Maria João Forjaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 255281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria João Forjaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria João |
| FAMILY NAME | Forjaz |
| SIGNATURE | FORJAZ M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto de Salud Carlos III |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3935-962X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tailoring Colorectal Cancer Screening
A dynamic multilevel behavioural framework for emergency preparedness
Societal shocks such as extreme weather events -- pandemics, large-scale conflict, or disasters test the resilience of individuals, communities, and broader societal systems. In response, governments and organizations worldwide are investing in improving preparedness and strengthening societal resilience. Despite widespread endorsement, a major challenge lies in the absence of a shared conceptualization that captures the behaviour of the various …
Quality of life among older informal caregivers in Sweden
Our findings emphasize that a substantial proportion of older caregivers have suboptimal QoL, and that those with poor mental QoL also experience higher levels of loneliness and social isolation. Targeted policies to reduce caregiver burden and enhance their QoL are essential
I Feel Better now than I did at the Beginning”
Background population aging, along with changes in gender and kinship social norms, have led to a growing proportion of older people caring for similarly aged individuals. Most of them are spouses or partners oquef the cared-for person and take on multiple demanding and time-consuming care tasks. According to the “double jeopardy” hypothesis, the health of the older carers is particularly at risk because due to the combined effect of caregiving r…
Soledad Y Salud Mental en Personas Mayores De España Y Suecia
Conocimientos, Actitudes Y Prácticas Sobre El Cáncer Colorrectal Y Su Cribado en Jordania
Determinantes De Percepción Y Prácticas De Preparación Ante Pandemias en La Población Española
Impacto Del Cuidado en La Calidad De Vida
Evolución Del Perfil De Las Personas Cuidadoras en España. Análisis De Las Encuestas De Discapacidad
Rasch and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Community Wellbeing Index
Community wellbeing assessment is of growing interest in governance and policy-making. This study investigated the validity and reliability of the Community Wellbeing Index (CWI), assessing community wellbeing from an individual’s perspective, across independent international datasets. The CWI was translated from the original Spanish into English and Setswana and was administered to participants from established research cohorts in Spain ( n = 1,…
Preventive behavior against Sars-CoV-2 infection in adults according to whether or not they live with children. A combined analysis of the nationwide Cosmo-SPAIN and ENE-Covid surveys
Introduction The protection of children is a major driver of behavior among those in charge of their care. We evaluated whether compliance with preventive measures against SARS-CoV-2 infection among adults living with children was different from that of those not living with them, in 2020. Methods We used the COSMO-SPAIN ( N = 867) and the nationally representative ENE-COVID ( N = 29,926) surveys to estimate prevalence of compliance (95% confiden…
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Spain and associated factors
Introduction The present study explores the reasons of those who have not been vaccinated in the later stage of the vaccine rollout in Spain and its associated determinants. Methods Cluster and logistic regression analyses were used to assess differences in claimed reasons for vaccine hesitancy in Spain using two samples of unvaccinated people (18–40 years old) gathered by an online cross-sectional survey from social networks ( n = 910) and from …
Multimorbidity, social determinants and intersectionality in chronic patients. Results from the EpiChron Cohort
Background: Multimorbidity is influenced in an interconnected way, both in extent and nature, by the social determinants of health. We aimed at implementing an intersectional approach to analyse the association of multimorbidity with five important axes of social inequality (i.e. gender, age, ethnicity, residence area and socioeconomic class). Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional observational study of all individuals who presented with at lea…
Mapping the EQ-5D-5L from the Spanish national health survey functional disability scale through Bayesian networks
Residential Environment Assessment by Older Adults in Nursing Homes during Covid-19 Outbreak
The most vulnerable residential settings during the COVID-19 pandemic were older adult’s nursing homes, which experienced high rates of incidence and death from this cause. This paper aims to ascertain how institutionalized older people assessed their residential environment during the pandemic and to examine the differences according to personal and contextual characteristics. The COVID-19 Nursing Homes Survey (Madrid region, Spain) was used. Th…
Maternal Mortality in Africa
Maternal mortality has decreased in Africa, especially in the South African region. The only region close to the United Nations' target is the North African region. The remaining Sub-Saharan African regions are still far from achieving the goals. The West African region needs more extraordinary efforts to achieve the goals of the United Nations. Policies should ensure that all pregnant women have antenatal visits and give birth in a health facili…
Validation of the Spanish Version of the Fear of Covid-19 Scale (FCV-19S) in Long-Term Care Settings
Fear of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the main psychological impacts of the actual pandemic, especially among the population groups with higher mortality rates. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) has been used in different scenarios to assess fear associated with COVID-19, but this has not been done frequently in people living in long-term care (LTC) settings. The present study is aimed at measuring the psychometric properties o…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes
Nursing homes for the elderly in Spain have experienced high rates of infection and mortality from COVID-19, although rates have varied from one region to another. Madrid is the region where most institutionalized older adults have died from the coronavirus. However, there is little known about the psychosocial and environmental factors involved in the high incidence of COVID-19 among the institutionalised population in this region. This article …
Trends in Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Spain, September 2020‒May 2021
Objectives. To analyze factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Spain, over time. Methods. We used data from a national study that included 5 online surveys carried out every 2 months from September 2020 to May 2021. Each round recruited a sample of 1000 participants aged 18 years or older. We performed a multivariable logistic regression with vaccination acceptance as the dependent variable. We evaluated time trends through the int…
The Cosmo-Spain Survey
Objective: To describe changes in knowledge, attitudes and preventive practices (KAP), risk perception, and psychological variables of Spanish population toward the COVID-19 pandemic from July to November 2020. Methods: Three samples, each of one composed by 1,000+ persons aged 18 years or older, were interviewed online in three rounds, every 2 months, from July to November 2020. Results: The level of knowledge on COVID-19 was high in the three r…
Living with Chronic Illness Scale
BACKGROUND: The Living with Chronic Illness (LW-CI) Scale is a comprehensive patient-reported outcome measure that evaluates the complex process of living with long-term conditions. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyse the psychometric properties of the LW-CI scale according to the classic test theory and the Rasch model among individuals living with different long-term conditions. DESIGN: This was an observational, international and cross-sect…
Dating Violence Victimization among Adolescents in Europe
Dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health issue because of its negative health consequences. In this study, we aimed to analyse the prevalence and the psychosocial and socioeconomic risk and protective factors associated DV among male and female adolescents in Europe. It was performed a cross-sectional study based on a non-probabilistic sample of 1555 students aged 13-16 years (2018-2019). The global prevalence of DV victimization…
Influence of Active and Healthy Ageing on Quality of Life Changes
This study aimed to analyze the determinants of quality of life (QoL) in older people in three European countries (Portugal, Spain and Sweden). A sample of 7589 participants in waves 4 (2011) and 6 (2015) of the Survey on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project, aged 50 and over and living in Portugal, Spain and Sweden, was included. The CASP-12 scale was used to measure QoL. A principal component analysis was performed to group p…
Sexism and its associated factors among adolescents in Europe
Despite the efforts of recent decades to reduce gender inequality, sexism is still prevalent among adolescents. The objective of this study was to identify the main socioeconomic characteristics, personal experiences, resources, and competencies associated with sexism in a sample of adolescents from different European countries. Baseline data from the Lights4Violence project included 1555 students ages 12–17 from secondary schools in six European…
Are Loneliness and Social Isolation Associated with Quality of Life in Older Adults? Insights from Northern and Southern Europe
Loneliness and social isolation are prospectively associated with decreased QoL among older adults, yet the associations are contextually bound. Future interventions should target both exposures, among others, in order to increase QoL in this group
Factors Associated With Loneliness of Noninstitutionalized and Institutionalized Older Adults
Findings have potential implications for targeting older adults at risk for loneliness
Residential satisfaction, sense of belonging and loneliness among older adults living in the community and in care facilities
The Relative Contribution of Health Status and Quality of Life Domains in Subjective Health in Old Age
Self-perceived health status in older adults
OBJECTIVE: To assess regional and sociodemographic differences in self-perceived health status among older adults. METHODS: A face-to-face quality of life survey was conducted in a representative sample of the Spanish population comprising 1,106 non-institutionalized elderly aged 60 or more in 2008. Logistic regression models were used to explain self-perceived health status according to the EuroQol Group Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS). Independe…
Rasch and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Community Wellbeing Index
Community wellbeing assessment is of growing interest in governance and policy-making. This study investigated the validity and reliability of the Community Wellbeing Index (CWI), assessing community wellbeing from an individual’s perspective, across independent international datasets. The CWI was translated from the original Spanish into English and Setswana and was administered to participants from established research cohorts in Spain ( n = 1,…
Sexism and its associated factors among adolescents in Europe
Despite the efforts of recent decades to reduce gender inequality, sexism is still prevalent among adolescents. The objective of this study was to identify the main socioeconomic characteristics, personal experiences, resources, and competencies associated with sexism in a sample of adolescents from different European countries. Baseline data from the Lights4Violence project included 1555 students ages 12–17 from secondary schools in six European…
Health-related quality of life and mental health in the medium-term aftermath of the Prestige oil spill in Galiza (Spain)
Almost one and a half years after the accident, worse HRQoL and mental health levels were not in evidence among subjects exposed to the oil-spill. Nevertheless, some of the scales suggest the possibility of slight impact on the mental health of residents in the affected areas
Two questionnaires for Parkinson’s disease
Measurement properties of the Community Wellbeing Index in older adults
Factors Associated With Loneliness of Noninstitutionalized and Institutionalized Older Adults
Findings have potential implications for targeting older adults at risk for loneliness
Residential satisfaction, sense of belonging and loneliness among older adults living in the community and in care facilities
Self-perceived health status in older adults
OBJECTIVE: To assess regional and sociodemographic differences in self-perceived health status among older adults. METHODS: A face-to-face quality of life survey was conducted in a representative sample of the Spanish population comprising 1,106 non-institutionalized elderly aged 60 or more in 2008. Logistic regression models were used to explain self-perceived health status according to the EuroQol Group Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS). Independe…
The Relative Contribution of Health Status and Quality of Life Domains in Subjective Health in Old Age
Change and predictors of quality of life in institutionalized older adults with dementia
Associative participation of older adults and subjective quality of life
Active ageing policies seek to increase the quality of life of older people in three areas: health, security and participation. This paper focuses on a specific type of participation: associations. Its objective is to explore the possible self-selection effects of this type of participation, using global subjective quality of life indicators (satisfaction with life) and domain-specific indicators (satisfaction with leisure, community social integ…
Self-perceived health status, gender, and work status
This study analyzes the relationship between gender and self-perceived health status in Spanish retirees and housewives from a sample of 1,106 community-dwelling older adults. A multivariate linear regression model was used in which self-perceived health status was measured by the EQ-5D visual analogue scale and gender according to work status (retired men and women and housewives). Retired males reported a significantly better health status than…
Psychometric properties of the EQ-5D-5L in patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis
A Methodological Approach for Implementing an Integrated Multimorbidity Care Model
Patients with multimorbidity (defined as the co-occurrence of multiple chronic diseases) frequently experience fragmented care, which increases the risk of negative outcomes. A recently proposed Integrated Multimorbidity Care Model aims to overcome many issues related to fragmented care. In the context of Joint Action CHRODIS-PLUS, an implementation methodology was developed for the care model, which is being piloted in five sites. We aim to (1) …
Application of the JA-CHRODIS Integrated Multimorbidity Care Model (IMCM) to a Case Study of Diabetes and Mental Health
The Integrated Multimorbidity Care Model (IMCM), developed by the Joint Action on Chronic Diseases and Promoting Healthy Ageing across the Life Cycle (JA-CHRODIS), proposes a set of 16 multidimensional components (i.e., recommendations) to improve the care of persons with multimorbidity in Europe. This study aimed at analyzing the potential applicability of the IMCM. We followed a qualitative approach that comprised two phases: (1) The design of …
Lights4Violence
Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT03411564 . Unique Protocol ID: 776905. Date registered: 18-01-2018
Patient information role in integrated health care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Are Loneliness and Social Isolation Associated with Quality of Life in Older Adults? Insights from Northern and Southern Europe
Loneliness and social isolation are prospectively associated with decreased QoL among older adults, yet the associations are contextually bound. Future interventions should target both exposures, among others, in order to increase QoL in this group
Anxiety, Depression and Quality of Life in Older Adults
This study focuses on the influence of anxiety and depression on individual trajectories of quality of life in old age through a longitudinal approach. A representative sample of adults aged 50+ living in Portugal and participating in wave 4 (W4) and wave 6 (W6) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project was considered. Participants, 1765 at baseline (W4) and 1201 at follow up (W6), were asked about their quality of …
Psychometric Properties of the Casp-12 Scale in Portugal
The purpose of this study is to assess the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Control, Autonomy, Self-realization, and Pleasure (CASP)-12 scale used in the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project. Data were obtained from a representative sample of 1666 people aged ≥50 years living in Portugal and participating in the SHARE wave 6. In addition to the CASP-12 scale, sociodemographic data and health sta…
Assessing the Pilot Implementation of the Integrated Multimorbidity Care Model in Five European Settings
Multimorbidity, the coexistence of several chronic conditions in a patient, represents a great challenge for healthcare systems and society. The Integrated Multimorbidity Care Model (IMCM) was recently designed within the Joint Action on chronic diseases and promoting healthy ageing across the life cycle (CHRODIS) to ensure the continuity of care for patients with multimorbidity. The IMCM was implemented in five European pilot sites in Spain, Ita…
Multi-ethnic validation of 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale in Chile
Background There has been scant research published regarding the assessment of depression in ethnic groups, and few studies have addressed the validation of scales for standardized assessment of depressive symptoms among indigenous minorities. Objective The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) for a multi-ethnic sample of older Chilean adults. Methods Cross-sectional study…
The Cosmo-Spain Survey
Objective: To describe changes in knowledge, attitudes and preventive practices (KAP), risk perception, and psychological variables of Spanish population toward the COVID-19 pandemic from July to November 2020. Methods: Three samples, each of one composed by 1,000+ persons aged 18 years or older, were interviewed online in three rounds, every 2 months, from July to November 2020. Results: The level of knowledge on COVID-19 was high in the three r…
Living with Chronic Illness Scale
BACKGROUND: The Living with Chronic Illness (LW-CI) Scale is a comprehensive patient-reported outcome measure that evaluates the complex process of living with long-term conditions. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyse the psychometric properties of the LW-CI scale according to the classic test theory and the Rasch model among individuals living with different long-term conditions. DESIGN: This was an observational, international and cross-sect…
Dating Violence Victimization among Adolescents in Europe
Dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health issue because of its negative health consequences. In this study, we aimed to analyse the prevalence and the psychosocial and socioeconomic risk and protective factors associated DV among male and female adolescents in Europe. It was performed a cross-sectional study based on a non-probabilistic sample of 1555 students aged 13-16 years (2018-2019). The global prevalence of DV victimization…
Influence of Active and Healthy Ageing on Quality of Life Changes
This study aimed to analyze the determinants of quality of life (QoL) in older people in three European countries (Portugal, Spain and Sweden). A sample of 7589 participants in waves 4 (2011) and 6 (2015) of the Survey on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project, aged 50 and over and living in Portugal, Spain and Sweden, was included. The CASP-12 scale was used to measure QoL. A principal component analysis was performed to group p…
Sexism and its associated factors among adolescents in Europe
Despite the efforts of recent decades to reduce gender inequality, sexism is still prevalent among adolescents. The objective of this study was to identify the main socioeconomic characteristics, personal experiences, resources, and competencies associated with sexism in a sample of adolescents from different European countries. Baseline data from the Lights4Violence project included 1555 students ages 12–17 from secondary schools in six European…
Medicine (34 works) · Psychology (26 works) · Gerontology (18 works) · Environmental health (16 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (16 works) · Public health (15 works) · Quality of life (healthcare (15 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Demography (13 works) · Population (12 works)