Actividad Sexual y Prácticas de Riesgo en una Muestra de Estudiantes Universitarios Galegos

La utilización del preservativo en las relaciones sexuales con penetración constituye la única medida preventiva eficaz para evitar la transmisión sexual del VIH y otras ETS. Incrementar su uso adecuado y sistemático es por tanto el objetivo de las campañas de prevención dirigidas a disminuir los riesgos en la actividad sexual, especialmente en los adolescentes y adultos jóvenes, dentro de los que se está experimentando el mayor incremento de contagio. El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar el nivel de uso del preservativo masculino e identificar los principales conocimientos y actitudes vinculados a su uso de una muestra de 389 alumnos/as, estudiantes universitarios de primer curso de la Universidad de Vigo, Campus de Ourense con una edad media de 19.04 años. Los resultados muestran que el uso sistemático del preservativo agrupa el 45% de los sujetos de la muestra y no se detectando diferencias significativas en función del sexo (t=,021 p=,816). La mayoría de las relaciones sexuales de los jóvenes de la muestra se mantienen dentro de relaciones afectivas, y el uso del preservativo como anticonceptivo hace que éste sea suplantado por la píldora a mayor estabilidad percibida de la relación. Se verifica que el mayor uso del preservativo está vinculado a su percepción de utilidad como anticonceptivo y a la creencia de que tranquilizan y dan seguridad en la relación sexual, por lo tanto, en creer que posibilitan tener relaciones sexuales sin riesgos. Por otro lado, al cuestionar a las dos funciones por separado se verifica que el mayor el porcentaje de sujetos que recurre a las métodos anticonceptivos como forma de evitar embarazos (31%) que el de los que hacen uso de los mismos como medio para evitar enfremedades de transmisión sexual (3,1%), diferencias que han de ser adecuadamente incorporadas en los programas de prevención para potenciar de uso del preservativo, ya que constiyue el único profiláctico útil para prevenir E.T.S.

A Biotecnologia na Conservação do Património Cultural

Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação

Da Formação Cultural do Tradutor no Ensino Superior: Algumas Reflexões

Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução

A inclusão escolar das crianças e adolescentes em situação de handicap: uma revolução cultural necessária ou do homo sapiens ao homo socians

Revista Lusófona de Educação

“Lusofonia” sem “Lusofilia”: O caso do antigo Estado da Índia – Défice de reciprocidade cultural

It is generally little known today that Goans produced a wide range of publications in Portuguese, in English, in French, besides their native languages Konkani and Marathi. One needs to consult the 3 volumes of Dicionário da Literatura Goesa by Aleixo Manuel da Costa, edited recently by Instituto Cultural de Macau to get an idea of the literary production of the Goans. This literary production does not permit us to conclude that Goans who wrote in Portuguese were lusophiles, or those who wrote in English were anglophiles, and so on. If Portuguese language failed to win over the hearts and minds of most Goans it was largely because Portuguese language was seen as an instrument of colonial domination

Predictors of Successful Weight Control: Cross-Cultural Moderators of Treatment Outcomes

Given the heterogeneity of effect sizes within the population for any treatment, identifying moderators of outcomes is critical [1]. In weight management programs, there is a high individual variability in terms of weight loss and an overall modest success [2]. Some people will adopt and sustain attitudes and behaviors associated with weight loss, while others won’t [3]. To predict weight loss outcome just from the subject’s baseline information would be very valuable [4,5]. It would allow to: - Better match between treatments and individuals - Identify the participants with less probability of success (or potential dropouts) in a given treatment and direct them to alternative therapies - Target limited resources to those most likely to succeed - Increase cost-effectiveness and improve success rates of the programs Few studies have been dedicated to describe baseline predictors of treatment success. The Healthy Weight for Life (USA) study is one of the few. Its findings are now being cross-validated in Portuguese samples. This paper describes these cross-cultural comparisons.

Seeing films: audiences reaction to local cultural products

This paper discusses the results of a large survey conducted in 2006 on the perception Portuguese movies’ audiences have of their own locally produced films. Audience’s reception of locally produced films is marked by the rejection of the consumption of these objects as a result of a bias against locally produced cultural artefacts. The prejudice shaping this relationship, not only demands for new cultural and social politics, but also raises a number of questions on local and European media industry’s ability to cope with its own audiences’ expectations. Finally, broader considerations are made on the different ways contemporary audiences are shaping media technologies, and their respective cultural artefacts, through their own use and reception of those technologies and artefacts.