Publications by authors named "Maria Ramos Monserrat"
Background: Crises and health policies to tackle them can increase health inequalities. We explored the scope and usefulness of helplines set up during the COVID-19 crisis and characterised the vulnerability of their users. This study explored the geographic and socioeconomic effects of the telephone helplines set up by the Balearic Islands Government and aimed to characterise the vulnerability of their users.
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- The study explores the relationship between the time from symptom onset to diagnosis and the survival outcomes of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, operating under the hypothesis that this relationship is nonlinear.
- Conducted in five regions of Spain from 2010 to 2012, the multicenter study included 795 symptomatic CRC patients, whose clinical records were reviewed for diagnostic delays and survival metrics.
- Results showed no significant association between diagnostic delay and survival after adjusting for various factors, suggesting that tumor biology is likely a more crucial determinant of patient outcomes than the timing of diagnosis.
Background: Smoking during pregnancy is the most important preventable perinatal health problem. The aim of this research is to determine smoking prevalence in pregnant women at different times of pregnancy in Andalucía, using biochemical validation methods and to explore factors associated with it.
Methods: Cross-sectional study.
Auricular acupuncture for primary care treatment of low back pain and posterior pelvic pain in pregnancy: study protocol for a multicentre randomised placebo-controlled trial.
Trials
July 2014
Background: About 45% of all pregnant women suffer low back pain and/or pelvic girdle pain (LBPGP). This study seeks to evaluate the effect of auricular acupuncture on LBPGP compared with placebo auricular acupuncture and with standard obstetric care in the field of primary health care.
Methods And Design: This study will be a four-parallel-arm, multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial.
Objective: To compare the effectiveness of additional moxibustion at point BL67 with moxibustion at a non-specific acupuncture point and with usual care alone to correct non-vertex presentation.
Methods: This was a multicentre randomised controlled trial in which 406 low-risk pregnant women with a fetus in ultrasound breech presentation, with a gestational age of 33-35 weeks, were assigned to (1) true moxibustion at point BL67 plus usual care; (2) moxibustion at SP1, a non-specific acupuncture point (sham moxibustion) plus usual care; or (3) usual care alone. The primary outcome was cephalic presentation at birth.