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CRC Press eBooks, Jan 6, 2023

Escola Anna Nery, Jun 1, 2016

Incluir conhecimentos de saúde mental no cuidado integral ao ser humano e conseguir identificar q... more Incluir conhecimentos de saúde mental no cuidado integral ao ser humano e conseguir identificar quando a pessoa-alvo dos seus cuidados necessita de apoio de Enfermagem especializada em Saúde Mental e Psiquiatria são competências essenciais de qualquer enfermeiro de cuidados gerais, sendo importante perceber como integrar esse conhecimento nos planos de estudo dos enfermeiros de cuidados gerais. Este artigo tem como objetivos descrever a concepção e o planejamento da aprendizagem da Enfermagem de Saúde Mental e Psiquiatria dos estudantes do Curso de Licenciatura em Enfermagem, em Coimbra, Portugal, caracterizar as unidades curriculares de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental e Psiquiatria que integram o plano de estudos e analisar os seus contributos para a formação de competências dos enfermeiros de cuidados gerais.Incluir el conocimiento de la salud mental en la atención integral de los seres humanos y ser capaz de identificar cuando la persona cuidada necesita apoyo de enfermería especializ...

Open Journal of Nursing, 2013

Last decade, the geography of immigration in Portugal experienced intense transformations with an... more Last decade, the geography of immigration in Portugal experienced intense transformations with an increasing inflow of new and diversified migratory groups. An open questionnaire was developed and applied to 22 Portuguese nurses, aiming to analyse personal experiences and significant situations of nursing care in multicultural contexts. The understanding of hospital routines, difficulties in managing physical space due to different cultural standards, body exposure, and body handling in nursing clinical care, emerged as more significant issues in reports of critical incidents focusing on multicultural contexts.

Acta reumatologica portuguesa, Jan 30, 2014

Background: Telephone helplines for patients are tool for information and advice. They can contri... more Background: Telephone helplines for patients are tool for information and advice. They can contribute to patient's satisfaction with care and to the effectiveness and safety of treatments. In order to achieve this, they need to be adequately adapted to the target populations, as to incorporate their abilities and expectations. Aims: a) Evaluate the adherence of patients to a telephone helpline managed by nurses in a Portuguese Rheumatology Department, b) Analyse the profile of users and their major needs, c) Analyse the management of calls by the nurses. Material/Methods: The target population of this phone service are the patients treated at Day Care Hospital and Early Arthritis Clinic of our department. Nurses answered phone calls immediately between 8am and 4pm of working days. In the remaining hours messages were recorded on voice mail and answered as soon as possible. Details of the calls were registered in a dedicated sheet and patients were requested permission to use dat...

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2006

Objective: to adapt to Portuguese, of Portugal, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales, a 21-i... more Objective: to adapt to Portuguese, of Portugal, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales, a 21-item short scale (DASS 21), designed to measure depression, anxiety and stress. Method: After translation and back-translation with the help of experts, the DASS 21 was administered to patients in external psychiatry consults (N=101), and its internal consistency, construct validity and concurrent validity were measured. Results: The DASS 21 properties certify its quality to measure emotional states. The instrument reveals good internal consistency. Factorial analysis shows that the two-factor structure is more adequate. The first factor groups most of the items that theoretically assess anxiety and stress, and the second groups most of the items that assess depression, explaining, on the whole, 58.54% of total variance. The strong positive correlation between the DASS 21 and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD) confirms the hypothesis regarding the criterion validity, however,...

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2009

This study aimed to evaluate the alcohol consumption phenomenon in public schools in Coimbra, Por... more This study aimed to evaluate the alcohol consumption phenomenon in public schools in Coimbra, Portugal (7th, 8th and 9th grades) for the implementation of a preventive program of alcohol use/abuse. This is a quantitative, descriptive and correlational study. The sample included 654 students (51.5% female) between 12 and 18 years of age. The Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire - Adolescent form (AEQ-A) and the Questionnaire of Knowledge on Alcohol were used for data collection. Results show that positive expectancy on alcohol is discriminative of consumption and occurrence of intoxication. Positive expectancy exists even before adolescents have significant experiences with alcohol consumption and increases with age, which reinforces the need for early preventive effort. These results permitted to improve the prevention program included in the school curriculum of the 7th grade students.

BMC Psychiatry, 2013

Background: Depression is a common disorder in adolescents and young adults, but help seeking is ... more Background: Depression is a common disorder in adolescents and young adults, but help seeking is low. Mental health literacy about depression is a key concept to plan interventions for improving help seeking. This study aimed to evaluate youth mental literacy about depression in order to design school-based interventions. Methods: During 2012, a survey was conducted with a stratified cluster sample of 4938 Portuguese young people between 14 and 24 years of age. Following the presentation of a vignette describing depression, a series of questions was asked concerning: recognition of the disorder; knowledge of professional help and treatments available; knowledge of effective self-help strategies; knowledge and skills to give first aid and support to others; and knowledge of how to prevent this disorder. Results: In response to an open-ended question, around a quarter of the participants failed to recognize depression in the vignette. When asked about the potential helpfulness of various people, most of the participants considered mental health professionals, family and friends to be helpful. However, teachers, social workers and a helpline were less likely to be considered as helpful. With regard to medications, vitamins received more positive views than psychotropics. Some interventions were frequently rated as likely to be helpful, whereas for others there was a lack of knowledge about their effectiveness. A positive finding is that alcohol and tobacco consumption were seen as harmful. When asked about mental health first aid strategies, participants supported the value of listening to the person in the vignette and advising professional help, but some unhelpful strategies were commonly endorsed as well. Conclusion: Deficits were found in some aspects of depression literacy in Portuguese youth. Therefore intervention in this area is needed.

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2016

Objective: to analyze the contribution of Portuguese nursing to improving universal health access... more Objective: to analyze the contribution of Portuguese nursing to improving universal health access and coverage by means of the identification of nurses in the health system; evolution of health indicators; and access-promoting systems, in which nurses play a relevant role. Method: this was documentary research of publications fromnational and international organizations on planning and health outcomes. Statistical databases and legislation on health reforms were consulted. Results: nurses represent 30.18% of human resources in the national health service; the systems of access promotion performed by nurses have good levels of efficacy (95.5%) and user satisfaction (99% completely satisfied); in the local care the creation of Community Care Units (185) occurred, and 85.80% of home consultations were performed by nurses. Conclusion: political strategies, the National Health Service and strengthening of human resourcesin healthcareare the main determinants. Nursing is the most numerous...

Including mental health knowledge in the integral care of the human being and being able to ident... more Including mental health knowledge in the integral care of the human being and being able to identify when the target of their care needs specialized Nursing support in Mental Health and Psychiatry, are essential competences of any nurse of general care, being important to understand how to integrate this knowledge in the study plans of general care nurses. This article aims to describe the conception and planning of the Mental Health and Psychiatry Nursing learning of students of the Undergraduate Nursing Course in Coimbra, Portugal, to characterize the Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing curricular units that are part of the studies and analyze their contribution to the training of general care nurses.

Os resultados encontrados mostram uma discrepância muito grande na prevalência de Burnout, podend... more Os resultados encontrados mostram uma discrepância muito grande na prevalência de Burnout, podendo variar entre 5 a 50%. O único estudo de âmbito nacional incluído nesta análise, com uma amostra de 1262 enfermeiros, revelou uma percentagem de 49,4%. As diferenças encontradas podem estar relacionadas não só com as características amostrais, mas também com o facto de se verificar que, apesar de todos os estudos utilizarem o Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), foram utilizadas diferentes versões e critérios de medida. Os resultados parecem corroborar a relação negativa entre a idade e experiência profissional com o Burnout, ou seja, os mais jovens apresentam maior prevalência desta síndrome.

The use of strategies to reduce post operative anxiety is an essential part of a good health care... more The use of strategies to reduce post operative anxiety is an essential part of a good health care delivery. In order to evaluate the effect of a psycho-educa...

Pensar a formação para o futuro não é tarefa fácil se considerarmos o clima geral de complexidade... more Pensar a formação para o futuro não é tarefa fácil se considerarmos o clima geral de complexidade, imprevisibilidade e mudança que caracteriza o mundo atual. Mas, também não podemos esquecer o que aprendemos com António Machado quando diz “que não existe caminho, o caminho nasce da nossa caminhada”, por isso decidimos aceitar o desafio.