financed by the“Healthy Waters:Identification,Elimination,Social Awareness,and Education of Water Chemical and Biological Micropollutants With Health and Environmental Implications"Project(NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000069);co-financed by the Programa Operacional Regional do Norte(NORTE 2020),Portugal 2020,and FEDER;supported by national funds from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology,IP(FCT),under multiyear funding awarded to CIIE(Grant No.UIDB/00167/2020 and Grant No.UIDP/00167/2020);FCT funding for his contract,established under the Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Program(Grant No.CEECIND/02115/2018).
Purpose:This study analyzes the contributions of the Healthy Waters educational program to the awareness and understanding of environmental issues related to water to generate changes in attitudes in the community.Des...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are on the rise worldwide and in developing countries like Botswana. Unhealthy eating habits and lack of proper nutrition knowledge cause non-communicable diseases and affect adolescen...
supported by the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel(CAPES)with a PhD scholarship(CAPES process:88887.605034/2021-00,88887.605029/2021-00,and 88887.694146/2022-00,respectively);supported by the S?o Paulo Research Foundation(FAPESP)with a PhD scholarship(FAPESP process:2019/24124-7)。
Background:Guidelines recommend that adolescents should accumulate an average of 60 min per day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity(MVPA).However,using only this cut-off could hide important information.For inst...
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of acute Pilates and plyometric exercise in a school-based setting on attention and mathematics test performance in high school students.Forty 10th-grade students(21 fe...
supported by the Erasmus+program of the European Union(567201-EPP-1-2015-2-IT-SPO-SCP);supported by the University of Alcala(FPI2016)。
Purpose:To examine the effects of a school-based karate intervention on academic achievement,psychosocial functioning,and physical fitness in children aged 7-8 years.Methods:Twenty schools in 5 different European coun...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of Break Free from Depression(BFFD),a school-based depression awareness curriculum,in comparison to a wait list control group.A total of 13 eighth grade classroom...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81870650,No.81570832,and No.81300794;Science and Technology Program Chongqing,China,No.2018GDRC008.
BACKGROUND Optical coherence tomography angiography(OCTA)is a new and reliable machine used to evaluate retinal structure and macular perfusion in children.The use of OCTA under bad condition such as high altitude,low...
Supported by National Key R&D Programmes of China(No.2018YFC2002602);Special Task of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China(No.087280);Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen(No.SZSM201812090);Startup Fund for Scientific Research,Fujian Medical University(No.2020QH1109);Fujian Medical University High-level Talents Scientific Research Launch Fund(No.XRCZX2021011)。
AIM:To investigate the myopia awareness level,knowledge,attitude,and skills at baseline and to implement and evaluate the efficacy of myopia prevention health education among Chinese students.METHODS:A total of 1000 m...
Background: Kinshasa’s peri-urban settings have a low rate of water access, which has significant consequences for the WASH infrastructures in schools and preventative measures against the spread of waterborne diseas...
Being the leading death cause among young people in the world, road accidents are avoidable through the adoption of simple attitudes and behaviors. Handicap International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has launch...