COMPETE2020- Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI) (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030228)

COMPETE2020- Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI) (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030228)

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POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030228

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A Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) é uma entidade portuguesa responsável pela promoção e financiamento da investigação científica e tecnológica em Portugal. A FCT apoia projetos de investigação em diversas áreas, desde as ciências naturais e exatas até às ciências sociais e humanidades. Além disso, a FCT desempenha um papel importante na gestão de bolsas de estudo e no desenvolvimento de políticas para o avanço da ciência e tecnologia no país.

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CINTESIS.UPT - Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde (CINTESIS.UPT), former I2P, is an R&D unit devoted to the study of cognition and behaviour in context. With an interdisciplinary focus, namely on Education, Translational and Applied Psychology

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Clinical relevance of an online self‐management intervention in Haemodialysis: A secondary data analysis of the ‘Connected We St@nd’ Programme
2025-03-04 - Sousa, Helena; Ribeiro, Oscar; Bártolo, Ana; Rodrigues, Mário; Costa, Elísio; Quental, Joana; Ribeiro, Fernando; Paúl, Constança; Figueiredo, Daniela
Background The ‘Connected We St@nd’ programme is an Internet-mediated self-management intervention that combines health education with psychosocial support, with evidenced feasibility and acceptability in haemodialysis. Objectives To evaluate the clinical relevance of the programme and to better understand which intervention outcomes/health-related self-report measures are most sensitive to reflect changes between pre- and post-intervention assessments. Design This study followed a pre-post quasi-experimental design. Participants Twenty-six individuals (16 people on haemodialysis and 10 family caregivers) completed the intervention. Measurements Participants filled out a web-based assessment protocol before and after the intervention. To determine the clinical relevance of within-group pre-post changes, effect sizes, minimal clinically important differences, and reliable change indexes were calculated. Results Clinically meaningful results were found on outcome measures with reasonable sensitivity to detect pre-post changes in the positive affect dimension of subjective well-being, purpose in life, overall quality of life, and psychological health. The latter was the variable that obtained the greatest number of respondents with reliable post-intervention improvements. Conclusions Participation in the programme led to clinically important and reliable improvements in several intervention outcomes, hinting that this evidence-informed intervention has the potential to be a valuable resource for promoting successful psychosocial adjustment among this population. Suggestions were made to fine-tune the evaluation and implementation of a large-scale trial to, in due course, encourage the integration of this technology-assisted interdisciplinary initiative into existing kidney care services.
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Urban mobility: Mobile crowdsensing applications
2018-11-05 - Simões, João; Gomes, Rui Jorge Reis; Alves, Ana; Bernardino , Jorge
Mobility has become one of the most difficult challenges that cities must face. More than half of world’s population resides in urban areas and with the continuously growing population it is imperative that cities use their resources more efficiently. Obtaining and gathering data from different sources can be extremely important to support new solutions that will help building a better mobility for the citizens. Crowdsensing has become a popular way to share data collected by sensing devices with the goal to achieve a common interest. Data collected by crowdsensing applications can be a promising way to obtain valuable mobility information from each citizen. In this paper, we study the current work on the integrated mobility services exploring the crowdsensing applications that were used to extract and provide valuable mobility data. Also, we analyze the main current techniques used to characterize urban mobility.