Raquel CostaUniversity of Porto | UP · Research Center in Physical Activity and Leisure (CIAFEL)
Raquel Costa
PhD Physical Activity and Health
Assistant Professor - Universidade da Maia (ISMAI)
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Introduction
Raquel Costa is a researcher at the Research Center in Physical Activity and Leisure (CIAFEL), Faculty of Sport - University of Porto. Raquel does research in Physical Activity, Public Health and Psychiatry.
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Publications (21)
Patients with schizophrenia experience poor sleep quality that affects their physical and mental health. In the general population, physical activity (PA) is considered as a beneficial non-pharmacological intervention for sleep quality. However, there is a lack of research concerning its implications in the sleep quality of patients with schizophre...
In people with schizophrenia several factors are associated with poor quality of life (QoL), namely, lifestyle-related factors and psychological factors. However, there has been little research on the impact of these factors on QoL. Therefore, the relation between lifestyle-related factors, psychological factors, and QoL in people with schizophreni...
O Manual de Boas Práticas em Atividade Física na Doença Mental Grave destina-se aos pacientes, seus familiares e aos elementos das equipas terapêuticas (terapeutas ocupacionais, psicólogos, enfermeiros e psiquiatras). Com a sua edição, pretende-se contribuir para o aumento do conhecimento acerca dos benefícios da prática regular de atividade física...
Purpose:
People with schizophrenia have low physical activity levels that can be explained by the restriction in motivation. The Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2 is a 19-item scale commonly used to assess five different motivational subtypes for physical activity. However, there are limited psychometric analyses of this version i...
The purpose of this study was to examine the dietary intake of both inpatients and outpatients with schizophrenia in the Portuguese population as a potential key contributing factor to the poor physical health profiles, and understand the relationship of diet quality to other lifestyle factors. Participants of this cross-sectional study completed a...
A Esclerose Múltipla (EM) é uma doença progressiva que afeta o indivíduo em diferentes domínios, condicionando a sua qualidade de vida (QV). A atividade física (AF) tem sido identificada como uma forma de neutralizar os sintomas incapacitantes da EM. O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar os efeitos de um período de inatividade física de 8 s...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of international concern. Strategies to manage this pandemic have changed the daily routines of people worldwide, including people with a diagnosis of severe mental disorders. In Portugal, mental health services had to adjust several ambulatory facilities for psychiatry patients, as w...
Aim: Being physically active is a complex behaviour in patients with schizophrenia. Several factors were identified as barriers to achieving active behaviours in this population. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate among a number of barriers what predicts the most on physical activity (PA) in patients with schizophrenia.
Methods...
Women are twice as likely as men to develop certain mental health conditions such as depression, eating disorders, and anxiety disorders. A multimodal care, including psychotherapies as adjuncts to antipsychotic medications, is acknowledged to be crucial in teaching individual strategies and providing patients with tools to deal with these illnesse...
Resumo: Apesar das evidências científicas sobre os benefícios da participação de indivíduos com esquizofrenia em programas de atividade física, são escassas as oportunidades de prática estruturadas e orientadas para as necessidades e caraterísticas específicas desta população. A população com esquizofrenia apresenta níveis inferiores de atividade f...
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is a most debilitating disease. In addition, much of this people had an unhealthy lifestyle, which includes insufficient daily physical activity levels. AIM: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a 24-week physical activity (PA) program in functional exercise capacity and level of PA in people with schiz...
CONTEXTO: Pacientes com esquizofrenia apresentam baixa motivação para praticar atividade física (AF). Devido aos benefícios da AF, torna-se necessário entender os processos motivacionais ligados à adoção de estilos de vida saudáveis por parte destes pacientes. OBJETIVOS: Este estudo teve três objetivos: i) analisar as propriedades psicométricas do...
CONTEXTO: As perturbações do sono podem conduzir a alterações significativas no funcionamento do indivíduo, comprometendo qualidade de vida (QV). Indivíduos com esquizofrenia apresentam baixos níveis de QV e de qualidade do sono (QS). A atividade física (AF) melhora a QS na população em geral, contudo, não existem estudos analisando essa relação na...
Na pessoa com esquizofrenia é frequente verificar-se a adoção de estilos de vida pouco saudáveis, nomeadamente o sedentarismo e os maus hábitos alimentares. Os indivíduos com esquizofrenia apresentam baixos níveis de atividade física (AF) quando comparados com a população em geral e padrões nutricionais desadequados, com maior ingestão de teor de g...
ABSTRACT: Female patients with schizophrenia have a less severe form of the disorder, when compare to male patients. Individuals with schizophrenia have deficits in manual dexterity (MD) and low physical activity (PA) levels which commit their daily life activities. The PA practice has shown beneficial effects on motor abilities in healthy individu...
Resumo: A esquizofrenia é uma das doenças mentais mais debilitantes, afetando 1% da população mundial. As elevadas taxas de doença cardiovascular, síndrome metabólica e mortalidade prematura associadas a esta doença, constituem uma preocupação epidemiológica. A investigação demonstra o impacto de programas de atividade física (PAF) na saúde física...
Individuals with schizophrenia show deficits in motor control at physical level that interfere with manual dexterity (MD) conditioning, fundamentally, activities of daily living. The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of a physical activity program in MD level (fine, FMD and global, GMD) and manual asymmetry (MA) in individuals with Schizo...
Os indivíduos com Esquizofrenia apresentam limitações na concretização das atividades diárias, o que afeta a sua autonomia e, consequentemente, a qualidade de vida. A realização destas atividades implica uma correta funcionalidade da mão, que em muitos casos é afetada pelos distúrbios na lateralização cerebral, caraterísticos da doença. Desta forma...
Indivíduos com Esquizofrenia apresentam saúde física mais debilitada quando comparado com
a população em geral (Roick et al., 2007). Somado a isso, estudos pontam que estes indivíduos
apresentam níveis de atividade física insuficiente para manter a sua saúde geral (Faulkner et al.,
2006). Diferentes abordagens e intervenções psicossociais têm sido...
Projects
Projects (2)
To evaluate the changes in clinical measures, physical fitness and metabolic health after a badminton-based intervention and compare these with a no exercise control group in a sample group of people with first episode psychosis.
“Mental Health on the MOVE” research project is a community-based physical activity intervention for people with chronic severe mental disorders; is delivered by specialized technicians in Adapted Physical Activity and takes place in the Faculty of Sport, Porto University - Portugal. This project started in 2011 and has a partnership with 4 psychiatric units; around 50 participants are regularly engaged in the sessions.
