Maria C Canavarro
Biographic Data
| ID | 99276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria C Canavarro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria C |
| FAMILY NAME | Canavarro |
| SIGNATURE | CANAVARRO M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5083-7322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Covid-19 outbreak centrality and trauma symptoms in nurses
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with negative psychological consequences, particularly amongst frontline workers, such as nurses; however, little is known about modifiable mechanisms underlying the development of such outcomes. Objectives: This study aimed to examine the mediating role of psychological inflexibility in the relationship between the centrality of the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and post-traumatic stress…
Exploring the association between adoptive parents' attachment orientations and adoptees' emotional and behavioral difficulties
Although adoptive parenthood appears to positively contribute to adoptees' emotional and behavioral development, little research has been done on the mechanisms through which adoptive parents may impact the developmental pathways of their children. This cross-sectional study aimed to explore the association between adoptive parents' attachment orientations and adoptees' emotional and behavioral difficulties while examining the mediating role of a…
Is the Unified Protocol for Children Effective for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Children’s Emotional Disorders? A Randomized Controlled Trial
The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children (UP-C) aims to reduce internalizing symptoms in children by addressing fundamental mechanisms that underlie emotional disorders through a combination of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral strategies. This study, the largest randomized controlled trial (RCT) to date of UP-C efficacy and the first one conducted outside the U.S., assesses the efficacy of UP-C com…
Factor Structure, Reliability and Validity of the European Portuguese Version of the Revised Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity index (Casi-R) in a Clinical Sample of School-Aged Children
The present study explored the factor structure, reliability and convergent validity of the Portuguese version of the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index – Revised (PT-CASI-R) in a clinical sample of school-aged children. A clinical sample of 153 children with emotional disorder symptomatology (i.e., anxiety or depressive disorder; 6-13 years) completed the CASI-R and the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS). A confirmatory factor a…
Cascading effects of partner relationship satisfaction on complete perinatal mental health
The Associations Between Physician-Patient Communication and Adjustment Outcomes of Patients and Physicians
The Factorial Structure, Psychometric Properties and Sensitivity to Change of the Distress Tolerance Scale for Children with Emotional Disorders
The DTS is a suitable and useful measure for assessing children's distress tolerance and to assess the efficacy of CBT
Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of Emotion Detectives In-Out
The clinical trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier: NCT05747131, date assigned February 28, 2023)
How do early affiliative memories explain body image shame? A 12-month longitudinal study in adolescent girls
Event centrality of the Covid-19 outbreak and depressive symptoms in nurses and the general population
The restrictions imposed to control the COVID-19 pandemic had significant negative effects on the mental health of the general population, and particularly in nurses as frontline healthcare workers. The main goal of the present study was to analyze the direct and indirect effects, via social connectedness, of centrality of the COVID-19 outbreak on depressive symptoms. Furthermore, it is explored whether this association varied by group (nurses ve…
Self-compassion and mindful parenting among postpartum mothers during the Covid-19 pandemic
Parents’ beliefs about children’s emotions questionnaire
The roles of self-compassion and psychological flexibility in the psychological well-being of adolescent girls
A bifactor analysis of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale - Short Form (Ders-SF) in a sample of adolescents and adults
Is parental psychological flexibility a (uni) dimensional construct? A bifactor analysis of the Portuguese version of the parental acceptance questionnaire (6-PAQ)
Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire - kids version (Cerq-kids) among a sample of children and adolescents exposed to wildfires
The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children (UP-C) in Portugal
The Unified Protocol for Children (UP-C) is a transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy group intervention for children and caregivers targeting the treatment of children's emotional disorders (EDs). The present study aims to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the UP-C in the Portuguese population using a single-armed design. The participants were 32 children (6-12 years of age) with an ED (anxiety and/or depressive disorder) as a mai…
Mattering and Depressive Symptoms in Portuguese Postpartum Women
These results highlight the importance of studying loneliness as a possible risk factor for postpartum depression and alert to the pertinence of considering mattering and loneliness in the assessment and intervention with women in the perinatal period
Explaining Parenting Stress among Adoptive Parents
Although parenting stress has been identified as one of the most important and highly acceptable targets for postadoption psychological intervention, knowledge regarding the modifiable factors that contribute to explaining this outcome among adoptive parents remains scarce. This study aimed to explore whether and to what extent adoptive parents' mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and self-compassion contribute to explaining parenting stress …
Do We Care? Portuguese Healthcare Professionals’ Practices and Related Barriers to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
Attachment, Adjustment Outcomes and Dyadic Coping among HIV-Serodiscordant Couples in Portugal
Affiliative interactions and body and eating-related difficulties in adolescent girls
Measuring Positive Mental Health in the Postpartum Period
This study aimed to investigate the factor structure of the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form (MHC-SF) in the postpartum context using a single-factor model, a correlated three-factor model, and a bifactor model. The reliability and validity of the MHC-SF were also examined. The total sample consisted of 882 postpartum Portuguese women. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the bifactor model yielded a significantly better fit to the data tha…
Estudo de aceitabilidade das intervenções psicológicas via telefone para sobreviventes de cancro dos Açores
As intervenções com recurso à tecnologia têm mostrado ser promissoras para ultrapassar algumas barreiras de acesso aos cuidados dos sobreviventes de cancro de regiões mais isoladas. Os estudos de aceitabilidade e das preferências dos sobreviventes relativamente a estas intervenções são escassos em Portugal, e inexistente nos Açores. OBJETIVOS: Este estudo pretendeu avaliar: i) os comportamentos de procura de ajuda dos sobreviventes de cancro dos …
The relationship between dyadic coping and dyadic adjustment among HIV-serodiscordant couples
Living within an HIV-serodiscordant relationship has been recognized as a stressful experience for both HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected partners. However, no study has examined the association between dyadic coping (DC) and dyadic adjustment of such couples. In this study, we analysed the association between DC (positive, negative, and common DC) and dyadic adjustment (consensus, satisfaction, cohesion) among HIV-serodiscordant couples, consideri…
Is Mindful Parenting Associated with Adolescents’ Well-being in Early and Middle/Late Adolescence? The Mediating Role of Adolescents’ Attachment Representations, Self-Compassion and Mindfulness
Infidelity in Dating Relationships
How can mindful parenting be related to emotional eating and overeating in childhood and adolescence? The mediating role of parenting stress and parental child-feeding practices
Ecological Contexts in Adolescent Pregnancy
Marital Relationship, Body Image and Psychological Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Patients
Family Therapy and Medical Issues
Event centrality of the Covid-19 outbreak and depressive symptoms in nurses and the general population
The restrictions imposed to control the COVID-19 pandemic had significant negative effects on the mental health of the general population, and particularly in nurses as frontline healthcare workers. The main goal of the present study was to analyze the direct and indirect effects, via social connectedness, of centrality of the COVID-19 outbreak on depressive symptoms. Furthermore, it is explored whether this association varied by group (nurses ve…
Mindful Parenting is Associated with Adolescents’ Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Through Adolescents’ Psychological Inflexibility and Self-Compassion
Congruence of the Marital Relationship During Transition to Parenthood
Affiliative interactions and body and eating-related difficulties in adolescent girls
How psychological inflexibility mediates the association between general feelings of shame with body image-related shame and eating psychopathology severity
The role of mothers’ self‐compassion on mother–infant bonding during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The current COVID‐19 pandemic is a challenging time for postpartum mothers, and associated challenges may have a negative impact on their parenting and, consequently, on mother–infant bonding. This study aimed to longitudinally explore whether mothers’ self‐compassion was associated with mother–infant bonding and whether this relationship was mediated by mindful parenting and parenting stress. A total of 125 Portuguese mothers of infants aged bet…
Mothers’ psychopathology symptoms and mindful parenting in the postpartum period
Postpartum psychopathology has an adverse impact on parenting behaviors and, consequently, on the mother–infant relationship. This study aimed to explore whether the relationship between maternal anxiety and depression symptomatology in the postpartum period and the ability of mothers to adopt a mindful parenting approach is indirect and can be explained by parental reflective functioning. Two hundred ninety five Portuguese mothers of infants age…
Intra‐couple similarity in dyadic coping and partners’ adjustment to the birth of a child
Unlike individual perceptions of a couple's functioning, couple‐level protective factors against poor adjustment to the birth of a child have rarely been studied. This study examined similarity or reciprocal exchanges in dyadic coping ( DC ) during pregnancy (T1) and at 6 weeks postpartum (T2) and its associations with both partners’ adjustment at 6–9 months postpartum (T3). Ninety‐two Portuguese couples provided data on DC , internalizing sympto…
Attachment and Mental Help-Seeking in the Perinatal Period
Perceptions of Influencing Factors and Satisfaction With the Timing of First Childbirth Among Women of Advanced Age and Their Partners
The transition to first-time parenthood at advanced maternal age has become a rising challenge for families in the 21st century. The present study aimed to examine the perceptions of influencing factors and the satisfaction with child-timing among older first-time mothers and their partners (older parents) compared with younger first-time mothers and their partners (younger parents) and to explore the relationships between these variables, depend…
Relational contexts in adjustment to pregnancy of HIV-positive women
Relational contexts are a central issue in most people's lives, and people usually rely on the support of others in everyday circumstances. Social support, as a relational context, could have a positive influence on personal adjustment, and is particularly relevant in the psychological well-being of HIV patients. Guided by the Convoy Model of social networks, in a sample of 31 HIV-positive pregnant women we try to assess the role of social suppor…
Quality of life assessment in HIV-infection
The assessment of quality of life (QOL) in HIV infection has emerged as being vital to research and clinical practice. This assessment is also a challenge due to the specific characteristics of the infection, the increased availability of therapeutics, as well as the epidemiological variability inherent to HIV infection. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the European Portuguese version of the World Health…
Gender and Age Differences in Quality of Life and the Impact of Psychopathological Symptoms Among HIV-Infected Patients
Assessing paediatric health-related quality of life within a cross-cultural perspective
The aims of this study were to validate semantically the Portuguese versions of DISABKIDS-37 (quality of life questionnaires for children and adolescents with chronic conditions) and to explore their psychometric performance in a pilot study. For each health condition (asthma and epilepsy), groups of children (aged 8–12 years) and adolescents (aged 13–18 years) were formed, including nine individuals and their parents (total = 72 subjects), to wh…
Understanding the Quality of Life for Parents and Their Children Who have Asthma
Amniocentesis Due to Advanced Maternal Age
Marital Relationship, Body Image and Psychological Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Patients
Ecological Contexts in Adolescent Pregnancy
Couple-Focused Interventions for HIV-Serodiscordant Couples During Transition to Motherhood
Congruence of the Marital Relationship During Transition to Parenthood
Family Therapy and Medical Issues
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the European Portuguese version of a questionnaire to assess quality of life in HIV-infected adults
The aim of the current study was to examine the factor structure and the psychometric properties of the European Portuguese version of the World Health Organization's Quality of Life Instrument in HIV Infection (WHOQOL-HIV-Bref). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factors analysis (CFA) were conducted on self-reported WHOQOL-HIV-Bref data from 1196 HIV-positive patients, frequenting the main departments of infectious diseases in P…
Adaptação parental ao nascimento de um filho
A adaptação à parentalidade tem sido descrita como um importante momento de desenvolvimento da vida das famílias, exigindo esforços de adaptação às novas tarefas com que pais e mães se deparam. Assim, apesar da Felicidade que está frequentemente associada a este acontecimento, a necessidade de reorganização da vida dos indivíduos é geralmente elevada, podendo conduzir, nas mães e nos pais, a elevados níveis de perturbação emocional. Dado que esta…
Influência da paridade na adaptação da transição para a maternidade em grávidas infectadas pelo VIH e grávidas sem condição médica associada
No presente estudo empírico procuramos explorar a influência da paridade na adaptação na transição para a maternidade de grávidas seropositivas para o VIH e grávidas sem condição médica de risco associada. Noventa e oito mulheres (47 grávidas seropositivas para o VIH e 51 grávidas sem patologia médica associada) foram avaliadas durante o segundo trimestre de gravidez e dois a quatro dias após o parto. O protocolo de avaliação era composto por uma…
Uma abordagem qualitativa às motivações positivas e negativas para a parentalidade
A diminuição da natalidade e o adiamento do nascimento do primeiro filho têm evidenciado a importância de melhor compreender as motivações para a parentalidade. Atendendo à sua variabilidade sociocultural, este estudo qualitativo teve como principal objectivo conhecer as motivações positivas e negativas para a parentalidade numa amostra da população portuguesa. A amostra foi constituída por24 participantes, recrutados entre os profissionais e ute…
A adaptação ao cancro da mama nas fases de diagnóstico e sobrevivência
O investimento na aparência é um factor importante na explicação das diferenças individuais na adaptação às alterações corporais associadas ao cancro da mama. Esta variável refere-se à importância atribuída pelo indivíduo à sua aparência física e engloba as facetas saliência auto-avaliativa (SAV; grau em que o indivíduo considera que a sua aparência integra a sua identidade e permite aferir o seu valor pessoal) e saliência motivacional (SM; grau …
Vulnerabilidade de género e outras dimensões de influência na adaptação ao VIH/Sida e à gravidez e maternidade
Os modelos contextuais e desenvolvimentistas (Belsky, 1984, 1999; Belsky & Jafee, 2006; Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998) defendem a compreensão do desenvolvimento e comportamentos individuais através de uma leitura ecológica em que o indivíduo é capaz de influenciar e ser influenciado por outros sistemas. Estas abordagens permitem uma compreensão da adaptação à gravidez e ao nascimento de um filho e, em igual medida, facilitam…
Examining a developmental approach to health-related quality of life assessment
The aim of this study was to assess the properties of a generic instrument for pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQL) assessment – DISABKIDS-37 – in a sample of Portuguese children and adolescents with chronic health conditions. Participants were 349 children/adolescents with asthma or epilepsy and their parents/caregivers, who reported on children/adolescents’ HRQL, along with generic quality of life and psychological adjustment measure…
Examining the Links Between Perceived Impact of Pregnancy, Depressive Symptoms, and Quality of Life During Adolescent Pregnancy
Perturbações de comportamento externalizante em idade pré-escolar
As Perturbações de Comportamento Externalizante são uma das principais razões pelas quais as crianças em idade pré-escolar são encaminhadas para os serviços de saúde mental. No entanto, não há ainda consenso relativamente ao diagnóstico destas perturbações nesta faixa etária. Com a presente revisão da literatura, pretende-se contribuir para uma caraterização geral das Perturbações de Comportamento Externalizante, designadamente da Perturbação de …
Ajustamento psicossocial, ajustamento diádico e resiliência no contexto de desemprego
No contexto socioeconómico atual, o confronto com condições de maior ou menor adversidade no trabalho, onde podemos enquadrar o desemprego, pode desafiar a vida pessoal e relacional dos indivíduos. No presente estudo transversal, analisamos a adaptação pessoal (sintomatologia psicopatológica e qualidade de vida), relacional (ajustamento diádico) e resiliência individual no contexto de desemprego. A amostra foi constituída por conveniência e inclu…
Qualidade de vida e sintomatologia psicopatológica em pais de crianças com diagnóstico de deficiência/anomalia congénita
O objetivo do presente estudo consistiu em avaliar a adaptacao parental, em termos de sintomatologia psicopatologica e qualidade de vida (QdV), bem como avaliar a influencia das caracteristicas de resiliencia parental na sua adaptacao, bem como na adaptacao do(a) parceiro(a). A amostra foi constituida por 90 participantes (45 casais), pais de criancas com um diagnostico de deficiencia/AC. O protocolo de avaliacao incluiu a Escala de Resiliencia p…
Prevalence and correlates of emotional distress in HIV/HCV coinfection
The mental health needs of patients who are coinfected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are increasingly addressed in medical settings. This study aimed at examining the prevalence and severity of emotional distress in a sample of HIV/HCV coinfected and HIV mono-infected patients and to examine their sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial correlates. The Brief Symptom Inventory and the quality of life inst…
A comunicação entre o casal no contexto do cancro da mama
A comunicação entre o casal - a partilha de pensamentos, sentimentos e preocupações -, é fundamental para o bem-estar, individual e relacional, de cada elemento da díade conjugal. No contexto de uma doença como o cancro da mama, essa partilha adquire particular relevância, nomeadamente pelo seu importante papel no processamento cognitivo da experiência de cancro e, portanto, na adaptação bem-sucedida à doença. Contudo, a investigação não se tem c…
Quality of life and psychological functioning in pediatric obesity
Psychology (75 works) · Clinical Psychology (53 works) · Medicine (48 works) · Psychiatry (36 works) · Developmental psychology (33 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (31 works) · Clinical Psychology (31 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (25 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (24 works) · Portuguese (20 works)