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A intervenção em dupla-tarefa protege do declínio associado à idade nas atividades em dupla-tarefa
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-04-18) PONTES, Helen Tatiane Santos; TORRES, Natáli Valim Oliver Bento; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1927198788019996; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-211X
Introduction: Older adult’s functionality is related to the ability to divide attention into daily life multitasking activities. The ability to coordinate attention in motor and cognitive activities performed simultaneously decreases with aging, compromising functional ability, and therefore older adults' participation and healthy aging. Objectives: The main objective of the present study is to evaluate the effects of a multimodal physical exercise intervention protocol, at moderate intensity, simultaneously with cognitive stimulation (dual-task) on the dual task cost in healthy community-dwelling older adults. Methods: 70 older adults, with no cognitive disfunction participated in the study. Participants were grouped into a Dual Task Exercise group (DTEx, n=40) who performed the intervention protocol of 24 sessions, twice a week, for 75 minutes, and a control group (CG, n=30) who received information on health education and did not perform physical exercises. Two-way mixed ANOVA was used for dual-task cost analysis and Bonferroni tests were used as post-hoc for within-group and between-group comparisons. The project was registered in the Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (UTN code: U1111-1233 6349) and approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Institute of Health Sciences of the Federal University of Pará (CAAE no. 03427318.3.0000.0018). Results: There was Group x Time interaction (F (1.68) = 7.207 p ≤ 0.009, η2 p = 0.096) observed for the performance of the motor component of the dual task cost. The DTEx group showed maintenance of the gait speed as the motor component of the dual task cost (Assessment = -11.4% ± 3.0; Reassessment = 10.2% ± -2.6, p = 0.665) while the CG showed an increased cost of approximately 49.76% (Assessment: -10.4% ± 3.4; Reassessment: -20.9% ± 3.0 p ≤ 0.002). Significant differences were found on the performance of the motor component of the cost of the dual task between the groups in the post-intervention condition (GC Reassessment: -20.9 ± 3.0. Reassessment DTEx = -10.2% ± -2.6, p ≤ 0.011). No main effects were observed in the assessment of the cost of the cognitive component. Conclusions: The results suggest that moderate-intensity multimodal physical exercise associated with dual-task cognitive stimulation attenuated the decline in the dual-task cost in the older adults. The cost of dual task is an important clinical measure to assess the functional and cognitive ability to perform tasks of daily living in aging.
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Recursos metodológicos para gestão do relacionamento com egressas/os da pós-graduação na Universidade Federal do Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2022-08-08) FIGUEIREDO, Mônica de Souza; CUNHA, Janice Muriel Fernandes Lima da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4027012189701116; LOPES, Suzana Cunha; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9267654589941610
The relationship between the alumni of postgraduate has become an emerging theme, stimulated, among other factors, by the valorization of indicators of social impact in national and international evaluations of higher education. This research presents the following guiding question: How to assist the coordinators and secretaries of the postgraduate programs from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) to enhance the management actions of the relationship between the alumni students and their associated programs? To propose a solution to this questioning, the research aimed at developing methodological resources to assist in the relationship management with the alumni students from the postgraduate programs of UFPA. The theoretical background was based on the study of the history and the management of postgraduate programs in Brazil, as well as the scenario of postgraduate programs at UFPA. Another theoretical basis were the studies about the alumni students, specially referring to the relation between the alumni postgraduate students and their programs, and how this relationship can be fostered since the entrance period. From this discussion, it is proposed an initial conception from the term “alumni students’ relationship management”. In the same way, a survey about how UFPA currently holds the relationship management with the alumni students was carried out. In this diagnostic, it was clarified that the postgraduate programs are a complex scenario, and that the alumni students’ relationship management have been highlighted in the discussions about the management and the assessment of the postgraduate programs in Brazil, although the theme is incipient. Therefore, it is proposed two educational products composed by a set of methodological resources directed to coordinators and secretaries of postgraduate programs (as the first target audience of the research), for it to be used in the administrative, academic, and relationship management among the students (future alumni students) and alumni students. The methodological approach adopted was composed by bibliographical and documental research, state-of-the-art, the target audience profile survey, and a survey containing the information about the relationship with the alumni students in the reports of Coleta CAPES 2020 of the postgraduate programs of UFPA. The validation/co-creation of the product was realized through six sections, with groups of two or three participants each, totalizing 15 collaborators, who discussed all the educational product’s components. For the development of the methodological resources that compose the product, it was established four timeframes: the entrance, the middle way, the conclusion, and the alumni. As a result, it was elaborated a methodological matrix, with assessment criteria for each timeframe, that can be used by postgraduate programs for the relationship management with their students and alumni students. As a proposal for the matrix application, it is indicated the use of graphics as the “wheel of life” type, in which it is summarized the evaluative aspects and allows a diagnosis for the program and a self-evaluation to the student/alumni student. The second product is a strategies catalogue to the relationship management with the alumni students, with guidelines for actions to the creation and maintenance of relation with the alumni students. For a better diagnosis and selection of strategies to be applied, it is attached to the product a perception graphic of the relationship with the alumni students. It is expected this product to be an aggregator component for the postgraduate programs and to foster the collaborative and integrated work of management between coordinators and secretaries of postgraduate programs.