Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Physical Therapists: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Physical therapists, because of their care work, are susceptible to work-related musculoskeletal disorders due to their caregiving duties. These disorders have a significant economic and social impact. To analyze the prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among physical therapists and their associated factors.

An Exploration of Resilience and Positive Affect among Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Longitudinal Observational Study.

Background: The purpose of this study is to analyze the variation in resilience and emotional state scores in nursing students throughout the four years of training for the nursing degree.

Methods: This is a longitudinal observational study of a paired and prospective cohort of 176 nursing students who enrolled in the first year of a bachelor's degree in 2019. The study followed up with the students in 2022 and examined several sociodemographic factors, including sex, marital status, date of birth, living arrangements and occupation.

Virtual Active Learning to Maximize Knowledge Acquisition in Nursing Students: A Comparative Study.

Background: Nursing students need to acquire knowledge through active methods that promote critical thinking and decision making. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether there are differences in the acquisition of knowledge by nursing students between active face-to-face or virtual teaching methods.

Methods: In this comparative study, nursing students enrolled in the psychology course were divided into two groups: a face-to-face group that received active teaching methods and a virtual group.

A scale for assessing nursing students' emotional competence: A validation study.

Background: The wellbeing of nursing professionals can be affected by emotionally challenging situations. Emotional intelligence (EI) is a recognised ability to manage stress, reduce work overload, and improve clinical relationships and decision making. Therefore, these emotional skills should be identified and developed throughout nursing education.

Emotional empowerment through information research and communication to reduce fear of COVID-19 among nursing students: a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Despite an existing body of literature on anxiety reduction using multi-component methods, little is known about the effect of active student participation in research and communication of scientific information on anxiety and fear reduction. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of quality scientific information research and the production of informative videos on the preventive aspects of COVID-19 on fear and anxiety reduction.

Methods: A randomised controlled trial was conducted with 220 undergraduate nursing students in the first year of the nursing degree.

The COVID-19 Student Stress Questionnaire: Validation in Spanish university students from health sciences.

This study aimed to validate the Spanish version of the COVID-19 Student Stress Questionnaire (CSSQ), a 7-item tool assessing COVID-19-related stressors among university students, namely, Relationships and Academic Life, Isolation, and Fear of Contagion. Participants were 331 Spanish university students. Factor analyses sustained the three factor solution of the original tool.

Use of infographics for facilitating learning of pharmacology in the nursing degree.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of an educational intervention focused on teaching students to create infographics to improve pharmacology learning.

Design: This is a comparative study.

Methods: The population was 250 nursing students who had to create two infographics in groups related to the content that had been addressed in pharmacology in two different moments.

Off-label and unlicensed drug use in a pediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary care Spanish hospital. A descriptive study.

Introduction. In pediatric intensive care units, a large number of drugs are used, many of which are prescribed for condition beyond those established in their summary of product characteristics (off-label and unlicensed drug prescriptions). The objective of this study was to describe drug use and estimate the prevalence of off-label and unlicensed drugs in a pediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary care Spanish hospital.

COVID-19 Infection among Nursing Students in Spain: The Risk Perception, Perceived Risk Factors, Coping Style, Preventive Knowledge of the Disease and Sense of Coherence as Psychological Predictor Variables: A Cross Sectional Survey.

The exploration of patterns of health beliefs about COVID-19 among nursing students may be beneficial to identify behaviors, attitudes and knowledge about contagion risk. We sought to analyze the variables of risk perception, perceived risk factors, coping style, sense of coherence and knowledge of preventive measures as possible predictors of having suffered from COVID-19. Participants were nursing students from 13 universities in Spain.

Psychological Impact during Confinement by COVID-19 on Health Sciences University Students-A Prospective, Longitudinal, and Comparative Study.

Background: The objective was to analyze the factors that influence reactions to confinement situations, such as personality, humor, coping with stressors, and resilience, and to compare this population with a normal situation of exposure to an intense academic stressor such as a partial test, and with the confinement situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A longitudinal study was performed involving 116 health sciences students from Spain. Three situations were evaluated: a basal situation of normality at the beginning of the course, situation facing an academic stressor (partial test), and confinement situation due to COVID-19.

Occupational and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Related to Job Stress and Job Satisfaction: Correspondence Analysis on a Population-Based Study.

Background: Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) is not the same as occupational activity. Various factors influence both forms of physical activity, including job stress and job satisfaction, but the associations found are weak, and the need for new studies in large populations is emphasized. The objective was to study the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction, and the relationship between these and occupational and leisure-time physical activity according to the National Survey of Health 2017.

Design of the EBE-ST Questionnaire among Nursing Students: Multicenter Study from Eight Universities in Spain.

Background: Twenty years after the degree in nursing was introduced in Spain, the subject of evidence-based nursing is still unstructured and unestablished in most faculties. Moreover, there are hardly any rigorous studies at a national level that evaluate the current state of this competence in our faculties. Understanding the starting point is essential for the curricular design to ensure that evidence-based practice is implemented among future professionals.

[Validation of the living with osteoarthritis in Spanish population].

Objective: Present the psychometric results of the Living with Osteoarthritis (LW-OA) in Spanish population.

Design: Observational, cross-sectional and multicenter study, with retest on a fraction of the sample.

Location: Public and private centres of primary and secondary healthcare, as well as patient associations from Navarra, La Rioja, Madrid, Valencia and Malaga.

The role of psychological variables in improving resilience: Comparison of an online intervention with a face-to-face intervention. A randomised controlled clinical trial in students of health sciences.

Background: Most studies on improving resilience lack representative samples and pre- and post-intervention assessments. Results regarding the effectiveness of online interventions versus face-to-face interventions are mixed.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of online and face-to-face programmes for the improvement of coping strategies to develop resilience to stressful situations, and to assess their relationship with personality traits, mood, and academic stressors.

Prevalence of Nipple Soreness at 48 Hours Postpartum.

Although most women start breastfeeding after delivery, difficulties often arise. One of the main reasons is nipple soreness, which contributes greatly to early cessation of breastfeeding. A soreness evaluation through validated scales, performed by health care professionals during the first few days, can contribute to improve breastfeeding and support for the mothers.

Impact of social and occupational factors over job control.

Background: Psychosocial risk factors, among which job control has proved to be a key dimension, can have a negative impact on the health of workers. Various research projects have found a relationship between low levels of free time at work and stress and job satisfaction indicators.

Objectives: to assess to what extent certain social and employment variables influence "job control".

Occupational and work-related disease underestimated and linked to temporary disability through Primary Health Care Services.

Aim: To estimate the occupational disease linked to temporary incapacity (not work-related illness).

Background: The under-reporting of occupational disease is a recognized problem in Europe.

Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted in Spanish adult population using periods of temporary incapacity recorded in primary care during 2015.

The Dynamic Baropodometric Profile of Children with Idiopathic Toe-Walking .

Background: Idiopathic toe-walking (ITW) gait may present in children older than 3 years and in the absence of a medical condition known to cause or be associated with toe-walking gait. It is unknown how this gait type changes pressure distribution in the growing foot. We sought to determine whether children with ITW gait exhibit different plantar pressures and temporal gait features than typically developing children.

[THERAPEUTIC LIMITATION OF INTENSIVE CARE UNIT].

The therapeutic limitation is a relatively common in Intensive Care Units practice. There are different types of therapeutic limitation, and the patient can be classified according to measures likely to withdraw or not start. Among such measures include removal of stand mechanical ventilation with the analgesia and sedation applied to the end of life of the patient.

[INEFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THERAPEUTIC REGIMEN AND NONCOMPLIANCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH EPISODES WONCA].

Unlabelled: At the present time, failure to follow prescribed treatments is a problem of deep draft of health systems. The problem is both clinical and economic. Nurses are main responsible, within the health system, to ensure the proper monitoring of therapeutic guidelines agreed with the patients, by themselves or by other health care professionals.

Smoking among Spanish workers after smoking regulation.

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of smoking among Spanish workers after a new smoking regulation became law. The researchers conducted a retrospective study with a worker sample. Information was collected via health examinations of 185 adults with a mean age of 35.

[Analisys of nursing diagnosis risk of falls in adults and children].

Falls are a problem for all age groups but it affects children and the elderly in particular. Falls are a major public health problem as they not only have physical, social and economic consequences but also they are associated to high mortality rates. It has been proven that the cause of falls is multifactorial.

[Levonorgestrel. The day-after pill].

Only making use of Levonorgestrel as a post intercourse anti-conceptive method has proven to be more effective than prior methods and is the object under study in this report. This post intercourse anti-conceptive consists of a set of methods which, employed after at risk sexual intercourse and within a maximum period of time, avoid pregnancy. This post intercourse anti-conceptive is not considered to be an abortion method but it should not be used as a habitual anti-conceptive method due to its adverse effects and its numerous interactions with other pharmaceutical products.