Self-care nursing assessment: cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Spanish version of the Self-care of chronic illness inventory.

Background: Self-care is the primary means of caring for a chronic condition. Therefore, it is necessary to assess it by using a good validity and reliability instrument. The Self-Care of Chronic Illness Inventory (SC-CII) is a generic instrument developed to measure self-care processes behaviors using three separate scales in patients with chronic illness.

Prevalence of Psychoneurological Symptoms and Symptom Clusters in Women with Breast Cancer Undergoing Treatment: Influence on Quality of Life.

Objectives: To identify subgroups of psychoneurological symptoms (PNS) and their relationship to different clinical variables in a sample of women with breast cáncer (BC) with different type of treatment, and the possible influence of these on quality of life (QoL), using a factorial principal components analysis.

Data Sources: Observational, cross-sectional, non-probability study (2017-2021) at Badajoz University Hospital (Spain). A total of 239 women with BC receiving treatment were included.

Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Breast Cancer Based on Functional Assessment and NIRS Analysis.

Background: Chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI), or “chemobrain,” isdefined as a phenomenon of cognitive deficits in cancer patients after chemotherapy and is characterized by deficits in areas of cognition, including memory, attention, speed of processing, and executive function, which seriously affect quality of life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of CRCI in breast cancer (BC) patients in chemotherapy treatment (CT+) or not (CT−) and to analyze their relationship with detectable objective changes in cerebral activity during the execution of a phonological and semantic verbal fluency task (PVF and SVF). Methods: An observational, cross-sectional study was carried out at Badajoz University Hospital (Spain).

Night Shift and Decreased Brain Activity of ICU Nurses: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.

Background: Shift working is associated with a profound desynchronization of circadian rhythm and in particular, night-shift work disrupts normal circadian physiology. Sleep deprivation affects the functioning of certain brain areas and thus impairs cognitive performance. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the night shift on cognitive performance and cerebral oxygenation/haemodynamics.

Health-related quality of life in diabetes mellitus patients in primary health care.

Objective: To analyse the relationship between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and sociodemographic and clinical factors in patients with diabetes mellitus, also comparing with Spanish population-based reference values.

Method: Cross-sectional descriptive-analytical observational study through nonprobability sampling on diabetic patients from San Roque Primary Health Centre (Badajoz, Spain), using a questionnaire regarding sociodemographic and diabetes care data, SF-36 and Duke-UNC questionnaires, and clinical history data.

Results: Sixty patients (55% women) fundamentally with type 2 diabetes and a mean age of 68.

Understanding Resilience Factors Among Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's Disease in Spain.

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD) caregivers resilience involves the interaction between different risk and protective factors. Context of care, objective stressors, perceived stressors caregiver assessment, mediators factors and consequences of care were associated with resilience. We have developed a more integrated and operational conceptual model of resilience and care than previous models in our sociocultural environment.

[Mortality and hospital utilization due to breast cancer in Extremadura, Spain (2002-2004)].

Objective: To provide an update on breast cancer mortality and hospital utilization in the autonomous region of Extremadura (Spain).

Method: We performed a retrospective, cross-sectional study of breast cancer in Extremadura, using the minimum data set and the death register as data sources. The means and standard deviation (SD) are presented.