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Poster presentation at Oncofit – From Sports lab to cancer clinic

26 March 2022

The second edition of Oncofit – From sports lab to cancer clinic happened last March 18th and 19th, at North Rehabilitation Center. Oncomove and Research and Supportive Care in oncology Association (AICSO) were the organisers of the event whose aim is to promote the discussion about the importance of physical exercise role as a therapeutic approach in oncology. Several articles have been published highlighting the scientific evidence about the benefits of exercise training as supportative intervention in people with this chronic disease. Pedro Machado represented ciTechCare by presenting the poster of the article “Effect of perioperative exercise training on quality

Opening of call for research scholarship

18 March 2022

The Polytechnic of Leiria opened a call for 1 Research Scholarship under the SafeTrack project – Miniaturized wireless devices for continuous monitoring of patients in the emergency department (project no. 70111), co-financed by the Centro 2020 Regional Operational Programme (CENTRO 2020), under the Portugal 2020 Programme, through the ERDF – European Regional Development Fund. The Research Scholarship in the scientific area of computer engineering, multimedia or computer technology is intended for students enrolled, or who meet the conditions of enrollment, in a Master, Integrated Master or a non-conferring course of academic degree or students enrolled in a Higher Professional Technical

Opening of call for research scholarship

17 March 2022

The Polytechnic of Leiria opened a call for 1 Research Scholarship under the Knowledge Circle project – Knowledge Circle [AAC nº 04/SIAC/2021 – project nº 181295], co-financed by the Operational Program Competitiveness and Internationalization. The Research Scholarship in the scientific area of Health Sciences is intended for Masters enrolled or who meet the conditions of enrollment in non-conferring courses of academic degree or students enrolled or who meet the conditions of enrollment in a PhD, preferably, with a master in Health Sciences area as Therapy and Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Nursing, Pharmacy, Biomedicine, Public Health, Psychology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The duration of

Research article turned into a book chapter

17 March 2022

With the purpose of studying and understanding, during Portuguese coronavirus lockdown, in april, how the physical activity and the anxiety levels were perceived by people, Raul Antunes, Pedro Morouço and Roberta Frontini, researchers at ciTechCare, coauthored the article entitled “Higher physical activity levels may help buffer the negative psychological consequences of Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic”, which was recently integrated as a chapter in Psychological Factors In Physical Education and Sport book. The study shows that higher levels of physical activity are related with lower anxiety levels during the lockdown, underlying the importance of having multidisciplinary teams working on social isolation

Paper Co-authored by ciTechCare researchers receives an honourable mention

11 March 2022

Last february 22, in Coimbra, the article entitled “Physical activity, anxiety and basic psychological needs: characterization of a portuguese population sample in covid-19 context” received an honourable mention at History and Sport Sociology Category in Sport Science Awards 2022/2021. This article was the result of an extended research work that started in april 2020, in which Raul Antunes, Roberta Frontini e Pedro Morouço, ciTechCare researchers, were involved.

Role of healthcare professionals in chronic pain

3 March 2022

Cristina Costeira, researcher at ciTechCare, published an article entitled “Appropriated management of chronic pain: a personal right, a healthcare professional duty”, on Diário de Leiria journal, for raising awareness about the importance of treating chronic pain, which affects about 3 million portuguese. According to Cristina, living with continuous pain should not be considered as a natural way of life, therefore, a proper intervention from the healthcare professionals is essential, what turns up to be more relevant since “only 22% of people with chronic pain have regular medical appointments”. However, a patients’ dedicated attitude is also mandatory in this process. Some