Irma Brito Pós-doutoramento (Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar); Graduation level / Pós-graduação (ISLA Santarém); PhD / Doutoramento (Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar); Master's degree / Mestrado
Professora e Membro do Comité Científico, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra · Portugal
Editorial leadership for Journal of Human Health Research ISSN 2576-9383
Research interests
- Community Health; Participatory Research; Peer Education
Biography
Irma Brito, PhD, is Professora e Membro do Comité Científico at the Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Her academic training spans multiple institutions, including the Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, ISLA Santarém, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra, and Escola de Enfermagem Ângelo da Fonseca. Dr. Brito's research focuses on community health, participatory research, and peer education, contributing to evidence-based approaches in these fields. She has authored over 35 indexed publications, with her most-cited work being a 2018 systematic review on acupuncture and electroacupuncture for anxiety disorders, which has received 117 citations. Her ORCID identifier is 0000-0002-8825-4923.
Selected publications
- Acupuncture and electroacupuncture for anxiety disorders: A systematic review of the clinical research 2018 cited 117×
- Children and adolescents’ voices and the implications for ethical research 2022 cited 26×
- Adaptation and validation of the Psychological General Well-Being Index: confirmatory factor analysis of the short version 2018 cited 8×
- Meshing Anxiety, Depression, Quality of Life, and Functionality in Chronic Disease Recent 2025 cited 6×
- Estilo de vida e promoção à saúde de docentes universitários 2020 cited 6×
- Integrative medicine in anxiety disorders 2018 cited 4×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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