Ana Rodrigues
Biographic Data
| ID | 6783489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Rodrigues |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodrigues |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade da Madeira |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2955-0551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma based on solar ultraviolet radiation measurements from outdoor workers in Lisbon, Portugal
Introduction Solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is one of the main causes of skin cancer, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) being particularly prevalent among outdoor workers due to chronic UVR exposure. Despite the increasing incidence of SCC in this group, cases remain under-reported and are not always classified as an occupational disease. Current guidelines for UVR exposure are established for a limit of 30 J/m 2 over an 8-h workday, and they…
Emotional competencies and physical activity in primary school children
Students without support measures (No-LISM) showed higher emotional differentiation and identification indices. • Students with universal support measures (U-LISM) had higher levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity. • No direct link was found between physical activity levels and emotional development outcomes in this sample. Children's emotional development is a determining factor for their school success and overall well-being. Addition…
Should I Go or Could I Stay? Inequalities in Working Beyond Retirement Age
Population ageing has led to increasing policy efforts aimed at extending working lives across Europe. While research has examined early retirement and intentions to continue working, less attention has been given to factors associated with continuation in employment beyond the statutory retirement age. This study examines which work-related perceptions are associated with remaining in or leaving professional activity after retirement age. Using …
Occupational exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation among outdoor workers in Lisbon, 2023—first results of the Meaow study
Introduction Solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure is the primary external factor associated with the development of skin cancer. Accurate, valid, and reliable objective estimates of individual UVR exposure are required to quantify the risk of skin cancer in outdoor workers. Such data can be used to develop and implement policies and practices to reduce, or at least manage, UVR exposure in outdoor workers. Currently, there is a dearth of obj…
Volunteer Management in Sports Tourism Events
Effective volunteer management in sports tourism events depends on understanding motivations, segmenting profiles, and fostering satisfaction to ensure continuity and event success. The purpose of this study was to examine volunteer motivation, investigate differences in motivation based on gender and age, and identify key predictors of the intention to continue volunteering. The sample consisted of 390 participants (199 men, 191 women) aged from…
Expectations and Evaluation of Volunteers’ Experience at the Paralympic Swimming European Championship
Sports organizations administer volunteer participation in sports events to facilitate management efficiency while fostering opportunities for learning, skill enhancement, and meaningful social contribution. This study sought to determine the influence of volunteer experience on individuals’ intention to engage in future volunteer opportunities. The study analyzed data from 159 volunteers who undertook organizational roles at the 2016 (n=74) and …
Evolution of attack in handball when playing 7 vs. 6 with empty goal between 2020 and 2023
Introduction Recently, several studies on the 7 vs. 6 “empty goal” (EG) in handball have produced different and even contradictory results. The aim of the present study was to investigate the behavior of teams and players in the 7 vs. 6 EG attack in the European (Euro) and World Championships (WCh) between 2020 and 2023 and characterize the coaches’ perceptions. Methods A mixed-methods approach was used, consisting of the following: (i) an observ…
Professional experience before a PhD. Does it pay off
The number of PhD graduates has been increasing yearly, but the job opportunities in Academia remain the same. This pattern will intensify the pressure on PhD students to look for other possible careers. Past work experiences, due to their developmental potential, occupy a prominent place in the career development paradigm. However, more is needed to know about the professional path of PhD students before they entered the PhD. This study aimed to…
Digitally measuring solar ultraviolet radiation in outdoor workers
Introduction: The rising incidence of skin cancer over the years has made it a significant public and occupational health issue. However, skin cancer is highly preventable, mainly through reduced exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR), which can be achieved by a variety of individual and collective protective measures and interventions. The relative risk associated with different patterns of exposure to solar UVR differs for the subtypes o…
Evaluation of environmental actions by local citizens – a choice modeling application
Little is known about citizens’ judgment of nature conservation actions financed by public funds. The present work contributes to this topic with empirical evidence coming from a Choice Modeling (CM) study designed in an innovative mode. Using the participatory budget format, a CM exercise elicited respondents’ choice between the allocation of public funds for nature conservation actions versus other actions (e.g. social or economic interventions…
Changes in Estimated Body Composition and Physical Fitness of Adolescent Boys after One Year of Soccer Training
Sports participation is one of the most popular forms of physical activity among youngsters. This study aimed to examine the changes in the estimated body composition, strength, and flexibility of adolescent boys after 12 months of soccer training compared with those of age-matched controls with non-sports participation. We assessed 137 boys (62 soccer players and 75 controls) at baseline (TM1) and 12 months later (TM2). The differences in estima…
Investigating the role of symptom valorisation in tuberculosis patient delay in urban areas in Portugal
These findings emphasise the importance of symptom valorisation in timely TB diagnosis. Patients who did not value their symptoms had longer PD, indicating a need for interventions to improve symptom recognition. Our findings also corroborate the importance of the socioeconomic determinants of health, highlighting tobacco as a risk factor both for TB and for PD
Learning Objects in the Educational Context
This paper seeks to identify the pedagogical resources used by kindergarten, primary and secondary teachers in Azores Islands. Additionally, an investigation will be made into how these resources are mobilized in teachers’ pedagogical practice, with the aim of understanding to what extent digital resources, particularly learning objects, are present in schools. For this purpose, a study was developed, which included a questionnaire survey conduct…
Body Composition and Physical Fitness in Madeira Youth
Sport participation should be promoted in Madeira to attain acceptable values of body composition and physical fitness levels
Consensus on the Best Practice Guidelines for Psychomotor Intervention in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Psychomotor intervention has been used to promote development by the enhancement of psychomotor and socio-emotional competence. However, studies with high-quality evidence, describing psychomotor-intervention processes and outcomes are scarce. Therefore, we aimed to generate expert consensus regarding psychomotor-intervention guidelines to support psychomotor therapists through the design and implementation of interventions for preschool (3−6 yea…
Association between the Duration of the Active Commuting to and from School, and Cognitive Performance in Urban Portuguese Adolescents
This study aimed to analyze the differences between active commuting to school (ACS) and non-ACS in cognitive performance (CP), and the association of ACS duration with CP. This cross-sectional study included 370 adolescents (males n = 170), with a mean age of 15.28 ± 2.25 years. CP was assessed through an interview, and ACS, extracurricular physical activity, and socioeconomic status was assessed by self-report. Body composition was assessed usi…
Patients’ Perspectives on Determinants Avoidable Hospitalizations
Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) can be avoided through effective care in the ambulatory setting. Patients are the most qualified individuals to express the social and individual contexts of their own experience. Thus, understanding why potentially preventable hospitalizations occur is important to develop patient-centred policies or interventions that may reduce them. This study aims to develop and validate a questionnaire to capture …
Estimation of Engagement in Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity from Direct Observation
This study aimed to test an observational momentary time sampling tool to estimate in-class moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), in terms of validity, reliability and agreement between observational momentary time sampling and accelerometry, and to develop a regression equation to estimate MVPA from observational momentary time sampling. The sample comprised 78 pupils (38 girls), mean age 14.0 ± 1.1 years. Measurements were taken in thr…
Face-to-face Assessment of Cogtel in Adolescents
The Cognitive Telephone Screening Instrument (COGTEL) has shown to be a brief, reliable, and valid instrument to assess cognitive functioning in adults in face-to-face procedures as well as over the phone. So far, no psychometric evaluation exists on its use in adolescents. The present study set out to evaluate the psychometric properties of the face-to-face application of the COGTEL in adolescents in the school context and to analyse the associa…
From Observations and Pictures to Images
Learning Lab@PP2 is a pedagogical tool that has been applied in a degree course in tourism at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, specifically in classes of Professional Practice II. It advocates that the learning process should occur in the complex context of society, organizations and professional relations that characterize the tourism industry. The goal is to contribute to the development of professional skills in tourism and educate students …
Du Châtelet und La Mettrie
The patients’ perspective
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)
Destination Marketing
This paper aims to explore and analyse lake image attributes extracted from a content analysis of an online directory for lake enthusiasts. CATPAC, a text-mining software program based on artificial neural networks, was adopted. The resulting output was used to identify the words that were most frequently mentioned to portray image attributes related to lake-destination areas (LDA). The findings also revealed that the final set of LDA image attri…
Von Diana Zu Minerva
Emilie du Châtelet, a Bibliography
From Observations and Pictures to Images
Learning Lab@PP2 is a pedagogical tool that has been applied in a degree course in tourism at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, specifically in classes of Professional Practice II. It advocates that the learning process should occur in the complex context of society, organizations and professional relations that characterize the tourism industry. The goal is to contribute to the development of professional skills in tourism and educate students …
Emilie du Châtelet, Julien Offray de la Mettrie und Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis im Zwiegespräch über das Glück
Emilie du Châtelet. Vom glücklichen Leben zur Freiheit des Denkens
Von Diana Zu Minerva
Emilie du Châtelet, a Bibliography
Memória de cuidados na infância, estilo de vinculação e qualidade da relação com pessoas significativas
O presente estudo teve como principal objectivo estimar a influência das memórias de cuidados pelos pais durante a infância no estilo de vinculação e na qualidade das relações com pessoas significativas na gravidez. Contou com uma amostra de 48 adolescentes a quem se administrou, no terceiro trimestre de gestação, a versão portuguesa dos seguintes instrumentos: Inventory for Assessing Memories of Parental Rearing Behaviour (EMBU) (Perris, Jacobso…
Destination Marketing
This paper aims to explore and analyse lake image attributes extracted from a content analysis of an online directory for lake enthusiasts. CATPAC, a text-mining software program based on artificial neural networks, was adopted. The resulting output was used to identify the words that were most frequently mentioned to portray image attributes related to lake-destination areas (LDA). The findings also revealed that the final set of LDA image attri…
Du Châtelet und La Mettrie
The patients’ perspective
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)
Face-to-face Assessment of Cogtel in Adolescents
The Cognitive Telephone Screening Instrument (COGTEL) has shown to be a brief, reliable, and valid instrument to assess cognitive functioning in adults in face-to-face procedures as well as over the phone. So far, no psychometric evaluation exists on its use in adolescents. The present study set out to evaluate the psychometric properties of the face-to-face application of the COGTEL in adolescents in the school context and to analyse the associa…
From Observations and Pictures to Images
Learning Lab@PP2 is a pedagogical tool that has been applied in a degree course in tourism at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, specifically in classes of Professional Practice II. It advocates that the learning process should occur in the complex context of society, organizations and professional relations that characterize the tourism industry. The goal is to contribute to the development of professional skills in tourism and educate students …
Estimation of Engagement in Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity from Direct Observation
This study aimed to test an observational momentary time sampling tool to estimate in-class moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), in terms of validity, reliability and agreement between observational momentary time sampling and accelerometry, and to develop a regression equation to estimate MVPA from observational momentary time sampling. The sample comprised 78 pupils (38 girls), mean age 14.0 ± 1.1 years. Measurements were taken in thr…
Learning Objects in the Educational Context
This paper seeks to identify the pedagogical resources used by kindergarten, primary and secondary teachers in Azores Islands. Additionally, an investigation will be made into how these resources are mobilized in teachers’ pedagogical practice, with the aim of understanding to what extent digital resources, particularly learning objects, are present in schools. For this purpose, a study was developed, which included a questionnaire survey conduct…
Body Composition and Physical Fitness in Madeira Youth
Sport participation should be promoted in Madeira to attain acceptable values of body composition and physical fitness levels
Consensus on the Best Practice Guidelines for Psychomotor Intervention in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Psychomotor intervention has been used to promote development by the enhancement of psychomotor and socio-emotional competence. However, studies with high-quality evidence, describing psychomotor-intervention processes and outcomes are scarce. Therefore, we aimed to generate expert consensus regarding psychomotor-intervention guidelines to support psychomotor therapists through the design and implementation of interventions for preschool (3−6 yea…
Association between the Duration of the Active Commuting to and from School, and Cognitive Performance in Urban Portuguese Adolescents
This study aimed to analyze the differences between active commuting to school (ACS) and non-ACS in cognitive performance (CP), and the association of ACS duration with CP. This cross-sectional study included 370 adolescents (males n = 170), with a mean age of 15.28 ± 2.25 years. CP was assessed through an interview, and ACS, extracurricular physical activity, and socioeconomic status was assessed by self-report. Body composition was assessed usi…
Patients’ Perspectives on Determinants Avoidable Hospitalizations
Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) can be avoided through effective care in the ambulatory setting. Patients are the most qualified individuals to express the social and individual contexts of their own experience. Thus, understanding why potentially preventable hospitalizations occur is important to develop patient-centred policies or interventions that may reduce them. This study aims to develop and validate a questionnaire to capture …
Professional experience before a PhD. Does it pay off
The number of PhD graduates has been increasing yearly, but the job opportunities in Academia remain the same. This pattern will intensify the pressure on PhD students to look for other possible careers. Past work experiences, due to their developmental potential, occupy a prominent place in the career development paradigm. However, more is needed to know about the professional path of PhD students before they entered the PhD. This study aimed to…
Digitally measuring solar ultraviolet radiation in outdoor workers
Introduction: The rising incidence of skin cancer over the years has made it a significant public and occupational health issue. However, skin cancer is highly preventable, mainly through reduced exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR), which can be achieved by a variety of individual and collective protective measures and interventions. The relative risk associated with different patterns of exposure to solar UVR differs for the subtypes o…
Evaluation of environmental actions by local citizens – a choice modeling application
Little is known about citizens’ judgment of nature conservation actions financed by public funds. The present work contributes to this topic with empirical evidence coming from a Choice Modeling (CM) study designed in an innovative mode. Using the participatory budget format, a CM exercise elicited respondents’ choice between the allocation of public funds for nature conservation actions versus other actions (e.g. social or economic interventions…
Changes in Estimated Body Composition and Physical Fitness of Adolescent Boys after One Year of Soccer Training
Sports participation is one of the most popular forms of physical activity among youngsters. This study aimed to examine the changes in the estimated body composition, strength, and flexibility of adolescent boys after 12 months of soccer training compared with those of age-matched controls with non-sports participation. We assessed 137 boys (62 soccer players and 75 controls) at baseline (TM1) and 12 months later (TM2). The differences in estima…
Investigating the role of symptom valorisation in tuberculosis patient delay in urban areas in Portugal
These findings emphasise the importance of symptom valorisation in timely TB diagnosis. Patients who did not value their symptoms had longer PD, indicating a need for interventions to improve symptom recognition. Our findings also corroborate the importance of the socioeconomic determinants of health, highlighting tobacco as a risk factor both for TB and for PD
Evolution of attack in handball when playing 7 vs. 6 with empty goal between 2020 and 2023
Introduction Recently, several studies on the 7 vs. 6 “empty goal” (EG) in handball have produced different and even contradictory results. The aim of the present study was to investigate the behavior of teams and players in the 7 vs. 6 EG attack in the European (Euro) and World Championships (WCh) between 2020 and 2023 and characterize the coaches’ perceptions. Methods A mixed-methods approach was used, consisting of the following: (i) an observ…
Occupational exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation among outdoor workers in Lisbon, 2023—first results of the Meaow study
Introduction Solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure is the primary external factor associated with the development of skin cancer. Accurate, valid, and reliable objective estimates of individual UVR exposure are required to quantify the risk of skin cancer in outdoor workers. Such data can be used to develop and implement policies and practices to reduce, or at least manage, UVR exposure in outdoor workers. Currently, there is a dearth of obj…
Volunteer Management in Sports Tourism Events
Effective volunteer management in sports tourism events depends on understanding motivations, segmenting profiles, and fostering satisfaction to ensure continuity and event success. The purpose of this study was to examine volunteer motivation, investigate differences in motivation based on gender and age, and identify key predictors of the intention to continue volunteering. The sample consisted of 390 participants (199 men, 191 women) aged from…
Expectations and Evaluation of Volunteers’ Experience at the Paralympic Swimming European Championship
Sports organizations administer volunteer participation in sports events to facilitate management efficiency while fostering opportunities for learning, skill enhancement, and meaningful social contribution. This study sought to determine the influence of volunteer experience on individuals’ intention to engage in future volunteer opportunities. The study analyzed data from 159 volunteers who undertook organizational roles at the 2016 (n=74) and …
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Physical therapy (6 works) · Children's Physical and Motor Development (4 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Physical activity (4 works) · Political science (4 works)