The case study as a method of research in nursing

Unidade de Monitorização de Indicadores em Saúde - UMISRESUMO Contexto: O estudo de caso tem interesse para a análise de projetos de desenvolvimento curricular. A compreensão dos fenómenos confere-lhe a particularidade, quando as fronteiras entre estes e o contexto são indefinidas. Objetivos: disseminar a experiência de utilização de estudo de caso na área da enfermagem. Método: Estudo de caso múltiplo com pesquisa documental, observação participante dos estudantes, entrevistas semiestruturadas. Tratamento dos dados por análise de conteúdo; análise de domínios culturais e triangulação. Resultados: colocámos em evidência os resultados: categorias de análise e triangulação, conferindo a validade do constructo. Conclusões: O estudo de caso permitiu estudar em profundidade o fenómeno da Promoção da Saúde em duas Escolas Superiores de Saúde (casos), pelo envolvimento dos professores no currículo na elaboração de estratégias produtoras de inovação e desenvolvimento de competências dos estudantes. Os estudos de casos múltiplos como método de investigação, favorecem o crescimento e desenvolvimento da enfermagem como disciplina e profissão.ABSTRACT Context: The case study is of interest for the analysis of curricular development projects. The understanding of phenomena confers on it the particularity, when the boundaries between them and the context are indefinite. Objective: to spread the experience of using a case study in the nursing area. Method: Multiple case study with documentary research, participant observation of students, semi-structured interviews. Treatment of data by content analysis; analysis of cultural domains and triangulation. Results: We highlighted the results: categories of analysis and triangulation, conferring the validity of the construct. Conclusions: The case study allowed us to study in depth the phenomenon of Health Promotion in two Higher Health Schools (cases), for the involvement of teachers in the curriculum in the elaboration of strategies to produce innovation and development of students' competences. Multiple case studies as a research method favor the growth and development of nursing as a discipline and profession.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

CONTEXTUALIZED INTERVENTION IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH PROMOTION

Unidade de Monitorização dos indicadores em Saúde - UMISRESUMO Contexto: A evidência científica salienta ser necessário capacitar os estudantes de enfermagem para serem promotores de saúde no século XXI, afirmando que os compromissos da Promoção da Saúde (PrS) são princípio chave do desenvolvimento global e são, altamente, exigentes e políticos. Objetivos: Caraterizar o conhecimento dos professores sobre a PrS, na conceção, desenvolvimento e avaliação curricular; identificar os sentidos atribuídos pelos estudantes à aprendizagem da PrS. Método: Estudo de caso múltiplo: análise documental, observação participante e entrevistas. Tratamento e análise dos dados: conteúdo, domínios culturais e triangulação. Resultados: da análise dos dados emergiram os domínios: avaliação diagnóstica, diagnóstico, planeamento, implementação e avaliação dos cuidados. Conclusões: os estudantes relevam atributos do empowerment; não mobilizam os modelos de enfermagem; apresentam diagnósticos sem a síntese dos dados; salientam que a PrS não tem o mesmo estatuto das outras intervenções; procedem à implementação estandardizada e centram a avaliação nos resultados e culpabilização das pessoas.ABSTRACT Background: Scientific evidence emphasizes the need to train nursing students to be health promoters in the 21st century, stating that Health Promotion (PrS) commitments are a principle key of global development and are highly demanding and political. Objectives: To characterize the teachers' knowledge about PrS in the design, development and curricular evaluation; identify the meanings attributed by students to PrS learning. Method: Multiple case study: documentary analysis, participant observation and interviews. Treatment and analysis of data: content, cultural domains and triangulation. Results: From the analysis of the data emerged the domains: diagnostic evaluation, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care. Conclusions: Students underline attributes of empowerment; do not mobilize the nursing models; present diagnoses without data synthesis; stress that PrS does not have the same status as other interventions; standardized implementation and focus evaluation on outcomes and blame of people. Keywordsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Development process of a web platform to promote health literacy among young people – Your PEL

artigo apresentado em Coimbra no Annual Meeting 2019The project Your PEL - Promote and Empower Literacy in health in the young people in the areas of healthy diet, sexuality and tobacco and alcohol use, presenting the "ICT applied to Health" as an area of activity, shows the information diffusion as one of the axes of the National Health Plan, enabling the creation of tools and communication channels supported on the Web. The activities development aimed to innovation, makes use of the creative potential that the presente generation young people have in this domain.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

GRASS UTILIZATION IN GROWING FINISHING BÍSARO PIGS (85-107 KG). PERFORMANCE AND CARCASS COMPOSITION

The use of different quantities of vegetables, forages or fresh grass as fodder for growing-finishing pigs is an important factor of the northern Portugal traditional system. The increasing development of swine production in outdoor systems, extensive and organic production, turns to upcoming natural diets, in which grass performs a significant part. With regard to this, some investigation has been made concerning the use of fibre-rich feed ingredients in pig nutrition. Metabolic effects of its ingestion are analysed concerning different sights (economical, social, environmental and physiological ones). The aim of this work was to study the effects of grass utilization in the diets on performances of finishing Bísaro pigs. A total of 22 pigs (16 castrated males and 6 females) was housed outdoor and fed ad libitum (37 – 85 kg live weight) with a growing diet and then transferred to an indoor system (with free access to an outdoor area) for 49 days, according to 3 different treatments: 100% concentrate (C), 75% concentrate + ad libitum grass (CE75), 50% concentrate + ad libitum grass (CE50). The grass was supplied and its intake registered on a daily basis. Every 14 days, the pigs were weighted and their back fat (P2 in vivo) measured. After slaughter (average weight of 107 kg LW), yield and ½ left carcass characteristics were controlled. During the outdoor growing phase, the ADG was 513 g/day. During the indoor finishing phase, the increase grass intake was proportional to the reduction of concentrate in the diet. The ADG (g) and the fat deposition (P2 cm) were significantly different (P<0,05) in the 3 treatments (ADG: C=641, CE75=467, CE50=356 and: C=11,4, CE75=+9,5, CE50=+6,2). The empty body weight (kg) was also proportional to the intake of concentrate (C=116,2; CE75=107,7; CE50=102,2). Comparatively to the weight of the body parts, pigs that had higher intake of grass and lower of concentrate showed a higher % of shoulder (P<0,05; C=20,4, CE75=21,7, CE50=22,2) and the pH45min of CE carcasses was significantly higher (P<0,05). As a conclusion, concentrate substitution for grass showed a slower growing rate, thinner carcasses and a high technological quality. Neverthelles variability (CV %) of the productive parameters at the end of this study were higher in the treatments that included grass: live weight (C= 10,5%; C75=10,7%; C50=14,3%), finishing ADG (C=24%; C75=37%, C50=42%), and final fat (C=37%; C75=32%, C50=52%). These values suggest that the utilization of fibrous feeds in growing-finishing swine may be one of the possible explanations of the more heterogeneous products and carcasses found in the traditional or extensive systems, common users of fibrous feeds in the carcass finishing phase

Paixão e redenção. Double Indemnity (Pagos a dobrar), de James M. Cain e Billy Wilder

Em 1943, James M. Cain publica uma coletânea de três contos longos intitulada Three of a Kind. Um desses contos era Double Indemnity, com base no qual Billy Wilder escreveu e realizou um filme com o mesmo título (Pagos a Dobrar, em português), que sairia em 1944. O guião, escrito em colaboração com Raymond Chandler, introduz algumas diferenças na história de Cain. Este ensaio analisa algumas dessas diferenças – a cena inicial, muito mais carregada no filme que no livro, os elementos redentores das personagens, que variam significativamente, o desenvolvimento de uma personagem, Barton Keyes, relativamente secundária no livro, mas que adquire enorme protagonismo no filme, e o final, que no livro é quase ridículo e no filme quase sublime –, discutindo brevemente as suas des/vantagens narrativas e dramáticas

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Information Technology Adoption on Digital Marketing: A Literature Review

Data generation is currently expanding at an astonishing pace, and the function of marketing is becoming increasingly sophisticated and customized. Companies seek to understand their internal corporate environment and externalities and to exponentially enhance their marketing power. This study aims to understand the influence of Big data analysis on digital marketing. The methodologies used to approach this issue were: (a) a systematic literature review based on articles dated between 2014 and 2020; and (b) a bibliometric analysis of articles dated between 2000 and 2020 using the software VOSviewer. The literature review allowed us to conclude that in the next decades, the business world in general, and marketing in particular, will define more oriented strategies based on a more profound knowledge of consumer behavior. Artificial intelligence agents driven by machine learning methods, technology, and Big data will be a conditioning factor in defining these strategiesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Your PEL questionnaire development - evaluation of the impact of health education programs in schools.

Artigo apresentado em Coimbra no âmbito do Anuual Meeting 2019 da Escola Superior de Tecnologia da SaúdeThe Your PEL project emerged in response to requests from regional school groups and community care units that have identified the need to assess the impact of interventions on developing attitudes and behaviors that reflect health gains. In this context, the need to construct an instrument for the impact evaluation of health education programs in schools in the areas of healthy diet, tobacco and alcohol use, and sexuality at the the secundary school level of education, which allows to monitorize the determinants of health and the effectiveness of the strategies developed.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

INTERNATIONAL DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES AND THEIR ORGANIZATIONAL AND EXOGENOUS ANTECEDENTS

International operations, with its multiplicity of objectives, can be seen as a diversification strategy, sometimes even as a strategic option taken as an effective alternative to product diversification. Focusing on a sample of SMEs of Portuguese manufacturing industries, this study analyzes the international diversification strategies and their organizational and exogenous antecedents. Specifically, entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic capabilities of the firm are two factors of organizational nature, while the environmental uncertainty arising from the diversity of the different markets is studied as an exogenous antecedent. Data collected in 390 companies through an online questionnaire, its processing and analysis through the use of a structural equations model suggest the existence of different types of influence of the antecedents, according to companies’ options in various dimensions of the international diversification strategies. These results provide guidelines for managers and generate directions for future research

VITIVINICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND BIODIVERSITY: SUSTAINABILITY ACTIONS

The rational use of resources is currently a widely discussed topic in any organization, although it takes on greater importance in those of productive scope. Measures of different levels − strategic, tactical or operational − are increasingly being implemented, so it is pertinent to analyze their effect on the distinct dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. Any strategic process must go through those that are considered the four crucial stages: analysis, formulation, implementation and control. The perfect knowledge of the environment and its emerging needs and concerns along with an in-depth survey of the internal situation of the organizations will allow us to achieve truly differentiating levels of excellence. This research, carried out in a wine-producing organization – Adega Cooperativa de Mangualde – identifies its crucial activities, the main strategic, tactical and operational actions that have been implemented in the last eight years, fits them into the above-mentioned dimensions of sustainability and determines its relative weights. Particular emphasis is placed on grapes suppliers − the capital holders −, as regards their mode of production and its impact on biodiversity and the environment. Raising public awareness of this issue is of great importance and people should be encouraged to alter their behaviour by changing some attitudes in everyday life. This awareness to achieve sustainable development becomes even more important insofar as it is a cooperative institution with a management model of well-defined specific characteristics