Preparing the return home of the children with cancer

Children with oncologic disease, between treatments, if there are no complications, return home until the next treatment. Planning the discharge is essential to promote a continuity of cares at home. An adequate preparation for discharge leads to a better management of collateral e+ects and to a minor risk of rehospitalisation. The goals of this study were: to identify the preparation for discharge performed to the parents / caregivers of children / adolescents with cancer submitted to chemotherapy; to identify the strategies of preparation for discharge. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and transversal study was developed. After the return home, 11 parents of children with cancer submitted to chemotherapy treatment, participated in the study. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview and its treatment made using content analyses, based on Bardin. From the data analyses emerged the domain The Return Home that aggregates the category Preparation for Discharge and its subcategories: Oral Information, Written Information, Comprehensibility of the Information and Information Content. The return home is simultaneously a desired and feared moment. Parents and children return to their environment, but face di<culties in daily life activities, due to the fear that is provoked by the child’s vulnerability. This way, the return home should be prepared early and adequate to the singular context of each family. Oral information should be reinforced by written information, given the di<culty to process it. The comprehensibility and the content of information are peremptory components in the preparation for discharge.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Children with cancer nutrition at home

The children nutrition is one of the problems that parents have to manage at home, after treatment of an oncological disease. Nutritional commitment may prolong episodes of neutropenia and compromise the e+ectiveness of treatments. The goals of this study were: to identify the needs of parents/caregivers in the management of children/adolescents nutrition with cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatment, at home; to characterize parental strategies in the management of children's nutrition at home, after chemotherapy. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study was developed with eleven parents of children with cancer, who underwent chemotherapy treatment, after returning home. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview and analyzed according to Bardin. From the analysis of content emerged the domain The Life at Home and the category Nutrition. Home Life for parents of the child with cancer presents several challenges, particularly in nutritional management, in the face of reduced food intake and the new rules imposed by the neutropenic diet. Thus, parents resort to several strategies to manage this problem: recourse to new practices in food confectionery; changes in the diet of the whole family; insistence/verbal pressure; distraction; reward after negotiation; supply a varied and nutritious diet; questioning/ accepting the food preference; organic food. Despite appealing to the multiplicity of strategies, the subjects of this study require the need for more structured support so that at home, they can respond to the challenges they face in their daily lives.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Media reporting and coverage of suicide in Portuguese media

A Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) estima que ocorram cerca de um milhão de suicídios anualmente. A cobertura do suicídio em si mesma não promove comportamentos suicidas, mas sim o modo como é conduzida pelos media. Estes podem constituir-se como agentes ativos na prevenc¸ão do suicídio, pelo que importa conhecer a abordagem utilizada. As autoras irão proceder a uma análise das representac¸ões que os media fazem do suicídio, a partir dos textos publicados em 2013 em 6 jornais nacionais. Tendo como referência teórica o framing das notícias, recorremos às técnicas da análise crítica do discurso para olhar mais pormenorizadamente para estas notícias.According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there are one million suicides every year worldwide. Although suicide media coverage does not promote suicidal behaviors, the way the phenomenon is portrayed by the media may have that impact. Media could have an active role in suicide prevention, and so it is important to understand their approach to this issue. We will analyze media’s representations of suicide, through the news published in six Portuguese newspapers in 2013. Our theoretical framework is within the news framing, and we will apply critical discourse analysis tools in order to analyze suicide texts thoroughly.(undefined

A avaliação formativa na expressão escrita em língua espanhola

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ensino de Inglês e Espanhol no 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e no SecundárioA comunicação exerce um papel cada vez mais determinante na vida das pessoas, tanto a nível profissional, como em contexto social, contribuindo desta forma para o desenvolvimento humano em todos os níveis. O objetivo primordial da comunicação escrita é transmitir algo que se julga importante a um, ou vários interlocutores, e neste sentido as novas tecnologias da informação e comunicação influenciam em grande parte este tipo de comunicação, considerando que hoje em dia a comunicação escrita não se reduz à produção de um texto. Ultrapassa em muito este objetivo pois, neste mundo global, atualmente é possível comunicarmos com o outro lado do globo em frações de segundos. A educação acompanhou, e acompanha, de perto todas as mudanças ocorridas. É na escola que as crianças têm o primeiro contacto com a aprendizagem da língua, seja ela materna, estrangeira ou segunda língua, enquanto sistema. Neste seguimento, a educação avançou com a abordagem comunicativa com o intuito de desenvolver competências ou habilidades para comunicar, não só através da linguagem oral, mas também através da linguagem escrita. Em oposição ao tratamento tradicional do texto escrito como um produto que o aluno entrega ao professor e este corrige exaustivamente, foram surgindo alternativas nas quais o ensino da escrita é concebido como um processo no qual participam, no seu devido tempo, todos os agentes educativos: o próprio aprendente, a turma e o professor. Agora todo o processo de ensino aprendizagem está centrado no aluno, embora permanentemente aberto à intervenção do professor enquanto orientador do processo. Tendo em conta estas linhas de ideia, elaborou-se este relatório que dá conta de uma reflexão feita em torno do desenvolvimento das competências comunicativas na expressão escrita nas aulas de língua espanhola, durante o meu ano de estágio, onde foram desenhadas algumas estratégias e materiais para o aperfeiçoamento desta competência em língua estrangeira – espanhol, tendo sempre em conta a avaliação formativa.More and more, communication has a bigger role in people´s lives, whether professionally or socially, contributing for human skills development at all levels. Written communication’s main goal is to transmit something considered important to one or several interlocutors. Thus, new information and communication technologies are a great influence, considering that, nowadays written communication not only depends on writing a simple text. It goes much further once that in the actual global world it is possible to communicate with any part of the globe in few seconds. Education has kept up with all the changes because school is the place where children have the first contact with the native language, foreign or even a second language as a system. In this context we can say that education took a step forward to communication aiming to develop competences or different skills to communicate through out oral and written language. Opposed to the traditional written text as something that the students hand to the teacher to be thoroughly corrected, some alternatives have appeared considering that the written skills development is a process that involves all of the educational agents: students, class and teacher. Now, all of the teaching process is focused on the student, but always allowing teacher´s intervention as the leader of the process. On this account, this report was developed considering the communicative competences in Spanish language classes, during my training year. There were developed some strategies and materials to improve these competences of the foreign language – Spanish, never forgetting the concept of formative evaluation

É tudo o mesmo ou nem por isso: as relações entre presentismo, workaholism e comportamentos de cidadania organizacional e os seus efeitos no bem-estar do trabalhador

Classificação adotada na unidade orgânica: 3600 Psicologia Industrial e Organizacional, 3660 Comportamento OrganizacionalEsta dissertação teve como objetivo perceber se o presentismo, o workaholism e os comportamentos de cidadania organizacional são conceitos que se sobrepõem tendo em conta que existem semelhanças entre estes. Para confirmar a sua sobreposição ou distinção, estudou-se, também, os efeitos que estas variáveis têm no bem-estar no trabalho. Neste estudo participaram 403 indivíduos profissionalmente ativos, provenientes de vários setores de atividade. Foram realizadas várias análises de componentes principais e análises de correlações para testar a nossa questão de investigação e foram realizadas regressões lineares múltiplas para testar os efeitos das três variáveis no bem-estar no trabalho. Os resultados demonstraram que os ganhos de produtividade associados ao presentismo, o workaholism e os comportamentos de cidadania organizacional são constructos distintos e as hipóteses deste estudo foram parcialmente confirmadas. Verificou-se que o presentismo e o workaholism afetam negativamente o bem-estar no trabalho enquanto que os comportamentos de cidadania organizacional afetam positivamente o bem-estar no trabalho.This thesis aimed do understand if presenteeism, workaholism and organizational citizenship behaviors are concepts that overlap given that there are similarities between them. To confirm its overlap or distinction, we also investigated the effects these variables have on well-being at work. This study involved 403 professionally active individuals from various sectors of activity. We did several principal component analysis and correlation analysis to test our research question and multiple linear regressions were conducted to test the effects of the three variables on well-being at work. The results showed that the productivity gains associated with presenteeism, workaholism and organizational citizenship behaviors are distinct constructs and hypotheses of this study were partially confirmed. It was found that presenteeism and workaholism negatively affect the well-being at work while organizational citizenship behaviors positively affect well-being at work

Diabetes e ensino alimentar : do mito à realidade

Contém um relatório de estágio realizado no Serviço de Medicina Interna do Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia, no âmbito da licenciatura em Ciências da Nutrição pela Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto. O exemplar do relatório de estágio existe apenas em formato papel e está disponível para consulta na Biblioteca da FCNAUPTese de licenciatura em Ciências da Nutrição apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do PortoResumo da tese: No Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia foram realizadas sessões expositivas e práticas de educação alimentar com diabéticos tipo1 e diabéticos tipo2. Foi objecto deste trabalho avaliar a aquisição de conhecimentos de ordem alimentar adquiridos durante a sessão de ensino; colocar os doentes em contatcto com a Roda dos Alimentos e confrontá-los com o sistema de troca de equivalentes. A amostra foi de 100 doentes, dos quais, 10% eram diabéticos tipo 1 e 90% tipo 2, em primeira consulta ou consulta recente de Endocrinologia, sem qualquer tipo de orientação alimentar realizada nesse Centro Hospitalar, 65% dos doentes eram do sexo femenino e 35% de sexo masculino, com uma média de idades de 57,62 anos e um desvio padrão de 13,61. A maioria dos doentes responderam a um inquérito de admintração directa com questões abertas e fechadas. Recolheram-se informações sobre as situações socio-económico-culturais de cada doente e sobre os seus conhecimentos relativamente à diabetes, com incidência em questões alimentares. Estas foram elaboradas com base em afirmações e dúvidas colocadas durante as consultas. Foram constituidos 10 grupos de afirmações divididos pelos temas: conhecimento geral da diabetes, cuidados alimentares gerais do diabético, equivalentes do leite, equivalentes da carne, equivalentes da gordura, equivalentes do pão, hortofrutícolas, bebidas, alimentos açucarados e miscelâneas

Influence of calcium acetate concentration in electrolyte on tribocorrosion behaviour of MAO treated titanium

Ti-based materials are widely used for dental and orthopaedic implant applications due to their adequate mechanical properties, corrosion behaviour and biocompatibility. However, these materials are biologically inert and display poor wear resistance. In one of the most studied processes that aims to overcome these drawbacks, Ti surfaces are often covered by anodic oxide films with the incorporation of bioactive agents such as Ca and P. Although there are several works on the tribocorrosion behaviour of MAO-treated Ti surfaces, the influence of electrolyte composition on the corrosion kinetics under sliding is yet to be fully understood. In the present work, anodic oxide films were produced on cp-Ti surfaces with different calcium acetate concentrations in the electrolyte. Tribocorrosion behaviour was investigated by reciprocating sliding tests performed in 8 g/L NaCl solution at body temperature, under potentiostatic conditions. The results showed that higher concentrations of calcium acetate had a detrimental effect on tribocorrosion kinetics, however, they resulted in less mechanical damage due to alterations in the topography and structure of the MAO layer.This work was supported by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal, under UIDB/04436/2020 project. L. Sousa was grateful for the PhD grant through NORTE08-5369-FSE-000051 project

The predictive value of dyadic coping in the explanation of PTSD symptoms and subjective well-being of work accident victims

Objective: Work accidents may be considered dyadic stressors in so far as they not only affect the worker, but also the couple's relationship. Dyadic coping, as the process by which couples manage the stress experienced by each partner, can strengthen individual health and well-being as well as couple relationship functioning. Accidents at work have progressively been studied from a perspective that focuses on their negative effects on PTSS, anxiety, and depression. However, to a large extent, the dyadic coping processes and results following a work accident are still to be identified and clarified. In this study, we examined the predictive value of dyadic coping in the explanation of PTSS and subjective well-being of work accident victims. Method: This study comprised a sample of 62 individuals involved in work accidents within the last 24 months (61.3% males) and their partners (N = 124; M = 46.25 years, SD = 11.18). All participants responded to the Dyadic Coping Inventory and the work accident victims also answered the PTSD Checklist - Civilian (PCL-C) and the Mental Health Continuum - Short Form (MHC-SF). Two hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed using two different variable set models: Model 1 comprised the control variables gender and age, and Model 2 included the workers' and the partners' dyadic coping variables. Results: Results showed that dyadic coping reported by both workers and their respective partners (Model 2) was a significant predictor of workers' PTSS (p < 0.01) and subjective well-being (p < 0.001), explaining 31.2% of the variance in PCL-C and 68.7% in MHC-SF results. More specifically, the partners' supportive dyadic coping (by the self) and delegated dyadic coping (by the partner) were significant predictors of the workers' lower PTSS and virtually all the dyadic copying strategies of both the workers' and their partners' were significant predictors of the workers' higher subjective well-being. Conclusion: Dyadic coping of both the workers and their partners predicts the workers' PTSS and subjective well-being. These findings point to the need to work with couples who have experienced a work accident, with a view to improving the workers' mental health outcomes.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio