Joana MachorrinhoUniversidade de Évora | uevora · Department of Sport and Health
Joana Machorrinho
PhD Student of Human Motricity
Research on embodiment of female victims of intimate-partner violence.
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October 2018 - present
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Intimate-partner violence (IPV) is a major threat to women’s lives, with an impact on their physical and mental health, often causing trauma symptoms. The IPV consequences for embodiment-related features that are detrimental to the quality of life and identity structure of victims are understudied. With this study, we aim to examine embodiment-rela...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts both physical and mental health of victims. The embodiment refers to the inner and outer features that structure how we feel and act within our bodies. The study of the impact of violence on embodiment has led to a growing interest among researchers and practitioners. This is a review chapter about the embodi...
Objective: Considering the impact of continued violence on general health, we aimed to assess the physical activity (PA) and quality of life of female victims of domestic violence (DV) living in shelters. Also, we aimed to search for associations between PA, quality of life and violence length among our sample.
Methods: Seventeen female victims par...
A central notion in the field of embodiment is that body sensorimotor processes and body mental representations influence emotion, cognition and behavior. By affecting the body, intimate partner violence (IPV) can leave victims with a fragile self, and significant physical and mental health problems. In this study, we aim to examine embodiment-rela...
The aims of the present study were:
(i) to compare the sense of body ownership between women with and without a history of IPV
(ii) to analyze the relationships between body ownership and mental health variables (e.g., behaviors of self-injury, suicidal ideation, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety or Depression diagnoses).
The RHI pr...
A violência doméstica contra as mulheres é uma realidade demasiado presente na sociedade contemporânea, sabendo-se muito pouco sobre todo o processo e, sobretudo, sobre as vítimas. É uma problemática de particular complexidade, por contar com múltiplos intervenientes, mas também pelas diferentes perspetivas teóricas que se podem adotar na sua compr...
Interoceptive awareness involves several mind–body dimensions and can be evaluated by self-report with the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), which has been translated and validated in several countries and is being used in research and clinical contexts. This study systematically translated the MAIA with six additional...
Interoception is one of the main sensorial components for behavior regulation, and it refers to visceral stimuli such as heartbeat, thirst, dyspnea, “air hunger” or distension of the bladder. Interoceptive awareness seems to involve several dimensions and can be evaluated with the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA; Mehlin...
Objectives: To assess the available evidence on different applications of MAIA.
Methods: This research followed three sequenced moments, done by two independent re- searchers. Included only published adult population studies (18-65 years old), which used complete MAIA survey, not only for translation and validation purposes. Data were ex- tracted...
A Perturbação da Vinculação no Lactente acontece com pouca frequência, tem critérios de diagnóstico, por vezes latos e, também por isso, torna-se de difícil identificação, comprometendo a intervenção atempada e eficaz. Também chamada de Perturbação alimentar da vinculação, parece caracterizar-se por uma "falta de interesse e prazer entre o bebé e o...
Partindo da necessidade de melhor conhecer a prevalência de perturbações do sono na infância e adolescência, bem como as suas consequências para o comportamento, foram analisados brevemente 26 artigos que permitiram realçar sobretudo a necessidade de uma avaliação mais pormenorizada, mais valorizada por pais, professores e técnicos de saúde, bem co...
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Confrontados com a realidade de despreocupação que se vive atualmente em Portugal, relativamente à disseminação do HIV, particularmente em ambiente académico constituiu-se uma equipa informal de alunos de diferentes universidades, cada um contribuindo para o projeto com conhecimento da sua área de eleição.
Os objetivos principais deste projeto foram a avaliação e atualização do conhecimento dos estudantes da Universidade de Évora, em questões relacionadas com o tema.
