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Marta Osório de Matos
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Marta Matos is a PhD in Psychology - Clinical and Health (2016) by Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is an Integrated Researcher at Cis_Iscte, Member of the Health For All Research Group (H4A) and Invited Assistant Professor at Iscte-IUL. She has been focusing on care provision to older populations since the start of her career as a psychologist (2007) in community contexts and during her Ms (2010) and PhD (2016) at Iscte, she focused on the role of social support of formal caregivers in chronic pain’ experiences of older adults. Present research lines are dedicated to: 1. Understand the interpersonal dynamics of receiving social support for functional autonomy in older adults with chronic pain.2. Investigate the experiences of providing care to older adults, in formal and informal caregivers, aiming to identify psychosocial protective/risk factors to caregiver and older adults’ quality of life. Overall, her research is motivated by an interest in translating evidence-based knowledge into ... [more info]
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