Comparing Psychopathological Symptoms in Portuguese Football Fans and Non-Fans.

The present study aims to characterize football fans and non-fans and to compare their psychopathological symptoms with the latest normative values for the Portuguese population from Canavarro in 2007. Results showed that football fans and non-fans are mostly male, have an affective relationship, are childless, have secondary education or a high degree, and are employed or students; fans are more likely to be male, dating, unemployed, to have elementary education and be younger than non-fans. Football fans present significantly higher psychopathological symptoms than non-fans in somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, hostility, paranoid ideation and psychoticism and all psychopathological indexes. Football fans present values very close to those of populations with emotional distress in hostility and are above the mean of the general population in obsession-compulsion, hostility, paranoid ideation and psychoticism.

Psychopathological Symptoms and Loneliness in Adult Internet Users: A Contemporary Public Health Concern.

There are different concepts that translate abusive Internet use. Almost all these concepts converge on excessive time spent online, which can trigger the emergence of problematic situations. Most of the studies reported in the literature, both nationally and internationally, focused on a young population and found negative consequences of this Internet misuse. The objective of this study consists of associating the time spent using the Internet-in years, times per week, and hours per day-with psychopathological symptoms, as well as assessing the perception of loneliness, in an adult Portuguese population. A quantitative approach, based on a survey application, was conducted in a convenience sample composed by 418 participants (64.4% female), with a mean age of 29.9 years old (SD = 9.26), ranging from 18 to 73 years. The results suggest that maladaptive patterns of Internet use found in young people seem to be replicated in the adult population. A relationship between time spent on the Internet and psychopathological symptoms, and an association between loneliness and the number of hours spent on the Internet, were also identified. In an individualized and disconnected offline world, Internet impact in individuals' well-being results must be highlighted, since it should be understood as a public health issue. The novelty of this study lies in the target population: Portuguese Internet users over 18 years of age, for which there is no specific study on the subject, thus emphasizing the transverse nature of the problem.

Psychological well-being and health perception: predictors for past, present and future

Abstract Background Increasing evidence supports an association between psychological well-being and overall health, however, much remains to be understood about this association. The current study addresses this issue by presenting a new perspective focusing on health perceptions. Additionally, it examines the impact of each of six dimensions of psychological well-being on health perception. Methods Data for this study were collected from a sample of 1,155 Portuguese adults in various settings. Findings reveal that psychological well-being dimensions' impact differently on prior, current, and health outlookperceptions. Furthermore, the dimension depressed mood influences current health perception; in turn, current health perception is the strongest predictor for psychological well-being. Our results provide support for a bidirectional relationship between health perception and psychological well-being.

Perceção da Saúde: Validação de uma Escala para a População Portuguesa / Percepción de la Salud: Validación de una Escala para la Población Portuguesa / Health Perception: Validation of a Scale for the Portuguese Population

Resumo A validade do construto perceção da saúde tem aumentado ao longo do tempo; as pessoas avaliam melhor a sua saúde devido a um acréscimo da escolaridade. Diferentes instrumentos têm sido desenvolvidos para avaliar esta dimensão da saúde. Este estudo tem como objetivo a validação para a população adulta portuguesa do Health Perception Questionnaire, dada a inexistência no contexto português de instrumento validado que avalie a perceção da saúde. É um instrumento de autoresposta que avalia a perceção da saúde em três momentos - passado, presente e futuro, a resistência e atitudes em relação à doença. Participaram 1,139 sujeitos da população geral, com idades entre os 18 e os 79 anos e maioritariamente mulheres. Foram realizadas análises fatoriais exploratória e confirmatória, tendo sido encontrado um modelo de 2.ª ordem, onde a perceção da saúde se define em torno de dois fatores - saúde atual (sete itens) e saúde anterior (dois itens). A vivência de doença grave ou significativa, assim como o bem-estar e a saúde, assumem-se como elementos chave na construção individual da perceção de saúde anterior e atual respectivamente.

Resumen La validez del constructo percepción de la salud ha aumentado a lo largo del tiempo; las personas evalúan mejor su salud debido al aumento en el nivel de escolaridad. Diferentes instrumentos se han desarrollado para evaluar esta dimensión de la salud. Este estudio tiene como objetivo la validación para la población adulta portuguesa del Health Perception Questionnaire, en ausencia de instrumento validado para evaluar la percepción de la salud en el contexto portuguése Es un instrumento de autorespuesta que evalúa la percepción de la salud en tres momentos - pasado, presente y futuro, la resistencia y actitudes en relación a la enfermedad. Participaron1,139 sujetos de la población general, con edades entre los 18 y los 79 años y mayoritariamente mujeres. Se realizaron análisis factoriales exploratorios y confirmatorios, habiendo sido encontrado un modelo de 2ª planta, donde la percepción de la salud se define en torno a dos factores - salud actual (siete ítems) y salud anterior (dos ítems). La vivencia de enfermedad grave o significativa, así como el bienestar y la salud, se asumen como elementos clave en la construcción individual de la percepción de salud anterior y actual respectivamente.

Abstract The validity of health perception construct has increased over time; people assess better their health status due to an increased level of education. Different instruments have been developed to assess this dimension of health. This study aims to validate for the Portuguese adult population of the Health Perception Questionnaire due to the inexistence in the Portuguese context of a validated instrument that assess health perception. It is a self -report instrument that evaluates health perception in three moments - past, present and future, resistance and attitudes towards the disease.1,139 subjects from the general population, aged between 18 and 79 years and mostly women, participated. Exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyzes were carried out. A second order model was found, where health perception is defined around two factors - current health (seven items) and previous health (two items). The experience of serious or significant illness, as well as well-being and health, are assumed as key elements in the individual construction of the previous and current health perception respectively.

Long-term predictors for psychological outcome of pre-symptomatic testing for late-onset neurological diseases.

This longitudinal study aimed at determining predicting variables for middle and long-term psychological disturbance due pre-symptomatic testing (PST) for two late-onset neurological diseases, Huntington disease (HD) and TTR (transthyretin protein) familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) Val30Met (now classified as Val50Met). 196 clinical records of persons who performed PST at least three years ago and answered to the two stages of evaluation (before PST and least 3 years after disclosure of results) were analysed. For this purpose, regression analysis was performed, showing that the Positive Symptom Distress Index (PSDI), psychoticism, somatization and paranoid ideation dimensions assume predictive value in the middle and long-term impact for total anxiety and PSDI. The result of PST was not a relevant predictor. The application of an evaluation instrument of various psychopathological dimensions played a fundamental role in the detection of clinical situations that may arise several years later after PST. Attention should be paid to providing psychological support to persons at-risk who, at the pre-test phase, present some psychopathology indices before pursuing with genetic testing.

Reparo de resinas compostas: resistência à união interfacial entre resinas compostas ativadas por luz visível / Composite resins repairs: interfacial bonding resistance of light activated composite resins

Os autores analisaram a resistência à tração de corpos de prova de duas resinas compostas, com ou sem reparo aplicando ou não um agente de união (selante). Para cada material foram confeccionados 50 corpos de prova nas seguintes condições: 10 espécimes (não reparados); 40 emendados, dos quais 20 com agente de união (selante) e 20 sem agente de união (selante). Total de 100 corpos de prova. Os resultados demonstraram que: - a resistência dos corpos de prova emendados com selante foi maior, comparado aos espécimes reparados, sem a aplicação prévia deste agente de união; - a resistência à tração dos corpos de prova de resinas compostas reparados, foi menor que a dos espécimes sem emenda