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Polytechnic of Leiria hosted, on 30th novembre, the first Collaborative Investigation Seminar CCISP-HES.SO, organized both from Portugal Polytechnic coordinator council (CCISP) and University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO), with Ministry of Research Technology and Higher Education Superior and Technology and Science Foundation (FCT) support. About 24 portuguese and switzerland investigators presented the launched results in studies related to wellbeing and health area, entrepreneurship and tourism. This last one was specially dedicated at the COVID-19 impacts on turism and about the way industry will recover from it in the next years. This initiative is the result of a established agreement between CCISP

 João Frade and Carolina Henriques, researchers from ciTechCare and professors at ESSLei, were the authors of a study recently published in the Revista de Enfermagem Referência, entitled “Integrating the family into nursing care: nurses’ and nursing students’ perspectives.This study aimed to assess the importance of the family in nursing care in a sample of nursing students and nurses. The results revealed that students attached greater importance to the integration of the family in nursing care. In nurses, the variables age, years of professional practice and training in the family area were associated with a greater importance of integrating the family

Sónia Pós-de-Mina, researcher at ciTechCare and lecturer at ESSLei, conducted the transcription and validation of the ‘Good practice guidelines for transcription of children’s speech samples in clinical practice and research’, co-authored by Andreia Teles, Diana Dias, Mariana Lopes and Juliana Guardado. This work had the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit (BSLTRU) seal and was published in the Child Speech Disorder Research Network. This is a resource related to the clinical management of childhood speech disorders and includes transcription guidelines for speech sound problems that support Speech Therapist analysis and intervention.   +INFO: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/bristol-speech-language-therapy-research-unit/bsltru-research/child-speech-disorder-research-network/resources-relating-clinical-management-child-speech-disorder

Roberta Frontini, researcher at ciTechCare, collaborated in 4 oral communications presented at the XXI Conference of the Portuguese Society of Sport Psychology at ESECS, Leiria. The work was prepared in collaboration with students from the Sports and Wellness course, one of them being co-authored by the ciTechCare researcher Raúl Antunes.Findings reinforce the importance of multidisciplinary work and are part of the study of the impact of COVID-19 in terms of physical and psychological variables, with the following titles:- Dependence to exercise in practitioners of fitness modalities during COVID-19 lockdown;- Prevalence of dissatisfaction with body image in gym practitioners;- Anxiety and

Today is the World COPD Day. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic and progressive respiratory disease manifested by decreased lung function, associated with symptoms such as shortness of breath and reduced exercise tolerance.To mark this date, we share one of the research projects currently taking place at ciTechCare, the OnTRACK project, which aims to promote physical activity for people with COPD through a mobile application where they can have access to personalized goals adjusted to their condition, with the supervision of a health professional. People with COPD who remain physically active have a better quality of life and

The ciTechCare researcher João Frade was the author of a study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, entitled ” Impact on the Mental and Physical Health of the Portuguese Population during the COVID-19 Confinement”. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of psychological stress symptoms in the Portuguese population during confinement caused by COVID-19 and the factors that predisposed the individual to manifest these symptoms.The results showed a higher percentage of individuals presenting psychological distress (57.2%), with a higher percentage identified among women (79.0%) and in people with a higher educational level (bachelor’s + master’s and doctorate) (75.8%). The