Background/Objectives: Currently, there is a limited understanding of the long-term consequences following acute COVID-19, referred to as long COVID. This cross-sectional study aims to analyze the prevalence of persistent signs and symptoms of long COVID, 18 months after primary SARS-CoV-2 infection in adults in southern Brazil. Methods: Using two national databases (the digital registry of SARS-CoV-2 positive ...
Aims and objectives This paper aims to: (a) determine the personal, sociodemographic, clinical, behavioural, and social characteristics of older Brazilians with clinical evidence of long COVID; (b) evaluate perceived quality of life and determine its association with personal, sociodemographic, behavioural, clinical and social variables; and (c) assess significant predictors of high perceived QoL. Background Gi...
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o uso da inteligência artificial espacial no contexto da imunização contra COVID-19 para a seleção adequada dos recursos necessários. Trata-se de estudo ecológico de caráter transversal baseado em uma abordagem espaço-temporal utilizando dados secundários, em Unidades Básicas de Saúde do Brasil. Foram adotados quatro passos analíticos para atribuir um volume de população por u...
The mediating role of goal orientations in the association between coach-athlete relationship (CAR) and collective efficacy (CE) was investigated. Participants were 185 Brazilian young volleyball players participants of a State championship. Data were obtained using the Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaire, Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire and Collective Efficacy Questionnaire for Sports. Str...
Este estudo investigou os traços de perfeccionismo e a satisfação das necessidades psicológicas básicas de atletas de futsal. Todos os atletas (n=301) inscritos na Liga Nacional de Futsal 2013 participaram da pesquisa, sendo categorizados quanto a titularidade (Titulares=156 e Não-titulares=145 atletas) e a classificação para a fase final do campeonato (classificados=134 atletas e não classificados=167 atletas)...
The main objective of this study was to investigate de influence of soccer's context in athletes' identity in different sport career phases. Participated in the study 120 male soccer athletes born from the year of nineteen hundred and ninety to nineteen hundred and ninety five, whom practice soccer in formation schools linked to a soccer club from the first division of the Brazilian soccer championship, from th...
Background: In cost-effectiveness analyses, Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY) remains one of the most widely used health effect measure. Among the various methods of estimating utility values, time trade-off (TTO) has traditionally been one of the dominant methods for eliciting utilities, however it has been presenting several practical impediments to provide a high and fast collecting process.Objective: To te...
The objective of this study was to perform a qualitative study to identify commonalities and differences in reasoning processes between these groups. A phenomenological qualitative study based on transcriptions of physicians and statisticians conceptualizing clinical cases and clinical research questions. Interviews were carried out with nine statisticians and sixteen physicians contacted virtually. The main ou...