http://hdl.handle.net/10071/2095 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:47:07 GMT 2026-04-28T06:47:07Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37025 Título próprio: Quality of life in older adults benefitting from institutionalized care and support during the COVID-19 pandemic Autoria: Bobrowicz-Campos, E.; Justo-Henriques, S. Editor: Moreira, Maria João Guardado; Carvalho, Lucinda Sofia A.; Simões, Ângela; Candeias, Marisa de Jesus; Tomás, Helena Margarida Resumo: This observational mixed-method study aimed to evaluate quality of life in older adults who benefited from institutionalized care and support during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was registered in ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05379426) and approved by the Ethics Committee from the Health Science Research Unit: Nursing (Approval Number: P871_04_2022). Fifty-eight institutions (nursing homes, adult day centers, and home support services) got involved in the study, recruiting 878 potential participants. Of these, 858 met the eligibility criteria, and 845 completed the assessment procedures. Data were collected between June and July 2022, using sociodemographic and clinical questionnaires, and the Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease scale, Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Geriatric Anxiety Inventory, Loneliness Scale, Mini-Mental State Examination and Frontal Assessment Battery. Additionally, a semi-structured interview was conducted on the difficulties experienced during the pandemic. The analyses undertaken separately for older adults residing in nursing homes (n = 612) and in the community (n = 233) showed low levels of overall well-being, and high levels of depression, anxiety, and loneliness. The study findings, discussed in the light of testimonies obtained through the interviews, allow for a better understanding of the experiences of older adults during the pandemic, and outlining responses to minimize the negative impact of these experiences. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37025 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37014 Título próprio: Speculating Kinaxixe Autoria: Pavoni, A. Resumo: Urban spaces are never what they appear to be. Vision is tethered to the present, while cities are replete with spectral presences, like those emanating from the sedimented violence of colonialism or the pristine visions of development utopias. Archival reconstruction and critical deconstruction can retrace or denounce this ghostly matter. Yet they fall short of addressing its expression – the force it harbours, the form it takes, the effects it conjures. When the overlapping temporalities composing a place are arranged in a linear sequence, what is gained in historical clarity is lost in speculative insight. What that means when it comes to write (a) place is the question that kept haunting me as I negotiated, under the scorching sun, the elongated roundabout of Largo do Kinaxixi, looking for a merciful shade and some kind of entry point to access the multiple layers composing this most intricate of Luanda’s sites. Today, the square has a sleek attire. After renewal works, it reopened for the 49th anniversary of Angola’s independence, November 11, 2024. It has new patches of grass, benches, surveillance cameras, streetlights, public restrooms, an amphitheatre and a luminous fountain. All this makes up for the eerie emptiness that had been left by the demolition of a famous market, almost twenty years before. At the centre of the square, a little puddle evokes the original meaning of Kinaxixi [from kina – pit, hole; and xixi – spring water], if we are to follow Luandino Vieira’s etymological proposition. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37014 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37013 Título próprio: When terroir lost the plot. On re-grounding wine Autoria: Pavoni, A. Resumo: Terroir lost the plot when its speculative, relational potential has been frozen into a "dispositif" that reduces soil to inert substrate, land to a legally coded space of exception, and place to a socio-cultural fetish tied to identity, hierarchy and nationalist localism. In the context of planetary urban-rural transformations and soil crisis, this paper reframes terroir as an emergent "agencement" of soil, land and place, whose multispecies aliveness exceeds both protectionist appellation regimes and the «democratic», market-led critique that claims to liberate wine from tradition. Focusing on Natural Wine as a heterogeneous but movement-like field, the paper argues that its minimal-intervention ethos articulates an "anarchic critique" of terroir through three operations: reanimating soils, unarchiving land and trans-localising place. Natural Wine protocols, practices and participatory forms of verification thus decouple terroir from static origin, repositioning it as a grounded, more-than-human normativity and a site for alternative political-ecological value. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37013 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36979 Título próprio: Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio-cultural and economic predictors Autoria: Hamer, K.; Penczek, M.; Marcinkowska, K.; Nowak, B.; Branowska, K.; Sparkman, D.; Loy, L. S.; Baran, M.; Okvitawanli, A.; Gkinopoulos, T.; Hackett, J. D.; Bertin, P.; Carmona, M.; Guerra, R.; Wlodarczyk, A.; Akello, G.; Albarello, F.; Ashraf, M.; Bednarowicz, M.; Beixiang, L.; Benningstad, N.; Bierwiaczonek, K.; Bornman, E.; Bosak, J.; Darkwah, E.; Delouvée, S.; Eder, S. J.; Enea, V.; Espinosa, A.; Etchezahar, E.; Ferris, L. J.; Gudzovskaya, A. A.; Guerch, K.; Hofhuis, J.; Hornsey, M. J.; Igbokwe, D.; Ibarra, M. L.; Kamble, S. V.; Kaniasty, K.; Kengyel, G. J.; Khanipour, H.; Labor, P.; Lima, A. V. V.; Loshenko, O.; Mazurowska, K.; Mintz, K. K.; Monzani, L.; Moriizumi, S.; Moynihan, A. B.; Mubarique, M.; Nagy, R. P.; Nera, K.; Nyúl, B.; Osinde, J.; Özsoy, E.; Palacio, J.; Pešout, O.; Pirttilä‐Backman, A.‐M.; Pong, V.; Rentería, E.; Restrepo, D.; Samekin, A.; Segal‐Klein, H.; Selim, H. A.; Sindic, D.; Spence, A.; Stöckli, S.; Tam, K.‐P.; Ungaretti, J.; Urbańska, B.; Wang, A.; Yahiiaiev, I.; Yemelyanova, Y. Resumo: In an increasingly globalized world challenged by multiple social problems, global social identifications (GSIs, e.g., with all humanity) are concepts of growing interest. Although such identifications can be affected by the cultural contexts in which they are manifested, research on them remains largely confined to Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Using data collected in 45 countries (N = 9807, preregistered), we compared the strength of three types of GSIs between countries and cultural clusters, and explored the possible role of five cultural dimensions. The results revealed relatively small cross-national differences in GSIs overall, but African and South-East Asian cultural clusters reported significantly stronger identifications than those from other regions, with India, South Africa, and Ghana scoring the highest. Contrary to our hypotheses, GSIs were positively associated with in-group collectivism, survival values, and traditional values, while institutional collectivism was unrelated. As expected, humane orientation was positively related to most GSIs. Additional exploratory analyses showed higher GSIs in countries with a lower quality of life (broadly understood). GSIs were also more pronounced in less globalized, younger societies, with a higher proportion of men, fewer immigrants, and stronger diversity. Our study highlights the need to broaden research on GSIs beyond WEIRD contexts. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36979 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z