Effectiveness of a Telephone-Based Motivational Intervention for Smoking Cessation in Patients With Crohn Disease: A Randomized, Open-Label, Controlled Clinical Trial.

A randomized, open-label, controlled clinical trial was designed to assess the effectiveness of a motivational intervention based on the 5 R's model (relevance, risks, rewards, roadblocks, and repetition) delivered by specialized inflammatory bowel disease nurses every 3 months over a 1-year period as compared with patients who were followed regularly. Patients diagnosed with Crohn disease, aged 18 years or older, who reported being active smokers with Internet access at home and an e-mail address were eligible. A total of 144 patients (72 per group) were included (50% women, median age 40 years).

The nurse work environment in Spanish nurses following an economic recession: From 2009 to 2014.

Aim: To detect possible changes in perception of the nurse work environment, job satisfaction and burnout between the years 2009 and 2014 among nurses working in the Spanish National Health System.

Background: The global economic crisis has had a great impact on nurses in the Spanish National Health Service: tougher working conditions, lower pay and a reduction in social benefits. It is not known whether these changes affect the nurses' work environment, job satisfaction and burnout.

Efficiency of the modified Sims maternal position in the rotation of persistent occiput posterior position during labor: A randomized clinical trial.

Background: Fetal occiput posterior position in labor is associated with more painful and prolonged labor, and an increase in both maternal and fetal morbidity. The aim of this study is to assess whether the modified Sims position on the side of the fetal spine increases the rotation to occiput anterior position in women with epidural analgesia and a fetus in persistent occiput posterior (POP) position.

Methods: This is an open, randomized controlled, clinical trial.

Nurses' sleep quality, work environment and quality of care in the Spanish National Health System: observational study among different shifts.

Objective: The main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between the characteristics of nurses' work environments in hospitals in the Spanish National Health System (SNHS) with nurse reported quality of care, and how care was provided by using different shifts schemes. The study also examined the relationship between job satisfaction, burnout, sleep quality and daytime drowsiness of nurses and shift work.

Methods: This was a multicentre, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, centred on a self-administered questionnaire.

Health-related quality of life and nursing-sensitive outcomes in mechanically ventilated patients in an Intensive Care Unit: a study protocol.

Background: Mechanical ventilation (MV) is one of the most utilised techniques in the intensive care unit (ICU), but it can cause sequelae that can negatively influence the patient's health-related quality of life (HRQL). Nursing-sensitive outcomes (NSOs) can also influence the HRQL. Assessing the HRQL of mechanically ventilated patients admitted to an ICU and its relation to nurse-sensitive outcomes will give healthcare professionals with valuable information to improve patient care.

[Relationship between disease burden and research funding through the Health Research Foundation in Spain].

Objective: To analyze the relationship between burden of disease during 2007-2009 and public funding of research in health in Spain during 2008-2010.

Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study of burden of disease and funding allocated for research in diseases in the Spanish National Health System.

Results: A review was made of a total of 6,573 project titles funded for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010.

[Care as a cross-cutting element in the health care of complex chronic patients].

The care of people who live with chronic diseases is currently a priority on the roadmaps of all health care services. Within these strategies, there needs to be a specific approach required for a population group that is defined by having multiple diseases and the associated comorbidity. This group is especially vulnerable, fragile, and require very complex care, which uses up a high quantity of social health resources.

Content validity of the Spanish version of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index.

Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate the content validity of the Iberian Spanish version of the questionnaire The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) by using the Content Validity Indexing (CVI).

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional observational study was conducted. The Spanish version of the questionnaire was translated from the American English instrument through forward and back translation processes.

Efficacy of a videoconferencing intervention compared with standard postnatal care at primary care health centres in Catalonia.

Objective: to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention combining videoconferencing and telephone contact compared to standard post partum care of recent mothers attending health centres in Catalonia were recorded.

Design: multicentre, randomised parallel controlled clinical trial.

Participants And Setting: 1598 post partum women with Internet access attending eight 'Attention to Sexual and Reproductive Health' (Catalan acronym ASSIR) units at Primary Health Care centres, in Catalonia (Spain).

Sleepiness in Spanish nursing staff--influence of chronotype and care unit in circadian rhythm impairment: research protocol.

Aims: To determine how prevalent circadian rhythm impairments are in nurses working in medical, surgical and intensive care units in five Spanish hospitals and how the quality of night-time sleeping and sleepiness affect the nurses' morning and evening chronotypes.

Background: Shift work is a recognized work pattern for nurses in all countries. Given the important role that nurses play in hospital care, it is vital to establish what repercussions this has on the nurses' working schedules and how any disturbance in circadian rhythm affects patient safety.

[Work environment and patient safety: data comparison between Seneca and RN4CAST projects].

Objective: To analyze the relationship between the work environment and burnout of nurses and the quality of care for patient safety at the Spanish National Health System Hospitals included in SENECA and RN4CAST studies.

Method: Descriptive study with a secondary analysis that compares data of 984 patient records, 1469 patient, and 1886 professional surveys from SENECA project, with 2139 nurses' surveys from RN4CAST study, in 24 hospitals. Adverse events data related to care, and patient's and professional's perception of safety were compared with work environment (measured by the Nursing Work Index) and burnout (measured by Maslach Burnout Inventory).

[Perception of work environment of nurses in hospitals of the Spanish national health system. RN4CAST-Spain project].

Objective: To appraise the perception of Registered Nurses working at Spanish National Health System (SNHS) hospitals about work environment, quality of care and burnout.

Method: Cross-sectional study addressed to 7539 nurses in 59 Spanish public hospitals over 150 beds belonging to the NHS between 2009 and 2010. Data was collected on: socio-demographic and academic background, job satisfaction, perception of work environment (PES-NWI) and burnout (MBI).

Validation of the Spanish version of the questionnaire Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index.

Background: The importance of the practice environment in the provision of care and its relation with patient outcomes and nurse-reported outcomes, support the need to have an instrument to measure such practice environment.

Objective: To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI), determining the content validity, test-retest reliability, internal consistency and construct validity.

Design: A cross-sectional survey of bedside care nurses undertaken in 2009 in medical, surgical and critical care wards of 33 Spanish National Health Service hospitals with more than 150 beds.

Spanish nurses' attitudes towards research and perceived barriers and facilitators of research utilisation: a comparative survey of nurses with and without experience as principal investigators.

Aims And Objective: To examine attitudes towards research and perceived barriers and facilitators of research utilisation in clinical practice in a broad cross-section of Spanish nurses.

Background: Nurses' attitudes towards research are critical in determining whether study findings are used to improve practice.

Design: Cross-sectional comparative survey in Hospitals, Primary Care Centres and University-affiliated schools of nursing.

[Barriers to the utilization of research. A descriptive study of clinical nurses and nurses with experience as researchers].

Objective: To identify barriers to the utilization of research as perceived by Spanish nurses in clinical practice and by nurses who have been principal investigators of a research project funded by the national health research funding agency.

Method: Cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study conducted in 2006 in hospitals, primary care health centres and nursing schools from the 17 Spanish Regions. Principal investigators of at least one project funded by the national health research funding agency between 1998 and 2004 were also included.

[Knowledge and attitudes on pain management by nurses in surgery and oncology in level III hospitals].

Objective: Identify the knowledge and attitudes on pain by nurses in general surgery and oncology units in Level III hospitals, and to find out if there are any differences between groups.

Method: A multicentre, observational, analytical and cross-sectional study conducted in the general surgery and oncology units in 5 Spanish level III hospitals. Study subjects were all nurses working in these units.

[Internet resources on ageing and health].

The general ageing of the world population at the beginning of the XXI century is an established fact, and in the next few years it will be a topic for debate and of interest to the public and, in particular, among health professionals. The Internet, as an inexhaustible information source of a different kind, could be a useful resource for consulting and updating for these professionals. The main health sciences sources that are available on the Internet are presented and commented upon.

[Competencies in nursing care research. Proposal of the nursing research coordination and development unit (Investén-isciii)].

Objective: To determine and prioritize the research competencies that should be acquired by nurses in distinct educational (graduate, masters, doctorate) and clinical practice settings (basic, intermediate and advanced) and in specialized training.

Method: An observational, descriptive, cross sectional study was performed in 2006. The generic and specific competencies for each of the 7 above-mentioned settings were established and sent by electronic mail to a group of experts who were asked to evaluate each competency on a scale from 1 to 5 (1 = not important, 5 = very important).