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- Quality of life perceived by children adolescents and their parentsPublication . Batoca Silva, Ernestina; Silva, Daniel; Duarte, João; Ferreira Aparício Costa, Maria Da Graça; Albuquerque, Carlos; Almeida, RuiThe impact of children’s and adolescents’ quality of life reflects in their development whilst adults, therefore the importance to intervene as soon as possible to encourage it. This study aims to identify the quality of life perceived by children/adolescents and their parents by investigating how quality of life connects with sociodemographic variables (age, sex, and schooling age). The aim of this study is to characterize the quality of life of children and adolescents in a school context and compare their perspectives with that of their parents and to analyze the influence of sociodemographic variables on the quality of life perceived by children/adolescents. A quantitative descriptive and correlational research design was used with a non-probabilistic and convenience sample, composed by children/adolescents and their parents. We used an ad hoc questionnaire with items to identify sociodemographic characteristics and a scale to identify quality of life using faces. The study sampled 567 children/adolescents with an average age of 12.40 years (±1.591), with 50.6% being female and 592 parents answered the questionnaire (parent version), with the average age of 40.43(±2.586), with 84.8% being female. 97.9% of the children/adolescents indicated a good quality of life while 2.1% indicated a bad quality of life, with an average value of 8.45 (±1.55). The data from the parents are similar (M=8.30±1.5), but not statistically significant. Subjective perceptions of quality of life constitute important data to promote health and are relevant indicators in the area of public health. Although our data reveals a good quality of life, an intervention at school with an approach to the factors that promote mental health and development is suggested.
- Learning difficulties in students of the 3rd year of a public school in the state of Alagoas, Brazil: A vision of psychoeducationPublication . Silva, Daniel; Rodrigues, Marizete; Batoca Silva, Ernestina; Duarte, João; Rosário Cabral, Lídia; Bica, I.This article seeks to analyze learning difficulties in students of the third year of schooling and to relate some sociodemographic, family and school factors that contribute to failure rates in elementary education in a school in the state of Alagoas, Brazil. A quantitative, exploratory-descriptive study was carried out on a sample of 178 students from a public school. The results indicate that one third of the students live with only one parent and the same percentage say that the family environment is bad or very bad. More than half of the parents (53.4%) do not help their children in studies or homework and 41.6% of the parents do not have education. With our study we found students with high failure rates as 26.4% have already failed and 42.6% of these have failed twice and 36.2% have failed 3 or more times. Educators should reflect on these rates and on the influence the family has on children’s learning and take appropriate action as poorly structured, uneducated, and uninvolved families are influenced by student failure.