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- Formar para a empatia: estudo transversal nas tecnologias da saúdePublication . Dores, Artemisa; Salgado, Ana; Magalhães, Andreia; Martins, Helena; Lopes, Paula; Carvalho, IreneA importância da empatia no contexto da saúde é amplamente aceite. Muita da investigação nesta área tem sido realizada na área da Medicina e os resultados são controversos. Alguns dos estudos concluem que a empatia tende a declinar durante a formação médica, enquanto outros, mais recentemente, sugerem que esta permanece igual ou chega mesmo a aumentar durante a formação. Contudo, pouco se sabe sobre a empatia em estudantes de Tecnologias da Saúde. O objetivo deste estudo transversal é comparar a empatia dos estudantes de diferentes anos e em diferentes cursos de Tecnologias da Saúde. Uma amostra de 140 estudantes, do 1.º e 3.º anos de Terapia da Fala.
- Psychometric Properties of the Communication Skills Attitudes Scale (CSAS) among Portuguese undergraduate students in Allied Health SciencesPublication . Carvalho, Irene; Dores, Artemisa Rocha; Grilo, Ana; Martins, Helena; Magalhães, Andreia; Salgado, AnaCommunication in health has attracted increasing interest in recent decades, revealing the need for appropriate research tools. The study of the psychometric properties of instruments and the confirmation of their structure is crucial for the reliability and validity of the overall results of scientific work. Repeated analyses of these dimensions over time are important because it allows us to identify changes that result from social and cultural changes. This study aims to assess the reliability, factor structure, and construct validity of the Communication Skills Attitudes Scale.
- Study of behavioural and neural bases of visuo-spatial working memory with an fMRI paradigm based on an n-back taskPublication . Dores, Artemisa Rocha; Barbosa, Fernando; Carvalho, Irene; Almeida, Isabel F.; Guerreiro, Sandra; Rocha, Benedita; Sousa, Liliana de; Castro-Caldas, AlexandreThe goal of this study was to propose a new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm using a language-free adaptation of a 2-back working memory task to avoid cultural and educational bias. We additionally provide an index of the validity of the proposed paradigm and test whether the experimental task discriminates the behavioural performances of healthy participants from those of individuals with working memory deficits. Ten healthy participants and nine patients presenting working memory (WM) deficits due to acquired brain injury (ABI) performed the developed task. To inspect whether the paradigm activates brain areas typically involved in visual working memory (VWM), brain activation of the healthy participants was assessed with fMRIs. To examine the task's capacity to discriminate behavioural data, performances of the healthy participants in the task were compared with those of ABI patients. Data were analysed with GLM-based random effects procedures and t-tests. We found an increase of the BOLD signal in the specialized areas of VWM. Concerning behavioural performances, healthy participants showed the predicted pattern of more hits, less omissions and a tendency for fewer false alarms, more self-corrected responses, and faster reaction times, when compared with subjects presenting WM impairments. The results suggest that this task activates brain areas involved in VWM and discriminates behavioural performances of clinical and non-clinical groups. It can thus be used as a research methodology for behavioural and neuroimaging studies of VWM in block-design paradigms.