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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Alves

Citation names

  • Alves, Sara
  • Sara Brás Alves
  • Sara E. B. Alves

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9713-E3BC-8CFB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9149-5058

Email addresses

  • sarabras@ipb.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Nursing

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019
Concluded
 Enfermagem Comunitária (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior de Saúde de Bragança, Portugal
"Risco de diabetes Mellitus tipo 2 e hipertensão arterial em estudantes do ensino superior" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014
Concluded
 Enfermagem (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior de Saúde de Bragança, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024 - Current Novas Sociedades Longevas
0137_NSL_6_E
Research Fellow
European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
2021/09 - Current BioFirEx: um painel de (bio)marcadores para a vigilância da saúde e da segurança do bombeiro
CIF/SSO/0017/2018
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Alves, Sara; Esteves, Filipa; Slezakova, Klara; Pereira, Maria do Carmo; Costa, Solange; Morais, Simone; Teixeira, J.P.; et al. "Interactions between Stress, Sleep Quality, and Ghrelin concentration: A Cross-Sectional Study on a Sample of Firefighters Number". Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025.
    Submitted
  2. Barros, Bela; Paiva, Ana Margarida; Oliveira, Marta; Alves, Sara; Esteves, Filipa; Fernandes, Adília; Vaz, Josiana; et al. "Urinary creatinine in wildland firefighters: A potential biomarker?". In Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025.
    Submitted
  3. Alves, Sara; Vaz, Josiana; Fernandes, Adília. Corresponding author: Vaz, Josiana. "OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OF FIREFIGHTERS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW". In International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene: Proceedings Book of the SHO2023, 56-66. Portugal: Sociedade Portuguesa de Segurança e Higiene Ocupacionais(SPOSHO), 2023.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Alves, Sara; Esteves, Filipa; Silva, Francisca; Queiroga, Felisbina; Costa, Solange; Slezakova, Klara; Alves, Maria José; et al. "Firefighters' sleep quality: results of a study in The Northeast of Portugal". 2023.
  2. Alves, Sara Elisa Brás; Sousa, Marta Isabel; Mata, Maria Augusta; Sousa, Filomena; Sousa, Marta. "Conhecimentos das mães face à criança com febre". 2019.
  3. Ribeiro, Maria Isabel; Certo, Ana; Louçano, Ana; Alves, Sara Elisa Brás. "Qualidade do sono em estudantes de Enfermagem". 2015.
  4. Ribeiro, Maria Isabel; Certo, Ana; Louçano, Ana; Alves, Sara Elisa Brás. "Sleep quality in nursing students". 2015.
Conference poster
  1. Paiva, Ana Margarida; Barros, Bela; Azevedo, Rui; Oliveira, Marta; Alves, Sara; Esteves, Filipa; Fernandes, Adília; et al. "Exposure characterization of metals and metalloids from the ATSDR priority list in firefighters". Paper presented in 4º Workshop de Biomonitorização Humana em Portugal, 2024.
  2. Alves, Sara; Barros, Bela; Barreira Morais, Simone; Vaz, Josiana; Slezakova, Klara; Costa, Solange; Teixeira, João Paulo; Esteves, Filipa; Fernandes, Adília. Corresponding author: Fernandes, Adília. "Sleep quality assessment of professional firefighters from Northeast of Portugal". Paper presented in 8th International Wildland Fire Conference, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Filipa Esteves; Joana Madureira; Carla Costa; Joana Pires; Bela Barros; Sara Alves; Josiana Vaz; et al. "Occupational exposure to wildland firefighting and its effects on systemic DNA damage". International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2025.114576.
    10.1016/j.ijheh.2025.114576
  2. Filipa Esteves; Joana Madureira; Bela Barros; Sara Alves; Joana Pires; Sandra Martins; Marta Oliveira; et al. "Impact of Occupational Exposure to Wildfire Events on Systemic Inflammatory Biomarkers in Portuguese Wildland Firefighters". Environmental Research (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.121608.
    10.1016/j.envres.2025.121608
  3. Sara Elisa Alves; Carlos Magalhães; Adília Fernandes; Josiana Vaz; Miguel Monteiro; Ana Pereira; Helder Fernandes. "Ageing at work: impact and consequences – a scoping review". RIAGE - Revista Ibero-Americana de Gerontologia (2025): https://doi.org/10.61415/riage.259.
    10.61415/riage.259
  4. Sara Brás Alves; Carlos Pires Magalhães; Adília Fernandes; Mª José Fermoso Palmero; Helder Fernandes. "Gerontology and Geriatrics in Undergraduate Nursing Education in Portugal and Spain: An Integrative and Comparative Curriculum Review". Healthcare (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12171786.
    10.3390/healthcare12171786
  5. Paiva, Ana Margarida; Barros, Bela; Azevedo, Rui; Oliveira, Marta; Alves, Sara; Esteves, F.; Fernandes, Adília; et al. Corresponding author: Morais, Simone. "Biomonitoring of firefighters' exposure to priority pollutant metal(loid)s during wildland fire combat missions: Impact on urinary levels and health risks". Science of The Total Environment (2024): 176105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176105.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176105
  6. Alves, Sara; Silva, Francisca; Esteves, Filipa; Costa, Solange; Slezakova, Klara; Alves, Maria; Pereira, Maria; et al. "The Impact of Sleep on Haematological Parameters in Firefighters". Clocks & Sleep 6 3 (2024): 291-311. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clockssleep6030021.
    10.3390/clockssleep6030021
  7. Barros, Bela; Paiva, Ana Margarida; Oliveira, Marta; Alves, Sara; Esteves, Filipa; Fernandes, Adília; Vaz, Josiana; et al. "Baseline data and associations between urinary biomarkers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, blood pressure, hemogram, and lifestyle among wildland firefighters". Frontiers in Public Health 12 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1338435.
    Published • 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1338435
  8. Paiva, Ana Margarida; Barros, Bela; Oliveira, Marta; Alves, Sara; Esteves, F.; Fernandes, Adília; Vaz, Josiana; et al. "Biomonitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure and short-time health effects in wildland firefighters during real-life fire events". Science of The Total Environment (2024): 171801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171801.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171801
  9. Celeste Antão; Aloma Antolí-Forner; Hélder Fernandes; Sara Brás Alves; Helena Pimentel. "Current Nursing Education Considering Southern Europe’s Reality and Legal Framework: A Two-Phased Research Approach". Nursing Reports (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep13040113.
    10.3390/nursrep13040113
  10. Sara Alves; Josiana Vaz; Adília Fernandes; Alves, Sara Elisa Brás; Vaz, Josiana A.; Fernandes, Adília. "Exploring Clinical Trials to Manage Firefighters’ Sleep Quality: A PRISMA Compliant Systematic Review". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20053862.
    10.3390/ijerph20053862
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Alves, Sara Elisa Brás. "Risco de diabetes Mellitus tipo 2 e hipertensão arterial em estudantes do ensino superior". Master, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10198/19433.

Other

Other output
  1. A PRISMA compliant systematic review protocol of existing clinical trials to manage firefighters ‘sleep quality. To synthesize the existing clinical trials realized on Firefighter´s quality of sleep and their corresponding results, analyze the overall sleep quality and health outcomes in Firefighters and verify if there is any gap in knowledge that could led to further investigations on the subject.. 2022. Alves, Sara; Fernandes, Adília; Vaz, Josiana. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42022334719.