Project/scholarship details

  • Funder

    FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

  • Funder's country

    Portugal

  • Funding program

    5876-PPCDTI

  • Funding amount

    81,338.00 €

  • Start date

    2008-07-20

  • End date

    2011-12-20

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Spousal support and satisfaction with healthcare services as moderators between...

Pereira, M. Graça; Ferreira, Gabriela Maria Magalhães; Machado, José Cunha

Objectives: This study analyzed the moderating role of partners’ support and satisfaction with healthcare services in the relationship between psychological morbidity and adherence to diet in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Methods: Participants were 387 recently diagnosed T2DM patients that answered the following instruments: Revised Summary of Diabetes Self- Care Activities Measure, Hospital Anxiety and...

Date: 2014   |   Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Patients' and spouses' contribution toward adherence to self-care behaviors in ...

Pereira, M. Graça; Costa, Vera; Oliveira, Daniela; Ferreira, Gabriela Maria Magalhães; Pedras, Susana; Sousa, Maria Rui; Machado, José C.

This article focuses on patients' and partners' variables regarding adherence to self-care, in recently diagnosed patients with Type 2 diabetes. One hundred four patients and partners were included. Instruments answered were Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes (family stress), Family Crisis Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales (family coping), Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (dyadic adjustment), Multidim...

Date: 2015   |   Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Partners’ representations of diabetes as mediators between patients’ representa...

Pereira, M. Graça; Pedras, Carla Susana Abreu; Machado, José Cunha; Ferreira, Gabriela Maria Magalhães

The purpose of this study was to analyze partners'representations of diabetes as mediators between patients' illness representations and adherence to all self-care behaviors, in recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients. The sample included 340 patientsand their respective partners. The instruments used were: Revised Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (RSDSCA); Medication Adherence Report Scale (...

Date: 2016   |   Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Physical activity: the importance of the extended theory of planned behavior, i...

Ferreira, Gabriela; Pereira, M. Graça

This study focused on the contribution of the extended theory of planned behavior regarding intention to perform physical activity, adherence to physical activity, and its mediator role in the relationship between trust in the physician and adherence to physical activity, in a sample of 120 patients with type 2 diabetes. The results revealed that positive attitudes and perception of control predicted a stronger...

Date: 2017   |   Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Self-reported adherence to foot care in type 2 diabetes patients: do illness re...

Pereira, M. Graça; Pedras, Carla Susana Abreu; Ferreira, Gabriela Maria Magalhães

Aim: This study examined the differences and the predictive role of clinical variables, illness representations, anxiety, and depression symptoms, on self-reported foot care adherence, in patients recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and assessed no longer than a year after the diagnosis (T1) and four months later (T2). Background: The high rate of diabetes worldwide is one of the major publi...

Date: 2019   |   Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Family and couple variables regarding adherence in Type 2 diabetes patients in ...

Pereira, M. Graça; Pedras, Susana; Ferreira, Gabriela Maria Magalhães; Machado, José C.

This study analyzed which family and couple variables predicted adherence to standard care treatment, in patients recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The sample comprised 224 dyads assessed during the first year of diagnosis (T1) and 4 months later (T2). The results showed that family stress, dyadic adjustment, family coping, and positive support assessed by patients at T1 predicted medication adherence an...

Date: 2019   |   Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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