Eliana Carraça

Eliana V. Carraça is an Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Educação Física e Desporto, Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal, and a senior researcher at CIDEFES. She is a clinical exercise physiologist, with a Ph.D. in Exercise and Health. Her research revolves around the field of motivational, self-regulatory and behavioural predictors of physical activity, eating behaviour and weight management. Additionally, she has been involved in the design and implementation of health behaviour change interventions applying self-determination theory in several chronic disease populations. She is currently the PI of PAC-WOMAN (PTDC/SAU-DES/2865/2020), a nationally-funded project that is testing two physical activity behaviour change interventions for post-menopausal breast cancer survivors on aromatase inhibitors. She is also the co-PI in a survey-based research project on beliefs, motivations and practices related to health behaviours in cancer rehabilitation: Clinicians and patients’ perspectives. She has published over 65 international peer-reviewed articles (h-index Scopus 25; 4892 citations).

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    Universidade Lusófona
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    Assistant Professor
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    Universidade Lusófona
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