Elisa Lopes

• Psychology Degree
• Researcher at University of Lisbon

Background Epidemiologic evidence highlights the harmful consequences of unemployment on health and well-being. This emphasizes the need to design low-cost interventions to prevent the adverse mental health effects of unemployment. The main aim of this study was to create expert-consensus regarding development and implementation of a brief, sustain...

Background Economic crises and unemployment have profound impact on mental health and well-being. Main goal of the Healthy Employment (HE) project is to enhance intersectoral actions promoting mental health among unemployed, namely through the implementation and effectiveness-evaluation of short-term and sustainable group interventions. Methods Th...

Introduction Economic crises have consequences on labor market, with impacts on mental health (MH) and psychological well-being (PWB). We describe the effectiveness of an intervention among unemployed, performed within EEA Grants Healthy Employment project. Objectives Evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention for MH literacy, PWB and resilienc...

BACKGROUND: Economic crises have deleterious impact on mental health. Unemployment and precarious work conditions pose an increased risk to psychological wellbeing. Effective community-based interventions need to be developed within the context of mental health equity-oriented programs. OBJECTIVES: To identify effective short-term community-based i...

Introduction: Portugal is facing the effects of a recent economical crisis endorsing a long-term financial austerity policy. The deleterious impact of economical crises on mental health has been well established in different countries. Psychological support programs have been developed and tested for protecting mental health among unemployed, thoug...

Introduction: In Portugal, the frequency of patient with treated and controlled hypertension is low. It is unknown the relation of socioeconomic determinants with hypertension control, particularly in African immigrants. Aims: To compare frequency of control in treated hypertension and to identify characteristics associated with uncontrolled and tr...

Introdução: O crescimento da população imigrante em Portugal tem sido consistente nas últimas décadas. Apesar disto, a informação sobre a saúde das populações imigrantes é escassa. Esta investigação utiliza dados recolhidos junto da população oriunda do subcontinente indiano a residir no distrito de Lisboa para produzir recomendações para a prestaç...

The growth of the immigrant population in Portugal has been consistent over the past decades. Nevertheless, information on the health of immigrant populations is scarce. This research uses data collected from the population from the Indian subcontinent living in the district of Lisbon to produce recommendations for the provision of culturally adapt...

This study represents a community-based death perspectives assessment of a hard to reach population in Lisbon. It aims to attain a South Asian comparison concerning willingness to donate organs, while exploring gender, age, educational and religious-related differences. A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted among immigrants from...

A ansiedade face à morte tem sido um tema bastante investigado, mas sem resultados consistentes. Em Portugal são escassas as investigações sobre atitudes perante a morte e processo de morte em geral, e mais com populações migrantes. Pretendeu-se identificar fatores associados à ansiedade face à morte em duas populações distintas, Portugueses e Chin...

Background: Willingness to commit to posthumous organ donation has been shown to be related to common death anxiety defenses, and to differ between cultures and socio-demographic variables. Studies indicate that Chinese people are less likely to donate organs than the Westerners. In Portugal organs donation after death is presumed, meaning that any...