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- Confusão aguda e delirium: importância da utilização de instrumentos psicométricos de diagnóstico e/ou rastreioPublication . Sampaio, FM; Sequeira, CAContexto/Objetivos: A confusão aguda e o delirium são condições patológicas que, frequentemente, não são diagnosticadas ou são diagnosticadas erradamente. Para dar resposta a esta dificuldade foram criados instrumentos psicométricos para a sua avaliação. Assim, o objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar e refletir acerca das vantagens e desvantagens da utilização de instrumentos psicométricos de avaliação da confusão aguda e do delirium. Metodologia: Revisão bibliográfica (revisão não sistemática da literatura) de livros e artigos científicos (com principal enfoque nos últimos cinco anos) presentes em bases de dados online. Resultados: A confusão aguda é uma condição patológica mais abrangente do que o delirium, sendo este uma entidade nosológica mais específica e que se inclui na confusão aguda. Os instrumentos psicométricos são importantes para a avaliação da confusão aguda e do delirium, destacando-se o CAM para rastreio do delirium e a Escala de Confusão NeeCham para avaliação da confusão aguda. Destacam-se ainda a Delirium Rating Scale e a Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale como bons instrumentos de avaliação do delirium.Conclusões: A utilização de instrumentos psicométricos é muito importante, visto que reduz a subjetividade na avaliação da confusão aguda e do delirium, permitindo minimizar os erros e/ou défices diagnósticos a este nível.
- Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Mental Vulnerability Questionnaire in Undergraduate StudentsPublication . Sequeira, CA; Barbosa, EM; Nogueira, MJ; Sampaio, FMPURPOSE: Translate, adapt the language, and assess the psychometric properties of the Mental Vulnerability Questionnaire (MVQ) in a Portuguese population sample of young adults. DESIGN AND METHODS: A psychometric validation study was performed. The sample comprised 166 undergraduate students. Factor analysis was applied to extract three indicators. FINDINGS: The MVQ showed divergent validity with the Positive Mental Health Questionnaire (p < .001) and convergent validity with the Mental Health Inventory including five items (p < .001). Reliability was verified through the assessment of internal consistency, evidencing positive outcomes (Cronbach's α = 0.81). PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The MVQ shows psychometric properties enabling its adaptation to clinical practice and research, essential to an effective screening of mental vulnerability.
- Nursing psychotherapeutic interventions: a review of clinical studiesPublication . Sampaio, FM; Sequeira, CA; Lluch Canut, MTAIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To summarise current knowledge about nursing psychotherapeutic interventions in adults. BACKGROUND: In Portugal, the provision of psychotherapeutic interventions is considered a competence of mental health nurses. However, literature is not totally clear about the differences between 'psychotherapy' and 'psychotherapeutic interventions' and about the specific characteristics that define a nursing psychotherapeutic intervention. DESIGN: Narrative review. METHODS: A literature review utilising MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, the Web of Science, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, and MedicLatina computerised databases for the period from 2003-2013. A total of 151 eligible articles were identified. Relevant data were extracted, and findings were synthetised in a narrative synthesis. RESULTS: Nursing psychotherapeutic interventions are frequently based on 'Cognitive-Behavioural' rationale. The usual length of these interventions varies between 5-16 weeks, in a total of 5-12 sessions of 45-60 minutes. The mechanisms of change are heterogeneous, but the therapeutic relationship between the nurse and the client seems to be the most important positive predictive factor of nursing psychotherapeutic interventions. Some of the most used outcome assessment measures include the Beck Depression Inventory, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the CORE-OM. The effectiveness of nursing psychotherapeutic interventions has been widely demonstrated in many studies. However, the need of further studies to prove its cost effectiveness is evident. CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary to have a better understanding of nursing psychotherapeutic interventions, one that explains its conceptual limits, to improve mental health nursing knowledge and create suitable models of psychotherapeutic intervention in nursing. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: The findings of this review can create awareness for some weaknesses of nursing knowledge about the psychotherapeutic intervention and for the need to produce knowledge, to nurture the nursing discipline in the area of psychotherapeutic intervention with even more theoretical and practical support.
- Tradução do método de avaliação da confusão (CAM)- Importância no contexto da saúde mentalPublication . Sampaio, FM; Sequeira, CA; Sá, LO
- Tradução e validação do Confusion Assessment Method para a população portuguesaPublication . Sampaio, FM; Sequeira, CA