Medication compliance is one of the foremost problems affecting neuroleptic efficacy in psychiatric patients. It is a crucial point to dispone of useful instruments that allow us a fiable assessment of patients' medication adherence in order to plan more appropriate therapeutical interventions. The aim of our study was to validade the Portuguese versión of the Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS), a concise instrument for assessment of medication compliance in psychosis.A translation-backtranslation of the original scale was elaborated. The sample consisted of 77 psychotic patients according to the DSM-IV criteria. Feasibility and reliability were calculated.The results demonstrated that the MARS has a good internal consistence (Cronbach α = 0,73) and reliability (Pearson's r = 0,76; p < 0,05).These coefficients were similar to those found by the researchers who developed this scale. The MARS scale has proven to be easily applied and may be deemed a valid and reliable measure of compliancy for psychoactive medications.

agradecimentosEvery single year, in my first day of school, I shivered at the thought of going to school -not because I disliked learning, but because I didn't relate to others. On test days, that's when the real problem set. Insecurities are a part of life and, surely, I wasn't immune to it. No matter how much I knew, or studied, I would dreadfully wait for the test to land on my table and I would promise to myself that I would never give anything other than my absolute best.For the most part, I kept true to that promise.However, this wise thought-process did not flourish in my own head. It was my mother's words, before every first day of school and every test day, that got me through:"Se tu queres, consegues".And those were the words that I would whisper to myself.Facing challenges with an optimist motto fighting a pessimist brain. Against all odds, there I went. Now, that I see myself concluding just another step of my academic life, I can proudly say that I have learned to embrace the process, no matter how difficult, straight-up impossible it seems."Se tu queres, consegues".With this, it is only obvious and with great honor that I dedicate this work to the ones that have always loved me and looked after me with the greatest love and dedication of the universe -my parents, Rosa and Vitor. And last but not least, I would like to thank my professor, Pedro Amado, for having accepted to embark with me in this challenge, believing in my capacities and guiding me in the best of his abilities. palavras-chaveAudiovisual, publicidades desportivas, influência, indivíduos sedentários, indivíduos atléticos, motivação, conteúdo desportivo, Reebok resumo O objetivo do presente estudo é a avaliar como as publicidades desportivas audiovisuais influenciam a auto-perceção e a perceção socio-cultural de indivíduos sedentários. O objetivo é compreender o efeito das estratégias de marketing utilizadas pela indústria desportiva para criar publicidades desportivas audiovisuais mais eficazes. Este estudo integra numa abordagem interpretativa, uma estratégia de investigação qualitativa numa abordagem quasi-experimental, com a utilização de métodos mistos, como um Inquérito Online e Grupos de Foco. Estes métodos foram usados progressivamente com o intuito de cruzar informação e contribuir na estruturação dos passos sucessivos e de forma incremental. Identificou-se que, na literatura existente relativa à imagem corporal e a publicidades desportivas existe uma lacuna que, por consequente, este estudo procura preencher -através da exploração da influência direta dos conteúdos audiovisuais em indíviduos sedentários e atléticos. A avaliação foi realizada através da discussão em torno da visualização de um vídeo desportivo na segunda sessão de Grupo de Foco na qual, após um treino de 10 minutos, o comportamento dos participantes foi avaliado com a utilização de uma Grelha de Observação e uma discussão pós-treino. É muito provavél que as publicidades desportivas audiovisuais tenham um efeito detrimental em ambos os indivíduos sedentários e ...