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Claudia Leite Moraes is affiliated with Rio de Janeiro State University in Brazil. Their research spans multiple domains within social sciences and health professions, with a particular focus on public health issues and social determinants affecting vulnerable populations.

Their work includes extensive investigation into violence and health, particularly intimate partner and family violence, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and child abuse and trauma. Specific research topics covered also include sex work and related issues, gestational diabetes research and management, family and patient care in intensive care units, and infant development and preterm care.

Claudia Leite Moraes has contributed to a variety of scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
  • Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde

Their scholarly output includes publications with topics ranging from violence against women, children, and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic to bodily image dissatisfaction in adolescents and violence against the elderly during the pandemic in Brazil. Representative recent papers include:

  • "A violência contra mulheres, crianças e adolescentes em tempos de pandemia pela COVID-19: panorama, motivações e formas de enfrentamento" (2020) published in Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • "Insatisfação com a imagem corporal e fatores associados em adolescentes" (2020) published in Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • "Violência contra idosos durante a pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil: contribuições para seu enfrentamento" (2020) published in Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • "Violência contra crianças e adolescentes em Manaus, Amazonas: estudo descritivo dos casos e análise da completude das fichas de notificação, 2009-2016" (2020) published in Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
  • "Brazilian Maternal and Child Nutrition Consortium: establishment, data harmonization and basic characteristics" (2020) published in Scientific Reports

Collaborative work characterizes much of their research, with frequent co-authors including Michael Eduardo Reichenheim, Emanuele Souza Marques, Stella Regina Taquette, Luciane Stochero, and Fernanda Lima-Setta.

In terms of academic focus, their main fields of study cover:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

The subfields represented in their work emphasize:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Best Publications

  • Operacionalização de adaptação transcultural de instrumentos de aferição usados em epidemiologia

    Michael Eduardo Reichenheim;Claudia Leite Moraes

  • Violence and injuries in Brazil: the effect, progress made, and challenges ahead

    Michael Eduardo Reichenheim;Edinilsa Ramos de Souza;Claudia Leite Moraes;Claudia Leite Moraes;Maria Helena Prado de Mello Jorge

  • Violence against women, children, and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: Overview, contributing factors, and mitigating measures

    Emanuele Souza Marques;Claudia Leite de Moraes;Claudia Leite de Moraes;Maria Helena Hasselmann;Suely Ferreira Deslandes

  • Portuguese-language cross-cultural adaptation of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2), an instrument used to identify violence in couples

    Claudia Leite Moraes;Claudia Leite Moraes;Maria Helena Hasselmann;Michael E. Reichenheim

  • Semantic equivalence of the Portuguese version of the Abuse Assessment Screen tool used for the screening of violence against pregnant women

    Michael E Reichenheim;Claudia Leite Moraes;Maria Helena Hasselmann

  • Domestic violence during pregnancy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Claudia Leite Moraes;Michael Eduardo Reichenheim

  • Household food insecurity: a systematic review of the measuring instruments used in epidemiological studies.

    Emanuele S Marques;Michael E Reichenheim;Claudia L de Moraes;Marina M L Antunes

  • School bullying: A systematic review of contextual-level risk factors in observational studies

    Catarina Machado Azeredo;Ana Elisa Madalena Rinaldi;Claudia Leite de Moraes;Renata Bertazzi Levy

  • Cross-cultural measurement equivalence of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) Portuguese version used to identify violence within couples

    Claudia Leite Moraes;Michael E. Reichenheim

  • The magnitude of intimate partner violence in Brazil: portraits from 15 capital cities and the Federal District

    Michael Eduardo Reichenheim;Claudia Leite Moraes;André Szklo;Maria Helena Hasselmann

  • Comparison between the abuse assessment screen and the revised conflict tactics scales for measuring physical violence during pregnancy

    Michael Eduardo Reichenheim;Claudia Leite Moraes

  • Gestational weight gain differentials in the presence of intimate partner violence

    Claudia Leite Moraes;A. R. Amorim;Michael Eduardo Reichenheim

  • Conseqüências da violência familiar na saúde da criança e do adolescente: contribuições para a elaboração de propostas de ação

    Michael E. Reichenheim;Maria Helena Hasselmann;Maria Helena Hasselmann;Claudia Leite Moraes

  • Rastreamento de uso de álcool por gestantes de serviços públicos de saúde do Rio de Janeiro

    Claudia Leite Moraes;Michael Eduardo Reichenheim

  • Insatisfação com a imagem corporal e fatores associados em adolescentes

    Giulia Xavier de Carvalho;Ana Paula Nogueira Nunes;Claudia Leite Moraes;Gloria Valeria da Veiga

  • Violência contra idosos durante a pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil: contribuições para seu enfrentamento

    Claudia Leite de Moraes;Emanuele Souza Marques;Adalgisa Peixoto Ribeiro;Edinilsa Ramos de Souza

  • Revisiting the dimensional structure of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS): empirical evidence for a general factor.

    Michael E Reichenheim;Claudia L Moraes;Claudia L Moraes;Alessandra S D Oliveira;Gustavo Lobato

  • Rompendo o silêncio e suas barreiras: um inquérito domiciliar sobre a violência doméstica contra idosos em área de abrangência do Programa Médico de Família de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Claudia Leite de Moraes;Claudia Leite de Moraes;Paulo Cavalcante Apratto Júnior;Michael Eduardo Reichenheim

  • [Co-occurrence of physical violence against partners and their children in health services].

    Michael Eduardo Reichenheim;Alessandra Silva Dias;Claudia Leite Moraes

  • Severe physical violence between intimate partners during pregnancy: a risk factor for early cessation of exclusive breast-feeding

    Claudia L. Moraes;Alessandra S. Dias de Oliveira;Michael E. Reichenheim;Gustavo Lobato

  • Equivalência semântica da versão em português do instrumento Abuse Assessment Screen para rastrear a violência contra a mulher grávida* Semantic equivalence of the Portuguese version of the Abuse Assessment Screen tool used for the screening of violence against pregnant women

    Michael E Reichenheim;Claudia Leite Moraes;Maria Helena Hasselmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Eduardo Reichenheim
Michael Eduardo Reichenheim Rio de Janeiro State University
Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho
Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho Rio de Janeiro State University
Ivan Figueira
Ivan Figueira Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Claudia S. Lopes
Claudia S. Lopes Rio de Janeiro State University
Margo Wilson
Margo Wilson McMaster University
Renata Bertazzi Levy
Renata Bertazzi Levy Universidade de São Paulo
Martin Daly
Martin Daly McMaster University
Mauro V. Mendlowicz
Mauro V. Mendlowicz Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Louise M. Howard
Louise M. Howard King's College London
Eduardo Faerstein
Eduardo Faerstein Rio de Janeiro State University

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