Graça Simões De Carvalho
Biographic Data
| ID | 3894990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graça Simões De Carvalho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graça Simões |
| FAMILY NAME | De Carvalho |
| SIGNATURE | DE CARVALHO G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0034-1329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Social representations of Portuguese children about the coronavirus
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected daily life around the world. Social isolation, fear of infection, and discussion of protective measures were strongly conveyed in media and social discourse, including among children. Given this social dynamic, it is important to understand how the children's Social Representations (SR) of coronavirus were formed so that health education strategies and life skills development can be d…
Vaccination
Introduction: The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has accentuated the debate on the need for vaccination and called into question the need to increasingly bring this topic, which is widely disseminated in the scientific world, to school classes at all schooling phases. In this scenario, science education plays a key role in disseminating knowledge about the importance of vaccination and the impacting factors of a lack of immunization. In order to bet…
Children’s Daily Activity Patterns and the Influence of Multilevel Ecological Factors
Children’s Daily Activities and Well-being during the Covid-19 Lockdown
Local biodiversity
Local biodiversity can help students develop conservation attitudes regarding biodiversity. However, studies reveal students’ preferences regarding exotic than local biodiversity. Therefore, more research can permit an improved understanding of the reasons for their interest in these organisms. This research aimed to investigate São Paulo state (Brazil) students’ interests and perceptions about their local biodiversity and understand how teaching…
Defining Life Skills in health promotion at school
Background: Life Skills have been central to Health Promotion interventions and programmes with children and adolescents for over 40 years. School is a strategic setting for Life Skills education. Recently, policy-and decision-makers have focused on Life Skills development for youth. Research on Life Skills has gained momentum. Different terms are used to discuss and define Life Skills. Research identifies a lack of conceptual definition. The pur…
Validação Semântica E Aferição De Chekclist De Identificação De Risco Linguagem Infantil Por Tres Educadores Da Infância
A linguagem, como traço distinto para o bem-estar do indivíduo, é um indicador revelador da evolução infantil, pelo que um checklist de rastreio se faz imperioso à identificação precoce das alterações de linguagem. O estudo visa a validação semântica por educadores de infância de três checklist com os marcos do desenvolvimento de linguagem típico, para pré-escolares de 3 a 5 anos. Os participantes foram três educadores de infância de escolas priv…
How can we promote co-creation in communities? The perspective of health promoting professionals in four European countries
Purpose The aim was to identify the competencies professionals need to promote co-creation engagement within communities. Design/methodology/approach Co-creation could contribute to building community capacity to promote health. Professional development is key to support co-creative practices. Participants were professionals in a position to promote co-creation processes in health-promoting welfare settings across Denmark, Portugal, France and Un…
The Impact of the ‘Planning Health in School’ Programme on a Pair of Twins with Obesity
This case study describes the impact of the 'Planning Health in School' programme (PHS-pro) on the nutritional status and lifestyle behaviours of two twins with obesity. As part of a larger research project involving 449 adolescents in grade-6, PHS-pro aims at preventing obesity and guiding children towards healthy behaviours. Twins were evaluated for anthropometric measurements-height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and…
Children Learn, Children Do! Results of the “Planning Health in School”, a Behavioural Change Programme
The ‘Planning Health in School’ programme (PHS-pro) is a behavioural change intervention to assess and improve the eating habits of children, particularly the intake of fruit and vegetables, and to guide them towards healthy choices. The programme and its educational components are based on the Transtheoretical Model of stages of change to integrate nutritional literacy and build up problem-solving and decision-making skills. Children (n = 240, a…
Effectiveness of the “Planning Health in School” Programme on Children’s Nutritional Status
Effective interventions for guiding children to change behaviours are needed to tackle obesity. We evaluated the effectiveness of the ‘Planning Health in School’ programme (PHS-pro) on children’s nutritional status. A non-randomised control group pretest-posttest trial was conducted at elementary schools of a sub-urban municipality in Porto’s metropolitan area (Portugal). A total of 504 children of grade-6, aged 10–14, were assigned in two groups…
Situation of study (SoS) on health education implemented in a co-creation (CoC) process
Situation of study (SoS) has been reported as an excellent strategy to promote students' significant learning. This work intended to demonstrate how a SoS on health education ("Knowing cancer: a way to life") can be implemented within the co-creation (CoC) framework. The study was carried out in a middle school, with the participation of five groups: students (14-15 years old), teachers, future teachers, university teacher trainers and health pro…
Costs and benefits of a school-based health intervention in Portugal
School-based programmes for preventing childhood obesity have been shown to be effective in improving eating habits and nutritional status, but few intervention programmes with a controlled design have included an economic evaluation. In this study, we conducted a cost-consequence analysis to evaluate the costs and the health benefits of the ‘Planning Health in School’ programme (PHS-pro) implemented in the Northern region of Portugal to 449 chil…
Health literacy in childhood and youth
Changes in adiposity status from childhood to adolescence
The results indicate a marked sex difference in the incidence and reversal of obesity from late childhood to adolescence that is unfavourable to girls. Consideration of this difference might be important when designing programmes for the prevention and treatment of obesity focusing on this period
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Changes in adiposity status from childhood to adolescence
The results indicate a marked sex difference in the incidence and reversal of obesity from late childhood to adolescence that is unfavourable to girls. Consideration of this difference might be important when designing programmes for the prevention and treatment of obesity focusing on this period
Health literacy in childhood and youth
Costs and benefits of a school-based health intervention in Portugal
School-based programmes for preventing childhood obesity have been shown to be effective in improving eating habits and nutritional status, but few intervention programmes with a controlled design have included an economic evaluation. In this study, we conducted a cost-consequence analysis to evaluate the costs and the health benefits of the ‘Planning Health in School’ programme (PHS-pro) implemented in the Northern region of Portugal to 449 chil…
Children Learn, Children Do! Results of the “Planning Health in School”, a Behavioural Change Programme
The ‘Planning Health in School’ programme (PHS-pro) is a behavioural change intervention to assess and improve the eating habits of children, particularly the intake of fruit and vegetables, and to guide them towards healthy choices. The programme and its educational components are based on the Transtheoretical Model of stages of change to integrate nutritional literacy and build up problem-solving and decision-making skills. Children (n = 240, a…
Effectiveness of the “Planning Health in School” Programme on Children’s Nutritional Status
Effective interventions for guiding children to change behaviours are needed to tackle obesity. We evaluated the effectiveness of the ‘Planning Health in School’ programme (PHS-pro) on children’s nutritional status. A non-randomised control group pretest-posttest trial was conducted at elementary schools of a sub-urban municipality in Porto’s metropolitan area (Portugal). A total of 504 children of grade-6, aged 10–14, were assigned in two groups…
Situation of study (SoS) on health education implemented in a co-creation (CoC) process
Situation of study (SoS) has been reported as an excellent strategy to promote students' significant learning. This work intended to demonstrate how a SoS on health education ("Knowing cancer: a way to life") can be implemented within the co-creation (CoC) framework. The study was carried out in a middle school, with the participation of five groups: students (14-15 years old), teachers, future teachers, university teacher trainers and health pro…
How can we promote co-creation in communities? The perspective of health promoting professionals in four European countries
Purpose The aim was to identify the competencies professionals need to promote co-creation engagement within communities. Design/methodology/approach Co-creation could contribute to building community capacity to promote health. Professional development is key to support co-creative practices. Participants were professionals in a position to promote co-creation processes in health-promoting welfare settings across Denmark, Portugal, France and Un…
The Impact of the ‘Planning Health in School’ Programme on a Pair of Twins with Obesity
This case study describes the impact of the 'Planning Health in School' programme (PHS-pro) on the nutritional status and lifestyle behaviours of two twins with obesity. As part of a larger research project involving 449 adolescents in grade-6, PHS-pro aims at preventing obesity and guiding children towards healthy behaviours. Twins were evaluated for anthropometric measurements-height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and…
Defining Life Skills in health promotion at school
Background: Life Skills have been central to Health Promotion interventions and programmes with children and adolescents for over 40 years. School is a strategic setting for Life Skills education. Recently, policy-and decision-makers have focused on Life Skills development for youth. Research on Life Skills has gained momentum. Different terms are used to discuss and define Life Skills. Research identifies a lack of conceptual definition. The pur…
Validação Semântica E Aferição De Chekclist De Identificação De Risco Linguagem Infantil Por Tres Educadores Da Infância
A linguagem, como traço distinto para o bem-estar do indivíduo, é um indicador revelador da evolução infantil, pelo que um checklist de rastreio se faz imperioso à identificação precoce das alterações de linguagem. O estudo visa a validação semântica por educadores de infância de três checklist com os marcos do desenvolvimento de linguagem típico, para pré-escolares de 3 a 5 anos. Os participantes foram três educadores de infância de escolas priv…
Vaccination
Introduction: The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has accentuated the debate on the need for vaccination and called into question the need to increasingly bring this topic, which is widely disseminated in the scientific world, to school classes at all schooling phases. In this scenario, science education plays a key role in disseminating knowledge about the importance of vaccination and the impacting factors of a lack of immunization. In order to bet…
Children’s Daily Activity Patterns and the Influence of Multilevel Ecological Factors
Children’s Daily Activities and Well-being during the Covid-19 Lockdown
Local biodiversity
Local biodiversity can help students develop conservation attitudes regarding biodiversity. However, studies reveal students’ preferences regarding exotic than local biodiversity. Therefore, more research can permit an improved understanding of the reasons for their interest in these organisms. This research aimed to investigate São Paulo state (Brazil) students’ interests and perceptions about their local biodiversity and understand how teaching…
Social representations of Portuguese children about the coronavirus
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected daily life around the world. Social isolation, fear of infection, and discussion of protective measures were strongly conveyed in media and social discourse, including among children. Given this social dynamic, it is important to understand how the children's Social Representations (SR) of coronavirus were formed so that health education strategies and life skills development can be d…
Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Obesity (4 works) · Childhood obesity (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works)