A linguagem figurativa, compreensão e expressão. Estudo comparativo: alunos de classe regular e alunos referenciados com necessidades educativas especiais

Language is the main communication tool of the human being as a means of interaction with others and with himself. It is through verbal, acoustic and visual representations that the acquisition of language, becomes fundamental in establishing contact with family/caregivers, from its early years. This research contributed to the adaptation portuguese version of the program REHACOG, to the application figurative language module. A descriptive and exploratory study with 20 subjects, male and female, referenced to students with special needs and students who attend regular classes without learning difficulties or cognitive deficits. The results of this study demonstrated that children´s special educational needs found below, as compared to their peers in regular classes, in different courses of studies.Linguagem é o principal instrumento de comunicação do Ser Humano, enquanto via de interação com os outros e consigo mesmo. A linguagem é vista como a janela do conhecimento humano, permitindo vivências e aprendizagens individuais e sociais. O presente estudo pretende contribuir para a depuração de um módulo, Linguagem Figurativa, do programa de intervenção neuropsicológica REHACOG. Foi realizado um estudo descritivo e exploratório com 20 indivíduos, comparando-se alunos referenciados com Necessidades Educativas Especiais e alunos que frequentam turmas regulares, sem dificuldades de aprendizagem ou défices cognitivos denunciados. Os resultados demonstram que as crianças com Necessidades Educativas Especiais obtêm resultados inferiores, nos 2º e 3º ciclos do ensino básico e ensino secundário

Parental Meta-Emotion, Attachment to Parents, and Personal Agency in Adolescents

Guided by attachment theory, we explored in the present study the links between parental emotioncoaching, attachment to parents, and adolescent’s sense of agency. Further, we examined a possible mediating role of adolescent’s attachment to parents in the association between parental emotion-coaching and sense of agency. All models control for cumulative psychosocial risk, and adolescents’ sex and age, and take into account the reports of both mothers and fathers. The sample included 501 Portuguese families comprising adolescents, their mothers, and their fathers. Adolescents (ages ranged from 15 to 18) reported on their attachment to parents, personal agency, and cumulative psychosocial risk, whereas mothers and fathers independently completed a questionnaire assessing their meta-emotion skills. The results indicate that both mothers’ and fathers’ emotional-coaching are positively associated with the quality of adolescent’s attachment to parents. Nonetheless, parental emotion-coaching are not directly associate with sense of agency. The quality of emotional bond with father is linked to a more positive sense of agency, while relationships characterized by mother’s inhibition of adolescent’s exploration are associated with less positive perceptions of agency. Parental emotion-coaching seems to be associated with the sense of personal agency through the quality of attachment to parents. These results are discussed according to attachment theory taking into account the parents’ importance to adolescents’ development. Our findings provide a first attempt to unravel the possible links between parental emotion-coaching, attachment to parents, and sense of agency; nevertheless, they need to expand

A review on urinary tract infections diagnostic methods: Laboratory-based and point-of-care approaches

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infectious diseases worldwide. This type of infections can be healthcare-associated or community-acquired and affects millions of people every year. Different diagnostic procedures are available to detect pathogens in urine and they can be divided into two main categories: laboratory-based and point-of-care (POC) detection techniques. Traditional methodologies are often timeconsuming, thus, achieving a rapid and accurate identification of pathogens is a challenging feature that has been pursued by many research groups and companies operating in this area. The purpose of this review is to compare and highlight advantages and disadvantages of the traditional and currently most used detection methods, as well as the emerging POC approaches and the relevant advances in on-site detection of pathogens ' mechanisms, suitable to be adapted to UTI diagnosis. Lately, the commercially available UTI self-testing kits and devices are helping in the diagnosis of urinary infections as patients or care givers are able to perform the test, easily and comfortably at home and, upon the result, decide when to attend an appointment/Urgent Health Care Unit.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Self-regulation in early childhood: the interplay between family risk, temperament and teacher–child interactions

AbstractThis study investigates the interplay between family risk and the quality of classroom interactions and their impact on self-regulation skills in two groups of children—children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds (at-risk) and non-risk children. Participants included 485 children (N = 93 classrooms)—233 (N = 47 classrooms) of which were from socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. Temperament was measured using teacher report. Trained observers rated classroom quality via live observations of a typical preschool day. Behavioral regulation was assessed using direct measures and emotional regulation was assessed using a teacher report. Analyses using multiple group structural equation modeling showed that at-risk children had lower levels of cool behavior regulation than non-risk children. In addition, classroom quality was positively linked to cool behavioral self-regulation. Moderating effects were additionally found between family risk and classroom quality on both hot behavioral reg..

We stick together!: COVID-19 and psychological adjustment in youth residential care

The COVID-19 pandemic had a great impact also on residential care institutions. These contexts were forced to introduce many adaptations to their regular functioning in order to serve children and families throughout such unpredictable times. According to the literature adolescents in residential care have an increased risk of developing psychological, behavioral and social problems compared with general population rearing with their biological families. Our purpose was to examine the effects of cohesion on adolescents’ psychological adjustment over the COVID pandemic. We tested whether adolescents` perception of cohesion in residential care mitigates the emergency of adolescents` psychological adjustment during the current pandemic situation on previous association. Participants were 243 adolescents 12 to 18 aged, living in 21 different residential care institutions. The results suggested a moderating role of cohesion on the stability of adolescents’ emotional distress across time. Lower levels of cohesion were related with higher emotional distress stability across time. On the contrary, as cohesion increased, the association between adolescents’ emotional distress at T0 and T1 decreased. Results are discussed considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological adjustment of adolescents living in residential care.Communication presented at XVI European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents Conference (EUSARF). This work was funded by Portuguese National funds FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P (PTDC/PSI-ESP/28653/2017)

Implante de fragmentos de lóbulos de gordura autóloga na esclerodermia localizada e lipoatrofia idiopática, relato de cinco pacientes

A large number of diseases may cause Atrophic skin disorders are caused by a large number of diseases, some of them idiopathic and others inflammatory, in which there is loss of volume of body segments. Localized scleroderma is a rare inflammatory dermatosis, manifested by atrophic skin and subcutaneous tissue alterations. Lipoatrophy may be genetically inherited or acquired as a result of panniculitis, HIV infections or aging. Many treatments have been proposed. Results vary in the acute inflammatory phase and are scarce when sclerosis and atrophy have already been established. This article describes four cases of localized facial scleroderma and one of facial idiopathic lipoatrophy treated with implantation of autologous fat globules extracted from the infragluteal groove, without utilization of cannula aspiration, with lasting results.Os distúrbios atróficos da pele abrangem inúmeras doenças, algumas idiopáticas e outras, inflamatórias, em que há perda do volume de segmentos do corpo. A esclerodermia localizada é uma dermatose inflamatória, rara, que pode manifestar-se com alterações atróficas da pele e tecido subcutâneo. A lipoatrofia pode ser herdada geneticamente ou adquirida relacionada a paniculites, infeccção pelo HIV, ou envelhecimento. Muitos tratamentos são propostos. Os resultados são variáveis na fase inflamatória aguda e apresentam pouca resposta quando a esclerose e atrofia já estão instaladas. Descreve-se o tratamento de quatro casos de esclerodermia localizada e um de lipoatrofia idiopática, na face, tratados com enxerto de fragmentos de lóbulos de gordura autóloga extraídos sem a utilização da cânula aspirativa, com resultados duradouros.12012

Pre-neoplastic lesions associated with liver and colon responses to 1,2-dimethylhydrazine in an animal model of colorectal cancer

Background: The high incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC) combined with the lack of an effective method for early diagnosis and effective treatments make CRC one of the most relevant cancers to be studied. Thus, our work aims to study the spectrum of liver and colon lesions induced in rats by the 1,2-Dimethylhydrazine (DMH). Materials and methods: Twenty-nine male Wistar rats were randomly divided into two control groups (CTRL1 (n=6) and CTRL2 (n=6)) administrated with ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA)-saline; and two induced groups (CRC1 (n=8) and CRC2 (n=9)) administrated with DMH (40 mg/kg) for 7 consecutive weeks. The CRC1 and CTRL1 groups, and the CRC2 and CTRL2 groups were sacrificed 11 and 17 weeks after the first administration, respectively. A complete necropsy was performed. Liver and colon samples of all animals were collected, fixed in formalin, and processed for histopathological analysis. The animals' blood and a small portion of the liver were collected to analyze serum markers of inflammation and to validate chemical induction through the comet assay, respectively. Results: Half of the animals belonging to the CRC1 group presented mild to moderate dysplasia foci (n=3) in the colon. The incidence of neoplasia was only 16.7% (n=1) in the CRC2 group. Moreover, one animal from the CRC2 group also exhibited severe dysplasia and two presented mild to moderate dysplasia foci. Inflammatory lesions in colon samples were present in all animals from CRC groups. Although the animals showed local inflammation, there was no evidence of systemic inflammation (normal CRP and IL-6 serum levels). Lymphoid inflammatory aggregates were observed in the liver of all animals. Furthermore, DMH induced other changes, such as hepatocyte megalocytosis and single-cell necrosis. Results from liver comet assay showed a lower genetic damage index in control groups when compared to DMH-exposed groups (p<0.05), i.e. DMH induced DNA damage in rats’ liver. Conclusions: Once animals showed predominantly pre-neoplastic lesions, our data suggest that the disease was at an early stage. In the future, we intend to change the dose of the carcinogen and the time of exposure to observe advanced stages of CRC development. We consider that this model is useful in the study of CRC chemoprevention associated with local inflammation