Luísa Castro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3913167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luísa Castro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luísa |
| FAMILY NAME | Castro |
| SIGNATURE | CASTRO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1312-0154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Study of End-of-Life Paranormal Phenomena Recognized by Palliative Care Health Professionals in Portugal
This study assesses the frequency of reported paranormal phenomena by palliative care professionals in Portugal and their impact on spirituality, clinical practice, and training. A retrospective study in adult palliative care settings was conducted using the ParaPall survey, created by the authors, between October 2022 and January 2023. Participants answered a demographic questionnaire, ParaPall survey, PANAS score, and Intrinsic Spirituality Sca…
Machine learning models based on clinical indices and cardiotocographic features for discriminating asphyxia fetuses—Porto retrospective intrapartum study
Introduction: Perinatal asphyxia is one of the most frequent causes of neonatal mortality, affecting approximately four million newborns worldwide each year and causing the death of one million individuals. One of the main reasons for these high incidences is the lack of consensual methods of early diagnosis for this pathology. Estimating risk-appropriate health care for mother and baby is essential for increasing the quality of the health care s…
Equity in the Access of Chinese Immigrants to Healthcare Services in Portugal
International studies indicate that Chinese immigrants face barriers when trying to access healthcare in the host country. The aim of this study was to identify the barriers that Chinese immigrants face when accessing the Portuguese National Health Service. An observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study was carried out via a bilingual Portuguese/Mandarin self-completed paper questionnaire was applied. The study population consisted of i…
Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Discussion: Barriers from the Perspective of Medical Residents
Twenty-nine residents answered the questionnaire (30.9%). The most reported barriers were related to patients and their families' difficulty in understanding and accepting the diagnosis and the prognosis as well as patients' desire to receive full active treatment. Furthermore, the physician and external factors such as lack of training and lack of time to have these conversations were also very important barriers. The identification of the key b…
Advantages and Disadvantages, Concerns, and Solutions for Emergency Remote Teaching During Covid-19: Portuguese Lecturers' Perspectives
COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world dramatically and how communities and societies behaved. The purpose of this study was to explore lecturers' perspectives on emergency remote teaching, not only from technology-prone lecturers but encompassing contributions from disparate academic fields, which brought assorted experiences into the data. The qualitative study analyses the perspectives of 344 lecturers from 35 higher education institutions in Po…
Advance Directives: Knowledge of the Topic Among Psychiatrists
Objective: Advance directives are becoming increasingly important as health technologies evolve. We sought to assess psychiatrists' knowledge of advance directives, as this knowledge is fundamental to the implementation and drafting of these personal documents. Methods: A previously published questionnaire that evaluated the knowledge of medical professors was used. The sample, composed of psychiatrists from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originated fro…
The impact of teleworking in psychologists during Covid-19: Burnout, depression, anxiety, and stress
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced mental health professionals to adapt quickly. The pandemic has created multiple new tasks for the psychologist. In addition to the various stressors closely linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, psychologists were forced to make their services more flexible. Teleworking was a way of continuing to work. Objective: This study aimed to identify the impact of working pattern on the levels of burnout, depression…
Burnout Determinants among Nurses Working in Palliative Care during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Nurses working in palliative care are at risk of burnout. The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory was used to determine burnout levels of nurses working in the Portuguese national network of palliative care. We evaluated the contribution of personal, work, and COVID-19 variables in three burnout subclasses: personal, work, and patient-related. A cross-sectional, exploratory, and quantitative design was employed and participants were sampled using conven…
Impact of Covid-19 on Medicine Lecturers’ Mental Health and Emergency Remote Teaching Challenges
COVID-19 has presented a novel pedagogical challenge in dealing with the sudden shift from classic instruction to emergency remote teaching (ERT). It had an impact on the well-being and mental health of lecturers, increasing burnout risk. A cross-sectional, quantitative, qualitative and analytical online study was conducted to collect participants' sociodemographic data, responses to ERT open-ended questions and mental health assessments using re…
Burnout and Depression in Portuguese Healthcare Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic—The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) have been exposed to multiple psychosocial stressors. Resilience might protect employees from the negative consequences of chronic stress. The aim of this study was to explore the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between depression and burnout (personal, work-related, and client-related). A cross-sectional study was performed using an online questionnaire distributed via socia…
Burnout among Portuguese healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
All three burnout dimensions were associated with a specific set of covariates. Consideration of these three dimensions is important when designing future burnout prevention programs for HCWs
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Burnout among Portuguese healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
All three burnout dimensions were associated with a specific set of covariates. Consideration of these three dimensions is important when designing future burnout prevention programs for HCWs
Burnout Determinants among Nurses Working in Palliative Care during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Nurses working in palliative care are at risk of burnout. The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory was used to determine burnout levels of nurses working in the Portuguese national network of palliative care. We evaluated the contribution of personal, work, and COVID-19 variables in three burnout subclasses: personal, work, and patient-related. A cross-sectional, exploratory, and quantitative design was employed and participants were sampled using conven…
Impact of Covid-19 on Medicine Lecturers’ Mental Health and Emergency Remote Teaching Challenges
COVID-19 has presented a novel pedagogical challenge in dealing with the sudden shift from classic instruction to emergency remote teaching (ERT). It had an impact on the well-being and mental health of lecturers, increasing burnout risk. A cross-sectional, quantitative, qualitative and analytical online study was conducted to collect participants' sociodemographic data, responses to ERT open-ended questions and mental health assessments using re…
Burnout and Depression in Portuguese Healthcare Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic—The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) have been exposed to multiple psychosocial stressors. Resilience might protect employees from the negative consequences of chronic stress. The aim of this study was to explore the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between depression and burnout (personal, work-related, and client-related). A cross-sectional study was performed using an online questionnaire distributed via socia…
Advance Directives: Knowledge of the Topic Among Psychiatrists
Objective: Advance directives are becoming increasingly important as health technologies evolve. We sought to assess psychiatrists' knowledge of advance directives, as this knowledge is fundamental to the implementation and drafting of these personal documents. Methods: A previously published questionnaire that evaluated the knowledge of medical professors was used. The sample, composed of psychiatrists from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originated fro…
The impact of teleworking in psychologists during Covid-19: Burnout, depression, anxiety, and stress
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced mental health professionals to adapt quickly. The pandemic has created multiple new tasks for the psychologist. In addition to the various stressors closely linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, psychologists were forced to make their services more flexible. Teleworking was a way of continuing to work. Objective: This study aimed to identify the impact of working pattern on the levels of burnout, depression…
Machine learning models based on clinical indices and cardiotocographic features for discriminating asphyxia fetuses—Porto retrospective intrapartum study
Introduction: Perinatal asphyxia is one of the most frequent causes of neonatal mortality, affecting approximately four million newborns worldwide each year and causing the death of one million individuals. One of the main reasons for these high incidences is the lack of consensual methods of early diagnosis for this pathology. Estimating risk-appropriate health care for mother and baby is essential for increasing the quality of the health care s…
Equity in the Access of Chinese Immigrants to Healthcare Services in Portugal
International studies indicate that Chinese immigrants face barriers when trying to access healthcare in the host country. The aim of this study was to identify the barriers that Chinese immigrants face when accessing the Portuguese National Health Service. An observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study was carried out via a bilingual Portuguese/Mandarin self-completed paper questionnaire was applied. The study population consisted of i…
Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Discussion: Barriers from the Perspective of Medical Residents
Twenty-nine residents answered the questionnaire (30.9%). The most reported barriers were related to patients and their families' difficulty in understanding and accepting the diagnosis and the prognosis as well as patients' desire to receive full active treatment. Furthermore, the physician and external factors such as lack of training and lack of time to have these conversations were also very important barriers. The identification of the key b…
Advantages and Disadvantages, Concerns, and Solutions for Emergency Remote Teaching During Covid-19: Portuguese Lecturers' Perspectives
COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world dramatically and how communities and societies behaved. The purpose of this study was to explore lecturers' perspectives on emergency remote teaching, not only from technology-prone lecturers but encompassing contributions from disparate academic fields, which brought assorted experiences into the data. The qualitative study analyses the perspectives of 344 lecturers from 35 higher education institutions in Po…
Study of End-of-Life Paranormal Phenomena Recognized by Palliative Care Health Professionals in Portugal
This study assesses the frequency of reported paranormal phenomena by palliative care professionals in Portugal and their impact on spirituality, clinical practice, and training. A retrospective study in adult palliative care settings was conducted using the ParaPall survey, created by the authors, between October 2022 and January 2023. Participants answered a demographic questionnaire, ParaPall survey, PANAS score, and Intrinsic Spirituality Sca…
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Burnout (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Political science (4 works)