Health status of patients with liver transplantation by alcohol-related disease vs another etiology: A cohort study.

Aim: To study the health status of a group of patients with liver transplantation by alcohol-related disease vs another etiology before and after the transplantation.

Method: Longitudinal cohort study of liver transplant patients from November 2019 to July 2022. Adult patients attended in the unit of transplantation of a hospital for a first liver transplant, both elective and urgent, were included.

Cross-cultural adaptation of the FRAIL scale for critically ill patients in Spain.

Aim: To translate and culturally adapt the FRAIL scale into Spanish and perform a preliminary test of diagnostic accuracy in patients admitted to intensive care units.

Design: Cross-sectional diagnostic study.

Methods: Five intensive care units (ICU) in Spain were participated.

Barriers and Facilitators to the Learning and Acquisition of Research Competencies among Nursing Students through Active Methodologies: A Qualitative Study Using Reflective Writing.

Background: The development of educational research, critical thinking skills, and evidence-based practice requires proposals for educational innovation. The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of undergraduate nursing students on the barriers and facilitators after the implementation of a novel activity within the course of research methodology, composed of three active learning strategies: (a) project-based learning; (b) small-group learning; and (c) self-directed learning.

Methods: A qualitative exploratory study using reflective writing was conducted at the Nursing Department of the Red Cross School (Spain).

Resilience After COVID-19: A Descriptive, Cross-Sectional Study.

The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between resilience and health-related quality of life in patients following COVID-19 disease among those with and without lingering symptoms. The study design is descriptive and cross-sectional. Participants ( = 97) were adults who had earlier contracted COVID-19 disease and were in post-infection status between July and October 2020.

Efficacy of the therapeutic use of video games on the depressive state of stroke patients: Protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: To assess the effects of virtual reality (VR) on the depressive state of patients with stroke admitted to neuro-rehabilitation units. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.

Methods: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) focusing on the effects of virtual reality on depressive state as a primary outcome will be included.

Preoperative respiratory therapy in patients undergoing surgery for lung cancer: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: A preoperative respiratory therapy treatment was performed to analyze the effectiveness, with respect to postoperative air leak and pain, in patients undergoing surgery for lung cancer.

Objectives: To analyze air leakage and postoperative pain.

Material And Methods: Seventy one patients were studied, with a mean age of 62.

Design of an instrument to measure humor in health professionals.

Aim: The objective of this study was to develop an instrument for measuring humor in health professionals.

Methods: Observational, transversal and descriptive study of mixed methodology. The instrument was designed in several phases: literature review, item generation, determination of the scale format, review by the expert panel, pilot study, reevaluation by the expert panel, and test-retest.

Attitudes towards multi-organ donation among intensive care unit nurses in transplant hospitals.

Aim: To evaluate the attitudes towards deceased multi-organ donation and transplantation among nurses within the critical care units of the six public tertiary transplant hospitals in Madrid, Spain.

Background: Spain has a rate of 49 donations per million population, whereas Madrid has a lower donation rate of 34.2 per million population.

Nursing Attitude About the Family Involvement in Hospitalized Children Care.

Introduction: Family it's a unit which is characterized by the relationship between its members, the interdependence between them in health, presupposes that care will be more efficient if targeted the family system as a unit. In that fact the impact of illness and hospitalization drives the nursing staff to include the family in health care. Nurses think their relationship with families is not easy, which generates different attitudes towards them and present the possibility to allow its participation in care.