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Depressive symptoms and burnout in football players

11 January 2022

Roberta Frontini, researcher at ciTechCare, co-authored the article “Depressive Symptoms and Burnout in Football Players: A Systematic Review”, recently published in Brain Sciences. The article emerged from another collaboration with researcher Filipe Manuel Clemente, professor at the Escola Superior Sport and Leisure of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo and has Professor Hugo Sarmento as the first author. The aim of this article was to review the available literature on the topic of depressive symptoms and burnout in soccer players. Game position and conflicts with the coach seem to have a direct influence on the prevalence of depressive symptoms in players,

ciTechCare at the II CIRSQVASF and I OLYMHEALTHCARE

30 December 2021

Carla Damásio, researcher at ciTechCare, participated in the II International Interdisciplinary Congress on Social Representations and Quality of Life of the São Francisco Valley (II CIRSQVASF) and the I International Virtual Olympiad of Clinical Cases in Health Care (I OLYMHEALTHCARE), as a member of Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee and Olymhealthcare, as well as the moderator of an oral presentation session and speaker at Session 6: Challenges in the Quality of Life of the Elderly with Oncological Disease and Family. These events, held virtually, aimed to be a space for the construction of knowledge based on research carried out in research centers

ciTechCare present at the national Congress of Physiotherapists and the Congress of Pulmonology

29 December 2021

This year, ciTechCare was represented at the XI National Congress of Physiotherapists (CNFt) and at the 37th Congress of Pulmonology, of the Portuguese Society of Pulmonology (SPP), through oral communications and e-posters, as well as communications by invitation. Oral communication (CNFt):1) Silva I, Machado P, Flora S, Cruz J. (2021) Validity and test-retest reliability of smartbands in monitoring Physical activity. Communications on e-poster (CNFt):1) Pimenta S, Raposo R, Alves-Guerreiro J, Flora S, Caceiro R, Morais N, Oliveira A, Silva CG, Silva S, Valente C, Andrade L, Rainho A, Martins V, Marques A, Cruz J. (2021) Motives to be physically active and

Effects of exercise on quality of life after surgery for lung cancer and coloretal cancer

28 December 2021

In an article recently published in the journal Cancers, researchers from ciTechCare and the University of Coimbra investigated the effect of perioperative (i.e., pre- and/or post-surgery) exercise on quality of life of people with lung cancer and colorectal cancer after surgical resection. This publication is part of Pedro Machado’s doctoral work. Lung cancer and colorectal cancer are the deadliest tumours worldwide and two of the most incident tumours. Surgery is a potentially curative intervention for these patients; however, it has short- and long-term impact on patients’ quality of life, with most patients experiencing physical limitations and increased fatigue symptoms. The main conclusions

CBmeter presented at Expo Dubai

28 December 2021

The CBMETER project was presented on December 14th at Expo Dubai, by Maria Guarino, researcher and coordinator of ciTechCare. This presentation was held at the Seminar “Studying and Researching in Portugal”, which took place in the Portuguese Pavilion at Expo Dubai, promoted by CRUP — Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities and CCISP — Coordinating Council of Polytechnic Institutes.Cristina Perdigão, director of the Erasmus National Agency, provided positive feedback of the event: “We wanted to be sure that we were able to have the Pavilion [of Portugal] available to present what is best done in Portugal in teaching and research,

Exercise, (In)satisfation with body image and anxiety during lockdown

27 December 2021

Roberta Fontini, researcher at ciTechCare, collaborated on 2 papers presented at the 9th Congress of the Scientific Society of Sport Pedagogy. The first, an oral communication entitled “Exercise dependence, (dis)satisfaction with body image and anxiety in crosstrainers during COVID19 lockdown” and the second, a poster entitled “(Dis)satisfaction with body image and anxiety in gym users during COVID19 lockdown”. The results reinforced the importance of researchers and fitness coaches being aware of signs of exercise addiction as well as the levels of anxiety of crosstrainers. Furthermore, they helped to characterize crosstrainers and gym users in terms of (dis)satisfaction with body image