Socio-Emotional Competencies Required by School Counsellors to Manage Disruptive Behaviours in Secondary Schools.

This article identifies the socio-emotional competencies of school counsellors working with children and adolescents. The aim is to address problems related to mental health and conflict and to implement training programmes. The study sample was composed of 149 counsellors working in schools.

Celiac disease and alcohol use disorders: increased length of hospital stay, overexpenditures and attributable mortality.

Background And Objectives: alcohol use disorders are associated with a greater incidence of certain comorbidities in patients with celiac disease. Currently there is no available information about the impact that these disorders may have on length of hospital stays, overexpenditures during hospital stays, and excess mortality in these patients.

Methods: a case-control study was conducted with a selection of patients 18 years and older hospitalized during 2008-2010 in 87 hospitals in Spain.

[Quality of life and adherence to nebulised antibiotic therapy using a new device in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis].

Aims: Analysis of psychological variables, quality of life, depression and anxiety, subjective perception of compliance, level of satisfaction with the electronic device, and objective verification) in order to study the therapeutic adherence, in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (NCFB) colonized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 22 NCFB stable patients colonised by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (two groups of 11 subjects: GROUP 1, Pari-LC plus nebuliser device, and GROUP 2, with the I- neb device), both containing sodium colistemethate. Different variables, were obtained, such as, self-perceived health (St George questionnaire), state of mind (HADS scale), and subjective perception of therapeutic compliance and objective verification by using the device software.

[Trends in colorectal cancer in Spain from 1951-2007 and alcohol and cigarette consumption].

Objectives: To analyze trends in colorectal cancer in Spain from 1951-2007, and their relationship with alcohol and cigarette consumption.

Material And Methods: We performed a correlation analysis between incidence, mortality and potential years of life lost rates, the mean age at death, and per capita consumption of alcohol and cigarettes with a time span of 15 years.

Results: In contrast with the tendency in other countries, the incidence of colorectal cancer steadily increased in both genders.

Incidence and mortality by colorectal cancer in Spain during 1951-2006 and its relationship with behavioural factors.

Incidence of colorectal cancer has steadily increased in both the sexes and across all age groups during the last decades in Spain, in contrast with other countries where incidence decreased during this period. This increase is more marked among men, probably due to a high exposure to risk factors such as smoking, heavy drinking, overweight and diabetes. Annual age-adjusted mortality rates have increased in Spain during the period 1951-2000, but from that time until 2006 these rates have kept steady in males and fallen in females.

Herpesvirus saimiri-transformed CD8+ T cells as a tool to study Chediak-Higashi syndrome cytolytic lymphocytes.

Cytolytic CD8+ T lymphocytes are the main cell type involved in the fatal lymphoproliferative-accelerated phase of the Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS). To generate a cellular tool to study the defects of this T cell subset in vitro, we have used Herpesvirus saimiri, a lymphotropic virus that transforms human T lymphocytes into extended growth and in addition, endows them with natural killer (NK) features. Transformed CHS CD8+ T cells were generated and characterized in comparison with healthy controls.

[Home intravenous antibiotic treatments in cystic fibrosis units of Madrid].

Background And Objective: A descriptive study of the home intravenous antibiotic treatment (HIVAT) course in cystic fibrosis (CF) units of Madrid in an 18 month period. Different patient features were recorded, antibiotherapy, intravenous access, complications and their resolutions. We accessed the improvement of the pulmonary function, forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) at the end of the treatment.