On What Do the Homeless Base Their Happiness?

Objective: To determine the relationship between the characteristics and experiences of homeless persons and their state of happiness as a basis for designing appropriate social support strategies.

Design: Exploratory observational study with an analytical and descriptive qualitative design.

Setting: Participants were contacted, administered with questionnaires, and interviewed in the street (central and northern areas of the city) or at the "" center in Granada (Spain) between April 2017 and February 2018.

[Factors related to the use of pediatric emergency services: results from the Spanish National Health Survey].

Objectives: To determine the frequency of use of Spanish pediatric emergency services, and to describe user profiles and geographic variations.

Material And Methods: Descriptive study based on data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We calculated descriptive statistics and analyzed crude and adjusted odds ratios (ORs).

[Effect of a telephone care program after hospital discharge from a trauma surgery unit].

Objective: To determine the impact of a 1-month telephone care program after hospital discharge from a trauma surgery unit on health services utilization and patient anxiety and to perform a budgetary analysis.

Methods: We carried out an experimental study in 604 patients who formed an experimental and a control group. The experimental group was offered telephone care to resolve doubts during the first month after discharge.

Advance directives and proxies' predictions about patients' treatment preferences.

The accuracy of proxies when they interpret advance directives or apply substituted decision-making criteria has been called into question. It therefore became important to know if the Andalusian Advance Directive Form (AADF) can help to increase the accuracy of proxies' predictions. The aim of this research was to compare the effect of the AADF on the accuracy of proxies' predictions about patients' preferences with that gained from informative and deliberative sessions about end-of-life decision making.

Relationship between anxiety level of patients and their satisfaction with different aspects of healthcare.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the possible association between the anxiety level of patients and their satisfaction with different aspects of healthcare.

Method: This analytical cross-sectional study included 301 patients undergoing scheduled trauma surgery from October 2004 to May 2005 at the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital in Granada (Spain). They completed a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire before their discharge and, at 15 days after discharge, they responded to an ad hoc questionnaire comprising three items (satisfaction with information received, privacy and comfort of the setting, and friendliness of healthcare professionals), and were scored on an interviewer-administered Zung anxiety scale.