Rosário Serrão

Invited Assistant Professor / PhD‑qualified Researcher

Bio

Rosário Serrão holds a Ph.D. in Applied Psychology (2024) from the International PhD Programme in Applied Psychology—a joint PhD programme between Universitat Ramon Llull, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Nottingham Trent University.

Her doctoral research focused on the process of universal psychological health screening in schools. She also holds a Master’s degree in Psychology (2015), with a specialization in Educational and Human Developmental Psychology, from the Portuguese Catholic University (Porto).

She was a researcher on the EDUgest Project – School Management and School Improvement, funded by the Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation, and an intern at the Centre for Resilience and Social & Emotional Health at the University of Malta.

She is a researcher at the Research Center for Human Development (CEDH) and an Applied Research Assistant on the Let’s Care Project – Building safe and caring schools to foster educational inclusion and school achievement, funded by Horizon 2020.

Paper

Adaptation and validation of the youth internalizing and externalizing problems screener in Portugal

Pedro Dias & Rosário Serrão (with Rosário Serrão). 2026. International Journal of School and Educational Psychology
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Antiretroviral treatment in people living with HIV with late diagnosis initiating ART with DTG/3TC or BIC/TAF/FTC: A real-world cohort analysis

Rosário Serrão (with Schuettfort, G.). 2026. HIV Medicine
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Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Support in Portuguese Schools: An Exploratory Study

Lurdes Veríssimo & Rosário Serrão (with Marisa Carvalho). 2026. Behavioral Sciences
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Determinants of HIV-1 transmission clusters and transmitted drug resistance in men who have sex with men: A multicenter study in Portugal (2014-2019)

Rosário Serrão (with Abrantes, R.). 2025. International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Diabetes mellitus in patients with HIV naïve to antiretroviral therapy initiating integrase inhibitors therapy

Rosário Serrão (with Dias da Costa, S.). 2025. Scientific Reports
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Real-world effectiveness and safety of switching to dolutegravir/lamivudine among people living with HIV-1 aged over 50 years who are virologically suppressed

Rosário Serrão (with Piñeiro, C.). 2025. HIV Medicine
Other

A whole-school approach to the promotion of psychological health and well-being, from pupils to headteachers

Rosário Serrão (with Maria do Rosário de Valadares Serrão Brito da Cunha). 2024.
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Adolescents’ School-Based Universal Well-Being Screening: A Validation of the Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire in Portugal

Pedro Dias & Rosário Serrão (with Rosário Serrão). 2024. School Mental Health
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Determinants of HIV late presentation among men who have sex with men in Portugal (2014–2019): who’s being left behind?

Rosário Serrão (with Abrantes, R.). 2024. Frontiers in Public Health
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Safety and efficacy of doravirine as first-line therapy in adults with HIV-1: week 192 results from the open-label extensions of the DRIVE-FORWARD and DRIVE-AHEAD phase 3 trials

Rosário Serrão (with Orkin, C.). 2024. Lancet HIV
Paper

School psychologists’ training to support inclusive education in Portugal

Marisa Simões Carvalho & Rosário Serrão (with Marisa Carvalho). 2024. School Psychology International
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School Psychologists’ training to support inclusive education in Portugal: Trainers' perspectives of opportunities, challenges, and improvements

Marisa Simões Carvalho & Rosário Serrão (with Marisa Simões Carvalho). 2024. School Psychology International
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Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Behavioral Factors Associated with Sexual Transmitted Infection among HIV-1 Positive Migrants in Portugal: Are There Differences between Sexes?

Rosário Serrão (with Miranda, M.N.S.). 2024. Pathogens
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Teachers’ and Parents’ Perceptions on Desired and Practised School Mission: Alignments and Misalignments

Luísa Mota Ribeiro, Marisa Simões Carvalho & Rosário Serrão (with Rosário Serrão). 2024. Leadership and Policy in Schools
Paper

Treatment patterns and preferences of people living with HIV starting or switching antiretroviral therapy: Real-world evidence from Portugal

Rosário Serrão (with Pedro, L.). 2024. International Journal of STD and AIDS
Other

Chronic Hepatitis C and comorbidities: real-world study to evaluate impact in outcomes after treatment with sofosbuvir-based regimens

Rosário Serrão (with Serejo, F.). 2023. Research Square
Other

Perceptions of the social validity of school-based universal screening for wellbeing and psychological health, from students to principals

Rosário Serrão & Pedro Dias (with Rosário Serrão). 2023. 44th annual conference of the International School Psychology Association (ISPA), Bologna, Italy, 5/07/23
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Teachers´ and parents´perceptions on desired and practised school mission: Alignments and misalignments

Rosário Serrão (with Maria do Rosário de Valadares Serrão Brito da Cunha). 2023. Leadership and Policy in Schools
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The impact of integrase inhibitors on steatosis and fibrosis biomarkers in persons with HIV naïve to antiretroviral therapy

Rosário Serrão (with Fernandes, S.R.). 2023. BMC Infectious Diseases
Other

A qualitative study of school professionals’ perspectives about whole-school universal wellbeing screening

Pedro Dias & Rosário Serrão (with Rosário Serrão Cunha). 2022. 43rd Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association, Leuven, Belgium, 7/07/22
Other

Developing conjoint research work through a joint PhD programme

Pedro Dias, Rosário Serrão & Patrícia Oliveira-Silva (with Rosário Serrão Cunha). 2022. IFCU 7th International Psychology Congress "Psychology in Dialogue: Three paths, one goal", Porto, Portugal, 7/07/22
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Development of the HIV360 international core set of outcome measures for adults living with HIV: A consensus process

Rosário Serrão (with Marques-Gomes, J.). 2022. HIV Medicine
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Hepatitis E in a Portuguese cohort of human immunodeficiency virus positive patients: High seroprevalence but no chronic infections

Rosário Serrão (with Filipe, R.). 2022. Health Science Reports
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HIV-1-Transmitted Drug Resistance and Transmission Clusters in Newly Diagnosed Patients in Portugal Between 2014 and 2019

Rosário Serrão (with Pingarilho, M.). 2022. Frontiers in Microbiology
Paper

Management model, leadership and autonomy in Portuguese and Spanish public schools

Rosário Serrão (with Mireia Tintoré). 2022. Cogent Education
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Management model, leadership and autonomy in Portuguese and Spanish public schools: A comparative analysis

Rosário Serrão , Ilídia Cabral & José Matias Alves (with Mireia Tintoré). 2022. Cogent Education
Other

Problem-based learning in an undergraduate Psychology course

Marisa Simões Carvalho, Rosário Serrão & Diana Soares (with Marisa Carvalho). 2022. IFCU 7th International Psychology Congress "Psychology in Dialogue: Three paths, one goal", Porto, Portugal, 7/07/22
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Real-World Characterization of the Portuguese Population Living with HIV who Initiated Raltegravir Based-Regimens: The REALITY Study

Rosário Serrão (with Serrão, R.). 2022. Acta Medica Portuguesa
Other

The influence of in-school social relationships on school professionals’ and pupils’ wellbeing

Pedro Dias & Rosário Serrão (with Rosário Serrão Cunha). 2022. 5th International Conference on Social Identity and Health , Notthingham, United Kingdom, 22/06/22
Book Chapter

Nuevas estrategias para la formación de líderes educativos a partir de la investigación.

Rosário Serrão (with Tintoré, Mireia). 2021. La nueva gestión del conocimiento
Paper

Os pais no conselho geral das escolas

Cristina Palmeirão & Rosário Serrão (with José Matias Alves). 2021. Revista Portuguesa de Educação
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Os Pais no Conselho Geral das escolas: Entre a retórica da ação estratégica e a subordinação múltipla.

Cristina Palmeirão, Ilídia Cabral, José Matias Alves & Rosário Serrão (with Alves, José Matias). 2021. Revista Portuguesa de Educação
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Parental involvement during pandemic times

Luísa Antunes Ribeiro, Luísa Mota Ribeiro, Marisa Simões Carvalho & Rosário Serrão (with Luísa Ribeiro). 2021. Education Sciences
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Parental Involvement during Pandemic Times: Challenges and Opportunities

Luísa Mota Ribeiro, Marisa Simões Carvalho & Rosário Serrão (with Luísa Mota Ribeiro). 2021. Education Sciences
Other

School Psychologists training in applied approaches for the construction of inclusive schools in Portugal: Process Description - Accepted March 2021

Rosário Serrão (with Carvalho, Marisa). 2021. 42nd Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association
Other

School psychologists training in Portugal: Trainers' perspectives - Accepted March 2021

Rosário Serrão (with Carvalho, Marisa). 2021. 42nd Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association
Other

A literature review of the factors associated with the mental health of schools’ employees: Contributing to whole-school mental health prevention.

Rosário Serrão (with Cunha, Rosário Serrão). 2020. 42nd Annual Conference of ISPA (International School Psychlogy Association) - Postponed for 2021 (due to COVID-19)
Paper

A scoping review of problems and challenges faced by school leaders (2003-2019)

Ilídia Cabral, José Matias Alves & Rosário Serrão (with Mireia Tintoré Espuny). 2020. Educational Management Administration & Leadership
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A scoping review of problems and challenges faced by school leaders (2003–2019)

Rosário Serrão & José Matias Alves (with Tintoré, M.). 2020. Educational Management Administration & Leadership
Book Chapter

Bases para a construção de um referencial para a melhoria das práticas de liderança e gestão escolar [Bases for the construction of standards for the improvement of school leadership and management practices].

Rosário Serrão & José Matias Alves (with Cabral, Ilídia). 2020. Gestão Escolar e Melhoria das Escolas: O que nos diz a investigação. [School Management and School Improvement: What does the research tell us].
Paper

Chronic hepatitis C treatment in HIV co-infection in Portugal: Results from a cohort OF 2133 patients presented by GEPCOI (Portuguese Coinfection Study Group)

Rosário Serrão (with Miranda, A.C.). 2020. Journal of Viral Hepatitis
Other

Creando relatos de vida para desarrollar líderes y contextos educativos

Rosário Serrão 2020. Llibre d’actes de la I Conferència Internacional de Recerca en Educació. Educació 2019: reptes, tendències i compromisos (4 i 5 de novembre de 2019, Universitat de Barcelona).
Other

Culturas escolares, lideranças, processo de ensino aprendizagem e resultados: apresentação de dados de um estudo duplo comparativo

Rosário Serrão 2020. Llibre d’actes de la I Conferència Internacional de Recerca en Educació. Educació 2019: reptes, tendències i compromisos (4 i 5 de novembre de 2019, Universitat de Barcelona).
Other

Developing conjoint research work through a Joint PhD Programme

Rosário Serrão (with Serrão Cunha, Rosário ). 2020. 7th FIUC Congress - postponed for 2021 (due to COVID-19)
Book Chapter

Enquadramento do projeto de investigação EDUgest [Introduction to the research project EDUgest]

Rosário Serrão (with Cabral, Ilídia). 2020. Gestão Escolar e Melhoria das Escolas: O que nos diz a investigação. [School Management and School Improvement: What does the research tell us]
Other

From face-to-face to online and distance learning in a psychology bachelor’s degree: challenges and opportunities from students’ and teachers’ perceptions

Marisa Simões Carvalho & Rosário Serrão (with Carvalho, Marisa). 2020. 13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Paper

Giving voice to problems faced by school leaders in Portugal

Ilídia Cabral, José Matias Alves & Rosário Serrão (with Mireia Tintoré Espuny). 2020. School Leadership & Management
Book Chapter

Narrativas de liderazgo educativo en Portugal. Voces desde la direccíon

Rosário Serrão & José Matias Alves (with Mireia Tintoré). 2020. Gestão escolar e melhoria das escolas
Book Chapter

Nuevas estrategias para la formación de líderes educativos a partir de la investigación

José Matias Alves & Rosário Serrão (with Mireia Tintoré). 2020. La nueva gestión del conocimiento
Paper

Portuguese Principals’ Professional Development Needs and Preferred Learning Methods

Ilídia Cabral, Rosário Serrão & José Matias Alves (with Rosário Serrão Cunha). 2020. Education Sciences
Other

Problem-based learning in an undergraduate Psychology course: A description of a possible implementation.

Rosário Serrão (with Marisa Carvalho). 2020. 7th FIUC Conference
Paper

School leadership practices of Portuguese principals: Matching perceptions of principals and teachers

Ilídia Cabral, José Matias Alves & Rosário Serrão (with Cabral, I.). 2020. International Journal of Management in Education
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School leadership practices of Portuguese principals: Matching perceptions of principals and teachers.

Rosário Serrão (with Cabral, Ilídia). 2020. International Journal of Management in Education (IJMIE).
Other

Student's Online Learning Readiness in Times of Covid-19: Self-Report of Undergraduate Psychology Students in Portugal: Student's Online Learning Readiness in times of Covid-19

Rosário Serrão (with Carvalho, M.). 2020. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Other

Student’s Online Learning Readiness In Times Of Covid-19: Self-Report Of Undergraduate Psychology Students In Portugal

Rosário Serrão (with Carvalho, Marisa). 2020. 9th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion
Paper

The influence of antiretroviral therapy on hepatitis c virus viral load and liver fibrosis in human immunodeficiency virus-coinfected patients: An observational study

Rosário Serrão (with Soares, J.). 2020. Intervirology
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What makes learning easier and more difficult? The perspective of teenagers [O que facilita e dificulta a aprendizagem? A perspetiva de adolescentes]

Rosário Serrão (with Cunha, Rosário Serrão). 2020. Psicologia em Estudo
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What makes learning easier and more difficult? The perspective of teenagers,O que facilita e dificulta a aprendizagem? A perspetiva de adolescentes

Rosário Serrão (with Cunha, R.S.). 2020. Psicologia em Estudo
Other

BIG SCHOOLS, ONE PRINCIPAL…DOES IT WORK?

Rosário Serrão & José Matias Alves (with José Matias Alves). 2019. ICERI2019 Proceedings
Other

Big schools, one principal…Does it work?

Rosário Serrão (with Alves, José Matias). 2019. ICERI 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Other

BIG SCHOOLS, ONE PRINCIPAL…DOES IT WORK?

Rosário Serrão (with José Matias Alves). 2019. ICERI2019 Conference 11th-13th November 2019, Seville, Spain
Paper

Characterization of a large cluster of HIV-1 A1 infections detected in Portugal and connected to several Western European countries

Rosário Serrão (with Araújo, P.M.M.). 2019. Scientific Reports
Book Chapter

Dando voz a los directores escolares: 19 historias de vida de directores portugueses [Giving voice to school leaders: 19 life stories of Portuguese principals]

Rosário Serrão , José Matias Alves & Cristina Palmeirão (with Tintoré, Mireia). 2019. EBIBLOX- Guía para la gestión de centros educativos
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Dolutegravir plus lamivudine versus dolutegravir plus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine in antiretroviral-naive adults with HIV-1 infection (GEMINI-1 and GEMINI-2): week 48 results from two multicentre, double-blind, randomised, non-inf...

Rosário Serrão (with Cahn, P.). 2019. Lancet
Paper

First-Year Law Students’ and Teacher’s Questioning in Class

Rosário Serrão (with Ribeiro, Luísa Mota). 2019. Frontiers in Psychology
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First-Year Law Students’ and Teacher’s Questioning in Class

Paper

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) 2 Superinfection in a Patient Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy with Longstanding HIV-1 Viral Load Suppression

Rosário Serrão (with Ceia, F.). 2019. Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Other

LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP PRACTICES: ALL UNIQUE, ALL THE SAME?

Rosário Serrão (with Ilídia Cabral). 2019. ICERI2019 Proceedings
Other

Leaders and Leadership practices: All unique, all the same?

Rosário Serrão (with Cabral, Ilídia). 2019. ICERI 12th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Paper

Non-AIDS-related comorbidities in people living with HIV-1 aged 50 years and older: The AGING POSITIVE study

Rosário Serrão (with Serrão, R.). 2019. International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Paper

HIV testing history and access to treatment among migrants living with HIV in Europe

Rosário Serrão (with Fakoya, I.). 2018. Journal of the International AIDS Society
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Metabolically Healthy or Metabolically Unhealthy Obese HIV-Infected Patients: Mostly a Matter of Age?

Rosário Serrão (with Neves, J.S.). 2018. Frontiers in Endocrinology
Other

Perceções de alunos sobre a (des)motivação e a (des)atenção no aprender [Students perceptions’ on (de)motivation and (in)attention in learning], IV OPP Congress | Abstracts Book | Braga, 2018

Rosário Serrão (with Ribeiro, Luísa Mota). 2018. IV OPP Congress | Abstracts Book | Braga, 2018
Paper

Routine CD4 monitoring in HIV patients with viral suppression: Is it really necessary? A Portuguese cohort

Rosário Serrão (with Duro, R.). 2018. Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection
Other

Exploring Portuguese teachers’ perceptions of the challenges they face in schools

Luísa Mota Ribeiro & Rosário Serrão (with Luísa Ribeiro). 2017. 39th Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association, Manchester, United Kingdom, 19/07/17
Other

Exploring Portuguese teachers’ perceptions of the challenges they face in schools

Rosário Serrão & Luísa Mota Ribeiro (with Ribeiro, Luísa Mota). 2017. 39th Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association
Paper

Fixed-dose combination dolutegravir, abacavir, and lamivudine versus ritonavir-boosted atazanavir plus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine in previously untreated women with HIV-1 infection (ARIA): week 48 results from a randomised, open-...

Rosário Serrão (with Orrell, C.). 2017. Lancet HIV
Paper

High levels of postmigration HIV acquisition within nine European countries

Rosário Serrão (with Alvarez-Del Arco, D.). 2017. AIDS
Paper

Ischaemic stroke in HIV-infected patients: a case–control study

Rosário Serrão (with Silva-Pinto, A.). 2017. HIV Medicine
Paper

Raltegravir 1200 mg once daily versus raltegravir 400 mg twice daily, with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine, for previously untreated HIV-1 infection: a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, phase 3, non-inferiority trial

Rosário Serrão (with Cahn, P.). 2017. Lancet HIV
Other

Perceções de alunos do 3º ciclo sobre a aprendizagem : um estudo com grupos de discussão focalizada [Perception of students from third cycle about learning: a focus group study]

Rosário Serrão (with Cunha, Maria do Rosário de Valadares Serrão Brito da). 2015.
Paper

Prozone-like phenomenon in travellers with fatal malaria: Report of two cases

Rosário Serrão (with Santos, L.). 2015. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
Other

Ensinar e aprender no século XXI: Um olhar sobre as preocupações relatadas por professores

Luísa Mota Ribeiro & Rosário Serrão (with Trigo, Luísa). 2014. IX Congresso Iberoamericano de Psicologia e 2º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
Other

Ensinar e aprender no século XXI: Um olhar sobre as preocupações relatadas por professores [Teach and learn in XXI century: a view on teachers concerns].

Rosário Serrão (with Luísa Mota Ribeiro). 2014. IX Congresso Iberoamericano de Psicologia/2º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses [Latin American Meeting on Psychology and 2nd Portuguese Psychologists Association Congress]
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Acute hepatitis E complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome in Portugal, December 2012 - A case report

Rosário Serrão (with Santos, L.). 2013. Eurosurveillance
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Peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin for HIV-HCV genotype 1 coinfected patients: A randomized international trial

Rosário Serrão (with Rodriguez-Torres, M.). 2012. HIV Clinical Trials
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Ophthalmic manifestations in 18 patients with botulism diagnosed in Porto, Portugal between 1998 and 2003

Rosário Serrão (with Penas, S.C.). 2005. Journal of Neuro Ophthalmology
Paper

Transmission of HIV-2: Another perspective

Rosário Serrão (with Mota-Miranda, A.). 2004. Lancet Infectious Diseases
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HIV-2 infection with a long asymptomatic period

Rosário Serrão (with Mota-Miranda, A.). 1995. Journal of Infection
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Liposomal amphotericin B in the treatment of opportunistic fungal infections

Rosário Serrão (with Mota-Miranda, A.). 1994. Revista Espanola De Quimioterapia

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