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The use of medicines, dietary supplements, and natural products, to enhance physical, intellectual, and social performance – referred here as performance consumptions – is growing in current societies. It is a complex phenomenon that reflects a change in the conventional use of therapeutic resources, expanding it beyond the realm of health and sickness. This project aims to grasp this modern phenomenon by analyzing performance consumptions within the contexts that spur them. Hence, the focus of analysis – which has commonly been on individual consumption practices - will be redirected towards the social contextuality that structures individuals’ daily lives. The central research object is twofold. Firstly, it concerns practices and dispositions to engage in performance consumptions within specific social contexts. Secondly, it regards their literacy on, and the sources of information used for, different types of consumption. The project focuses on three professional groups associated with contexts of high pressure for performance.The study will be conducted in the urban areas of Lisbon and Oporto. Data collection will follow a mixed methods approach: focus groups, surveys and semi-structured interviews. Additionally, the indicators regarding literacy patterns and information sources, will be replicated to a sample of consumers of performance products, in pharmacies and food supplements stores. This research seeks to respond to several imperatives. It will contribute to further sociological knowledge of a phenomenon with multiple social impacts, on which empirical studies are still scarce. It shall provide a set of indicators on new forms of social demands on labor, which may support policies to promote a social healthier work environments. It operationalizes the issue of literacy in a multidisciplinary perspective, widening scientific perception and the grounds for citizenship on this topic.
Research team:
Noémia Mendes Lopes, PI (CIES-IUL, Egas Moniz CRL)
Ana Isabel Fernandes, Co-PI (Egas Moniz CRL)
Carla Rodrigues (CIES-IUL)
Carlos Manuel Gonçalves (ISFLUP, Universidade do Porto)
Catarina Egreja (Egas Moniz CRL)
David Tavares (CIES-IUL, ESTeSL-IPL)
Elsa Pegado (CIES-IUL, Egas Moniz CRL)
Hélder Raposo (CIES-IUL, ESTeSL-IPL)
Sara Melo (ISFLUP, Universidade do Porto)
Consultants:
Anita Hardon (University of Amsterdam)
Jonathan Gabe (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Helena Carvalho (ISCTE-IUL)
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIES-Iscte | -- | Partner | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| Institution | Country | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egas Moniz - Cooperativa de Ensino Superior (Egas Moniz - Cooperativa de Ensino Superior) | Portugal | Partner | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| Universidade de Porto (UP) | Portugal | Partner | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| INFARMED - National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, I.P. (INFARMED) | Portugal | Collaborating institution | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| Associação Nacional das Farmácias (Associação Nacional das Farmácias) | Portugal | Collaborating institution | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noémia Lopes | Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Principal Researcher | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| David Tavares | Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| Elsa Pegado | Professora Auxiliar (DMPS); Professora Auxiliar (DS); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| Hélder Raposo | Associate Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| Carla F. Rodrigues | Research Assistant (CIES-Iscte); | Research Assistant | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
| Carlos Santos | -- | Research Assistant | 2021-03-08 | 2021-05-31 |
| Patrícia Hermenegildo | -- | Scholar | 2020-07-01 | 2020-12-10 |
| Reference/Code | Funding DOI | Funding Type | Funding Program | Funding Amount (Global) | Funding Amount (Local) | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTDC/SOC-SOC/30734/2017 | -- | Contract | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - Projetos de IC&DT em todos os Domínios Científicos 2017 / Concurso 02/SAICT/2017 - Portugal | 239974.89 | 239974.89 | 2018-10-01 | 2022-08-03 |
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| Year | Output Type | Name | Description | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Conference | Medicines, uses of performance and new addictions: interdisciplinary perspectives | -- | Noémia Lopes, David Tavares, Hélder Raposo, Carla F. Rodrigues, Elsa Pegado |
| 2021 | Conference | ConPerLit - Profissões Sujeitas a Elevada Pressão Social - O trabalho em mudança e os medicamentos na gestão do desempenho | -- | Noémia Lopes, David Tavares, Hélder Raposo, Carla F. Rodrigues, Elsa Pegado |
| 2022 | Conference | Medicines and Medicinal Literacy: Social Practices and Uses of Information. | -- | Noémia Lopes, David Tavares, Hélder Raposo, Carla F. Rodrigues, Elsa Pegado |
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