POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA
Maria dos Anjos Dixe – maria.dixe@ipleiria.pt
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE of LEIRIA
The Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL)
currently has
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
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Our school is located
in leiria
THE SCHOOL OF HEALTH
SCIENCES
At present the School offers:
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
and
lifelong education / short-term programmes.
Health Research Unit
• was founded in 2010
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
Our Research Unit integrates several members from
different areas
Effective members (21)
Maria dos Anjos Coelho Rodrigues Dixe
Baltazar Ricardo Monteiro
Carolina Miguel da Graça Henriques
Associate Members (12)
Catarina Alexandra Rodrigues Faria Lobão
Ana Isabel Fernandes Querido
Celia Maria Jordão Simões Silva
Ana Sofia Garcia Jesus
Daniela Maria Barroso de Moura Cipreste Vaz
Carla Sofia da Silva P. Damásio
Elísio Gomes Pinto
Catarina Cardoso Tomás
Helena da Conceição Borges Pereira Catarino
Cristina Rosa Soares Lavareda Baixinho
Jaime Emanuel Moreira Ribeiro
Etelvina Rosário Silva Lima
José Carlos Quaresma Coelho
Eva Patrícia da Silva Guilherme
José Carlos Rodrigues Gomes
Filipa de Carvalho Soares
José Manuel Alves Guerreiro
João Manuel Graça Frade
Maria Clarisse Carvalho Martins Louro
Nelson Ribeiro Jorge
Maria da Saudade de Oliveira Custódio Lopes
Pedro Miguel Lopes de Sousa
Maria Pedro Sucena Guarino
Pedro João Soares Gaspar
Rita Dourado Marques
Sérgio Miguel Pereira Santos
Sandra Cristina Fernandes Amado
Sónia Cristina de Sousa Pós de Mina
Sara Alexandra da Fonseca Marques Simões Dias
Sónia Isabel H S Moreira de Almeida Ramalho
Susana Margarida Rodrigues Custódio
UIS integrates several project 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
These are some of events we have done
Our participation in this project
WORKSHOPS – our proposals
• Workshop Format: Two types
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 prerequisites
Because 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 showed
the 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
Reminiscence therapy invites a person with Alzheimer's to exercise
her long-term memory by encouraging her to share positive
memories from younger days.
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
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
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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