Mafalda Ferreira
Technical University of Lisbon
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European Journal of Public Health | 2015
Margaretha de Looze; Quinten A. W. Raaijmakers; Tom ter Bogt; Pernille Bendtsen; Tilda Farhat; Mafalda Ferreira; Emmanuelle Godeau; Emmanuel Kuntsche; Michal Molcho; Timo-Kolja Pförtner; Bruce G. Simons-Morton; Alessio Vieno; Wilma Vollebergh; William Pickett
BACKGROUND This study examined trends in adolescent weekly alcohol use between 2002 and 2010 in 28 European and North American countries. METHODS Analyses were based on data from 11-, 13- and 15-year-old adolescents who participated in the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study in 2002, 2006 and 2010. RESULTS Weekly alcohol use declined in 20 of 28 countries and in all geographic regions, from 12.1 to 6.1% in Anglo-Saxon countries, 11.4 to 7.8% in Western Europe, 9.3 to 4.1% in Northern Europe and 16.3 to 9.9% in Southern Europe. Even in Eastern Europe, where a stable trend was observed between 2002 and 2006, weekly alcohol use declined between 2006 and 2010 from 12.3 to 10.1%. The decline was evident in all gender and age subgroups. CONCLUSIONS These consistent trends may be attributable to increased awareness of the harmful effects of alcohol for adolescent development and the implementation of associated prevention efforts, or changes in social norms and conditions. Although the declining trend was remarkably similar across countries, prevalence rates still differed considerably across countries.
Substance Use & Misuse | 2012
Tom ter Bogt; Saoirse Nic Gabhainn; Bruce G. Simons-Morton; Mafalda Ferreira; Anne Hublet; Emmanuelle Godeau; Emmanuel Kuntsche; Matthias Richter
This study examined relationships between music preferences and substance use (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis) among 18,103 fifteen-year-olds from 10 European countries. In 2005–2006, across Europe, preferences for mainstream Pop (pop chart music) and Highbrow (classical music and jazz) were negatively associated with substance use, while preferences for Dance (house/trance and techno/hardhouse) were associated positively with substance use. In three countries, links were identified between liking Rock (rock, heavy metal punk/hardcore, and gothic) and substance use; associations between Urban (hip-hop and R&B) and substance use were mixed. No substantial gender differences emerged in these patterns, and controlling for relevant covariates did not attenuate the predictive value of substance use. The findings are consistent with the conclusion that music is a robust marker of adolescent substance use.
Global Journal of Health Science | 2014
Teresa Santos; Mafalda Ferreira; Maria Celeste Rocha Simões; Maria do Céu Machado; Margarida Gaspar de Matos
Living with a chronic condition (CC) in adolescence has been historically considered protective for risk behaviours. However, research from the last decade suggest that when compared with healthy peers, adolescents living with a chronic condition can engage in risky behaviours in a similar if not higher rate than their counterparts living with out a CC. This study aims to characterize and evaluate the impact of 1) living with a chronic condition (CC), and 2) how the perception of living with a CC affects school participation, and its association with risk/protective behaviours (drunkenness, physical fight, sadness and self-harm). For this purpose 4 groups were identified: adolescents with mostly healthy behaviours, adolescents with mostly risk behaviours, adolescents with mostly risk-internalizing behaviours and adolescents with mostly risk-externalizing behaviours. A large sample was included in this study, composed by 3494 Portuguese adolescents with an average age of 15 years, who participated in the Portuguese Survey of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children/WHO (HBSC). Main results show that adolescents living with a CC have more risk-internalizing behaviours when compared to adolescents without CC, who present more healthy behaviors. Furthermore, adolescents that report that having a CC affects school participation show more risky behaviours than those not affected by a CC who present more healthy behaviours. Boys with a CC show more healthy behaviours, and those who feel that the CC affects school participation present more risky behaviours. On the other hand, girls with a CC have more risk-internalizing behaviours and less healthy behaviours It is important to point out that dolescents living with a CC represent a vulnerable group, and may engage in experimental/risky behaviours as likely as their non CC peers. Thus, potential benefits can arise from reinforcing interventions within protective contexts (family/peers/school setting). Health/education professionals, more than considering risk behaviours as dangerous in themselves, should offer adolescents with a CC an opportunity to reflect on their own decisions. Educational programs would benefit from looking at risk behaviors more from an experimentation perspective, focusing on constructive ways to help adolescents with CC to proceed into adulthood in a more appropriate developmental way.
Psicologia, Saúde & Doenças | 2006
Tania Gaspar; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Aldina Gonçalves; Mafalda Ferreira; Filipa Linhares
Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies | 2008
Celeste Simões; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Gina Tomé; Mafalda Ferreira
Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies | 2012
Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Tânia Gaspar; Mafalda Ferreira; Gina Tomé; Inês Camacho; Marta Reis; Paula Melo; Celeste Simões; Ricardo Machado; Lúcia Ramiro
Psicologia, Saúde & Doenças | 2010
Celeste Simões; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Mafalda Ferreira; Gina Tomé
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences | 2010
Celeste Simões; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Gina Tomé; Mafalda Ferreira; H. Chaínho
Archive | 2008
Tânia Gaspar; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; José Luís Pais Ribeiro; Isabel Leal; Mafalda Ferreira; Gina Tomé; Michael Erhart; Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Archive | 2011
Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Inês Camacho; Marta Reis; Paula Melo; Maria Celeste Rocha Simões; Ricardo Machado; Lúcia Ramiro; Tânia Gaspar; Mafalda Ferreira; Gina Tomé