Acompanhamento dos estudantes tendo em conta o leccionado nas aulas TP.

Duration: 2h

Analysing the questionnaire "Evaluating risk for cardiovascular diseases in the Portuguese population".

The class started with a debate about the design of the questionnaire. Students critically evaluated each question under consideration. Afterwards, students analysed the database obtained from this questionnaire. The analyses were developed with the spreadsheet Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS Software. Exploratory analysis and logistic regression were the main topics of the analysis. At the end, students made a brief oral presentation on the work developed with this dataset.

Duration: 3h

Analysing some well-known health questionnaires to measure: health-related quality of life, and wellbeing.

Health-related quality of life: the 36-Item Short Form Survey, SF-36 as well as its shorter versions, SF-12, SF-6. The EQ-5D instruments: EQ-5D-3L, EQ-5D-5L, EQ-5D-5Y (for children). Advantages and disadvantages of each questionnaire were discussed in the class.

In regard to wellbeing, the World Health Organization Wellbeing Index (WHO-5) was analysed.

Duration: 3h

The PRO instrument: health questionnaires. What should be measured with this type of instrument from the patient's perspective? Defining Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and its determinants.
Different types of PRO instruments. Different types of response scales. Advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

Evaluation of a PRO instrument: validity; reliability; content validity; construct validity; criterion validity; test-retest or intra-interviewer reliability; Internal consistency; inter-interviewer variability.

Duration: 3h

Introduction to the ideas underlying the shift in the paradigm of the healthcare systems. Debate on the relationship between the patient and the healthcare provider (physician, nurse) in the XXI Century.

Watching and analysing the documentary film released by the World Health Organization, WHO (May 2017): What is people-centred care? The roots of the term "Patient-Centred".

An introduction to the concept of Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO), also called Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM). What is an outcome in the healthcare context?