Palliative care stay room - designing, testing and evaluating a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness.

Introduction: The message of palliative care can be promoted using creative thinking and gamification. It can be an innovative strategy to promote changes in behaviour, promote thinking, and work on skills such as empathy.

Aim: Design, test and evaluate a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness among young university students from non-health background.

The relationship competencies guiding tool: A development, content validation and implementation study.

Aim: The aims of this paper are (1) to present the results of the development, content validation and implementation study of the Relationship Competencies Guiding Tool; (2) to provide examples of how each item in the tool is reflected in clinical narratives written by nurses and justify the corresponding scores after the evaluation; (3) to present how the language and content of the narratives are interpreted with the tool and to describe an exemplar; and (4) to present barriers to and facilitators of the application of the tool.

Background: From a person-centered care approach, the fostering of authentic relationships with patients is key to achieving therapeutic benefits. Therefore, it is essential to help nurses establish meaningful relationships with patients and help them acquire these abilities.

Cross-sectional survey of the wish to die among palliative patients in Spain: one phenomenon, different experiences.

Objective: Cultural backgrounds and values have a decisive impact on the phenomenon of the wish to die (WTD), and examination of this in Mediterranean countries is in its early stages. The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of WTD and to characterise this phenomenon in our cultural context.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with consecutive advanced inpatients was conducted.

Quantifying the speech-gesture relation with massive multimodal datasets: Informativity in time expressions.

The development of large-scale corpora has led to a quantum leap in our understanding of speech in recent years. By contrast, the analysis of massive datasets has so far had a limited impact on the study of gesture and other visual communicative behaviors. We utilized the UCLA-Red Hen Lab multi-billion-word repository of video recordings, all of them showing communicative behavior that was not elicited in a lab, to quantify speech-gesture co-occurrence frequency for a subset of linguistic expressions in American English.

What does the media say about palliative care? A descriptive study of news coverage in written media in Spain.

Introduction: The goal of palliative care (PC) is to improve the quality of life of terminal stage patients and their families. The subject frequently appears in the mass-media and this helps create a socially accepted identity. The aim of this study is to describe and analyse PC related news items appeared in the Spanish written media.