http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12253/1280 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:14:21 GMT 2026-04-21T15:14:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12253/1373 Title: Youth Sports Injuries According to Health Related Quality of Life and Parental Instruction Authors: Costa e Silva, Lara; Teles, Júlia; Fragoso, Isabel Abstract: Background: Participation in physical activity involves ¬ a risk of injury that has a considerable public health impact (1). Sports injuries are the major cause of morbidity among children and adolescents in developed countries (2). They account for half of all injuries in school age children. The relationship between sports injuries, health related quality of life (HRQoL) and parental instruction is still not clear. Objective: Determine sports injuries biosocial predictors in Portuguese youth. Methods: Information about HRQoL, parental instruction and sports injuries was assessed via three questionnaires; KIDSCREEN-52 (3,4), RAPIL II (5,6) and LESADO (1,7,8) respectively. They were filled by 651 subjects aged 10 to 18 years, attending four Portuguese community schools. Univariate analyses were used to verify significant differences between groups. Logistic, linear and multinomial regression analyses were used to determine significant biosocial predictors of injury, injury rate, injury type and body area injury location. Results: Injury rate was higher in boys with lower scores in school environment dimension of KIDSCREEN-52 (p = .022) and in girls was higher in those with lower scores of moods and emotions dimension (p .001) and higher scores of self-perception dimension (p < .001). Also in girls, upper limbs injuries were associated with higher scores of moods and emotions dimension and spine and torso with lower scores (p = .037). Lower limbs injuries were associated with lower father’s education and upper limbs (p = .046) and spine and torso (p = .034) injuries with higher father’s education. Conclusion: Surprisingly given the large number of injuries resulting from participation in sports and the associated high costs of health care, very few investigations have been conducted into biosocial variables and their relation to sports injuries. Injuries in Portuguese youth were linked to three dimensions of KIDSCREEN-52 (moods and emotions, self-perception and school environment) and father’s education level. Sports injuries usually result from the combination of several risk factors interacting at a given time (9). Understanding the role of social and environmental factors related to sports injuries is needed, as they can be a part of this complex equation. Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12253/1373 2018-09-13T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12253/1359 Title: Elderly people, physical therapy services and human resources: current and future challenges Authors: Leão, Carla Abstract: The aging process implementation in Portugal, and the consequent increase in the number of elderly people is evident and constitutes an increasing process. Undeniably, the elderly people are the main users of health services and specifically physiotherapy services. The economic and financial crisis that affected Portugal, has imposed restrictions on the health system and specifically on the National Health Service (NHS) (1). Considering this scenario, we have put as a guiding question: In Portugal, physiotherapy health services and human resources included in the health system at NUTS III regional level, and essentially in the NHS, are proportional to the number of elderly people and respond to their current and future needs? [NUTS III - Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) with level III corresponding to the territorial division constituted by 30 regions, according to the division of 2013] We aim to understand the current and future numbers of the elderly people at the regional level (NUTS III); also aim to know the current number of physiotherapy services and human resources at the same regional level; and aim to prospective the future physical therapy services and human resources, considering the health political trends related to services and human resources; and assess if these services and human resources respond to the needs of the current and future elderly people. For this purpose, we performed a statistical analysis at the regional level NUTS III, considering the indicators - number of elderly people and physical therapy services and human resources. We used the data from the Statistics National Institute, the Health Regulatory Body, the Portuguese Physiotherapists Union and the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists. The results showed that at the regional level (NUTS III), physiotherapy services and human resources are scarce and there is no proportionality between the number of elderly people and the physiotherapy services and human resources. With the increasing number of elderly people and the restrictive political trend, we assume that, if the political trends continues, proportionality will remain non-existent. In this way, we conclude that current and future physiotherapy services and human resources do not respond to the needs of the current and future elderly population, and there is a need to adapt physiotherapy services and human resources to the current and future demographic reality, in order to achieve better levels of healthy life expectancy (2). References 1. Rodrigues, T. F., Martins, M. R. O.(Coordenadores). Envelhecimento e saúde. Prioridades políticas num Portugal em mudança. Lisboa. CEPESE/Instituto Hidrográfico. 2014 2. Coelho, C. I. Leão S. S. Envelhecimento e saúde em Portugal. Práticas e desafios num cenário de aumento da população idosa (1974-2031) [DoctoralThesis]. Lisbon: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; 2017 Description: Poster apresentado no 4.º Congresso Internacional de Saúde do IPLeiria, que decorreu nos dias 11 e 12 de maio de 2018, na Escola Superior de Saúde de Leiria, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Leiria), subordinado às “Tendências globais em saúde”. Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12253/1359 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z