Introduction: Coping is a psychological process that prompts the individual to adapt to stressful situations. The Adolescent Coping Scale is a widely used research and clinical tool. This study aimed to develop a Portuguese version of the Adolescent Coping Scale and to analyze the strategies and coping styles of young people in our sample.Material and Methods: An anonymous questionnaire comprising the Adolescen...
The clinical-rated and self-rated versions of the Apathy Evaluation Scale are validated for English language. The Apathy Evaluation Scale is useful to characterize and quantify apathy. We analyzed the metric properties of the Portuguese version of the Apathy Evaluation Scale-Clinical and of a new 10-item short version of the clinical-rated and self-rated versions Apathy Evaluation Scale. We included, 156 “healt...
Besides intervention in prepsychotic period, early intervention in psychosis includes interventions done after the onset of the first-episode psychosis, namely psychopharmacological and psychosocial phase-specific intervention. The main aim is to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and to ensure that besides remission of the symptoms there is also a psychosocial recovery. Many centers set up an ass...
The Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is constituted by a set of specific metabolic alterations being postulated that the main dysfunction is insulin resistance, associated with abdominal type obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia. Epidemiological data indicates prevalence of MS of about 25%. Estimates point to higher prevalence of MS in bipolar (BP) patients, between 30 to 35%. Cost-effective screening m...
Psychotic disorders, namely schizophrenia, are severe illnesses with their onset in adolescence or youth adult age and have a classic limited outcome. In recent years there has been some research about early intervention in psychosis which can be done in prepsychotic period (prodrome) and/or after the onset of full blown psychotic episode. The authors review the literature about the diagnosis, evaluation, and p...
The major reviews of the literature support the idea that a significant proportion of patients with schizophrenia present cognitive deficits in several domains, more marked in the domains of verbal memory, vigilance and attention, memory, intellectual quotient, language and executive functioning. Such deficits appear to be one of the main determinants of these patients' functional outcome. More recently, social...
Lack of insight into mental disorder is a frequent phenomenon in patients affected by a psychotic disorder and can be an important predicting factor involving the course of the disease mainly regarding compliance with treatment. The aim of the present study was to validate the Portuguese version of the Marková and Berrios Insight Scale, a self-report instrument that allow us to evaluate insight into psychotic i...
O presente trabalho é um aspecto parcial da experiência de coordenação de uma equipa de Saúde Mental de apoio psiquiátrico a doentes infectados com o vírus HIV, no Serviço de Doenças Infecto-contagiosas do Hospital de Santa Maria (Director: Prof. Carvalho Araújo e Prof. Francisco Antunes). A uma amostra de 123 doentes (110 homens e 13 mulheres) seropositivos e com o síndrome de de imunodeficiência adquirida foi...
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