dos medos (normais/desenvolvimentais) das crianças dos 6 aos 12 anos, no serviço de urgência pediátrica. A opção por uma metodologia quantitativa conduziu à aplicação de um questioná...
Health outcomes associated with individualized nursing care are essential to ensure their quality, of which its study is a priority. This study aims to identify the gains of individualized nursing interventions for middle-aged and elderly. It stands for a systematic review of the literature from 2004 - 2009, with the PICO method in EBSCO (CINAHL, MEDLINE). The research yielded 530 articles, of which 9 were sele...
Introduction: Most authors argues that resilience is effective in dealing with adversity and promoting mental health with a special focus on an emotional level. The increase of interest in the concept of resilience emphasizes the need to develop assessment tools appropriate to this construct. In Portugal, there are few scales through which to assess the resilience factors in young adults. From this perspective,...
Introdução: A maioria dos autores defende que a resiliência é efetiva para enfrentar adversidades e promover a saúde mental, com especial incidência na esfera emocional. O aumento do interesse pelo conceito de resiliência evidencia a necessidade do desenvolvimento de instrumentos de avaliação adequados a este constructo. Em Portugal, são escassas as escalas que avaliem os fatores de resiliência em jovens adulto...
Os resultados em saúde associados aos cuidados de enfermagem individualizados são essenciais para garantir a qualidade dos mesmos, pelo que é uma prioridade o seu estudo. Este estudo tem como objetivo, identificar os ganhos das intervenções de enfermagem individualizadas, em pessoas de meia-idade e idosas. Revisão sistemática da literatura, entre 2004 - 2009, com método PICO, na EBSCO (CINAHL, MEDLINE). A pesqu...
Health outcomes associated with individualized nursing care are essential to ensure their quality, of which its study is a priority. This study aims to identify the gains of individualized nursing interventions for middle-aged and elderly. It stands for a systematic review of the literature from 2004 - 2009, with the PICO method in EBSCO (CINAHL, MEDLINE). The research yielded 530 articles, of which 9 were sele...