Importance Assigned to Breastfeeding by Spanish Pregnant Women and Associated Factors: A Survey-Based Multivariate Linear Correlation Study.

Breastfeeding education, across all disciplines, is often inconsistent and lacking in expertise and confidence. However, recommendations from health professionals, the sociocultural environment, and previous knowledge and experiences significantly influence women's decision to breastfeed. This study aimed to identify factors that promote the assignment of greater importance to breastfeeding and associated practical benefits.

Effects of Acupressure on Maternal and Neonatal Obstetric Outcomes during Labor: Study Protocol.

Background: A Cochrane review found that there is insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of acupressure for pain relief. One of the problems detected is the methodological variability reported.

Objective: To assess the impact of the application of acupressure on obstetric and neonatal outcomes of labor, pain experience, and mother's satisfaction with the experience.

MLuq Protocol: A Proposal for the Immobilization of the White Weapon, Preservation of DNA Traces, and Its Chain of Custody.

Unprecedentedly, this article presents a useful management protocol for the workers in emergency situations assisting victims of white weapon aggressions with a dual innovation. It could presage a possible advance in the healthcare management of these patients and support important repercussions in the legal field when this type of wound is inflicted due to an aggression. The MLuq protocol has been agreed by consensus in a multidisciplinary manner including experts belonging to the state security forces (judicial and scientific Police), to the healthcare area (surgical nursing, emergency medicine, general cardiothoracic and digestive surgery, and the legal and forensic medicine area), to the legal system (a jurist specialized in the area), and to the academic sphere.

Nutritional Analysis of the Spanish Population: A New Approach Using Public Data on Consumption.

Official population consumption data are frequently used to characterize the diet of countries; however, this information may not always be representative of reality. This study analyses the food consumption of the Spanish population by reconstructing the whole food chain. The results have been compared with the data provided by the National Consumption Panel to which the food losses/waste reported in the literature along the distribution chain have been added.

Nutritional and Educational Intervention to Recover a Healthy Eating Pattern Reducing Clinical Ileostomy-Related Complications.

The aim of this study was to evaluate a diet intervention implemented by our hospital in order to determinate its capacity to improve the eating pattern of patients with an ileostomy, facilitating the implementation new eating-related behaviors, reducing doubt and dissatisfaction and other complications. The study was conducted with a quasi-experimental design in a tertiary level hospital. The elaboration and implementation of a nutritional intervention consisting of a Mediterranean-diet-based set of menus duly modified that was reinforced by specific counseling at the reintroduction of oral diet, hospital discharge and first follow-up appointment.

Reducing health inequalities among most disadvantaged type 2 diabetes patients: A cross-sectional exploratory pilot study.

Background: Demographic changes and the increased chronical diseases burden are global challenges that cannot go unnoticed by healthcare systems, which must be organized without losing sight of the increasing influence of social determinants.

Aim: To evaluate the results of a primary care program implemented to reduce health inequalities associated with social determinants in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Method: An exploratory pilot retrospective cross-sectional study that includes secondary data of 404 nonrandomized patients belonging to socially depressed areas and conventional areas.

Sustainable Diets as Tools to Harmonize the Health of Individuals, Communities and the Planet: A Systematic Review.

Background: Climate change and global health are inextricably linked. Thus, health systems and their professionals must adapt and evolve without losing quality of care.

Aim(s): To identify health and environmental co-benefits derived from a sustainable diet and promotion strategies that favor its implementation.

Unhealthy gestational weight gain: Are we neglecting inadequate gestational weight gain?

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of unhealthy gestational weight gain and analyze the role of women´s knowledge about the recommendations, expectations, beliefs, counseling, and information provided by midwives as potential factors contributing to failure to meet recommendations.

Research Design/setting: A retrospective cross-sectional study was performed in a tertiary Hospital in Seville (Spain) between March and September 2019. A sample of 500 singleton pregnant women at or over 37 weeks of gestation completed a self-administered questionnaire during a prenatal visit.

Clinical research focused in European adult women with minority diseases: Do we try hard enough?

We analyzed the European countries participation in clinical trials addressing to new drug development focused on rare diseases in women comparing to more prevalent diseases as breast cancer. Participation was not associated with type of healthcare system neither socio-economic features, but it was associated with population size. Protocol ratios focused on breast cancer vs.

[Big Data in health: a new paradigm to regulate, a challenge for social justice.].

In addition to the opportunities posed by the use of Big Data in health, it also generates important challenges in the field of research, especially from the point of view of its management and ethical considerations. The European Union has been promoting different initiatives that allow the exploitation of this data in the context of the knowledge economy. The UNESCO Ethics Committee has identified three ethical principles to take into account regarding the application of Big Data in Health: independence, privacy and justice.

Bupivacaine infiltration for acute postoperative pain management after cardiac surgery.

Background: Despite increased attention, acute and persistent post-operative pain are not treated efficiently and interventions against acute pain are therefore of clinical importance and should be welcomed.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of wound infiltration with 0.5% bupivacaine for pain management in the immediate post-operative period in patients that underwent cardiac surgery with sternotomy.

Cross-sectional study of the healthcare provided by a medicalized helicopter from Extremadura (Spain).

Objective: To analyze geographic dispersion, demographic factors, clinical features of patients attended and response times of a helicopter emergency medical service in a region of Spain.

Methods: According to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and to the standards of Good Clinical Practice, a cross-sectional observational study from January 2014 to December 2016 was carried out. Socio-demographic, clinical and transfer related variables were analyzed from an anonymized database loaned by the service.