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How Sociodemographic Characteristics May Affect the Thermal User's Perception of Illness, Quality of Life, Sleep Quality and Disability. A Portuguese Case Study

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dc.contributor.authorNunes, Alcina
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Ana Margarida
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves, Estelle Silva
dc.contributor.authorAlves, Jéssica
dc.contributor.authorAlves, Maria José
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-12T16:54:28Z
dc.date.available2025-02-12T16:54:28Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractLiterature shows that thermal spas’ users seek thermal spas for therapeutic and wellness reasons. If the effective improvement in the user’s health status needs to be confirmed by clinical tests, the perceived improvement in the user’s quality of life may be assessed using different validated quality of life scales like the EQ-5D-5L or the EUROHIS-QOL-8. Moreover, it is possible to use validated scales like BaSIQS to determine sleep quality, the HAQ-DI to evaluate the user’s disability awareness, and the B-IPB to assess illness perception. All these scales were applied to a sample of users of the thermal treatments in Termas de Chaves, the second-biggest thermal spa in Portugal, before and after 14 days of treatment, allowing to gather an important set of statistical data to assess the evolution of the user’s perception illness, quality of life, sleep quality and disability. Therefore, this research aims to understand if the sociodemographic characteristics of thermal users influence the results obtained. Therefore, a binomial logistic regression is applied to identify the user’s features that affect the differences in the user’s perception before and after treatments. The results show that, in general, after treatments, the users’ perception is positive. However, only some characteristics of the users are statistically significant to explain such users’ perceptions.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article is a result of the project “GreenHealth-Digital strategies in biological assets to improve well-being and promote green health (Norte-01-0145-FEDER-000042), supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)”. The authors are grateful to FCT Portugal for financial support by national funds FCT/MCTES to UNIAG, under project no. UIDB/04752/2020.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationNunes, Alcina; Pereira, Ana Margarida; Gonçalves, Estelle; Alves, Jéssica; Alves, Maria José (2024). How Sociodemographic Characteristics May Affect the Thermal User's Perception of Illness, Quality of Life, Sleep Quality and Disability. A Portuguese Case Study. In 10th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT 2023). Cham: Springer Nature, p. 653-672. ISBN 978-3-031-54341-8.pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-54342-5_41pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-031-54341-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/31183
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSpringer Naturept_PT
dc.relationApplied Management Research Unit
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectThermal spaspt_PT
dc.subjectEQ-5D-5Lpt_PT
dc.subjectEUROHIS-QOL-8pt_PT
dc.subjectBaSIQSpt_PT
dc.subjectHAQ-DIpt_PT
dc.subjectPortugalpt_PT
dc.titleHow Sociodemographic Characteristics May Affect the Thermal User's Perception of Illness, Quality of Life, Sleep Quality and Disability. A Portuguese Case Studypt_PT
dc.typeconference paper
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oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04752%2F2020/PT
oaire.citation.endPage672pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage653pt_PT
oaire.citation.title10th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT 2023)pt_PT
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person.givenNameAlcina
person.givenNameMaria José
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project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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