Publications by authors named "Silvia Nunez-Fernandez"
Article Synopsis
- This study is the first to validate the Norma Latina Battery for assessing cognitive function in Mexican individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to healthy controls (HC).
- The research involved 234 participants, revealing that the battery effectively discriminates between cognitive abilities of those with AD and HC across all tested domains.
- The Norma Latina Battery showed high sensitivity and specificity, making it a useful tool for clinicians and researchers working with Alzheimer’s patients in Mexico to improve diagnosis and treatment outcomes.
Purpose: This study aims to elucidate the health care organization, management and policy barriers and facilitators associated with implementation of an evidence-based health promotion intervention in primary care centers in the Basque Country, Spain.
Design/methodology/approach: Seven focus groups were conducted with 49 health professionals from six primary care centers participating in the Prescribing Healthy Life program. Text was analyzed using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) focusing on those constructs related to health care organization, management and policy.
Primary care is especially well positioned to address prevention of non-communicable diseases. However, implementation of health promotion activities such as personalized dietary advice is challenging. The study aim was to understand barriers and facilitators of the personalized dietary advice component of a lifestyle intervention in primary care, as perceived by health center professionals and program participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuropsychology is a fast-growing specialty in Greece. This study surveyed the status of neuropsychologists in Greece investigating several aspects of the profession. An online-based questionnaire collected data from December 2019 to February 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI) often affects the individual's ability to work, reducing employment rates post-injury across all severities of TBI. The objective of this multi-country study was to assess the most relevant early predictors of employment status in individuals after TBI at one-year post-injury in European countries. Using a prospective longitudinal non-randomized observational cohort (The Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI) project), data was collected between December 2014-2019 from 63 trauma centers in 18 European countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective of this study was to develop norms for two neuropsychological tests of learning and memory in an Ecuadorian adult population.
Method: 322 healthy individuals, ages between 18 and 84, were enrolled in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Participants were administered a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation that included tests of learning and memory (Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test [ROCF] and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised [HVLT-R]).