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- Estratégias dos enfermeiros na comunicação com familiares de pessoas em processo de doação de órgãos: revisão sistemáticaPublication . Oliveira, Andreia; Coelho, PatríciaIntrodução: A doação de órgãos é um processo complexo, que inclui os familiares como recetores dos cuidados. Este desafio exige aos enfermeiros habilidades e competências que otimizem a sua intervenção. Uma das soluções parece residir na melhoria da qualidade e efetividade da comunicação entre os profissionais e as famílias. Objetivo: Identificar as estratégias utilizadas pelos enfermeiros na comunicação com os familiares de pessoas em processo de doação de órgãos, com vista a uma comunicação mais efetiva. Métodos: Revisão sistemática da Literatura. A pesquisa foi realizada entre os meses de dezembro de 2022 e fevereiro de 2023, nas bases de dados Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed e B-ON, sustentada na questão de investigação “Quais as estratégias utilizadas pelos enfermeiros, na comunicação com os familiares de pessoas em processo de doação de órgãos?”. O processo de pesquisa e seleção foi documentado com recurso à metodologia Prisma, por dois revisores independentes. Resultados: Obtiveram-se sete artigos para revisão. As Estratégias Comunicacionais surgem como resposta a uma comunicação e abordagem eficaz às famílias de pessoas em processo de doação de órgãos. Conclusão: Os enfermeiros devem privilegiar a continuidade e periodicidade no contato com as famílias. A partilha deve ser empática, honesta, sincera e transparente, conferindo segurança e confiança à relação terapêutica, e possibilitando um maior envolvimento. Devem ainda, consciencializar-se da multidimensionalidade da comunicação, procurando um equilíbrio e adequação de todos os elementos, como são exemplo a linguagem verbal e corporal.
- Nursing students’ knowledge regarding sexuality, sex, and gender diversity in a multicenter studyPublication . Santiago, Conceição; Guerra, Açucena; Carreira, Teresa; Palma, Sara; Bia, Florbela; Pérez-Pérez, Jorge; Frias, Ana; Gómez-Cantarino, Sagrario; Dias, HéliaIntroduction: Sexuality is an integral part of development and personality, and is important in healthcare. Nurses are among the most representative healthcare professionals. For holistic and inclusive nursing care practice and to improve equality, human rights, well-being, and health of individuals, the curricula of nursing courses must integrate broad knowledge about sexuality and its diversity. This study aimed to identify and analyze nursing students’ knowledge of sexuality, sex, and gender diversity. The present study was part of a multicenter study conducted in Europe. Methods: Questionnaires were administered in three nursing schools to assess nursing students’ knowledge (n = 75). Data processing was performed using Excel® software version 20 and IRaMuTeQ (R Interface pour les Analysis Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires) 0.7 alpha 2, allowing organization by category and subsequent thematic analysis using content analysis. Results: The textual corpus “Nursing students’ knowledge about sexuality in its diversity,” was divided into two sub-corpus: “Students’ perception of sexuality” and “Students’ perception of gender identity,” originating Class 6 “Eroticism” (14.23%) and Classes 4 “Sexual Orientation” (16.07%) and 3 “Heteronormative” (16.07%), the latter with greater proximity to each other and consequently to Class 6. Similarly, Classes 1 “Gender” (20.36%) and 5 “Cisgender” (12.14%) also presented a greater interrelationship between themselves and consecutively with Class 2 “Gender Identity” (15.36%). Discussion: The analyses revealed that though nursing students possessed knowledge about sexuality and its diversity, this knowledge was elementary and did not reveal a sustained appropriation of concepts related to sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender diversity. For some questions, the absence of students’ answers were noteworthy, and may be associated with their personal reservation in expressing themselves on this sensitive and intimate theme. To ensure diversity, inclusivity, and impartiality in nursing practice, it is imperative to change the curriculum plans of nursing courses to address the theme of sexuality during the training process of nurses in Europe.
- The relationship between the usage of Instagram and self-esteemPublication . Fernandez, Katirina Maria; Diogo, João Miguel Botelho de Lemos eSocial Networks such as Instagram have become an indispensable form of communications in recent times. The widespread reach of Social Networks globally has allowed individuals to be hyperconnected. Instagram is one of the most prominent Social Network platforms that is known worldwide. The photo and video sharing service allows users to upload posts that can either be viewed by their restricted followers or public (depending on the settings that they choose). By doing so, many choose to upload the best versions of themselves which may or may not depict their realities. This can cause one’s self-esteem to be impacted when trying to portray an idealised version of himself/herself or when checking and comparing with other Instagram users’ profiles, number of likes, shares and comments. This can ensue to an individual either having a positive or negative self-esteem. This can be supported by previous researchers who have posited that the use of Social Networks can affect one’s self esteem. Though there are many theories that have postulated the impact of Social Networks on the users’ self-esteem, the Self-esteem updating model (Krause et al., 2021) has been an useful foundation of understanding the impact of Instagram usage on the users through the three main dimensions of “Social Comparison”, “Self-reflection” and “Social feedback”. Our study aimed to find the impact of these three dimensions on the Instagram users’ self-esteem through the use of quantitative research. An online survey was validated with 95 participants living in either Portugal or Singapore. We found that the users’ self-esteem was impacted to some extent through the various dimensions. There was especially a positive and strong impact between “Social feedback” and “Self-esteem”. This study served as a foundation for future studies to confirm that there is an impact of Instagram usage and one’s self-esteem.
- Imperfect competition in the banking sector and economic instabilityPublication . Carli, Francesco; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, LeonorWe study the impact of competition in the banking sector on the emergence of endogenous cycles driven by self-fulling volatile expectations. We consider an OLG model with two sectors and two household types: workers, who consume and work when young and save through bank deposits; and entrepreneurs, who seek bank loans to finance current consumption and to invest in a productive technology that transforms the consumption good into capital. When old, entrepreneurs rent this capital to firms, who produce the consumption good using capital and labor. All markets are perfectly competitive, except the loans market where banks compete à la Cournot under free entry and exit. In the absence of externalities in the capital producing technology, more competition in the banking sector promotes the emergence of local indeterminacy and sunspots fluctuations. In contrast, under constant social returns to scale in the capital producing technology, bank market power alone triggers the emergence of local indeterminacy. With increasing social returns to scale, both market power and externalities facilitate the emergence of local indeterminacy. Additionally, when banks have market power, steady state multiplicity may emerge, opening the way to global indeterminacy and fluctuations.