Publications by authors named "Jose M Mansilla-Dominguez"

Background: Excessive noise in intensive care units poses a significant challenge, impacting both patients and staff by elevating stress, disrupting recovery, and impeding effective communication among healthcare professionals. Despite the World Health Organization recommending noise levels below 35 dB, alarms in these units often surpass these limits, contributing to consistently high noise levels.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to explore intensive care unit patients' experiences with music therapy sessions during invasive procedures.

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe grandmothers' experiences of taking care of their grandchildren in terms of their care-giving tasks, motivations and emotions.

Methods: A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted. Purposive sampling was used, based on the relevance of the research question.

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Aims: To describe the prevalence and characteristics of pain in adult hospitalised patients, as well as to analyse the concordance between patient-reported and recorded pain and its impact on analgesic management.

Design: A cross sectional study.

Methods: The study was performed on a sample of 611 patients, from October to December 2017.

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In January 2020, the WHO classified SARS-CoV-2 infection as a public health emergency and it was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020. The media warned about the danger of infection, fuelling the population's fear of the new situation and increasing the perception of risk. This fear can cause behaviour that will determine the course of the pandemic and, therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyse the fear of infection from COVID-19 among the Spanish population during the state of emergency.

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On 11 March 2020 the SARS-CoV-2 virus was officially declared a pandemic and measures were set up in various countries to avoid its spread among the population. This paper aims to analyse the perception of risk of COVID-19 infection in the Spanish population. A cross-sectional, descriptive observational study was conducted with a total of 16,372 Spanish participants.

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Background And Objective: There is enough evidence about how physical activity decreases the risk of some chronic diseases; although there are few studies that value the effectiveness of clinical counseling on increase physical activity levels on the population. There is no information about the effectiveness of clinical counseling on decreasing other non-healthy habits, like smoking.

Patients And Method: After measure the amount of physical activity on adult population, we selected the group with light level (< 143 Kcal/day), dividing them in two random groups: intervention, that received sanitary advice on increase physical activity on free time, and control, without this intervention.

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