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BACKGROUND: Health literacy is an important skill to deal with and information and positively influences individual and community health. Information concerning health is available from a plethora of online resources. The concept of digital health literacy has gained prominence with the pandemic. The absence of valid tools to analyze digital literacy levels are scant. This study aims to translate, adapt, and validate the Portuguese version of the Digital Health Literacy Instrument (DHLI) as used in the global COVID-HL Network.; METHODS: Participants were mostly students from social sciences, psychology, education, and health sciences. The Portuguese version of the DHLI contained 5 dimensions each consisting of 3 items. An online survey with university students (n=1815, 75.1% female, average age: 24.15 years) was administered to test the validity of the Portuguese version of the DHLI. Data were analyzed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Pearson correlations were also studied.; RESULTS: Two items revealed symmetry and kurtosis problems. We chose to eliminate them from the analysis. Different exploratory factor analysis attempts were made, obtaining two possible models to be tested in the confirmatory factor analysis: a three-factor model and a four-factor model. A four-factor structure of the instrument (information searching, adding self-generated content, evaluating reliability, determining relevance) was supported by confirmatory factor analysis and had good internal consistency.; CONCLUSIONS: The Portuguese version of the Digital Health Literacy Instrument met adequate psychometric criteria. Therefore, it can be confidently used in Portuguese students' assessment of digital health literacy. Representative studies are needed to shed light on different target groups and their COVID-19 related DHLI. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Many current models of beauty in developed countries represent extreme thinness in women and a muscular body in men. The body image perception will condition the search for ideal beauty through different behaviors and can be transformed into eating disorders. The university students, with the changes typical of youth and university transition, are a vulnerable group. The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate the concerns about body shape in university students from the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. The study included 163 students, of whom 100 were women, with a mean age of 21.71 (SD=3.80) years. 81% of men presented no body shape concerns, 17.50% showed mild, 1.60% moderate and 0% intense preoccupation. In comparison, 59% of women presented no level of body shape concerns, 27% showed a mild, 10% moderate, and 4% intense body shape preoccupation. The odds ratio of presenting concerns about body shape were significantly related to being of female gender. There were more cases of preoccupation about body shape in women, regardless of age, academic course, or adherence to the Mediterranean diet.

Nowadays the younger generations are moving their food habits from the traditional diet to a Western diet, which is low in fruits and vegetables and high in fat and sugary drinks. University students are a particularly vulnerable population once, with the entrance to university, they are subjected to new influences and responsibilities, in particular, those who live far from their parents&rsquo, houses are more predisposed to unhealthy eating habits. To assess the influence that admission to university has had on the frequency of intake of certain foods and meals as well as their adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), self-administered questionnaires were applied. The sample included 97 Portuguese students, with an average age of 21 years, a normal weight, according to body mass index, and an average MedDiet adherence. Most of the individuals did not smoke and the majority did not drink coffee. It was also observed that displaced students consume fast food more frequently compared to the period before they start university. Fish ingestion decreased and coffee consumption increased, in the same group, after starting their university studies.

Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-04T12:39:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-06-01 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) The Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) is a widely used measure of body shape concerns that was originally designed for use with women but has more recently been used with boys and men. The latter use may be problematic, given that no previous study has demonstrated sex invariance for BSQ scores. To determine the extent to which BSQ scores are sex invariant, we asked Portuguese-speaking women (n = 1,613) and men (n = 871) to complete the full BSQ (34 items). Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that a hypothesized 32-item model of BSQ scores and shorter versions had acceptable fit indices in women and men, separately. However, multigroup confirmatory factor analysis showed that these BSQ model scores had configural but not metric, scalar, or strict sex invariance. Differential item analysis indicated significant item-functioning differences on 19 of the 32 retained BSQ items. Thus, BSQ scores are not sex invariant, making problematic the results of previous studies that have compared latent BSQ scores across sex. Sao Paulo State Univ, Sch Pharmaceut Sci, Dept Food & Nutr, Rodovia Araraquara Jau,Km 01, BR-14800903 Sao Paulo, Brazil Anglia Ruskin Univ, Dept Psychol, Cambridge, England Perdana Univ, Ctr Psychol Med, Serdang, Malaysia Sch Phys Educ Army, Div Res & Extens, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Univ Inst Psychol Social & Life Sci, William James Ctr Res, Lisbon, Portugal Hosp Corp Amer, Phys Serv Grp, Res, Ft Lauderdale, FL USA Sao Paulo State Univ, Sch Pharmaceut Sci, Dept Food & Nutr, Rodovia Araraquara Jau,Km 01, BR-14800903 Sao Paulo, Brazil FAPESP: 2014/03093-2 FAPESP: 2015/00228-7 CNPq: 142315/2014-1

Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) is one of the most recognized healthy dietary patterns. Despite the beneficial effects of healthy eating habits on academic performance, university students make unhealthy food choices. Cross sectional information regarding MedDiet adherence was collected in 305 students from the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, from different academic courses, related or not with health sciences. To assess the MedDiet adherence, the participants completed a validated 14-point questionnaire. Approximately 29% of the total population presented poor (< 5 points) MedDiet adherence, meanwhile 59% presented an average (between 6 and 9 points) adherence and only 12.50% presented a high (> 10 points) MedDiet adherence. Nutrition students presented the highest MedDiet adherence of all the students analyzed. Pharmaceutical students, although being health professionals, showed poor adherence to the MedDiet, similar to students from courses not related to health sciences A dieta mediterrânica (DM) é um dos padrões alimentares saudáveis mais reconhecidos. Apesar dos efeitos benéficos dos hábitos alimentares saudáveis no desempenho académico, os estudantes universitários apresentam escolhas alimentares pouco saudáveis. Foi feita uma análise observacional transversal sobre a adesão à DM em 305 estudantes da Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, de diferentes cursos académicos, relacionados ou não com as ciências da saúde. Para avaliação da adesão à DM, os participantes responderam a um questionário validado de 14 pontos. Aproximadamente, 29% do total da população apresentou fraca (10 pontos) adesão à DM. Os alunos de ciências farmacêuticas e os outros estudantes não relacionados com as ciências da saúde apresentaram um risco significativamente maior de baixa adesão à DM. Os estudantes de nutrição apresentaram a maior adesão à DM, em comparação com todos os alunos analisados. Estudantes de ciências farmacêuticas, apesar de serem profissionais de saúde, apresentaram baixa adesão à DM, semelhante aos alunos de cursos não relacionados com ciências da saúde info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Many current models of beauty in developed countries represent extreme thinness in women and a muscular body in men. The body image perception will condition the search for ideal beauty through different behaviors and can be transformed into eating disorders. The university students, with the changes typical of youth and university transition, are a vulnerable group. The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate the concerns about body shape in university students from the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. The study included 163 students, of whom 100 were women, with a mean age of 21.71 (SD=3.80) years. 81% of men presented no body shape concerns, 17.50% showed mild, 1.60% moderate and 0% intense reoccupation. In comparison, 59% of women presented no level of body shape concerns, 27% showed a mild, 10% moderate, and 4% intense body shape preoccupation. The odds ratio of presenting concerns about body shape were significantly related to being of female gender. There were more cases of preoccupation about body shape in women, regardless of age, academic course, or adherence to the Mediterranean diet. Resumo Alguns dos modelos atuais de beleza presentes nos países desenvolvidos representam uma extrema delgadez nas mulheres e um corpo musculado nos homens. A perceção da imagem corporal condicionará a busca pela beleza ideal através de diferentes comportamentos e poderá ser transformada em transtornos do comportamento alimentar. Os estudantes universitários, com as mudanças típicas da transição juvenil e universitária, são um grupo mais vulnerável. O objetivo desta análise foi de avaliar a preocupação com forma física por parte de estudantes universitários da Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. O estudo incluiu 163 estudantes, dos quais 100 eram mulheres, com uma idade média de 21,71 (DP=3.80) anos. 81% dos homens não apresentaram preocupação com a sua forma física, 17,50% apresentaram preocupação leve, 1,60% moderada e 0% intensa. Em comparação, 59% das mulheres não apresentaram preocupação com a sua forma física, contudo, 27% apresentaram preocupação leve, 10% moderada e 4% intensa sobre a sua forma física. A associação entre apresentar preocupação com a sua imagem corporal foi significativamente relacionada com o facto de ser mulher. Houve mais casos de preocupação com forma física em mulheres, independentemente da idade, do curso académico ou da adesão à dieta mediterrânea. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

This study explores the counseling needs of students attending Portuguese higher education. Specifically, a convenience sample of 375 students was surveyed online with the Survey of Student Needs. Descriptive results indicated that “overcoming procrastination”, “job search strategies” and “time management skills” were their main concerns. Inferential results indicated differences according to personal and academic information and present living conditions, particularly in regard to personal counseling needs. Also, a linear regression analysis found that gender, academic satisfaction and satisfaction with current living conditions had a predictive effect on counseling needs, and that students had a preference for individual counseling. Conclusions are drawn about the importance of developing interventions targeting specific clients.

This work’s main objective is to analyze the career intentions of Portuguese university students who have a family business has a background. This study is relevant in Portugal since the vast majority of Portuguese companies are a family business or started out as one. We ran a survey to Portuguese college students who have not started their professional career yet and who have a family business background. We studied some of their personal characteristics as well as some possible professional motivations such as the independence or innovation motive, when it comes to choosing a career path. We analyzed their preferences between the 3 possible choices: be a founder, be a successor or being an employee. In this order and according to the characteristics under analysis. The study revealed that, besides the fact that their characteristics pointed in other direction, our sample in its majority prefers to become an employee than a founder or a successor. Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo o estudo das intenções de carreira dos estudantes universitários portugueses que estão inseridos num contexto de negócio de família. Este é um estudo relevante em Portugal, dado que a maioria das empresas portuguesas são empresas familiares, ou a sua génese ocorreu num contexto familiar. Procedemos então a um inquérito a estudantes universitários portugueses que ainda não iniciariam a sua atividade profissional e cuja família é parte integrante de um negócio familiar. Posto isto, estudamos algumas das suas características pessoais e possíveis motivações profissionais, como o motivo da inovação ou da independência, aquando da escolha de uma carreira. Analisámos as suas preferências entre as 3 escolhas possíveis: ser empreendedor, ser sucessor do negócio de família ou ser empregado por conta de outrem. Por esta ordem e de acordo com as características em análise. O estudo revelou que, apesar das suas características pessoais indicarem na direção oposta, a nossa amostra prefere na sua maior parte, ser empregado por conta de outrem do que um empreendedor ou um sucessor.

Although distance learning and e-learning are currently acknowledged as important training tools for higher education institutions, they are seldom used as a way of disseminating environmental sustainability, climate change and its implications. The work presented here is the result of a teamwork between two universities, one from Brazil and the other from Portugal, which joined efforts to promote an interdisciplinary massive open on-line course associated with the environmental sustainability. We have inquired young university students from these two countries in order to understand which are their main conceptions and ideas about the climate changes as well as proposals they have for its mitigation. From these dialogs, we observed that, irrespectively of the geographical distance/location, those young students, share similar concerns, conceptions and proposals but it is also noticeable a clear lack of scientific knowledge when discussing these topics. This is an important starting point for the creation of a set of learning resources accessible to different audiences and with different and diverse backgrounds that can stimulate the interest on scientific knowledge. In this context it is our believe that eLearning and distance education supported by the information technologies can efficiently and effectively contribute for a well-supported knowledge on environmental sustainability, namely climate changes its causes and effects. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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Current research on achievement goals acknowledges that students can manifest different goal patterns. This study aimed to adapt and validate a self-report scale to assess the goal orientations of Portuguese students. A total of 2675 (age range 9–24 years) Portuguese students completed the Goal Orientations Scale (GOS). Through a cross-validation procedure, confirmatory factor analysis and descriptive statistics supports the existence of four different goal orientations: task, self-enhancing, self-defeating and avoidance orientations. The reliability and the internal validity estimates confirm that the GOS is an adequate instrument in assessing student goal orientations. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

The main concerns that enhance the empirical studies in assessment of second language learners is to identify the prevalence of second language deficits, the validity of a new test, and to determine specificities and predictors of speakers’ profiles, among other variables (age, home language formal instruction, exposure to second language, first years of schooling, nationality, parent’s profiles). Hypotheses: different language speakers will perform differently in specific tasks in portuguese language, so age, home language, and first language instruction would be main predictors? Strong discriminant achievements could be identified in percentiles 25 and 75? In this post-doctoral research the main goal is to assess new immigrant students from several Portuguese schools to determine cognitive and linguistic profiles. Through new diagnostic test in second language area will be analyzed distinct verbal behaviors and determined cut-offs. Additionally will be evaluated the difficulty and reliability of each task. Method: the instrument was developed with 15 tasks based on international assessment sources such Alberta, TOEFL, DELNA and WMLSR. There is no knowledge of other validated tools to test portuguese immigrant students. Approximately 110 individuals were assessed, with ages between 7 and 17 years old, speakers of romance, indo-aryan, afro-asiatic, slavic, and mandarin languages, and at this phase we are conducting inferential tests (SPSS) to measure profiles and reliability coefficients. The collection of sample is still ongoing. Findings: in one hand, this paper reports preliminary data gathered from a large-scale district study that is examining language proficiency and cognitive performance of immigrants in Portuguese schools. Different language speakers and age groups, with different amounts of instruction in home * Corresponding author. Tel.: 00351 218811700; fax: 00351 218860954. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2014.05.21 The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences eISSN: 2357-1330 European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences eISSN: 2357-1330 185-200 186 language, from basic and high schools, will be analyzed regarding lowest and highest performances in picture-naming (1) and semantic relations tasks (2), particularly focusing the vocabulary decoding skills. Findings demonstrate reliable tasks and different student’s profiles, being crucial over proficiency levels identification. In the other hand, prior findings in this area will be expected to be confirmed such as the influence of age and mother tongue. Part of our hypotheses will be rejected considering the youngest learner’s low scores and the creoles language speakers with deficits in specific vocabulary domain. Particular assumptions of literature in this area will be discussed regarding divergent data observed and new insights. Older learners, with instruction in first language, speakers of slavic, mandarin and romance languages presented more positive results and expected greater cognitive profile in second language specific traits. But, other variables should be considered with further examination and with the conclusion of the empirical study. Also implications of results and test feasibility will be discussed for general educational policies and assessment in second language field. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Cognitive – crcs under responsibility of the Author(s).

Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicologia Educacional, apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Universitário O sono serve várias funções diferentes do organismo, tais como a reparação, o crescimento, a consolidação da memória e a aprendizagem. É assim, que durante o comportamento do sono, processos fisiológicos e neurocognitivos ocorrem. Na adolescência as alterações do ciclo vigília-sono geram um défice de sono, provocando um descontrolo emocional, diminuindo significativamente a capacidade cognitiva e de aprendizagem. Estas alterações podem ter consequências ao nível do rendimento académico, assim como nos valores e atitudes intrínsecas ao próprio indivíduo. Na presente dissertação, pretende-se contribuir para o alargamento do conhecimento científico, particularmente no âmbito da Educação, analisando para o efeito, o sono nos adolescentes de acordo com o seu género e o seu rendimento académico, compilando dados referentes ao comportamento dos adolescentes face ao sono. Foi utilizado para a recolha dos dados um questionário, já utilizado e aferido na população portuguesa – Questionário Sobre o Sono em Adolescentes – QSSA e foi elaborada uma folha de informação que contém questões relativamente à atual situação escolar do adolescente. O instrumento utilizado, foi aplicado numa escola da zona de Lisboa, de ensino público. A amostra é constituída por 164 estudantes do 8º e 9º ano, com idades compreendidas entre os 13 e os 15 anos, durante o ano lectivo 2012/2013. Os resultados evidenciam que as auto-percepções e os conhecimentos sobre o sono dos adolescentes não têm relação com o rendimento académico. Em oposição, as relações sociais (ficar com amigos fora de casa até tarde, nos rapazes e ficar a comunicar virtualmente com amigos até tarde, no caso das raparigas) apresentam uma relação com o rendimento académico. Conclui-se que existe uma relação entre hábitos e rotinas de sono e o rendimento académico satisfatório, e da mesma forma, uma relação entre os hábitos e rotinas de sono e o género dos adolescentes portugueses. ABSTRACT: The sleep serves several different purposes in the human body such as repair growth, learning and memory consolidation. It is during sleep that neurocognitive and physiological process occur. In adolescence changes in the sleep-awake cycle generate a sleep deficit, causing lack of emotional control and diminishing learning and cognitive capacity. These changes may have consequences in terms of academic performance and also on the values and attitudes intrinsic to the individual himself. The intension of this dissertation is to contribute to the scientific knowledge, particularly in the education field. For that it was analyzed the effect of sleep in adolescents according to their gender and their academic performance, compiling data on the behavior of adolescents in relation to sleep. It was used a questionnaire previously tested and applied in Portugal – Questionário Sobre o Sono em Adolescentes – QSSA and it was created a fact sheet containing questions regarding the current school situation of the adolescent. The previous instruments were applied in a public school in Lisbon. The sample consisted of 164 students of the 8th and 9th grade, aged between 13 and 15, during the academic year of 2012/2013. The results of this study lead to the conclusion that self-perceptions and knowledge about sleep on teens are unrelated to academic performance. In contrast, social relations (staying late outside with friends and communicate with friends until late for girls) have a relation with academic performance. It is concluded that there is a relationship between sleep habits and routines and a satisfactory academic performance, and similarly, a relationship between sleep habits and routines and the gender of Portuguese adolescents.