Traducción y adaptación de la Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale en enfermeros portugueses de cuidados paliativos

Theoretical framework: The knowledge on spirituality in Nursing has increased in Portugal, but there is still low evidence on the nurses’ perception of this dimension of care, as well as limited instruments in portuguese which allow measuring related phenomena. The Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (SSCRS) allows assessing the nurses’ perception of spirituality and spiritual care.Objectives: To translate, adapt and validate the SSCRS into portuguese in a sample of portuguese palliative care nurses. Methodology: Methodological study using a sample composed of 94 palliative care nurses. Results: The original structure of the 17-item scale was maintained during the scale validation process. A Cronbach’s alpha between 0.59 and 0.69 in the subscales and 0.76 in the total scale was obtained. These values are indicators of the scale’s reasonable reliability to be used in the population under study.Conclusion: The portuguese version of the SSCRS proved to be a reliable scale with content validity to assess the nurses’ perception of spirituality and spiritual care.Enquadramento: O conhecimento acerca da espiritualidade em Enfermagem tem-se evidenciado em Portugal, mas ainda é escassa a evidência acerca da perceção desta dimensão nos enfermeiros, bem como a disponibilidade de instrumentos na língua portuguesa que permitam medir fenómenos relacionados. A Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (SSCRS) permite avaliar a perceção dos enfermeiros face à espiritualidade e ao cuidado spiritual. Objetivos: Traduzir, adaptar e validar a SSCRS para português, numa população de enfermeiros portugueses de cuidados paliativos. Metodologia: Estudo metodológico, numa amostra de 94 enfermeiros de cuidados paliativos. Resultados: No processo de validação da escala, optou-se por manter a estrutura da escala original com os 17 itens. Obteve-se um alfa de Cronbach entre 0,59 e 0,69 nas subescalas e de 0,76 na escala global. Estes valores são indicadores que a escala tem fiedelidade razoável para a população me estudo. Conclusão: A versao portuguesa da SSCRS revela ser uma escala fiável e com validade de conteúdo para avaliar a perceção dos enfermeiros face à espiritualidade e ao cuidado espiritual.Marco contextual: El conocimiento de la espiritualidad en enfermería ha aumentado en Portugal, sin embargo aún hay pocas pruebas acerca de la percepción de esta dimensión en los enfermeros, así como poca disponibilidad de instrumentos en portugués para medir los fenómenos relacionados. La Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (SSCRS) permite evaluar la percepción de los enfermeros sobre la espiritualidad y la atención espiritual. Objetivos: Traducir, adaptar Y validar la SSCRS al portugués en una población de enfermeros portugueses de cuidados paliativos. Metodología: Estudio metodológico en una muestra de 94 enfermeros de cuidados paliativos. Resultados: En el proceso de validación de la escala, se optó por mantener la estructura de la escala original con 17 ítems. Se obtuvo unalfa de Cronbach entre 0.59 y 0.69 en las subescalas y de 0.76 en la escala global. Estos valores son indicadores de que la escala tiene una fidelidad razonable para la población en estudio. Conclusión: La versión portuguesa de la SSCRS demuestra ser una escala fiable y con validez de contenido para evaluar la percepción de los enfermeros acerca de la espiritualidad y la atención spiritual.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Entrepreneurship in higher education students of the social area

In higher education (IE), entrepreneurship education traditionally occurs in areas of the business world (economics, management). The uncertainty of the labor market requires an entrepreneurial profile, also in the social area. Innovation is increasingly necessary in a social context and the promotion of creativity and design-thinking in the creation of business ideas in these students is crucial. 41 students, 97.5% female, finalists of the Social Education degree, explored their own job creation. An ad hoc questionnaire was used, and responses were submitted to content analysis. The majority (92.6%) showed interest in starting a new company and the others were motivated to innovate existing companies. The investment intention focused on supporting elderly in the community (32.6%) or in institutions (10.8) and people with disabilities (21.7%). Support for the community in general and for minority groups emerged with 10.8% each. The development of community intervention projects and home support services registered, respectively, 46.3% and 36.5%. The majority of students intend to support the business through foreign capital, namely bank loans (41.4%). With less representativeness, own capital (eg anticipation of unemployment benefits - 12.1%) emerged and 36.5% of students did not anticipate the financial support of creating their own jobs. The results are encouraging in relation to students with signs of entrepreneurship in less common areas (social area). Doubts about financial support may result from less investment in these students, highlighting an important path to be taken by higher education institutions.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Response of vertebrate scavengers to power line and road rights-of-way and its implications for bird fatality estimates

Linear infrastructures, such as power lines and roads, are an important source of bird mortality. However, little is known on the potential effect of these infrastructures on local scavenger guilds, their foraging activity and the resulting bird carcass removal patterns. This is an important source of bias in studies aiming to quantify bird fatalities due to linear infrastructures. We used camera-traps to record scavenger identity and persistence patterns of bird carcasses placed close to linear infrastructure and nearby controls in two Mediterranean agricultural regions. We found that linear infrastructure influence on scavenger identity varied depending on the region. Contrary to expectations, linear infrastructure presence had either none or a positive effect on carcass persistence, meaning that carcasses placed within power line or road rights-of-way were not removed faster than the ones placed in controls. We conclude that linear infrastructure effect on vertebrate scavenging patterns is likely to be region-specific, and that reliable correction factors for carcass removal-bias in bird fatality estimates require site-specific experiments to characterize local scavenging processesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Genetic structure and historical demography of the shanny Lipophrys pholis in the Portuguese coast based on mitochondrial DNA analysis

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Contrasts in genetic structure and historical demography of marine and riverine populations of Atherina at similar geographical scales

In this paper, we compare the genetic structure and the historical demography of two populations of the sand smelt Atherina boyeri from the rivers Tagus and Mondego (Portugal) with two groups of samples of the closely related marine Atherina presbyter collected on the shore at comparable latitudes. A. presbyter is a pelagic marine inshore fish, while A. boyeri is typically found in coastal lagoons, estuaries and freshwaters bodies. Analysis of mtDNA control region sequences showed that the marine A. presbyter did not display signs of genetic differentiation between sites some hundreds of kilometers apart. On the contrary, A. boyeri showed clear differences between populations. The populations of A. boyeri showed a much lower genetic diversity and younger coalescence times when compared with A. presbyter. We suggest that these differences reflect the interplay between differences in ecology between the two species and the historical impact of the glaciations. While A. presbyter likely moved to the south evading the cold periods, A. boyeri probably went extinct and its populations in Western Europe are recent recolonizations from western Mediterranean refugia

Interferometria laser aplicada à investigação em Medicina Dentária

Comunicação apresentada no III Encontro de Metrologia na Saúde. IPQ - Instituto Português da Qualidade, Monte de Caparica, 9 de Outubro de 2014

Multilocus phylogenetic analysis of the genus Atherina (Pisces: Atherinidae)

Sand-smelts are small fishes inhabiting inshore, brackish and freshwater environments and with a distribution in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, extending south into the Indian Ocean. Here, we present a broad phylogenetic analysis of the genus Atherina using three mitochondrial (control region, 12S and 16S) and two nuclear markers (rhodopsin and 2nd intron of S7). Phylogenetic analyses fully support the monophyly of the genus. Two anti-tropical clades were identified, separating the South African Atherina breviceps from the north-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Atherina’ species. In European waters, two groups were found. The first clade formed by a well supported species-pair: Atherina presbyter (eastern Atlantic) and Atherina hepsetus (Mediterranean), both living in marine waters; a second clade included Atherina boyeri (brackish and freshwater environments) and two independent lineages of marine punctated and non-punctated fishes, recently proposed as separate species. Sequence divergence values strongly suggest multiple species within the A. boyeri complex

Bem-estar subjetivo em estudantes de educação social: um estudio exploratório

A intervenção do educador social tem como objetivo promover o desenvolvimento pessoal e social dos indivíduos, criando condições para melhorar a sua qualidade de vida e bem-estar em geral. Neste sentido, é essencial que o profissional também apresente níveis de bem-estar subjetivo adequados. Para analisar estes níveis, bem como a importância de variáveis de caracterização geral no âmbito do bem-estar subjetivo de futuros profissionais de educação social, realizou-se um estudo ex-post-facto, de carácter exploratório, com 75 estudantes de ensino superior (48% de educação social), sendo a maioria mulheres (78%). Os participantes preencheram um questionário sociodemográfico, a Escala de Satisfação com a Vida e as Escalas de Afetividade Positiva e Negativa. Utilizaram-se técnicas estatísticas não paramétricas, com recurso ao SPSS IBM-24, assumindo-se um grau de confiança de 95% na análise dos resultados. Os estudantes de educação social apresentaram níveis muito adequados de bem-estar. A prioridade de escolha do curso mostrou-se relevante na satisfação com a vida (p=.044), com vantagem para a primeira prioridade. Verificaram-se diferenças significativas na afetividade positiva (p=.019), desfavoráveis aos futuros educadores sociais quando comparados com os restantes estudantes. Revela-se assim fundamental refletir sobre os efeitos da formação, apontando propostas de intervenção para as instituições de ensino superior, de modo a preparar estes profissionais para a realidade do mundo do trabalho em áreas de intervenção estreitamente vinculadas ao sofrimento humano

The use of artificial benthic collectors for assessment of spatial patterns of settlement of megalopae of Carcinus maenas (L.) (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the lower Mira Estuary, Portugal

Artificial benthic collectors have been widely used for the assessment of settlement rates of decapod crustaceans. However, to date no consistent works have addressed spatial patterns of settlement in different estuarine habitats, and no specific studies targeted the interaction of artificial surfaces with the surrounding natural substrate. It may be expected that the artificial surface may produce a different thigmotactic response when compared to the natural substrate, which may limit the use of this technique for assessment of natural settlement rates. In this study the settlement rates of megalopae of the estuarine crab Carcinus maenas were addressed, specifically deploying artificial benthic collectors in different habitats both intertidal and subtidal in the lower Mira estuary. A number of experiments were performed concerning stratification and temporal fluctuations of settlement. Further, the interaction of collector surface with the surrounding substrate was investigated, by comparing settlement rates in natural and artificial substrates in different habitats. Results have shown significant differences in settlement between different estuarine habitats, both in spatially replicated experiments and in a high-resolution temporal experiment. However, comparison between settlement rates in artificial and natural substrates has shown that there is a strong interference between collectors and surrounding substrate, limiting interpretation of results concerning settlement rates in artificial substrate alone

Porto Solidário – Diagnóstico Social do Porto

Junto desta equipa colaboraram, de forma permanente, os membros da equipa de Pedagogia Social da Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia da UCP; os membros da Rede de Mediadores DSP, bem como membros do Conselho de Acompanhamento (UCP/FEP; FPS/CLASP).Respondendo à solicitação do Conselho Local de Acção Social do Porto, formulada pela Fundação Porto Social e visando satisfazer os requisitos legalmente previstos para as redes sociais concelhias, a Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Porto, através da sua Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia, levou a cabo um processo de estudo, de auscultação e de participação cívica, desenvolvido ao longo de um período de dez meses (Setembro 2008 – Junho 2009) sob o enquadramento do projecto «Porto Solidário»