A magia nas mãos no pré-escolar

Relatório Final de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada do Mestrado em Educação Pré-escolar apresentado na Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Viana do CasteloNo âmbito do Mestrado de Educação Pré-Escolar, construiu-se este projeto final que se insere na Prática Supervisionada. Esta prática envolve assim 22 crianças com idades entre os 3 e 4 anos. O conteúdo deste projeto está direcionado para a expressão plástica onde passou pelo estudo do interesse das crianças na elaboração dos trabalhos plásticos, da preservação e da boa apresentação dos mesmos, do nível de criatividade que este grupo podia alcançar e o papel do adulto quanto à intervenção destes trabalhos. Este projeto está organizado em 3 partes, onde a primeira refere a caracterização do contexto educativo, as planificações, o envolvimento na comunidade e reflexões realizadas durante a PES II. A segunda parte consiste numa fundamentação teórica onde são evidenciados autores onde é abordado a expressão nas artes plásticas, o contributo do adulto, a criatividade e a importância da expressão plástica na educação pré-escolar. Aqui também é apresentada a metodologia que adotada bem como a análise e interpretação dos dados recolhidos ao longo deste projeto. A terceira e última parte diz respeito a uma reflexão final sobre toda a Prática de Ensino Supervisionada onde apresento uma síntese de tudo aquilo que vivenciei e aprendi nesta prática. Este projeto incidiu sobre uma metodologia de natureza qualitativa, tendo-me apoiado nos instrumentos de recolha de dados (notas de campo, registos audiovisuais, entrevista e observação) a fim de obter uma análise e avaliação mais pormenorizada das ações dos participantes. Estes resultados comprovam que as atividades desenvolvidas em torno deste projeto foram significativas para o desenvolvimento das crianças e promotoras das suas aprendizagens. A Magia nas Mãos no Pré-Escolar foi um projeto que potenciou uma abordagem à expressão plástica na educação pré-escolar, que gerou nas crianças um novo interesse pelos seus trabalhos, um cuidado acrescido sobre a sua aparência, do ponto de vista estético, tendo este chegado à restante comunidade educativa que por sua vez evidenciou interesse e curiosidade em participar e observar as atividades promovidas.This final Project was built under the Mestrado de Educação Pré-Escolar which is included in the supervised practice. This practice envolves 22 children with ages between three and four years old. The content of this project is directed to plastic expression which consists of the children’s interest in elaborating practical work, of its preservation and good presentation and of the creativity level that the group can achieve and also the role of the adult regarding the intervention of this work. This project is organized in three parts. The first one refers to the characterization of the educational context, the planning of the work, the involvement of the community and the reflections made during PES II. The second part is a theoretical grounding in which authors are evidenced and the expression of the plastic arts; the creativity and the importance of plastic expression in pre-school education are approached. In this second part is also presented the adopted methodology as well as the analysis and interpretation of the data obtained. This project focused on a methodology of a qualitative nature and relied on instruments of data collection (field notes, audiovisual records, interviews and observations) in order to obtain detailed analysis and evaluations of the participants actions. These results prove that the activities developed round this project were significant to the children’s development and promoted their learning. The A Magia nas Mãos no Pré-Escolar is a project that potentiated an approach to plastic expression in pre-school education, which generated in the children a new interest in their work and an increase of care with its appearance in an esthetical point of view. All this reached the educational community which in its turn evidenced interest and curiosity in participating and observing the promoted activities

Crvena lisica (Vulpes vulpes) i egipatski mungos (Herpestes ichneumon) kao prijenosnici dermatofita u Portugalu

Dermatophytosis is a common dermatological infection, affecting humans, pets, domestic ruminants and wild animals. It is a cause for concern as it represents a risk to public and animal health. The aim of this study was to describe the occurrence of dermatophyte infection in wild mammals (road-killed and hunted) in Portugal. Fungal isolation was performed on the fur and scales of 101 wild mammals. Based on the observation of microstructures and colony morphology, fungal isolates were identified to the genus level. Dermatophytes were found in two of the 10 studied species: 3/51 (5.9%; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.0–12.3%) red fox (Vulpes vulpes), and 5/19 (2.6%; 95% CI: 0.0–9.8%) Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon). These species represent different taxonomic families: Canidae and Viverridae and it is therefore important to infer the role of infection in these animals studied for dermatophytosis.Dermatofitoza je česta dermatološka infekcija koja pogađa ljude, kućne ljubimce, domaće glodavce i divlje životinje. Dermatofiti zadaju brigu i predstavljaju rizik za javno zdravlje i zdravlje životinja. Cilj ove studije bio je opisati pojavnost infekcije dermatofitima u divljih sisavaca u Portugalu, u životinja koje su nastradale u prometu i uhvaćenih divljih sisavaca. Izolacija gljivica obavljena je u krznu i ljuskama 101 divljeg sisavca. Na temelju promatranja mikrostruktura i morfologije kolonije, izolati gljivica su identificirani na razini roda. Dermatofiti su pronađeni u dvije od 10 proučavanih vrsta: 3/51 (5,9 %; 95 % interval pouzdanosti [CI]: 0,0-12,3 %) crvene lisice (Vulpes vulpes) i 5/19 (2,6 %; 95 % CI: 0,0-9,8 %) egipatskih mungosa (Herpestes ichneumon). Ove vrste predstavljaju različite taksonomske obitelji: Canidae i Viverridae i stoga je važno donijeti zaključak o ulozi infekcije u ovih životinja ispitanih na dermatofitozu

Competências emocionais e prevenção do abandono nos estudantes do ensino superior politécnico

CONTEXTO: Nos últimos anos, a comunidade científica foi tomando consciência da importância do desenvolvimento de competências emocio - nais para o sucesso escolar e profissional dos estudantes. OBJETIVO(S): Identificar os fatores que influenciam o abandono escolar dos estudantes do ensino superior politécnico. Analisar a relação entre as competências emocionais e o abandono escolar dos estudantes do Ensino Superior Politécnico. METODOLOGIA: Estudo quantitativo, transversal, descritivo e correlacional. O instrumento de recolha de dados utilizado foi questionário de caracterização sociodemográfica dos estudantes e dos pais, a Escala de Motivos para Abandono do Ensino Superior (Ambiel, 2015) e a Escala Com - petências Emocionais (Taksic’, 2000), adaptada para Portugal por Faria e Santos (2006). Amostra constituída por 560 estudantes do ensino superior a frequentarem o 1.º ano do curso. RESULTADOS: Participaram 560 estudantes do ensino superior a frequentarem o 1.º ano do curso, maioritariamente feminina (69,3%), com uma idade mínima de 18 anos e uma máxima de 30 anos, correspondendo-lhe uma média de 19,76 anos (±2,06 anos), 36,6% da área da tecnologia. O sexo influenciou o abandono escolar dos estudantes do ensino superior, sendo os estudantes do sexo feminino os que revelam mais motivos para o abandono (p=0,010). Os estudantes cujas mães se encontram ativas profissionalmente manifestam mais Intenção de abandono (p=0,035). A per- ceção emocional, a expressão emocional e a capacidade de lidar com as emoções foram preditoras da intenção de abandono escolar. CONCLUSÕES: Os resultados apontam para a necessidade de inclusão nos programas de intervenção contra o abandono escolar, das variáveis sexo, idade e algumas dimensões das competências emocionais, para minimizar, assim, as suas consequências, quer para os estudantes, quer para a própria sociedade.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Patient-physician discordance in assessment of adherence to inhaled controller medication: a cross-sectional analysis of two cohorts

We aimed to compare patient's and physician's ratings of inhaled medication adherence and to identify predictors of patient-physician discordance.(SFRH/BPD/115169/2016) funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT); ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) through the operations: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029130 ('mINSPIRERS—mHealth to measure and improve adherence to medication in chronic obstructive respiratory diseases—generalisation and evaluation of gamification, peer support and advanced image processing technologies') cofunded by the COMPETE2020 (Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização), Portugal 2020 and by Portuguese Funds through FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Duración del sueño nocturno y desempeño cognitivo de adultos mayores de la comunidad

Objective: to analyze the relationship between the duration of self-reported night sleep and the cognitive performance of older adults. Method: the sample consisted of 156 older adults registered in Family Health Units (FHUs) in a city of São Paulo, divided into quartiles according to the duration of night sleep. Data collection was performed using a characterization questionnaire, Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Exam – Revised (ACE-R) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Descriptive, comparative and correlational statistical analyses were performed. Results: the older adults obtained a mean of 61.94 points in ACE-R and 55.1% presented good sleep quality. Comparative analyses showed differences between the groups only in the cognitive domain of verbal fluency (p=0.018). The post-hoc analyses showed that older adults who slept more hours, a mean of 8.85 hours (Q1), had lower scores when compared to those who slept a mean of 6.11 hours (Q3) (p=0.004) and of 4.52 hours (Q4) (p=0.045). The adjusted model with application of the stepwise method showed a relationship between the independent variables of schooling and sleep duration and the domain verbal fluency. Conclusion: it is concluded that sleep duration is related to the verbal fluency cognitive domain.Objetivo: analisar a relação entre a duração do sono noturno autorrelatada e o desempenho cognitivo de idosos. Método: a amostra foi constituída por 156 idosos cadastrados em Unidades de Saúde da Família (USF) de um munícipio paulista divididos em quartis segundo a duração do sono noturno. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de questionário de caracterização, Exame Cognitivo de Addenbrooke – Revisado (ACE-R) e Índice de Qualidade do Sono de Pittsburgh (PSQI). Foram feitas análises estatísticas descritivas, comparativas e correlacionais. Resultados: os idosos obtiveram média de 61,94 pontos no ACE-R e 55,1% apresentavam boa qualidade de sono. As análises comparativas evidenciaram diferenças entre os grupos apenas no domínio cognitivo fluência verbal (p=0,018). As análises post-hoc apontaram que idosos que dormiam maior número de horas, em média 8,85 horas (Q1), tinham escores inferiores quando comparados aos idosos que dormiam em média 6,11 horas (Q3) (p=0,004) e 4,52 horas (Q4) (p=0,045). O modelo ajustado com aplicação do método stepwise apontou relação das variáveis independentes escolaridade e duração do sono com o domínio fluência verbal. Conclusão: conclui-se que a duração do sono tem relação com o domínio cognitivo fluência verbal.Objetivo: analizar la relación entre la duración del sueño nocturno autoinformado y el rendimiento cognitivo de los adultos mayores. Método: la muestra estuvo conformada por 156 ancianos inscritos en Unidades de Salud de la Familia (USF) de una ciudad de São Paulo, divididos en cuartiles según la duración del sueño nocturno. La recolección de datos se realizó mediante un cuestionario de caracterización, el Examen cognitivo revisado de Addenbrooke (ACE-R) y el Índice de calidad del sueño de Pittsburgh (PSQI). Se realizaron análisis estadísticos descriptivos, comparativos y correlacionales. Resultados: los ancianos tuvieron una media de 61,94 puntos en el ACE-R y el 55,1% tuvo buena calidad del sueño. Los análisis comparativos mostraron diferencias entre los grupos solo en el dominio cognitivo de la fluidez verbal (p=0,018). Los análisis post-hoc mostraron que las personas mayores que durmieron más horas, en promedio 8,85 horas (Q1), tuvieron puntuaciones más bajas en comparación con las personas mayores que durmieron en promedio 6,11 horas (Q3) (p=0,004) y 4,52 horas (Q4) (p=0,045). El modelo ajustado con la aplicación del método stepwise mostró una relación entre las variables independientes educación y duración del sueño con el dominio fluidez verbal. Conclusión: se concluye que la duración del sueño está relacionada con el dominio cognitivo de la fluidez verbal

Investigating the role of symptom valorisation in tuberculosis patient delay in urban areas in Portugal

URBANTB group: Patrícia Soares (Representative of the consortium), Mário Carreira, Sofia Pereira, Catarina Alves, Filipe Alves, Ana Rodrigues, Ana Moreira, Márcia Cardoso, Sandra Mota, Ana Gomes, Liliana Ferreira, Marta Lopes, Isabel Correia, Juan Rachadell, Maria Gameiro, Ângela Dias, Manuel Pereira, Jorge Gonçalves, Maria Gonçalves, Adriana Taveira, Celene Neves, Lucinda Silva, Maria Mendes, Maria Teixeira, Maria Pereira, Milena Piedade, Antónia Teixeira & Carlos Carvalho.Background: Diagnosis delay contributes to increased tuberculosis (TB) transmission and morbimortality. TB incidence has been decreasing in Portugal, but median patient delay (PD) has risen. Symptom valorisation may determine PD by influencing help-seeking behaviour. We aimed to analyse the association between symptom valorisation and PD, while characterising individuals who disregarded their symptoms. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among TB patients in Lisbon and Oporto in 2019 - 2021. Subjects who delayed seeking care because they did not value their symptoms or thought these would go away on their own were considered to have disregarded their symptoms. PD was categorised using a 21-day cut-off, and a 30-day cut-off for sensitivity analysis. We estimated the effect of symptom valorisation on PD through a directed acyclic graph. Then, a multivariable regression analysis characterised patients that disregarded their symptoms, adjusting for relevant variables. We fitted Poisson regression models to estimate crude and adjusted prevalence ratios (PR). Results: The study included 75 patients. Median PD was 25 days (IQR 11.5-63.5), and 56.0% of participants had PD exceeding 21 days. Symptom disregard was reported by 38.7% of patients. Patients who did not value their symptoms had higher prevalence of PD exceeding 21 days compared to those who valued their symptoms [PR 1.59 (95% CI 1.05-2.42)]. The sensitivity analysis showed consistent point estimates but wider confidence intervals [PR 1.39 (95% CI 0.77-2.55)]. Being a smoker was a risk factor for symptom disregard [PR 2.35 (95% CI 1.14-4.82)], while living in Oporto [PR 0.35 (95% CI 0.16-0.75)] and having higher household incomes [PR 0.39 (95% CI 0.17-0.94)] were protective factors. Conclusions: These findings emphasise the importance of symptom valorisation in timely TB diagnosis. Patients who did not value their symptoms had longer PD, indicating a need for interventions to improve symptom recognition. Our findings also corroborate the importance of the socioeconomic determinants of health, highlighting tobacco as a risk factor both for TB and for PD.This work was supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) [Grant: PTDC/SAU-PUB/31346/2017]. The present publication was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) national support through Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) [UIDP/04923/2020].info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Portuguese propolis: a source of valuable bioactivities

To FEDER/COMPETE/POCI– Operational Competitiveness and Internationalization Programme, under Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958 and FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UID/AGR/04033/2013

Identification of clusters of asthma control: A preliminary analysis of the inspirers studies

This work was funded by ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) through the operations: POCI- -01-0145-FEDER-029130 (“mINSPIRERS—mHealth to measure and improve adherence to medication in chronic obstructive respiratory diseases - generalisation and evaluation of gamification, peer support and advanced image processing technologies”) co-funded by the COMPETE2020 (Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização), Portugal 2020 and by Portuguese Funds through FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia).© 2020, Sociedade Portuguesa de Alergologia e Imunologia Clinica. All rights reserved. Aims: To identify distinct asthma control clusters based on Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT) and to compare patients’ characteristics among these clusters. Methods: Adults and adolescents (≥13 years) with persistent asthma were recruited at 29 Portuguese hospital outpatient clinics, in the context of two observational studies of the INSPIRERS project. Demographic and clinical characteristics, adherence to inhaled medication, beliefs about inhaled medication, anxiety and depression, quality of life, and asthma control (CARAT, >24 good control) were collected. Hierarchical cluster analysis was performed using CARAT total score (CARAT-T). Results: 410 patients (68% adults), with a median (percentile 25–percentile 75) age of 28 (16-46) years, were analysed. Three clusters were identified [mean CARAT-T (min-max)]: cluster 1 [27(24-30)], cluster 2 [19(14-23)] and cluster 3 [10(2-13)]. Patients in cluster 1 (34%) were characterised by better asthma control, better quality of life, higher inhaler adherence and use of a single inhaler. Patients in clusters 2 (50%) and 3 (16%) had uncontrolled asthma, lower inhaler adherence, more symptoms of anxiety and depression and more than half had at least one exacerbation in the previous year. Further-more, patients in cluster 3 were predominantly female, had more unscheduled medical visits and more anxiety symp-toms, perceived a higher necessity of their prescribed inhalers but also higher levels of concern about taking these inhalers. There were no differences in age, body mass index, lung function, smoking status, hospital admissions or specialist physician follow-up time among the three clusters. Conclusion: An unsupervised method based on CARAT--T, identified 3 clusters of patients with distinct, clinically meaningful characteristics. The cluster with better asthma control had a cut-off similar to the established in the validation study of CARAT and an additional cut-off seems to distinguish more severe disease. Further research is necessary to validate the asthma control clusters identified.publishersversionpublishe

Measuring adherence to inhaled control medication in patients with asthma: Comparison among an asthma app, patient self‐report and physician assessment

Background Previous studies have demonstrated the feasibility of using an asthma app to support medication management and adherence but failed to compare with other measures currently used in clinical practice. However, in a clinical setting, any additional adherence measurement must be evaluated in the context of both the patient and physician perspectives so that it can also help improve the process of shared decision making. Thus, we aimed to compare different measures of adherence to asthma control inhalers in clinical practice, namely through an app, patient self-report and physician assessment. Methods This study is a secondary analysis of three prospective multicentre observational studies with patients (≥13 years old) with persistent asthma recruited from 61 primary and secondary care centres in Portugal. Patients were invited to use the InspirerMundi app and register their inhaled medication. Adherence was measured by the app as the number of doses taken divided by the number of doses scheduled each day and two time points were considered for analysis: 1-week and 1-month. At baseline, patients and physicians independently assessed adherence to asthma control inhalers during the previous week using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS 0–100). Results A total of 193 patients (72% female; median [P25–P75] age 28 [19–41] years old) were included in the analysis. Adherence measured by the app was lower (1 week: 31 [0–71]%; 1 month: 18 [0–48]%) than patient self-report (80 [60–95]) and physician assessment (82 [51–94]) (p 0.05). There was a moderate correlation between patient self-report and physician assessment (ρ = 0.596, p < 0.001). Conclusions Adherence measured by the app was lower than that reported by the patient or the physician. This was expected as objective measurements are commonly lower than subjective evaluations, which tend to overestimate adherence. Nevertheless, the low adherence measured by the app may also be influenced by the use of the app itself and this needs to be considered in future studies.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL : A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in P ortugal

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being includedin the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associatedwith habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam-mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion formarine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func-tionality and resilience, and therefore information on their distribution is cru-cial to delineate and support conservation actions. MAMMALS INPORTUGAL is a publicly available data set compiling unpublishedgeoreferenced occurrence records of 92 terrestrial, volant, and marine mam-mals in mainland Portugal and archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira thatincludes 105,026 data entries between 1873 and 2021 (72% of the data occur-ring in 2000 and 2021). The methods used to collect the data were: live obser-vations/captures (43%), sign surveys (35%), camera trapping (16%),bioacoustics surveys (4%) and radiotracking, and inquiries that represent lessthan 1% of the records. The data set includes 13 types of records: (1) burrowsjsoil moundsjtunnel, (2) capture, (3) colony, (4) dead animaljhairjskullsjjaws, (5) genetic confirmation, (6) inquiries, (7) observation of live animal (8),observation in shelters, (9) photo trappingjvideo, (10) predators dietjpelletsjpine cones/nuts, (11) scatjtrackjditch, (12) telemetry and (13) vocalizationjecholocation. The spatial uncertainty of most records ranges between 0 and100 m (76%). Rodentia (n=31,573) has the highest number of records followedby Chiroptera (n=18,857), Carnivora (n=18,594), Lagomorpha (n=17,496),Cetartiodactyla (n=11,568) and Eulipotyphla (n=7008). The data setincludes records of species classified by the IUCN as threatened(e.g.,Oryctolagus cuniculus[n=12,159],Monachus monachus[n=1,512],andLynx pardinus[n=197]). We believe that this data set may stimulate thepublication of other European countries data sets that would certainly contrib-ute to ecology and conservation-related research, and therefore assisting onthe development of more accurate and tailored conservation managementstrategies for each species. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite thisdata paper when the data are used in publications.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio