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is necessary the implementation of safety and control measures that
minimize the risk of exposure to air pollutants.
Keywords
Anatomical pathology laboratories, occupational exposure, air
pollutants
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Occupational exposure to air pollutants in night entertainment
venues workers
Ana Ferreira, Diana Ribeiro, Fernando Moreira, Joo P. Figueiredo,
Susana Paixo
College of Health Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra,
So Martinho do Bispo, 3046-854 Coimbra, Portugal
Correspondence: Joo P. Figueiredo (jpfigueiredo@estescoimbra.pt)
College of Health Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, So
Martinho do Bispo, 3046-854 Coimbra, Portugal
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Given the significant increase of time spent by the population in night-
life venues and the lack of indoor air quality (IAQ), there is a need to
study the possibility that this deprivation might affect the employees
health through their exposure to this environment.
The main goal of this study consisted in assess workers occupational
exposure to environmental indoor air pollutants, in order to under-
stand its risk and interaction with peoples health.
Therefore, a data collection was held through the measurements of
concentration levels: volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon di-
oxide (CO2), particles PM2.5 and PM10, in three different night-time
entertainment venues situated in the North of Portugal. For this
study, a sample constituted by 14 employees from those three night-
clubs was asked important and necessary questions to the execution
of this research.
The pollutants evaluated were the VOCs with use of the equipment
branded as ION SCIENCE, model: Phocheck + 2000 Fristcheck; CO2
with TSI equipment, model 8558552/8554, Q-TrakTM Plus IAQ
Monitor with electrochemical cell direct reading; formaldehyde using
the handheld meter PPM Formaldemeter TM htv, 3 Parameter IAQ
Monitor and finally the PM2,5 e PM10 were evaluated with a Light-
house Worldwide Solutions equipment, model: Handheld 3016-IAQ.
The results show that they infringe extensively the maximum con-
centration values set by law; one of the reasons is that the artificial
air vents are constantly turned off. Despite the strong evidences
found in this research it was not possible to associate the employees
symptoms caused by pollutants with their occupational exposure.
Keywords
Indoor Air Quality, Human health, Occupational exposure
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Beliefs and attitudes of young people towards breastfeeding
Telma Fernandes1, Diogo Amado1, Jssica Leal1, Marcelo Azevedo1,
Snia Ramalho1,2
1
Escola Superior de Sade de Leiria, Instituto Politcnico de Leiria, 2411-
901 Leiria, Portugal; 2School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic institute of
Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal
Correspondence: Snia Ramalho (sonia.ramalho@ipleiria.pt) Escola
Superior de Sade de Leiria, Instituto Politcnico de Leiria, 2411-901
Leiria, Portugal
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Background
Breastfeeding is a priority of global strategy for womens, childrens
and adolescents Health: 2016-2030 (World Health Organization,
2015) [1]. Objectives: To understand beliefs and attitudes and know-
ledge of young people towards breastfeeding and to assess the rela-
tion between the beliefs and attitudes of young people towards
breastfeeding and sociodemographic and academic variables.
Methods
Quantitative, cross-sectional and correlational study with a sample of
177 first-year students of the degree courses of a Portuguese School
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of Health Sciences. A questionnaire with sociodemographic and aca-
demic data and "Adolescent breastfeeding beliefs and intentions
questionnaire validated for the Portuguese population by Catarino,
Henriques and Dixe (2011) [2]. Ethical and legal procedures were
followed.
Results
These young people have an average age: X = 18.89, s = 1.56, and
80.8 % were female. 55.4 % live in rural areas, 54.2 % obtained infor-
mation about breastfeeding on television. It was found the level of
beliefs and attitudes (X = 82.59, s = 5.75) and perceived social barriers
(X = 16.46, s = 4.57) for breastfeeding is low. There are significant dif-
ferences between the beliefs and attitudes towards breastfeeding
and gender (z = 1374.0 and p < 0.001). Beliefs and attitudes are
mainly influenced by health professionals and the perception of so-
cial barriers is influenced by family and magazines.
Conclusions
This study confirms the importance of early intervention, the need
for specific training in breastfeeding and developing strategies to
promote and support breastfeeding in the community.
References
1. World Health Organization. National Breastfeeding Policy and Action
Plan: 2015-2020. Malta: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Direct-
orate; 2015.
2. Catarino H, Henriques C, Dixe M. Escala de crenas e atitudes dos
adolescentes face amamentao: validao para a populao
portuguesa. International Journal of Developmental and Educational
Psychology. 2011; 1(2):179-186.
Keywords
Beliefs, attitudes, young, breastfeeding
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Profiling informal caregivers: surveying needs in the care of the
elderly
Catarina Mangas1, Jaime Ribeiro2, Rita Gonalves3
1
Unidade de Investigao Incluso e Acessibilidade em Aco "iACT" e
Escola Superior Educao e Cincias Sociais, Instituto Politcnico de
Leiria; 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal; 2Unidade de Investigao em Sade,
Escola Superior de Sade de Leiria eCADR& Centro de Investigao
Didtica e Tecnologia na Formao de Formadores, Universidade de
Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; 3Instituto Politcnico de Leiria,
2411-901 Leiria, Portugal
Correspondence: Jaime Ribeiro (jaime.ribeiro@ipleiria.pt) Unidade de
Investigao em Sade, Escola Superior de Sade de Leiria eCADR&
Centro de Investigao Didtica e Tecnologia na Formao de
Formadores, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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Currently, in Portugal and in the world, a marked increase has been ob-
served in the number of elderly and their longevity. Due to this
phenomenon, more studies on ageing and all associated topics are
emerging. Informal caregivers arise due to concern about the welfare
and health of the elderly. They devote their time, often full-time, in pro-
viding care for their relatives.
This descriptive-exploratory study aimed to understand and describe
the difficulties faced by each caregiver, their motivations, concerns,
and how to overcome them. For this, through a mixed methods ap-
proach, 14 interviews were carried out with 14 primary informal care-
givers and questionnaires to 30 secondary and tertiary informal
caregivers in the municipality of Leiria.
The quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics and
qualitative data were subjected to content analysis from the perspec-
tive of Bardin with coding in predetermined literature-based categor-
ies and also in emerging categories. In this way, we characterized
informal caregivers and the elderly in their care and perceived the
economic and/or social needs, the implications caused by the
provision of care and the level of training of each caregiver. In
conclusion, we observed that training is not the biggest need
pointed out by informal caregivers, but rather the social, family