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Caroline Pragosa, graduated in Dietetics and Nutrition by the School of Health Sciences of the Polytechnic of Leiria, co-authored with Marlene Lages, Cidália Pereira and Maria Guarino, researchers at ciTechCare, published the article “Mixed meal tolerance test as a screening method for gestational diabetes: a narrative review” in the Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição.The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test is the gold standard method for the diagnosis of diabetes, however, the use of a standard mixed meal may better represent the actual postprandial metabolic responses. In this article the authors compared the standard mixed meals that have already been tested as an

Sónia Gonçalves Pereira, researcher at ciTechCare, published an opinion article on February 20 in Jornal de Leiria about the miracle of science and the discrimination that still exists in this area, not only because of gender, but also because of institutions and regions where science is conducted.Sónia highlights that «The International Women’s Day in Science was recently celebrated. A rising nurse-scientist, for whom I have both respect and admiration, told me that “it is a pity that these days are still needed, and that they criticize us when we leave the children, husband and home to do science”. But it

The 1st International Congress of the CIEQV took place online on February 18-19. The researcher of ciTechCare Roberta Frontini was involved in two presentations about research coordinated by the researcher Raul Antunes.The oral communication entitled “Body image and well-being in dance practitioners: An exploratory study” aimed to analyze the perception of body image and subjective well-being (positive and negative affect and satisfaction with life) in dance practitioners, including a comparison between teenagers and adults.The second work “Relationship between body image and motivation in dancers” was presented in a poster format. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between the way

Jaime Ribeiro and Carla Piscarreta Damásio, researchers at ciTechCare and lecturers at the School of Health Sciences from the Polytechnic of Leiria, are co-authors of two chapters of the book “Manual de Investigação Qualitativa: conceção, análise e aplicações” [Manual for Qualitative Research: conception, analysis and applications] (ISBN: 978-989-693-114-8), published in 2021 by Pactor Editora: “Data analysis” (Jaime) and “Narrative analysis: from the perspective of analysis to discourse” (Carla).This book, designed to support the entire qualitative research process, from the most general and conceptual level themes, to the techniques of data collection and analysis in the various application areas. This book

Rui-Fonseca Pinto, the current Director of the School of Health Sciences from the Polytechnic of Leiria, and Rui Passadouro da Fonseca, medical doctor at ACeS Pinhal Litoral, both researchers at ciTechCare, are co-authors of the article “Optimal control of the COVID-19 pandemic: controlled sanitary deconfinement in Portugal”, published on February 10th in Scientific Reports (Nature).The authors propose a forecasting mathematical model to anticipate the consequences of political decisions during the COVID-19 pandemics, thus being a public health decision support tool. This work allows testing various scenarios of pandemic management (e.g., closure of sectors of the economy, partial/total compliance with protection

Catarina Marques, Specialist Nurse in Intensive Care of Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, EPE and PhD student at ciTechCare, published on January 27 an opinion article in the Diário de Leiria on the importance of hand hygiene, highlighting the fundamental role of this gesture to fight the pandemic and identifying the various forms of hand hygiene.Catarina points out that “The hands are covered mostly by bacteria, but also fungi, viruses and protozoa (…). It is through touch (contact) of surfaces (…) that these microorganisms reach our hands, and it is also through this transmission route that they can be left on