POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA

Maria dos Anjos Dixe – maria.dixe@ipleiria.pt

The Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL)

currently has

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE of LEIRIA

about twelve thousand students, nine hundred and fifteen teachers and three hundred and sixteen non-teaching staff.

Five School: School of arts and Design; School of tourism and maritime technology; School of Technology and management; School of Health sciences, School of education and social sciences

six Teaching and Investigation Organic Units

forty-six undergraduate degree programmes

Thirty-six postgraduate degree programmes twenty-two Master’s degree programmes

The 5 schools are located in three cities:Leiria; Peniche and Caldas da Rainha

our

Our school is located in leiria

THE SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Degrees in: • Nursing, • Physiotherapy, • Occupational Therapy, • Speech Therapy;• Dietetic

Master degrees in active ageing (according to the determinants of active ageing by the WHO).•Mental health•Nursing to the person in critical condition

At present the School offers:

and lifelong education / short-term programmes.

• was founded in 2010

Health Research Unit

is deeply committed to developing interdisciplinary

scientific research studies and activities on health

sciences, in order to formulate strategies of promoting a better and improved health among the populations.

The research studies carried out by the health research unit are divided in three main areas, namely in:

1. HEALTH EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2. INTERVENTION IN HEALTH

3. HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT

Effective members (21)Maria dos Anjos Coelho Rodrigues DixeBaltazar Ricardo MonteiroCarolina Miguel da Graça HenriquesCatarina Alexandra Rodrigues Faria LobãoCelia Maria Jordão Simões SilvaDaniela Maria Barroso de Moura Cipreste VazElísio Gomes PintoHelena da Conceição Borges Pereira Catarino Jaime Emanuel Moreira RibeiroJosé Carlos Quaresma CoelhoJosé Carlos Rodrigues Gomes José Manuel Alves GuerreiroMaria Clarisse Carvalho Martins Louro Maria da Saudade de Oliveira Custódio Lopes Maria Pedro Sucena GuarinoPedro João Soares GasparSandra Cristina Fernandes AmadoSara Alexandra da Fonseca Marques Simões Dias Sónia Isabel H S Moreira de Almeida RamalhoSusana Margarida Rodrigues Custódio

Associate Members (12)Ana Isabel Fernandes Querido

Ana Sofia Garcia Jesus

Carla Sofia da Silva P. Damásio

Catarina Cardoso Tomás

Cristina Rosa Soares Lavareda Baixinho

Etelvina Rosário Silva Lima

Eva Patrícia da Silva Guilherme

Filipa de Carvalho Soares

João Manuel Graça Frade

Nelson Ribeiro Jorge

Pedro Miguel Lopes de Sousa

Rita Dourado MarquesSérgio Miguel Pereira Santos

Sónia Cristina de Sousa Pós de Mina

Our Research Unit integrates several members from different areas

PROJECT Software Test and Evaluation of Auditory Discrimination PADA

Communication between family and patient with aphasia : efficacy of an intervention training for caregivers

Construction and validation of measurement instruments in health: Sensory Integration

Fibromyalgia and Acupuncture : Evaluation of effectiveness compared with standard medical therapy

Therapeutic HorseRiding

Transition to parenthood : emotional responses of postpartum women

Prophylatic dietary designs towards anti-Helicobacter pylori activity

Healthy Food

Characterization of efferent activity of the sympathetic nervous system in insulin resistance induced by carotid bodies

Virtual therapeutic community for obese adolescents and their families : NEXT.STEP

Adolescents and young´s friendly services

Young people face to breastfeeding : Impact of an intervention project

The cumulative load on knee and pain in subjects with knee osteoarthritis

Promoting healthy sexuality : shared responsibility for family , youth and educators

Care and education in diabetic children and adolescents in the district of Leiria

+Project DARE+ : Diabetes - More Support for School Professionals

The impact of training on the practice of occupational therapy in medical students

ColourDiet: Colour your diet for a healthy living

TuPODES ! - Prevention of Obesity and Diabetes in Schools

Functional profile of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with moderate risk and severe risk of " diabetic foot "

Validation of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment Scale

Migration of Portuguese Health Professionals

Characteristics of physical therapy in Multiple Sclerosis across Europe

UIS integrates several project from different areas

These are some of events we have done

Our participation in this project

• Workshop Format: Two typesWORKSHOPS – our proposals

First step: intensive 3 day workshop – Teachers and Active ageing master Students (the master students are Folks who work directly with senior citizens)

Second step: intensive 5 day workshop –Old people from Senior university: IPL; Porto de Mós; Casa Museu João Soares- In this step will participating teachers and students who took the 1º step (to 'reproduce' the workshops with (a) senior citizens

Prerequisites for admission to workshops

• No prerequisitesBecause we did not suggest prerequisites for admission we suggest that the workshops for the elderly must have 5 days. The first two days: Basic computer ability (including internet use), ability to navigate a computer directory system, and ability to use basic word processing programs.

Conference

• Date: June – second Week or July - first week – two days

Some ideas_ The Conference must have:Results of the project

One conference about the power of digital storytelling

Testimonials from participants in workshops on: participation in this workshop had gains? What gains what has changed in their life

The best digital stories produced in workshops must be showedthe digital storytelling training should be inclusive (for the blind and the deaf)

our ideas for the stories

Reminiscence therapy for people with Alzheimer's and digital storytelling

The person with dementia and their families must create some digital storytelling's about positive memories.

when people with dementia are confused and agitated their families can explore the digital stories created with them

Reminiscence therapy invites a person with Alzheimer's to exercise her long-term memory by encouraging her to share positive memories from younger days.

Resilience and emotional aspects of women ageing in Peniche – Portugal

Peniche is a fishing area where economic and personal life depends mostly on either fishing activities or manufacturing sector related to it.

Old women told us interesting stories that depict how women live fishing, waiting for fishing boats in the middle of the night, how they care for children and lived their marriage, which reconstruct the way of life of the last eighty years in this city.

Storytelling to promote hope

Hope is essential to life. Telling stories is a powerful situation to allow people to explore their own experiences of hope.

Sharing positive experiences with others influences others’ perspectives and could turn the negative perspective into a new way of looking the reality. By sharing hope stories, people can play a hope role model for others and have a positive impact on other people’s hopes (Querido, 2012).

Querido is a teacher from my school and my PhD student. She use digital stories to promote hope and quality of life in people at end of life with good results

• OUR TEAM

Baltazar Ricardo Monteiro

• Doctoral thesis on the political and social consequences for families of de-hospitalization.

• Coordination of a master on Intervention for and active ageing (according to the determinants of active ageing by the WHO).

• Project on politics for an active ageing in a municipality (Peniche region). Public intervention for changing local health care, according to specific health demands.

José Carlos Rodrigues Gomes, RN, PhD

Post graduation in Knowledge and Information Management, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2003.PhD in Public Health (Health Promotion), Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012.

Other relevant information:Junior researcher, Health Promotion and Chronic Diseases Department of the Portuguese National Institute of Health (INSA, I.P.), from September 2008 to August 2010.School director (Escola Superior de Saúde do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria), since September 2011.Researcher of the “Monitoring positive Mental Health Environments” project (funded by DG SANCO - European Commission) (2007-2009).Researcher of the “Monitoring Positive Mental Health” Project (funded by DG SANCO - European Commission) (2004/2006).Main researcher of the project “Promoção da saúde mental em espaço urbano: A investigação participada de base comunitária na construção de um plano local de promoção de saúde mental – Um estudo de caso” (2009/2012) [Mental Health Promotion in urban environments: Building a local health promotion plan through community based participatory research – a study case].President of the National Nursing Council of Ordem dos Enfermeiros (2012-2015).

Maria dos Anjos Dixe

• PhD in psychology, University of Extremadura, Spain• Coordinator of the Health Research Unit • President of scientific technical council• Author of several publications National and international• Author of several scientific communications in National and

international meetings and congresses • researcher of three funded project• Supervisor of masters and PhD students in several

universities