Lembranças de Eni

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Development of Cobrançosa "functional olive oils" by co-processing techniques

The aim of this work was to develop "functional olive oils" by co-processing techniques of ‘Cobrançosa’ olives with the addition of Thymus citriodorus (TL, lemon thyme) and T. mastichina L. (TM) from organic agriculture. The “functional olive oils” were prepared by: (i) thyme addition to the olives during the unit operations of crushing or malaxation, and (ii) implementation of ultrasound before the malaxation of the olive paste.This work was funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project UIDB/04129/2020 of LEAF-Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Research Unit. (OLIVETHY exploratory project)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Chemical and Physical Restraint of Patients

AbstractProblem Statement: The physical and chemical restraint of patients, despite being often applied with no real scientific basis, has always been part of nursing practice in caring for the ill people.Research Questions: What is the level of knowledge over in nursing about physically and chemically restraining?Purpose of the Study: Evaluate the level of knowledge of nurses on physical and chemical restraint of patients.Research MethodsThe cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted by collecting data using a survey on the knowledge that physically and chemically restraining patients. To this end, a convenience sample was assessed consisting of 156 nurses aged between 24 and 57 (average being 35.11), 79.2% of which were female and 20.8% were male.Findings: The majority (92.3%) consider the physical restraint is a way of ensuring the patient's safety. The level of knowledge reveals that the majority (53.1%) have knowledge on the physical and chemical restraint of patients, noting that 46.9% have a good level of knowledge, 6.2% a reasonable level of knowledge and 46.9% have a weak level of knowledge on the subject.Conclusions: Given the results, there arises the concern to include training on the physical and chemical restraint of patients in the study plan, as well as implementing the training and simulated practice of restraining measures, giving future nurses the transferable skills needed in clinical practice

Adesão ao regime Terapêutico na Doença Crónica: Revisão da Literatura

Na actualidade, uma percentagem significativa da população mundial depara-se com a necessidade de tomar medicação e de adoptar medidas para controlar e tratar, tanto as patologias agudas como as crónicas. Os doentes portadores de patologia crónica são os que menos aderem à terapêutica. Estima-se que, nos países desenvolvidos, apenas 50% dos doentes crónicos cumprem o tratamento acordado com o profissional de saúde, condicionando a economia, o bem-estar e a qualidade de vida da sociedade. A compreensão deste fenómeno implica tomar conhecimento dos vários modelos conceptuais existentes, bem como analisar os seus pressupostos teóricos. É de capital interesse conhecer os factores que influenciam a adesão, percebendo a associação estabelecida entre variáveis internas e externas ao doente, assim como as variáveis relacionais. Desta forma, poder-se-ão delinear estratégias que promovam a adesão ao regime terapêutico, quer a nível educacional, quer comportamental, ou conjugando as duas dimensões. Na avaliação da adesão terapêutica poder-se-á recorrer a métodos directos e indirectos, sendo os directos mais fidedignos, mas menos utilizados devido ao seu elevado custo

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

Construindo ambientes saudáveis em Ceilândia : uma experiência de extensão do novo campus da Universidade de Brasília na maior cidade do Distrito Federal

Ilustrações do capítulo encontram-se no Anexo I do livro Universidade para o século XXI: educação e gestão ambiental na Universidade de Brasília, p. 328.Este relato tem por objetivo apresentar os resultados do primeiro projeto de extensão iniciado na FCE, “Formação comunitária para ações de promoção da saúde e da qualidade de vida - Construindo Ambientes Saudáveis”, em 2010. O cineclube é a estratégia de aproximação dos movimentos sociais de Ceilândia com a academia por meio do debate periódico de temas problematizadores relacionados à história de luta da comunidade voltada para a promoção de ambientes saudáveis. Os debates foram gravados e transcritos como forma de registro, avaliação e publicação da experiência. A memória reflexiva sobre esse projeto é coletiva e se beneficiou de comentários críticos esboçados por vários de seus membros e pessoas das comunidades de Ceilândia. O intuito foi produzir um relato polifônico, preservando a atmosfera democrática, colegiada e diversificada que tem sido idealizada pelo projeto

Influenza severe cases in hospitals, between 2014 and 2016 in Portugal

Rede Portuguesa de Laboratórios para o Diagnóstico da GripeBackground: Since 2009, the Portuguese Laboratory Network (PLNID) for Influenza Diagnosis has integrated 15 Laboratories in mainland and Atlantic Islands of Azores and Madeira. This PLNID added an important contribute to the National Influenza Surveillance Program regarding severe and hospitalized influenza cases. The present study aims to describe influenza viruses detected in influenza like illness (ILI) cases: outpatients (Outp), hospitalized (Hosp), and intensive care units (ICU), between 2014 and 2016. Methods: The PLNID performs influenza virus diagnosis by biomolecular methodologies. Weekly reports to the National Influenza Reference Laboratory ILI cases tested for influenza. Reports include data on detecting viruses, hospital assistance, antiviral therapeutics, and information on death outcome. Were reported during two winter seasons 8059 ILI cases,being 3560 cases in 2014/15 (1024 in Outp, 1750 Hosp, and 606 in ICU) and 4499 cases in 2015/2016 (1933 in Outp, 1826 Hosp, and 740 in ICU). Results: The higher percentage of influenza positive cases were detected in Outp in both seasons, 18% during 2014/15 and 20% in 2015/16. In 2014/15,influenza cases were more frequent in individuals older than 65 years old and these required more hospitalizations,even in ICU. In 2015/16,the influenza cases were mainly detected in individuals between 15-64 years old. A higher proportion of influenza positive cases with hospitalization in ICU were observed in adults between 45-64 years old.During the study period,the predominant circulating influenza viruses were different in the two seasons: influenza B and A(H3) co-circulated in 2014/15,and influenza A(H1)pdm09 was predominant during 2015/16. Even when influenza A is notthe dominant virus, A(H3) and A(H1)pdm09 subtypes correlate with higher detection rate in hospitalized cases (Hosp and UCI), with higher frequencies in adults older than 45. Influenza B,detected in higher proportion in outpatients, was frequently relatedwith influenza cases in younger age groups: 0-4 and 5-14 years old. Conclusions: This study highlights the correlation of theinfluenza virus type/subtype that circulates in each season with the possible need for hospitalization and intensive care in special groups of the population. Circulation of influenza A subtypes can cause more frequentdisease in individuals older than 45, with need of hospitalization including intensive care. On the other hand, influenza B is more frequently associated with less severe cases and with infection in children and younger adults. Influenza B circulation might predict lower number of hospitalizations.The identification of influenza type in circulation,byPLNID ineach season, could guide action planning measures in population health care.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

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

reflexão sobre a variação e a instabilidade conceptual

UID/LIN/03213/2013Terminological neology (neonimy) requires constant observation of the language by terminologists, lexicologists, and lexicographers; today, this analysis focuses on different types of written and oral corpora of specialty languages ​​or lexicographic corpora. Terminology neology and variation participate simultaneously in the innovation of terminological systems and in diachronic terminology. There are a large number of speech nouns related to non-stabilized or non-normalized concepts. This conceptual dynamic is observed in the textual corpora, in certain types of texts, with a character of information, dissemination and prevention of some diseases or epidemics; some phenomena of terminological instability are a reflection of conceptual and / or scientific instability in certain areas of medicine, such as the Ebola epidemic. Terminological neologisms are created to denominate new concepts and / or new cognitive peculiarities and conceptual changes related, eventually, to the evolution of a concept.publishersversionpublishe