Personalising the user experience of a mobile health application towards Patient Engagement

Stuttering is a multifactorial speech disorder that usually has several impacts on daily life, especially regarding loss of confidence in social situations and increased anxiety levels. BroiStu is a mobile health application that was developed to address the impacts of stuttering on people who stutter, allowing them to be more aware of their speech disorder in their everyday life. The personalisation of the user experience may be particularly important to maintain the patient engaged with the application towards a long-term use to take full advantage of the application’s features. This paper presents the implementation of personalisation aspects in BroiStu, introducing the model that is being followed, describing the features used, and presenting the results obtained with a preliminary experiment. The personalisation mechanisms are provided by a cloud-based platform that is designed to serve different applications. Interesting findings and further work are presented.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A mulher com obesidade: que vivência da sexualidade?: um estudo de caso

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Building on Mobile towards Better Stuttering Awareness to Improve Speech Therapy

This paper describes the project I Aware my Stuttering , which is a system with a focus on a mobile application for smartphones directed to people who stutter. This software will allow users to register their stuttering related situations, registering, for example, the contexts in which they occur, the interlocutors and their reactions to the situations, and the emotions felt. The application provides a reporting module that includes charts to help visualizing how stuttering situations evolve according to several features. It will help promote daily self-monitoring of speech as a means of controlling stuttering, being personalized according to the user profile. The system also offers a module for the speech therapist, which can monitor and receive reports related to users which are her/his patients. This collected data will improve the therapeutic process by enhancing discussion about registers performed immediately after a real context situation. Additionally, this paper presents a first user study conducted to assess and validate the project’s purpose and the central module for registration of stuttering related situations.Com o apoio RAADRI

Mobile Apps to improve therapy: the health practitioner in your pocket knows you

Comunicação apresentada no 15th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2017), 04-06 December 2017, Salzburg, AustriaThere 1 is an emerging consumer-driven demand for a more personalised health system and, there is no question, the rapid evolution of the mobile apps market became an important driver for personalisation in the health field. The MAiThE (Mobile Apps to improve ThErapy) project focuses on the deployment and study of personalised mHealth apps to provide patients and carers with self-management capabilities to help them feel empowered in their ability to find strategies in a more informed and collaborative way, and to optimise therapy outside the clinical context, with remote support from health practitioners. The insight gathered with the development and assessment of the apps tailored to the end-users’ needs will result in a conceptual model to guide in the development of future mHealth apps. The project will produce an impact study based on thorough apps evaluations conducted on the field with participants from different contexts.N/

Mobile Apps to improve ThErapy

There is an emerging consumer-driven demand for a more personalised health system and, there is no question, the rapid evolution of the mobile apps market became an important driver for personalisation in the health field. The MAiThE (Mobile Apps to improve ThErapy) project focuses on the deployment and study of personalised mHealth apps to provide patients and carers with self-management capabilities to help them feel empowered in their ability to find strategies in a more informed and collaborative way, and to optimise therapy outside the clinical context, with remote support from health practitioners. The insight gathered with the development and assessment of the apps tailored to the end-users’ needs will result in a conceptual model to guide in the development of future mHealth apps. The project will produce an impact study based on thorough apps evaluations conducted on the field with participants from different contexts.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The Impact of Stuttering; How Can a Mobile App Help?

Trabalho apresentado em 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference, 26-28 outubro 2015, Lisboa, PortugalThe mobile application BroiStu was developed due to the need of having a better insight on the impact of stuttering on people who stutter's everyday life. This paper presents a study on this application, verifying which features of impact of stuttering found in scientific literature are included in the application and making a comparison with a similar application. Furthermore, it also summarises a user study conducted with a first panel of experts. New findings and obtained results are discussedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A escrita de si: o discurso literário e o inconsciente em a confissão de Lúcio

Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós- Graduação: Mestrado em Estudos Literários - MEL, da Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR) como requisito final para a obtenção do título de Mestre em Estudos Literários. Orientadora: Profa. Dra. Heloísa Helena Siqueira Correia.Este trabalho problematiza a obra A confissão de Lúcio, de Mário de Sá- Carneiro, tendo como objetivo geral compreender porque a narrativa é uma confissão e analisar o modo como acontece essa confissão no texto. Trabalha, como objetivos específicos, a discussão do gênero confissão, demonstra como a ambiguidade é parte estruturante da tessitura do texto, identifica como o eu da personagem-protagonista Lúcio se constitui em termos de identidadealteridade na relação com as personagens Ricardo e Marta e caracteriza a situação do eu cindido de Lúcio na composição da narrativa. Parte de dois marcos teóricos: os conceitos de Escrita de si, tal como proposto por Michel Foucault, e de Inconsciente como discurso do Outro, categoria da Psicanálise de Jacques Lacan. Diante disto, a questão central é respondida não no eu de Lúcio, mas em um lugar intermediário que remete ao duplo. Por fim, o que Lúcio confessa não é o que aparenta ser

A longitudinal analysis

Funding Information: This research was funded by Fundação Álvaro Carvalho (funding manager), Câmara Municipal de Cascais, Fundação Vox Populi, Fundação Manuel Viegas Guerreiro, and Claude and Sofia Foundation. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Carvalho, Henriques, Queirós, Rodrigues, Mendonça, Rodrigues, Canhão, de Sousa, Antunes and Guimarães.Background and aim: The kinetics of antibody production in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection is not well-defined yet. This study aimed to evaluate the antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 and its dynamics during 9-months in a cohort of patients infected during the first phase of the pandemic. As a secondary aim, it was intended to evaluate the factors associated with different concentrations of IgG antibodies. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted from June 2020 to January 2021. This study recruited a convenience sample of adult individuals who where recently diagnosed with COVID-19 and were living in mainland Portugal. A total of 1,695 blood samples were collected from 585 recovered COVID-19 patients up to 9 months after SARS-CoV-2 acute infection. A blood sample was collected at baseline and three, 6 and 9 months after SARS-CoV-2 acute infection to assess the concentration of IgG antibody against SARS-CoV-2. Results: The positivity rate of IgG reached 77.7% in the first 3 months after symptom onset. The IgG persists at all subsequent follow-up time-points, which was 87.7 and 89.2% in the 6th and 9th months after symptom onset, respectively. Three distinct kinetics of antibody response were found within the 9 months after infection. Kinetic 1 (K1) was characterized by a constant low IgG antibody concentration kinetic (group size: 65.2%); kinetic 2 (K2), composed by constant moderate IgG kinetic (group size: 27.5%) and kinetic 3 (K3) characterized by higher IgG kinetic (group size: 7.3%). People with ≥56 years old (OR: 3.33; CI 95%: [1.64; 6.67]; p-value: 0.001) and symptomatic COVID-19 (OR: 2.08; CI 95%: [1.08; 4.00]; p-value: 0.031) had higher odds of a “Moderate IgG kinetic.” No significant association were found regarding the “Higher IgG kinetic.” Conclusion: Our results demonstrate a lasting anti-spike (anti-S) IgG antibody response at least 9 months after infection in the majority of patients with COVID-19. Younger participants with asymptomatic disease have lower IgG antibody positivity and possibly more susceptible to reinfection. This information contributes to expanding knowledge of SARS-CoV-2 immune response and has direct implications in the adoption of preventive strategies and public health policies.publishersversionpublishe

Age4all: uma sinergia científica no IPS

Trabalho apresentado no 2º Congresso Politécnico de Setúbal: 40 anos a construir o futuro, outubro 2019, Setúbal, PortugalN/

Gestão da prática clínica

Desde a criação do SUS, os princípios de integralidade e equidade estiveram na pauta dos planejamentos das ações de atenção a saúde em todos os níveis do sistema. A atenção básica (e mais especificamente a ESF) requer, por parte de médicos, enfermeiros e odontólogos, mudanças na perspectiva de suas respectivas práticas clínicas cotidianas visando uma assistência que atenda estes princípios, centrando o foco na pessoa e não no agravo. Assim, a unidade apresenta abordagens teóricas que debatem as mudanças na assistência das três profissões envolvidas para que a discussão possa ocorrer tanto numa perspectiva multiprofissional e todos conheçam o processo de transformação para uma clínica ampliada e integral bem como possa permitir um aprofundamento das questões próprias de cada categoria profissional.Versão 1Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde - OPA