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The article “Home-Advantage during Covid-19: An analysis in Portuguese Football League” with the participation of the researcher Raul Antunes, a collaborator of ciTechCare, was recently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, of MDPI.This project, coordinated by Professor Rui Matos of the CIEQV – Centro de Investigação Em Qualidade de Vida, sought to analyse the competitive advantage of playing at home, especially in the context of the restrictions on the presence of the public imposed by Covid-19, in the first football league in Portugal. More information HERE.

The work that the PhD candidate and research fellow of ciTechCare Marlene Lages will present at the next congress of the American Society for Nutrition was the winner of the Nutrients 2021 award in the category of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics. This work aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a personalised nutritional intervention according to the profile of clock genes in people with metabolic disorders. This award includes a travel grant to participate in the Nutrition Live Online 2021 Congress from 7 to 10 June and one publication in the Nutrients journal. More information HERE.

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, 15 people were invited to wear a t-shirt with one of the messages and to advertise it on social networks. “Hate speech has been gaining more and more space within Europe and Portugal is no exception. This speech is reproduced not only in a “soft Portuguese” in spontaneous conversations and

Helena Reis, researcher at ciTechCare and teacher at Escola Superior de Saúde do Politécnico de Leiria, is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Intellectual Disability – Diagnosis and Treatment.The journal aims to publish research in the field of diagnosis, prevention and intervention in children and adults with intellectual disability. It covers not just the technical aspects of the procedures in prenatal, newborn and postnatal screening, but also the impact which the process of testing and treatment has on individuals, parents, families and public health in general. More information HERE.

The article authored by Roberta Frontini and Raul Antunes (researchers at ciTechCare) entitled ‘The Relationship Between Anxiety Levels, Sleep, and Physical Activity During COVID-19 Lockdown: An Exploratory Study’ was recently published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.This work was carried out at the Polytechnic of Leiria and aimed to characterize the levels of state-anxiety and trait-anxiety, examining variations related to gender, sleep and physical activity during the first weeks of confinement; and explore the possible relationship between trait-anxiety and state-anxiety and the possible moderating role of gender. More information HERE.

The article “Speech Therapist Practices and Research Skills in Portugal”, in which the ciTechCare researcher Inês Tello Rodrigues is co-author, won the award for best scientific article of 2020 from the Portuguese Journal of Speech Therapy (Revista Portuguesa de Terapia da Fala, RPTF).The official delivery ceremony will take place at the next face-to-face or online event held by the Portuguese Association of Speech Therapists (APTF) and/or the RPTF. More information HERE.