Publications by authors named "Nivea de Macedo Oliveira Morales"
Psychometric properties of the Autoquestionnaire Qualité de Vie Enfant Imagé (AUQEI) applied to children with cerebral palsy.
PLoS One
January 2016
Background: Quality of life (QL) assessments of children with incapacitating diseases, such as cerebral palsy (CP), have often been conducted with the help of the representatives of a child, making QL assessment more subjective. The Autoquestionnaire Qualité de Vie Enfant Imagé (AUQEI) is a QL assessment designed for children to self-report-it uses images to facilitate the reporting process.
Objective: evaluate the psychometric properties of AUQEI when responses are given by children with CP.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates early onset multiple sclerosis (MS) in Brazilian patients diagnosed before age 18, highlighting the challenges in diagnosis and management.
- Data was collected retrospectively from 20 MS units across 11 states, resulting in 117 cases, with a mean onset age of 13.7 years and an average disease duration of 10 years.
- Overall, while some cases were severe, most patients with pediatric MS in Brazil exhibited relatively mild symptoms, with low disability levels and an average relapse rate of one episode every 2.5 years.
Multiple sclerosis in South America: month of birth in different latitudes does not seem to interfere with the prevalence or progression of the disease.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr
September 2013
Objective: To assess whether the month of birth in different latitudes of South America might influence the presence or severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) later in life.
Methods: Neurologists in four South American countries working at MS units collected data on their patients' month of birth, gender, age, and disease progression.
Results: Analysis of data from 1207 MS patients and 1207 control subjects did not show any significant variation in the month of birth regarding the prevalence of MS in four latitude bands (0-10; 11-20; 21-30; and 31-40 degrees).
Month of birth does not seem to interfere with the development of multiple sclerosis later in life in Brazilian patients.
Neuroepidemiology
December 2012
Evaluation of the health-related quality of life in elderly patients according to the type of hip fracture: femoral neck or trochanteric.
Clinics (Sao Paulo)
October 2008
Objective: To evaluate the effect the type of hip fracture (femoral neck or trochanteric) has on the Health-Related Quality of Life of elderly subjects.
Methods: Forty-five patients with hip fractures (mean 74.30 +/- 7.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease which may exert significant effects on the life of patients. Traditional outcome measures in MS lack in consider the effects of the disease on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The goal of this study is to measure HRQoL in MS patients in the city of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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