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Web-based psychotherapy and exercise interventions for depressive and anxiety disorders

17 January 2022

Roberta Frontini, researcher at ciTechCare and lecturer at the School of Health at the Polytechnic of Leiria (#ESSLei) and at the School of Arts and Design (#ESAD.CR), was the author of the book chapter “Web-Based Psychotherapy and Exercise Interventions for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders”, together with Lara Carneiro (University of Maia), José Afonso (Faculty of Sports, University of Porto) and Filipe M. Clemente (School of Sports and Leisure, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo), in the book Digital Therapies in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health (Chap-5, pp. 93-114). Considering the recognition that mental and physical well-being are related in people with

Characteristics of people with copd using mobile applications

15 January 2022

Researchers from the onTRACK project recently published an article entitled “Phenotyping Adopters of Mobile Applications Among Patients With COPD: A Cross-Sectional Study” in the journal Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences. This work aimed to explore whether the demographic, clinical and physical characteristics of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are associated with the use of mobile applications (apps) related to health and physical activity. The results indicate that people with COPD who use mobile apps are younger and have a higher walking speed than those who don’t. Also, people who use physical activity monitoring applications spend more time in sedentary behaviors than

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