Publications by authors named "I M Passos"
Background: While loneliness is a global public health problem, the literature lacks studies assessing loneliness predictors in low- and middle-income countries. Therefore, we aimed to analyze clinical and lifestyle predictors of loneliness.
Methods: We conducted a 2-year longitudinal study in Brazil based on a snowball sample and online surveys (baseline: May 6 to June 6, 2020).
Dengue disease is a major problem worldwide, impacting millions of people annually with no specific approved treatments. The pathogenesis of dengue is a complex interplay of viral and host factors, driven in particular by an excessive inflammatory response triggered by the infection. While it has been observed that various viruses can modulate the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway to aid replication and theunderlying mechanisms remainunclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: We verified the need for instruments that could assess the perceptions of patients, therapists, and psychotherapy supervisors about online Psychotherapy.
Objectives: to Build a scale of advantages and disadvantages of online psychotherapy.
Method: A pilot cross-sectional multicenter sample collected from 2020 to 2021 of 129 patients, 20 therapists, and 35 supervisors.
Article Synopsis
- Problematic gaming (PG) is a mental health issue linked to negative outcomes, with a focus on its potential connection to psychotic experiences (PE), which is not well-researched.
- A study conducted with a large group of Brazilian adolescents (ages 13-21) revealed that those with PG reported higher levels of PE compared to those without PG, even after controlling for other factors like psychiatric disorders.
- The findings suggest that there may be shared underlying mechanisms between PG and PE, indicating a need for further research in this area.
Environmental disasters are extreme environmental processes such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, tsunamis, floods, cyclones, storms, wildfires and droughts that are the consequences of the climate crisis due to human intervention in the environment. Their effects on human health have alarmed the global scientific community. Among them, autoimmune diseases, a heterogeneous group of disorders, have increased dramatically in many parts of the world, likely as a result of changes in our exposure to environmental factors.
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