War exposure and post-traumatic stress as predictors of Portuguese colonial war veterans' physical health

Maia, Ângela; McIntyre, Teresa; Pereira, M. Graça; Ribeiro, Eugénia

doi:10.1080/10615806.2010.521238

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“…A colonial war of 13 years has left to Portugal an individual and collective traumatic heritage (Maia, McIntyre, Pereira, & Ribeiro, 2011). The consequences remain to this day through the intergenerational transmission of trauma (Dias, Sales, Cardoso, & Kleber, 2014).…”

Section: Psychotraumatology In Portugalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trauma and trauma care in Europe

Schäfer

Hopchet²,

Vandamme³

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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The European countries have a long history of exposure to large-scale trauma. In the early 1990s the increasing awareness of the consequences of trauma within the mental health community led to the foundation of local societies for psychotraumatology across Europe and the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018. The focus of this article is to describe the current state of care for survivors of trauma in the 15 European countries where ESTSS member societies have been established. Brief descriptions on the historical burden of trauma in each country are followed by an overview of the care system for trauma survivors in the countries, the state-of-the-art of interventions, current challenges in caring for survivors and the topics that need to be most urgently addressed in the future. The reports from the different countries demonstrate how important steps towards a better provision of care for survivors of trauma have been made in Europe. Given the cultural and economic diversity of the continent, there are also differences between the European countries, for instance with regard to the use of evidence-based treatments. Strategies to overcome these differences, like the new ESTSS training curricula for care-providers across Europe, are briefly discussed.

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Section: Psychotraumatology In Portugalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trauma and trauma care in Europe

Schäfer

Hopchet²,

Vandamme³

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…The item responses were given on 4-point Likert-type scales: “not at all,” “a few times,” “sometimes,” and “very often.” However, for data analysis purposes, we dichotomized these variables and combined “not at all” and “a few times” as 0 and “sometimes” and “very often” as 1. The internal consistency reliability coefficient of the scale scored on the Portuguese sample was very good (Cronbach’s alpha of 0.91) [13]. …”

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“…For the report of percentages, we considered the value of valid percentage to better express the differences amount of missing values for each variable. The medians for the two main components of the SF-12 were also calculated in order to compare these results with the normative values for the Portuguese population [13]. For this comparison, the one-sample Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used.…”

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Self-Reports of Health before and during Imprisonment in Female Inmates

Alves¹,

Maia²

2017

Port J Public Health

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The health of female inmates has been described as more vulnerable than that of detained male and the overall female population. The purpose of this study is to describe health behaviors, history of diseases, health complaints, and health status of 232 incarcerated women. The women reported risk behaviors and unexpected health surveillance before their imprisonment. In prison, their tobacco use increased, drug consumption decreased and high rates of diseases, use of medicines, health complaints, and poor health status were found. The women’s perceptions of their current health, compared with the time period before prison, revealed different types of impact, with one-third reporting health improvements. These data suggest that women prisoners’ health and the prison’s impact on their health must be better studied in order to enhance the health intervention programs during imprisonment.

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“…O CTQ-SF tem vindo a ser usado em amostras portuguesas (Maia, McIntyre, Graça Pereira, & Ribeiro, 2011;Maia et al, 2007;McIntyre & Costa, 2004;Veiga-Costa, 2006). No entanto, é escassa a informação disponível sobre as propriedades psicométricas do instrumento quando aplicado na população geral, ainda que seja considerado dos instrumentos melhor validados a nível mundial, na avaliação do maltrato de infância (Bogaerts et al, 2011).…”

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