Publications by authors named "S Murgui"

Article Synopsis
  • Mental health disorders are increasingly prevalent in primary care settings worldwide, with a study in Catalonia revealing 18.2% of individuals had at least one mental health diagnosis from 2010 to 2019.
  • The most common diagnoses included unspecified anxiety disorder, insomnia, and unspecified depressive disorder, with an increase in these cases noted until 2015, after which the rates stabilized.
  • Factors such as being female, having a lower socioeconomic status, higher BMI, and smoking were significantly associated with mental health diagnoses, suggesting a need for innovative community-based approaches to address the rising burden of mental health issues.
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International practice guidelines and policies recognize compassion as a fundamental dimension of quality care. A key element in enhancing compassion in healthcare settings is having reliable patient-reported experience measures. In the Spanish context, there is a need for a valid Spanish patient-reported compassion measure for use in both research and clinical practice.

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Introduction: There has been an increase in the prescription of antidepressants (AD) in primary care (PC). However, it is unclear whether this was explained by a rise in diagnoses with an indication for AD. We investigated the changes in frequency and the variables associated with AD prescription in Catalonia, Spain.

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Background: Having a job has been associated with better Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in cancer survivors. However, the sociodemographic and disease-related profiles characterizing the survivors being employed and those having better HRQOL largely overlap. The present study aims to discern the degree to which employment status is independently associated with cancer survivors' HRQOL or if it mainly reflects the impact of other sociodemographic and cancer-related variables.

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