Being active with a chronic respiratory disease
Sofia Flora, researcher at ciTechCare and PhD student at the Faculty of Human Motricity, published an article on July 14 in Diário de Leiria on the importance of physical activity in the health and quality of life of people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which highlights the work that has been developed at ciTechCare in this area, within the OnTRACK project and her PhD project (both funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT Ref. POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028446 and 2020.06954.BD).Sofia emphasizes “Particularly in people with COPD, their health condition, exercise tolerance and the appropriateness of the type of physical activity are
Research nominated as Figure of the Week
Maria Guarino, Coordinator of ciTechCare and Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences of the Polytechnic of Leiria, was nominated as the Figure of the Week in the newspaper Região de Leiria, following the attribution of the Alfredo da Silva Research Award, in the category “Technological Innovation, Mobility and Industry ”.The researcher is responsible for the CBmeter project, which aims to develop and test a device for screening and early detection of type 2 diabetes mellitus by monitoring the activity of the carotid bodies. +INFO: https://www.regiaodeleiria.pt/ (edition July 8, 2021)
Unique approach to cardiac rehabilitation
ciTechCare was again in the news of the Jornal de Leiria on December 11th, where an innovative project was presented that will create and test a new approach to prescribing exercise training in cardiac rehabilitation programs, based on direct assessment of the autonomic nervous system. The research project ‘2ARTs -Accessing Autonomic Control in Cardiac RehabiliTaTion’, led by Rui Fonseca-Pinto, a researcher at ciTechCare and the director of @ESSLei, and with the collaboration of the Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, was funded with 230 thousand euros and was ranked in the top ten out of 420 in the panel of Clinical Engineering
Bruno Carreira, ciTechCare investigator, leads one of the 10 pilot-projects promoted by DGS to create a physical exercise medical appointment in primary healthcare centers
Bruno Carreira, MD, PhD, general practitioner at the Santiago Primary Care Unit in Leiria, ciTechCare researcher and Professor at School of Health Sciences of Polytechnic, is the principal investigator of a pilot project of the Directorate-General for Health that aims to analyze the benefits of targeted physical exercise and its impact on the quality of life of the users, as well as evaluating the cost-benefit of applying this measure compared to the costs of medication and treatment. On February 27, 2019, a cooperation protocol was signed between Polytechnic of Leiria, Santiago de Leiria Family Health Unit, Leiria City Hall, Pinhal
Determinants and barriers to exercise in the elderly
Roberta Frontini, Marlene Rosa and Raúl Antunes, together with two Physiotherapy students from the School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic of Leiria, who recently did an internship at ciTechCare, Ruben Coelho and Pedro Marques, presented two posters on June 18 at the III Jornadas de Intervenção Psicossocial na Comunidade: Pensar o idoso e o envelhecimento (JIPC2021).The posters presented two qualitative studies on determinants and barriers to exercise training in two groups of sedentary elderly, one who participated in a community physical exercise group and the other group who did not participate. More information here: https://www.ixus.pt/jipc2021/
Social isolation and loneliness in the elderly
Roberta Frontini, researcher at ciTechCare, is a co-author of 2 posters presented in the III Jornadas de Intervenção Psicossocial na Comunidade: Pensar o idoso e o envelhecimento (JIPC2021), which took place on June 18, 2021.In the first poster entitled “Museum in the village: Community project where art and culture combat social isolation and loneliness in the elderly”, presented by Lina Tábua Pereira, the Museum in the Village project was disseminated. This is an innovative project led by Sociedade Artística Musical de Pousos (SAMP) that aims to combat social isolation and loneliness in elderly people from low-density villages. The second poster
Importance of mental health and physical activity in confinement
Roberta Frontini, researcher at ciTechCare, was invited to present a lecture entitled “The importance of promoting mental health and physical activity during pandemic lockdown: the relevance of a multidisciplinary view”, in the 3rd edition of The Man-Machine Wellbeing Symposium (MW).Roberta highlighted some studies carried out by a team of lecturers
Role of Science and Technology in Social Awareness
Maria Guarino, coordinator of ciTechCare, will participate tomorrow (May 11th) in the 5th session of the Cycle of Social Innovation Webinars. Under the title “THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIAL SENSITIZATION”, this session is part of the webinar promoted by Startup Leiria: “Technology & Knowledge: Innovation Catalysts” which,
Second version of the Veggies4MyHeart on Play Store
The second version of Veggies4MyHeart has just been released on Play Store and will soon be launched on the App Store. This serious game for health promotion is targeted at pre-school children and aims to promote knowledge about vegetables and encourage them to eat more vegetables from an early age.This
ciTechCare Coordinator supports a national campaign against hate speech
Maria Guarino, coordinator of ciTechCare, joined several people from the theatre, music, photography, literature, dance, academia and other areas to actively support an initiative of the EAPN Portugal (EAPN – European Anti Poverty Network) against hate speech and under the motto “Hate Speech is not an Argument. In each district,
Motivational factors in nature sports between exercises and non-exercisers
Roberta Frontini, researcher at ciTechCare is co-author of an article recently published in the Journal of Sport Pedagogy and Research. This work is part of a series of studies coordinated by Professor António Brandão, from the Superior School of Sport
ciTechCare members attended the X Congreso Hispano Luso de Estudiantes de Enfermería
The CBmeter project was awarded 2nd place in the 16th Edition of Poliempreende
Research of the Polytechnic of Leiria aiming to characterize the Celiac Disease in Portugal was awarded by the Health Marathon
Motor development, socialization and autonomy in 3-4 year old children
Participation in the 29th European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2019
MOVIDA.polis project in the workshop Villages on Move (VoM)
AGILidades Project won an award at the International Congress on Person Centered Healthcare
We will only be able to ‘breathe’ in the summer 2022
ciTechCare Coordinator supports a national campaign against hate speech
ciTechCare received the visit of Professor Chris Burtin
We are in a race against pandemic time
Researchers distinguished with a scientific research award
The project “CBmeter – a new device for the early detection of type 2 diabetes mellitus”, led by researcher Maria Guarino, was distinguished with the Alfredo da Silva Scientific Research Award in the category of Technological Innovation, Mobility and Industry.