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Tavares, Jousilene de Sales; Gama, Gabriela Lopes; Cavalcante Guedes Pinheiro, Hannah; Souza de Azevedo, Girlene; Balbino da Silva, Mariana; Ayalla de Castro Meira, Chanazy; Melo, Adriana Suely Oliveira; Amorim, Melania Maria Ramos – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
To describe and analyze the changes in anthropometric parameters in children with congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) from birth to four years of age. This prospective study evaluated 117 children diagnosed with CZS. Anthropometric indices evaluated annually were classified with respect to presence of microcephaly and adequacy of weight-for-age,…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Infants, Preschool Children, Human Body
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Gabriela Lopes Gama; Janiele Sales Tavares; Ana Stela Salvino de Brito; Thamyris de Sales Regis; Hannah Cavalcante Guedes Pinheiro; Mariana Balbino da Silva; Jousilene Sales Tavares; Adriana Melo – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
To use the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to investigate whether children with congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) show changes in their functioning and disability profile after nine months. This study included children with CZS recruited from a support centre for children with microcephaly in Brazil. The…
Descriptors: Diseases, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Classification
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Mancopes, Renata; Peladeau-Pigeon, Melanie; Barrett, Emily; Guran, Andrea; Smaoui, Sana; Pasqualoto, Adriane Schmidt; Steele, Catriona M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Dysphagia is a serious extra pulmonary manifestation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the nature of abnormalities in swallowing physiology in COPD has yet to be clearly established. We explored the frequency of swallowing measures outside the healthy reference range in adults with COPD. Method: Participants were…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Radiology, Physiology, Physical Characteristics
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Araujo, Waleska Regina Machado; Malta, Maíra Barreto; Faggiani, Lucas Damasio; Cardoso, Marly Augusto; Matijasevich, Alicia – Infant and Child Development, 2022
We estimated risk factors associated with suspected neuropsychomotor developmental delay at age 2 years, in a birth cohort in the Brazilian Amazon. The Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Acre (MINA-Brasil) study is a population-based birth cohort involving children born between July 2015 and June 2016 in the municipality of Cruzeiro do…
Descriptors: Risk, Correlation, Psychomotor Skills, Developmental Delays
Marcella de Carvalho Winter de Aquino – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated the development of stereotypes surrounding public school children in Brazil, primarily focusing on poor students of Afro descent. It explored how these stereotypes have influenced education policymaking and examined the efforts of Darcy Ribeiro and Paulo Freire to challenge these prevailing notions. Employing…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Stereotypes, Racism, Blacks
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Maropo, Lidia; de Carvalho, Raiana; Jorge, Ana – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
This article looks at the social and cultural contexts of children's experiences of illness, through a particular focus on the context of the Global South and the role of the social media platform YouTube in children's culture. It takes a socio-constructivist approach to discuss the case of "CarecaTV" (BaldTV), a Brazilian YouTube…
Descriptors: Children, Cancer, Personal Narratives, Cultural Context
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Turri-Silva, Natália; Ricci-Vitor, Ana Laura; Cipriano, Gerson, Jr.; Garner, David; Netto, Jaime, Jr.; Giacon, Thaís; Destro Christofaro, Diego Giulliano; Marques Vanderlei, Luiz Carlos – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2020
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a growing epidemic related with higher values of blood pressure (BP) and autonomic dysfunction. Scientific evidence has been indicating that functional resistance training (FRT) is superior over conventional (CRT) for muscle fatigue and pain, yet its effects on autonomic modulation (AM), BP and heart rate in MetS are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Metabolism, Training Methods, Physical Activities
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Diniz, Juliana Garcia; da Silva, Alfredo Carlos; Nóbrega, Ana Caline – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) may exhibit some degree of change in swallowing dynamics during the course of the disease. These changes can affect their physical, functional and emotional quality of life. Aims: To develop a quality of life and swallowing questionnaire for individuals with PD. Methods & Procedures: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
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da Silva, Kelly; Guedes-Granzotti, Raphaela Barroso; Ribeiro, Vanessa Veis; Dornelas, Rodrigo; Cruz, Pablo Jordão Alcântara; César, Carla Patrícia Hernandez Alves Ribeiro – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the factors that are related to the quality of life and sleep of Brazilian speech-language pathology students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: This study adopted a cross-sectional, descriptive observational design. A total of 161 undergraduate speech-language pathology students participated in…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Quality of Life, Sleep, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Zivin, Joshua Graff; Shrader, Jeffrey – Future of Children, 2016
The extreme temperatures expected under climate change may be especially harmful to children. Children are more vulnerable to heat partly because of their physiological features, but, perhaps more important, because they behave and respond differently than adults do. Children are less likely to manage their own heat risk and may have fewer ways to…
Descriptors: Climate, Child Health, Heat, Death
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Cunha, Leonardo Rodrigues; de Oliveria Cudischevitch, Cecília; Carneiro, Alan Brito; Macedo, Gustavo Bartholomeu; Lannes, Denise; da Silva-Neto, Mário Alberto Cardoso – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2014
We evaluate a new approach to teaching the basic biochemistry mechanisms that regulate the biology of Triatominae, major vectors of "Trypanosoma cruzi," the causative agent of Chagas disease. We have designed and used a comic book, "Carlos Chagas: 100 years after a hero's discovery" containing scientific information obtained by…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Science Instruction, Diseases, Cartoons
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Dierick, Ines; Baets, Jonathan; Irobi, Joy; Jacobs, An; De Vriendt, Els; Deconinck, Tine; Merlini, Luciano; Van den Bergh, Peter; Rasic, Vedrana Milic; Robberecht, Wim; Fischer, Dirk; Morales, Raul Juntas; Mitrovic, Zoran; Seeman, Pavel; Mazanec, Radim; Kochanski, Andrzej; Jordanova, Albena; Auer-Grumbach, Michaela; Helderman-van den Enden, A. T. J. M.; Wokke, John H. J.; Nelis, Eva; De Jonghe, Peter; Timmerman, Vincent – Brain, 2008
Distal hereditary motor neuropathy (HMN) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders affecting spinal alpha-motor neurons. Since 2001, mutations in six different genes have been identified for autosomal dominant distal HMN; "glycyl-tRNA synthetase (GARS)," "dynactin 1 (DCTN1)," "small heat shock 27 kDa…
Descriptors: Diseases, Patients, Genetics, Psychomotor Skills
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Loureiro, Ana Cristina Amaral; Costa, Fernando Oliveira; da Costa, Jose Eustaquio – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2007
Objective: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of periodontal disease among children and adolescents with Down syndrome and the possible repercussions of such pathology in the quality of life of the group in question. Method: The sample consists of 93 individuals with Down syndrome 6-20 years old, living in Brazil (Minas Gerais).…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Foreign Countries, Incidence, Quality of Life
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Guimarey, Luis M.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Relates the nutritional status of 1,378 hospitalized pediatric patients to length of hospitalization and definitive hospitalization diagnosis. Findings indicated the length of hospitalization time increased markedly with malnutrition, especially for patients with diarrhea. (BJD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Diseases, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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de Moura, Sergio Luiz; Harpham, Trudy; Lyons, Michal – Journal of Adolescence, 2003
Investigates explanations of health and illness among adolescents from three socio-economic backgrounds in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The findings showed that adolescents from different socio-economic conditions draw upon similar explanatory models to make sense of health and illness. The findings suggest a need for health professionals to be sensitive to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Diseases, Foreign Countries
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