Sónia F Bernarde
Biographic Data
| ID | 326252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sónia F Bernarde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sónia F |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernarde |
| SIGNATURE | BERNARDE S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6664-4859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the contextuality of gender biases in pain care: Theory and evidence
Pain is a universal human experience and the most common reason to seek medical care. Although women report more frequent and disabling pains than men, their pains are more often underassessed and undertreated in clinical encounters. Understanding the ‘whens’ and ‘whys’ of this gender paradox is vital to promote pain care equity and efficiency. Yet, the atheoretical and descriptive nature of most studies on provider gender biases in pain care is …
Comparative exploration of media models and euthanasia coverage in Portugal and the United Kingdom
Purpose. To conduct a comparative analysis of news coverage of euthanasia in Portugal and the United Kingdom between 2016 and 2024, identifying structural and cultural differences derived from their respective media models. Methodology. A content analysis was applied to 1,731 news items published on the digital platforms of Expresso, Público, The Guardian, and The Telegraph. Variables examined included authorship, journalistic genre, length, topi…
Agony in the news media: Framing the dying body in euthanasia news coverage from Portugal and the United Kingdom (2016–2024)
Some studies suggest that the news media coverage of euthanasia frames the dying body as a horrible, untreatable, and intolerable bodily state. This study analyses the framing of the dying body, its organic dysfunction, and the profiles of terminal and end of life people in the euthanasia debate in Portugal and the United Kingdom. The sample includes 72 stories containing references to organ dysfunctions caused by terminal and end of life illness…
Coping With a Dead End by Relying on Your Own Compass: A Qualitative Study on Illness and Treatment Models in the Context of Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia lacks a coherent illness and treatment model, which includes a set of conceptual ideas shaping individuals' perceptions and understandings of pain, its causing and maintaining factors, and management strategies. Developing personalized illness models that can guide treatment plans and alleviate feelings of uncertainty is of crucial importance. This study investigates how individuals with fibromyalgia develop a personal illness and tr…
Maintaining a sense of normality with the help of others: Lived experiences of facilitators and barriers to Lupus adjustment
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has a high detrimental impact on individuals' quality of life. Identifying key factors associated with SLE adjustment is crucial for intervention development, yet there is no previous research exploring the perspectives of individuals with SLE regarding illness adjustment' facilitating or hindering factors. In this qualitative study, 16 individual semi-structured interviews with Portuguese adults with SLE (13 wo…
Individuals with chronic pain using opioids: Challenging treatment choices, shared decision-makers, or risk-makers? A critical discourse analysis of Belgian policy documents
Chronic pain, defined as pain persisting for more than three months, affects one in four Belgian adults. Treating chronic pain comprises challenges for patients and clinicians as the term encompasses diverse conditions such as fibromyalgia, migraine, and long-term pain without a known biomedical cause. Additionally, growing evidence highlights the limited efficacy of opioids in managing chronic non-cancer pain. This has prompted critical policy c…
(De)humanizing Metaphors of People in Pain and Their Association with the Perceived Quality of nurse-patient Relationship
Metaphors are central in communication and sense-making processes in health-related contexts. Yet how the metaphors used by health-care-professionals to make sense of their patients and their relations to them are associated to the perceived valence of their clinical encounters is underexplored. Drawing-upon the ABC Model of Dehumanization, this study investigated how the humanizing or dehumanizing metaphors nurses’ use for making sense of their …
The Informal Social Support for Autonomy and Dependence in Pain Inventory Spanish version
Social support plays a crucial role in the quality of life of people with chronic pain. The Informal Social Support for Autonomy and Dependence in Pain Inventory assesses two functions of received social support: the promotion of autonomy and the promotion of dependence. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to adapt this instrument for its use in the Spanish population. The sample comprised 256 individuals with chronic pain. Participants wer…
Opioid Pain Medication Prescription for Chronic Pain in Primary Care Centers: The Roles of Pain Acceptance, Pain Intensity, Depressive Symptoms, Pain Catastrophizing, Sex, and Age
Background : Psychological factors of patients may influence physicians' decisions on prescribing opioid analgesics. However, few studies have sought to identify these factors. The present study had a double objective: (1) To identify the individual factors that differentiate patients who had been prescribed opioids for the management of chronic back pain from those who had not been prescribed opioids and (2) to determine which factors make signi…
Trait-based Measure of Dehumanization: Adaptation for the Portuguese population
Although dehumanization (i.e., the denial of full humanness to others; Haslam, 2006) has been a frequent subject in social psychology, a set of traits designed to evaluate this phenomenon has not been validated to the Portuguese population. The main purpose of this study was to translate, culturally adapt and validate a set of dehumanization traits proposed by Haslam and colleagues (Haslam & Bain, 2007; Haslam, Bain, Douge, Lee & Bastian, 2005), …
Food as a way to convey masculinities: How conformity to hegemonic masculinity norms influences men's and women's food consumption
This study investigated how conformity to hegemonic masculinity norms affects men's and women's food consumption and whether such influence was contextually modulated. A total of 519 individuals (65% women; M = 44 years old) participated in a 2 (gender salience: low vs high) × 2 (participants' sex: male vs female) quasi-experimental between-subjects design, completing the Conformity to Masculinity Norms Inventory (Portuguese version) and reportin…
Ethnic minorities’ and immigrants’ therapeutic (non)adherence: What is the role of social and cultural contexts
Immigrants and ethnic minorities have been identified as vulnerable groups in health, in general, andin what concerns therapeutic non-adherence (TA) in particular; i.e., (not)following health-careproviders’ therapeutic recommendations. The general aim of this paper is presenting a literature reviewof immigrants’/ethnic minorities’ TA determinants.We will start by highlighting the reasons as to why immigrants’/ethnic minorities’ therapeutic(non)ad…
Food as a way to convey masculinities: How conformity to hegemonic masculinity norms influences men's and women's food consumption
This study investigated how conformity to hegemonic masculinity norms affects men's and women's food consumption and whether such influence was contextually modulated. A total of 519 individuals (65% women; M = 44 years old) participated in a 2 (gender salience: low vs high) × 2 (participants' sex: male vs female) quasi-experimental between-subjects design, completing the Conformity to Masculinity Norms Inventory (Portuguese version) and reportin…
Ethnic minorities’ and immigrants’ therapeutic (non)adherence: What is the role of social and cultural contexts
Immigrants and ethnic minorities have been identified as vulnerable groups in health, in general, andin what concerns therapeutic non-adherence (TA) in particular; i.e., (not)following health-careproviders’ therapeutic recommendations. The general aim of this paper is presenting a literature reviewof immigrants’/ethnic minorities’ TA determinants.We will start by highlighting the reasons as to why immigrants’/ethnic minorities’ therapeutic(non)ad…
Opioid Pain Medication Prescription for Chronic Pain in Primary Care Centers: The Roles of Pain Acceptance, Pain Intensity, Depressive Symptoms, Pain Catastrophizing, Sex, and Age
Background : Psychological factors of patients may influence physicians' decisions on prescribing opioid analgesics. However, few studies have sought to identify these factors. The present study had a double objective: (1) To identify the individual factors that differentiate patients who had been prescribed opioids for the management of chronic back pain from those who had not been prescribed opioids and (2) to determine which factors make signi…
Trait-based Measure of Dehumanization: Adaptation for the Portuguese population
Although dehumanization (i.e., the denial of full humanness to others; Haslam, 2006) has been a frequent subject in social psychology, a set of traits designed to evaluate this phenomenon has not been validated to the Portuguese population. The main purpose of this study was to translate, culturally adapt and validate a set of dehumanization traits proposed by Haslam and colleagues (Haslam & Bain, 2007; Haslam, Bain, Douge, Lee & Bastian, 2005), …
Food as a way to convey masculinities: How conformity to hegemonic masculinity norms influences men's and women's food consumption
This study investigated how conformity to hegemonic masculinity norms affects men's and women's food consumption and whether such influence was contextually modulated. A total of 519 individuals (65% women; M = 44 years old) participated in a 2 (gender salience: low vs high) × 2 (participants' sex: male vs female) quasi-experimental between-subjects design, completing the Conformity to Masculinity Norms Inventory (Portuguese version) and reportin…
The Informal Social Support for Autonomy and Dependence in Pain Inventory Spanish version
Social support plays a crucial role in the quality of life of people with chronic pain. The Informal Social Support for Autonomy and Dependence in Pain Inventory assesses two functions of received social support: the promotion of autonomy and the promotion of dependence. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to adapt this instrument for its use in the Spanish population. The sample comprised 256 individuals with chronic pain. Participants wer…
(De)humanizing Metaphors of People in Pain and Their Association with the Perceived Quality of nurse-patient Relationship
Metaphors are central in communication and sense-making processes in health-related contexts. Yet how the metaphors used by health-care-professionals to make sense of their patients and their relations to them are associated to the perceived valence of their clinical encounters is underexplored. Drawing-upon the ABC Model of Dehumanization, this study investigated how the humanizing or dehumanizing metaphors nurses’ use for making sense of their …
Coping With a Dead End by Relying on Your Own Compass: A Qualitative Study on Illness and Treatment Models in the Context of Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia lacks a coherent illness and treatment model, which includes a set of conceptual ideas shaping individuals' perceptions and understandings of pain, its causing and maintaining factors, and management strategies. Developing personalized illness models that can guide treatment plans and alleviate feelings of uncertainty is of crucial importance. This study investigates how individuals with fibromyalgia develop a personal illness and tr…
Maintaining a sense of normality with the help of others: Lived experiences of facilitators and barriers to Lupus adjustment
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has a high detrimental impact on individuals' quality of life. Identifying key factors associated with SLE adjustment is crucial for intervention development, yet there is no previous research exploring the perspectives of individuals with SLE regarding illness adjustment' facilitating or hindering factors. In this qualitative study, 16 individual semi-structured interviews with Portuguese adults with SLE (13 wo…
Individuals with chronic pain using opioids: Challenging treatment choices, shared decision-makers, or risk-makers? A critical discourse analysis of Belgian policy documents
Chronic pain, defined as pain persisting for more than three months, affects one in four Belgian adults. Treating chronic pain comprises challenges for patients and clinicians as the term encompasses diverse conditions such as fibromyalgia, migraine, and long-term pain without a known biomedical cause. Additionally, growing evidence highlights the limited efficacy of opioids in managing chronic non-cancer pain. This has prompted critical policy c…
On the contextuality of gender biases in pain care: Theory and evidence
Pain is a universal human experience and the most common reason to seek medical care. Although women report more frequent and disabling pains than men, their pains are more often underassessed and undertreated in clinical encounters. Understanding the ‘whens’ and ‘whys’ of this gender paradox is vital to promote pain care equity and efficiency. Yet, the atheoretical and descriptive nature of most studies on provider gender biases in pain care is …
Comparative exploration of media models and euthanasia coverage in Portugal and the United Kingdom
Purpose. To conduct a comparative analysis of news coverage of euthanasia in Portugal and the United Kingdom between 2016 and 2024, identifying structural and cultural differences derived from their respective media models. Methodology. A content analysis was applied to 1,731 news items published on the digital platforms of Expresso, Público, The Guardian, and The Telegraph. Variables examined included authorship, journalistic genre, length, topi…
Agony in the news media: Framing the dying body in euthanasia news coverage from Portugal and the United Kingdom (2016–2024)
Some studies suggest that the news media coverage of euthanasia frames the dying body as a horrible, untreatable, and intolerable bodily state. This study analyses the framing of the dying body, its organic dysfunction, and the profiles of terminal and end of life people in the euthanasia debate in Portugal and the United Kingdom. The sample includes 72 stories containing references to organ dysfunctions caused by terminal and end of life illness…
Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Portuguese (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works)