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Ana Rita holds a degree in Marine Biology and Biotechnology from the Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologias do Mar of the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, and a Master's in Biostatistics from the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidade de Lisboa, and a Post-Graduation in Information Analysis and Management at NOVA Information Management School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Currently, she is pursuing a Global Public Health doctoral program, focusing on the use of digital health tools in older adults population. In February 2020, Ana Rita joined the Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases Unit (EpiDoC Unit) at Nova Medical School of Universidade Nova de Lisboa as a research assistant (junior biostatistician). In this role, her main responsibility is to provide statistical support to researchers. She has already been involved in several research projects centred around rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases, epidemiology of chronic diseases, aging, and digital health.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
ANA RITA OLIVEIRA HENRIQUES

Citation names

  • Henriques, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9517-0DAE-E511
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4581-0843

Email addresses

  • anarita.henriques@nms.unl.pt (Professional)
Education
Degree Classification
2023 - 2028
Ongoing
 Global Public Health (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Major in Saúde Pública
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2023 - 2028
Ongoing
 Medical Sciences (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Brussels Health Campus, Belgium
2020/09 - 2021/06
Concluded
 Análise e Gestão de Informação (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Escola de Gestão de Informação, Portugal
 15
2019/09 - 2020/11
Concluded
 Bioestatística (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Risk factors for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): the effect of high-intensity sport" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
2014/09 - 2017/07
Concluded
 Biologia Marinha e Biotecnologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Biotecnologia
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/02 - 2023 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024 - Current Bolseiro de Doutoramento- Programa EUTOPIA- PRT/BD/154695/2023 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/01/01 - Current CODTAES - Challenges of Digital Tools Adoption Across European Seniors with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases
PRT/BD/154695/2023
PhD Student Fellow
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2021 - Current Characterizing the social factors contributing to Diabetes quality of life and medical resources consumption using a nationwide prospective cohort
Novo Nordisk Lda
Researcher
Concluded
2021 - Current EpiDoC 4 - Non communicable chronic diseases during COVID-19 pandemic
Fast Track COVID AAC 15/SI/2020
Researcher
2021 - Current PORTHOS– ESTUDO EPIDEMIOLÓGICO EM PORTUGAL PARA CONHECER OS NÚMEROS DA INSUFICIÊNCIA CARDÍACA
PORTuguese Heart failure Observational Study
 AstraZeneca Farmaceutica Spain SA
Ongoing
2020 - Current Prevalence of Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) and performance evaluation of a PsA screening Questionnaire in the population of Portuguese patients with Psoriasis followed in a Dermatology setting (CheckAP)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
 Novartis Farma SA
Concluded
2021/04 - 2024 COTIDIANA - Mobile Patient-centered System to Improve Drug Trials and Care of Older-adults with Rheumatic Diseases
AAL/0008/2020-COTIDIANA
Researcher
Ongoing
2019 - 2024 DigiAdherence – supporting senior people at home
Researcher
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Henriques, Ana. "Medical Care Seeking Is Frequent and Associated with Overuse of Low-Value Care for Low Back Pain in Portugal: Results from a Nationwide Population-Based Study". Paper presented in ACR Convergence 2021, 2021.
  2. Henriques, Ana. "Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life in Spondyloarthritis and Comparison with Chronic Low Back Pain – Results from a Nation-Wide Study". Paper presented in ACR Convergence 2021, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Pedro Carreiro Martins; Iolanda Caires; Isabel Almeida; Ricardo A. Afonso; Raquel Dezerto; André Tomé; Ana M. Rodrigues; Ana Rita Henriques; Nuno Neuparth. "Prevalence and risk factors of chronic cough in an adult community-dwelling portuguese population". ERJ Open Research (2025): https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00887-2024.
    10.1183/23120541.00887-2024
  2. Pedro Matias; Ricardo Araújo; Ricardo Graça; Ana Rita Henriques; David Belo; Maria Valada; Nasim Nakhost Lotfi; et al. "COTIDIANA Dataset – Smartphone-Collected Data on the Mobility, Finger Dexterity, and Mental Health of People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases". IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2024): https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2024.3456069.
    10.1109/JBHI.2024.3456069
  3. Marta Lemos; Ana Rita Henriques; David Gil Lopes; Nuno Mendonça; André Victorino; Andreia Costa; Miguel Arriaga; et al. "Usability and Utility of a Mobile App to Deliver Health-Related Content to an Older Adult Population: Pilot Noncontrolled Quasi-Experimental Study". JMIR Formative Research (2024): https://doi.org/10.2196/46151.
    10.2196/46151
  4. Sílvia Rego; Ana Rita Henriques; Sofia Silvério Serra; Teresa Costa; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Francisco Nunes. "Methods for the Clinical Validation of Digital Endpoints: Protocol for a Scoping Review Abstract". JMIR Research Protocols (2023): https://doi.org/10.2196/47119.
    10.2196/47119
  5. Helena Santos; Ana R Henriques; Pedro M Machado; Clementina Lopez-Medina; Maxime Dougados; Helena Canhão; Ana M Rodrigues; Fernando Pimentel-Santos. "Determinants of health-related quality of life and global functioning and health in axSpA, pSpA and PsA: results from the ASAS-PerSpA study". Rheumatology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kead503.
    10.1093/rheumatology/kead503
  6. Rute Dinis Sousa; Ana Rita Henriques; José Caldas de Almeida; Helena Canhão; Ana Maria Rodrigues. "Unraveling Depressive Symptomatology and Risk Factors in a Changing World". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166575.
    10.3390/ijerph20166575
  7. Ana Rita Henriques; Marta Gromicho; Julian Grosskreutz; Magdalena Kuzma-Kozakiewicz; Susanne Petri; Hilmi Uysal; Susana Pinto; et al. "Association of the practice of contact sports with the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/21678421.2023.2189911.
    10.1080/21678421.2023.2189911
  8. Pina Gonçalves N; Azeredo S; Sepriano A; Henriques AR; Pires T; Branco JC; Canhão H; Rodrigues AM. "Prevalence of undiagnosed rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and its association with health-related quality of life and with physical function.". ARP rheumatology (2023):
  9. Daniela Costa; Eduardo B. Cruz; David G. Lopes; Catarina Nunes da Silva; Ana Rita Henriques; Diogo Luis; Jaime Branco; Helena Canhão; Ana M. Rodrigues. "Prevalence of and factors associated with unmanageable pain levels in people with knee or hip osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional population-based study". BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 24 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-022-06110-1.
    10.1186/s12891-022-06110-1
  10. Álvaro Carvalho; Ana Rita Henriques; Paula Queirós; Joana Rodrigues; Nuno Mendonça; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Helena Canhão; et al. "Persistence of IgG COVID-19 antibodies: A longitudinal analysis". Frontiers in Public Health 10 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1069898.
    10.3389/fpubh.2022.1069898
  11. "Obesity- attributable costs of absenteeism among working adults in Portugal". BMC Public Health 22 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13337-z.
    10.1186/s12889-022-13337-z
  12. Helena Santos; Ana Rita Oliveira Henriques; Jaime Branco; Pedro Machado; Helena Canhão; F. M. Pimentel-Santos; Ana Maria Rodrigues. "Health-related quality of life among spondyloarthritis and chronic low back pain patients: results from a nationwide population-based survey". Quality of Life Research (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11136-022-03274-0.
    10.1007/s11136-022-03274-0
  13. Rodrigues AM; Jacinto S; Henriques AR; Valada MP; Tinazzi I; de Sousa RD; Helena Canhão. "Linguistic and cultural adaptation of the EARP Questionnaire to European Portuguese.". ARP rheumatology (2022):
  14. Luís Antunes Gomes; Eduardo Brazete Cruz; Ana Rita Henriques; Jaime C Branco; Helena Canhão; Ana Maria Rodrigues. "Patients’ self-reported medical care for low back pain: a nationwide population-based study". BMJ Open 12 9 (2022): e060966-e060966. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-060966.
    10.1136/bmjopen-2022-060966
  15. Álvaro De Carvalho; Ana Virgolino; Paula Queirós; Ana Rita Henriques; Helena Canhão; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Veneranda Barbosa; et al. "SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Prevalence in the Portuguese Municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia after the First Wave of the Pandemic". Acta Médica Portuguesa (2022): https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.17676.
    10.20344/amp.17676
  16. Nuno Mendonça; Maria João Gregório; Clara Salvador; Ana Rita Henriques; Helena Canhão; Ana M. Rodrigues. "Low Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Is Associated with Poor Socioeconomic Status and Younger Age: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the EpiDoC Cohort". Nutrients 14 6 (2022): 1239-1239. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14061239.
    10.3390/nu14061239
  17. Miguel Canhão-Dias; Tomás Matos Pires; Rita Henriques; David G Lopes; Luís Manuel Madeira de Carvalho. "Zoonoses as Important Causes of Hospital Admissions: A 15-Year Study in Portugal". Portuguese Journal of Public Health (2022): https://doi.org/10.1159/000525301.
    10.1159/000525301
  18. Lopes, David G.; Henriques, Ana Rita; Santos-Dias, Margarida; Nunes-da-Silva, Catarina; Gonçalves, Juliana; de Sousa, Rute D.; Abdulghani, Saba; et al. "Staff SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Mental Health as Key Factors in University Response to COVID-19 Pandemic". Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.689919.
    10.3389/fpubh.2021.689919
  19. Pereira, Mariana; Gromicho, Marta; Henriques, Ana; Pronto-Laborinho, Ana Catarina; Grosskreutz, Julian; Kuzma-Kozakiewicz, Magdalena; Petri, Susanne; et al. "Cardiovascular comorbidities in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". Journal of the Neurological Sciences 421 (2021): 117292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.117292.
    10.1016/j.jns.2020.117292
Preprint
  1. Sílvia Rego; Ana Rita Henriques; Sofia Silvério Serra; Teresa Costa; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Francisco Nunes. "Methods for the Clinical Validation of Digital Endpoints: Protocol for a Scoping Review Abstract (Preprint)". 2023. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.47119.
    10.2196/preprints.47119
  2. Marta Lemos; Ana Rita Henriques; David Gil Lopes; Nuno Mendonça; André Victorino; Andreia Costa; Miguel Arriaga; et al. "Usability and Utility of a Mobile App to Deliver Health-Related Content to an Older Adult Population: Pilot Noncontrolled Quasi-Experimental Study (Preprint)". 2023. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.46151.
    10.2196/preprints.46151