José Rocha

Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e Universitário | CESPU · Departamento de Ciências Sociais e do Comportamento

Objetivo: O International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) da CID-11 foi desenvolvido como esforço conjunto de pesquisadores de vários países para avaliar os sintomas de estresse pós-traumático (TEPT) e TEPT complexo (TEPT-C). Este estudo é parte de um projeto de pesquisa colaborativo internacional multicêntrico que visa fornecer suporte psicométrico par...

Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and headache are complex. This study aims to assess the association between TMD, headache, and psychological dimensions such as psychological inflexibility and pain acceptance. The sample consisted of 120 participants following a non-probabilistic convenience sampling strategy through a direct invitation to the pat...

Objectives The psychosocial impact of psoriasis is well documented. However, the contributing role of clinical disease characteristics is not satisfactorily explored. This study aimed to validate the Self-administered Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (SAPASI) to a Portuguese population (SAPASI-PT) and to perform its cross-validation, assessing how...

Introdução: Concetualizar e medir a culpa nos processos de luto tem-se revelado uma tarefa difícil que consequentemente acaba por comprometer a investigação e a prática clínica. São vários os sentimentos de culpa relatados pelos pacientes a vivenciar uma situação de luto, sendo bastante importante e necessário criar formas de avaliar e quantificar...

Financial capacity (FC) is conceptualized as a dimension that encompasses a wide range of basic aptitudes and the capacity to judge and assess situations and make decisions according to one best interests. The Numerical Activities of Daily-Living-Financial (NADL-F) is an instrument of FC for clinical use developed in Italy. This study aims to perfo...

Background Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a new disorder included in the 11th edition of the International classification of diseases (ICD-11). An important remit of the new ICD-11 is the global applicability of the mental health disorder guidelines or definitions. Although previous definitions and descriptions of disordered grief have been asse...

Objetivo: El Numerical Activities of Daily-Living-Financial (NADL-F) es un Nuevo test para evaluar la capacidad financiera en el contexto del envejecimiento cognitivo. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo determinar las características psicométricas de la versión portuguesa del NADL-F e identificar la relación de la capacidad financiera con las...

The objective is to test the efficacy of cognitive-narrative therapy in the treatment of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and borderline symptoms on a sample of women who suffered from intimate partner violence (IPV). Trial design is a longitudinal randomized controlled trial with a sa...

Scale to evaluate patients satisfaction with a specific psychological program

Scale to evaluate the level of exposure on several types of traumatic events specific of Intimate Partner Violence

Objective: The ICD-11 Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) was developed as a joint effort by researchers from several countries to evaluate post-traumatic stress (PTSD) and complex-PTSD (C-PTSD) symptoms. This study is part of a multi-center international collaborative research project that aims to provide psychometric support for this initial instrument i...

The rupture of a loving relationship is a common experience in university students; however, for some of these young individuals this event can create very stressful and distressing emotions, placing high demands on emotional competencies. This study involved 100 university students aged 18-36 years old and who have experienced at least one loss of...

It is a simple questionnaire build to verify the adequacy of a diagnosis interview for clinical, research and forensic settings.

Mindfulness-based psychotherapy is grounded on Buddhist teachings and meditation, aiming to help people gain more awareness about the solution to emotional problems, maladaptive behaviors and acceptance of day-today problems. This third wave CBT model may provide a solution to anxiety that frequently impairs college students.

Educational success can be influenced in several ways, including through anxiety which has a negative impact in several specific situations affecting well-being. Students are specially affected due to the high level of demands to which they are exposed and, sometimes, the most effective emotional coping is not used. The aim of this study is to corr...

We have defined a psychological intervention based on cognitive narrative therapy and the Ottawa decision framework to reduce adjustment problems following a termination of pregnancy (TOP) after a positive prenatal diagnosis (PND). The intervention is composed of four sessions: decision, subjectivation, metaphorization, and projecting. This study a...

The misuse of benzodiazepines is a well know public health problem. For this reason, it is more and more relevant to monitor misuse and try to implement solutions. We aim to understand the use of benzodiazepines in a health center population in the city of Porto, as well the connections with present, past and future psychological intervention. We h...

In 2001, in Entre-os-Rios, Portugal, a bridge fell on Douro River, all 59 passengers from one bus and three cars died and 36 bodies have never been recovered. The objective is to reveal the cumulative risk from multiple losses and unrecovered bodies, 10 years after, comparing with grievers from road accidents. There are two groups of relatives of v...

PurposeThere are known connections between emotions and psoriasis; however, we have not established a clear pathway for this association. This study aimed to explore correlates of difficulties in emotional regulation in patients with psoriasis and predict the influence of emotional regulation in psoriasis disability. Method Two hundred and twenty e...

Background and aims: As there are known risks of retraumatization through bereavement crisis interventions, we tailored a new intervention lowering the degree of direct emotional activation. However, we need some evidence on the effects of depression and psychotraumatic symptoms between 1 and 6 months after a loss. Method: We conducted a randomi...

There is a prototype narrative for complicated grief (CG); however there are neither divergent nor convergent validity studies for its clinical value.In the first study, 73 participants, and in the second study, 28 were evaluated using the Sociodemographic Questionnaire and the Clinical Interview for CG Diagnosis. CG Prototype Narrative Convergent...

Non-invasive prenatal testing is increasingly available worldwide and stakeholder viewpoints are essential to guide implementation. Here we compare the preferences of women and health professionals from nine different countries towards attributes of non-invasive and invasive prenatal tests for Down syndrome. A discrete choice experiment was used to...

In this retrospective study, we have researched the psychological impact of pre-symptomatic testing (PST) for 2 autosomal dominant late-onset diseases: Hunt-ington disease (HD and familial amyloidotic poly-neuropathy (FAP) V30M TTR. The study included 53 subjects: 40 (75.5%) were the offspring at risk for FAP and 13 (24.5%) for HD. Of these, 38 (73...

Objective: The implementation of bereavement interventions is frequently requested, and its effectiveness has been controversial. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a cognitive narrative intervention for complicated grief (CG) for controlling post-traumatic and depressive issues. Method: The study is a randomised controlle...

The connections between complicated grief and traumatic stress have previously been investigated; however, the learning effects resulting from previous losses and emotional clarity are still unclear. Understanding these effects may shed more light on the general hypotheses of emotional aging (more than chronological aging). We aimed to assess the m...

he loss of a loved one with whom we develop bonds is a source of suffering, pain and despair. When the loss is associated with multiple losses and the absence of the dead bodies of those who died, we can considerer as a situation with high risk for complicated grief. That happened in Entre-os-Rios Portuguese village when a bridge fell on Douro Rive...

baixo encontra-se uma lista de comentários feitos por pessoas depois de um evento stressante. Assinala cada item que mostra com que frequência estes comentários são verdade para ti durante os últimos sete dias. Se não ocorreram durante esse tempo, seleciona a opção 'nunca'. Nome: …………………………………………… Data: ……… Nunca Raramente Algumas vezes Muitas veze...

The connections between complicated grief and traumatic stress have previously been investigated; however, the learning effects resulting from previous losses and emotional clarity are still unclear. Understanding these effects may shed more light on the general hypotheses of emotional aging. We aimed to assess the moderating effects of emotional c...

Introduction: The aim of this study is to analyse the psychological impact of the Machado Joseph disease predictive test. Have been taken as indicators of the emotional state of subjects the scores of depression and anxiety and have been observed their variability in three moments: before the test, three weeks after and 9 months after the communica...

MJD is the most frequent dominant ataxia and an incapacitating disorder. Onset is most frequently during the reproductive years, and genetic counseling is its only means of prevention. The causative mutation--an expansion of a (CAG)n on chromosome 14q32.1--can now be directly detected. We now report the first two cases of prenatal diagnosis (PND)....