Background: The intrauterine period has been considered as a very sensitive period in which nutritional and/or hormone changes appear to play an essential role in the subsequent control of body weight. Objectives: To classify the nutritional status of children, analyzing its relationship with birth weight. Methods: Cross-sectional/observational study comprising 1424 preschool children, average age 4.58 years ...
Background: Scientific evidence shows that breastfeeding has a protective effect on the development of excess weight. Objectives: To determine the effect of breastfeeding on overweight children. Methods: Cross-sectional and observational study comprising 1424 preschool children, average age 4,58 years old (SD=0,990), residents in the centre/north region of Portugal. Children’s anthropometric measurement was o...
Introduction: It is recognized that overweight in childhood as a multifactorial etiology, and parent’s obesity, particularly mother’s obesity is actually known to be an important predictor of the development of obesity in their children. Objectives: To classify the children’s and the mother’s BMI and assess the relationship between maternal and child overweight. Methods: Cross-sectional and observational study ...
“X Frágil” e “Síndrome de X Frágil” representam uma constelação, importante e complexa, de situações. O conhecimento sobre as origens e efeitos do X Frágil continua a evoluir, proporcionando novos desafios científicos e novas formas de compreensão da doença. Enquanto isso, as famílias de crianças com SXF continuam a ter de lidar diariamente com os desafios da aprendizagem e do comportamento da criança. O congre...
The Fragile X Syndrome is a rare developmental disorder, generally underdiagnosed, despite being the more frequent inherited cause of cognitive impairment and the best known genetic origin for autism. We also know little about how fathers and mothers of children with FXS live their expe- rience given the presence of the disease, especially since such experience depends directly on the social and cultural contex...
The use of information technologies in the field of biomedical data management has grown considerably and is today one of the main fields of use of these technologies. There are several advantages arising either to an individual’s health or to public health, particularly because access to clinical data become available anywhere access via the Internet or individual health card. This card will contain personal d...
Neste capítulo apresentaremos então o trabalho desenvolvido no âmbito do projeto Percursos inclusivos das crianças e famílias portadoras de Síndrome X-Frágil realizado entre 2011 e 2013. Começaremos por situar a nossa investigação por referência à investigação que, a nível internacional, vem sendo produzida sobre a SXF e depois clarificaremos a perspetiva teórica em que assentou o nosso olhar para os percurso...
Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and the most known genetic cause of autism. Children with this syndrome have a set of cognitive and behavioral features, which put serious challenges to their full inclusion in the educational system. Intellectual disabilities, learning difficulties, hyperactivity, shyness and social anxiety are the most common of those behaviors. ...
As crianças com Síndrome de X Frágil têm necessidades muito específicas, relacionadas com as questões comportamentais, a hiperatividade ou défice de atenção e as características autistas, que não são relatadas em crianças com outras perturbações desenvolvimentais. Esta especificidade exige um conhecimento profundo, de modo a dar a resposta mais adequada, de forma global e sistémica. Para além do apoio direto ao...
Neste capítulo pretendemos dar a conhecer a Musicoterapia enquanto forma de intervenção com crianças com a Síndroma do X Frágil. A partir do trabalho com uma criança com esta síndroma, será descrita a abordagem, objetivos e forma de trabalhar da Musicoterapia, bem como as metas esperadas e alcançadas; serão apresentadas as potencialidades da música e dos jogos sonoros musicais como instrumentos terapêuticos par...
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