Elena Andina-DíazUniversity of Leon | UNILEON · Department of Nursing and Physiotheraphy
Elena Andina-Díaz
PhD (Nursing) MSc RN
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Introduction
I currently work as Lecturer in Nursing in the Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of León, where I teach in the Nursing Degree and in the Master of Research in Social and Health Sciences.
My projects are focused on Culture/Vulnerable Groups/Gender and Health, Nursing Education, and Nursing History, from a Qualitative approach.
Additional affiliations
September 2016 - present
Publications
Publications (68)
Background/Objectives:Different international organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding during the neonate's first six months of life; however, figures of around 38% are reported at the global level. One of the reasons for early abandonment is the mothers' perception of supplying insufficient milk to their newborns. The objective of this rese...
Background
Body transformations are alterations of the body due to symbolic, aesthetic, religious or cultural reasons. The increase in frequency, especially among young people, raises ethical questions. Future nurses must understand the ethical implications of social phenomena.
Aim
The aim was to find out how nursing students perceive bodily transf...
Aim
The aim of this study was to review the existing evidence on burnout levels in midwives and the main related factors.
Design
Mixed studies systematic review.
Data Sources
PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science were sourced from 2018 and 2023.
Review Methods
Inclusion criteria: quantitative cross‐sectional or qualitative articles published in Engl...
Background
Migration has challenged society. Most people who move do so for economic reasons, but others move for more tragic reasons. The proportion of female migrants was slightly higher than that of male migrants, partly due to the longer life expectancy of women and the higher demand for female migrants in care‐related Jobs. The process may aff...
Objective
To assess nursing students’ experiences of using photovoice as a pedagogical approach to active learning in the community.
Methods
A descriptive design with a cross-sectional mixed-method questionnaire was used with 108 students following an educational activity, in which their communities were photographed and the impact of the pandem...
El presente libro representa el esfuerzo compartido por generar un ambiente reflexivo que proporcione al estudiante una sólida fundamentación de los principios que rigen la disciplina enfermera. En un trabajo de unificación de conceptos abstractos y concretos el estudiantado ha explicitado su forma de entender la labor de los profesionales que cuid...
Background: The Higher Education in Nursing requires providing students with skills such as critical and reflective thinking about the actions to be carried out so that they are capable of providing humanised and quality care in an increasingly complex and technified society. Participatory teaching methodologies promote the development of these ski...
FUNDAMENTOS // El folleto del Programa de Detección Precoz del Cáncer de Mama (PDPCM) es una importante herramienta de difusión de ese programa. Conocer la percepción de las mujeres sobre ese material informativo es relevante para entender mejor su actitud hacia el PDPCM. El objetivo del estudio fue explorar las reacciones de las mujeres respecto a...
El propósito de esta editorial es reflexionar, en forma de micro-relato, sobre los espacios
donde buscamos la felicidad en nuestra cultura sumergida en la era digital.
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The purpose of this editorial is to reflect, as micro-story, on the spaces where we seek happiness in our culture immersed in the digital age.
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O objetivo deste editorial é refl...
Tanto los trasplantes como los alotrasplantes compuestos vascularizados, al depender de donaciones, obedecen a factores psicosociales que conociéndolos permiten tomar actitudes educacionales acordes. Objetivo: explorar los conocimientos, creencias y actitudes de estudiantes de enfermería e informática respecto a la donación y trasplante de órganos...
Aims:
To describe the contribution of nursing students to clinical settings based on the perceptions of nurse preceptors and to examine whether certain characteristics of nurses' professional activity are associated with a positive perception of nursing students.
Background:
Most clinical agencies receive many nursing students each year, who acq...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, gender inequalities in nurses have been exacerbated through the images shown on social networks. This study aimed to explore and describe nursing students’ experiences and perceptions about gender inequalities in nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. A descriptive qualitative study was carried out in two universities in...
Aim
To adapt the ‘Nursing Student Contributions to Clinical Settings’ scale (CEEEC, Spanish acronym), designed for specialized care and to evaluate the validity and reliability of a measure in the primary health care setting. Additionally, a description of the contributions of nursing students to primary health care in Spain is presented, based on...
(1) Background: Experiences involve feelings, which, in turn, produce meaning that can become a subjectively lived experience. Therefore, the study of experiences and feelings is essential.
Introduction:
We examined the role of narrative-based nursing (NBN) and the poetry of care (PC).
Objective:
To reflect upon the emotions and feelings experi...
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has an amplified impact on vulnerable populations. Also, aspects related to health inequalities are insufficiently taught in higher education. This study aims to promote reflection in nursing students on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations affected by health inequities.
Methodology
A pho...
Dating violence in the young adult population is reaching alarming levels. However, the instruments used to measure it and their results are still heterogeneous. The main aim of this study was to validate the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory questionnaire for a young adult Spanish university population aged between 19 and 25 ye...
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Hungría cayó bajo la esfera de la influencia rusa. Durante la represión del levantamiento que tuvo lugar en Hungría en octubre de 1956, más de 200.000 húngaros huyeron como refugiados a otros países, entre ellos, Inglaterra. La Cruz Roja dispuso el bienestar de 7.500 refugiados húngaros en su llegada al país. Este tr...
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Hungría cayó bajo la esfera de la influencia rusa. Durante la represión del levantamiento que tuvo lugar en Hungría en octubre de 1956, más de 200.000 húngaros huyeron como refugiados a otros países, entre ellos, Inglaterra. La Cruz Roja dispuso el bienestar de 7.500 refugiados húngaros en su llegada al país. Este tr...
Objective
To describe perceptions of implementing law 41/2002 on patient autonomy in inflammatory bowel disease patients and professionals in relation to shared decision-making.
Methods
Qualitative descriptive study using a phenomenological approach. We conduced semi-structured interviews to 10 patients belonging to the Association of Patients wit...
Baby‐led weaning or self‐regulated small chunk feeding by the baby has emerged as an alternative to the traditional method of complementary feeding. Parents and healthcare professionals often differ in the benefits and drawbacks about it. The research aims were to describe the knowledge of health professionals about complementary feeding and baby‐l...
Introduction: New teaching strategies for higher education suggest integrating dynamic methodologies. Thus, university students’ critical thinking can be actively worked. Reflective photography or photovoice has been used in the educational field to form knowledge about the social context. Goals: To develop an educational project where critical thi...
Background
A validated questionnaire to measure the contributions of nursing students to clinical settings could potentially assist in the improved management of students in healthcare institutions.
Aim
To develop and test the psychometric properties of the questionnaire ‘Nursing Student Contributions to Clinical Settings’ (CEEEC, Spanish acrony...
Background
Active teaching methodologies that incorporate students' feelings and beliefs and encourage them to reflect upon and critically think about certain variables, are extremely useful to teachers.
Objective
To explore the potential of dramatisation and photovoice technologies as instruments to stimulate nursing students to reflect upon viol...
Objective:
To describe the cultural beliefs and practices related to food during pregnancy and the puerperium in adult women (over 60 years old) in two different cultures by applying the Health Traditions Model.
Method:
A qualitative study was carried out with the participation of 16 women resident during their pregnancy / childbirth / puerperium...
Social workers in the community setting are in constant contact with the suffering experienced by the most vulnerable individual. Social interventions are complex and affect social workers’ emotional well-being. The aim of this study was to identify the emotions, feelings, and experiences social workers have while attending to individuals in situat...
Actualmente, la mayoría de centros asistenciales incorporan estudiantes de enfermería que realizan prácticas clínicas. Durante su formación interaccionan con profesionales sanitarios, pacientes y familiares, por lo que consideramos importante diseñar y validar un cuestionario que recoja las contribuciones del alumnado de Grado en Enfermería a los e...
Background and Purpose: The role of older women close to the pregnant woman
may be relevant when conveying information. The use of theories/models can
guide the development of nursing practice. Purpose: To explore beliefs and practices
related to pregnancy and childbirth from the perspective of older women who gave
birth at home, applying Leininger...
Netley Hospital played a crucial role in caring for the wounded during the nineteenth century and twentieth century, becoming one of the busiest military hospitals of the time. Simultaneously, Florence Nightingale delved into the concept of health and developed the theoretical basis of nursing. This research aims to describe the experiences related...
La actual dinámica social hace que el cuidado de enfermería se convierta en un desafío permanente, pues debe considerar las continuas transformaciones de los aspectos socioculturales de las personas para ofrecer unos cuidados de calidad. Sin embargo, hay personas que mantienen creencias, normas y prácticas familiares tradicionales que pasan de gene...
Purpose
Higher education institutions have a significant impact in preparing future generations for the creation of a sustainable society. By formulating appropriate curricula, the university can shape student personality with sustainability concerns. This study aims to present the results of a teaching approach on environmental sustainability usin...
Objective:
to explore the potentialities of the Photovoice methodology to stimulate critical thinking on Social Determinants of Health.
Method:
an exploratory and descriptive study with a qualitative approach, using different steps of the Photovoice methodology. Nursing students obtained photographs in their community, showing Social Determinants...
Introduction:
Educational interventions in the school environment seem the most effective way to act against childhood obesity. The objectives of this systematic review were to describe the educational interventions on nutrition and / or physical activity carried out in primary school students in order to reduce or prevent childhood obesity and ana...
El objetivo general de este estudio se centra en explorar las potencialidades de la fotografía y la dramatización como instrumentos para estimular de forma participativa la reflexión en la acción, el pensamiento crítico y el debate sobre la violencia de género en diferentes contextos. Se trata de un estudio cualitativo enmarcado en el Paradigma Soc...
The 2008 global economic crisis heightened social inequality and drastically reduced equal opportunities for many people. It had negative consequences for social regulation in many European countries, which have dismantled their public social policies. The objective of the study was to describe social workers' perceptions of their lived experiences...
Objective
To describe the perceptions and wishes about childbirth in a group of full-term pregnant women in Zamora.
Method
Qualitative study of phenomenological character. Participants and Scope of study: pregnant women (37–38 weeks), health centers Zamora Sur and Santa Elena (Zamora). Data collection: semi-structured interviews, until data satura...
Resumen
Objetivo
Describir las percepciones y deseos sobre el parto en un grupo de gestantes a término de Zamora.
Método
Estudio cualitativo de carácter fenomenológico. Participantes y ámbito de estudio: embarazadas de 37-38 semanas, centros de salud Zamora Sur y Santa Elena (Zamora). Recogida de datos: entrevistas semiestructuradas, hasta llegar...
The field of health is one of the most relational environments that science knows, but the contacts between actors are rarely analyzed. The Theory of Networks conceptualizes the individual as part of a structure to which he nourishes, and from which he nourishes himself. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the method that supports Network Theory. In t...
El ámbito de la salud es uno de los entornos más relacionales que la ciencia conoce, pero raramente se analizan los contactos entre actores. La Teoría de Redes conceptualiza al individuo como parte de una estructura a la cual nutre y de la cual se nutre. El Análisis de Redes Sociales (ARS) es el método que da soporte a la Teoría de Redes. En el sig...
The Social Network Analysis offers a view of social phenomena based on interactions. The aim of this study is to compare social reality through the cohesion variable and analyse its relationship with the resilience of university students. This information is useful to work with the students academically and to optimise the properties of the network...
Safety during birth has improved since hospital delivery became standard practice, but the process has also become increasingly medicalised. Hence, recent years have witnessed a growing interest in home births due to the advantages it offers to mothers and their newborn infants. The aims of the present study were to confirm the transition from a ho...
Esta investigación se centra en conocer el desarrollo de la conciencia metacognitiva y el perfil escritor de los universitarios en relación con las tareas de síntesis, altamente demandadas en la Educación Superior, pero ineficazmente abordadas por muchos estudiantes. La muestra ha estado formada por 82 universitarios, divididos en dos condiciones e...
https://www.enfermeria21.com/grupo40enfermeras/referentes/informe-rrss/
Analysis of social networks may be a useful tool for understanding the relationship between resilience and engagement, and this could be applied to educational methodologies, not only to improve academic performance, but also to create emotionally sustainable networks. This descriptive study was carried out on 134 university students. We collected...
Los profesionales sanitarios y de la educación jugamos un importante papel de acompañamiento y guía en la educación sexual de los adolescentes. Además de los modelos tradicionales de enseñanza, hoy se apuesta por metodologías de acción participativas. El objetivo de este trabajo fue fomentar el aprendizaje en dicha materia a alumnos de un instituto...
La evaluación formativa permite obtener información sobre la progresión del aprendizaje y es un elemento esencial para evaluar competencias. Este trabajo describe la aplicación de una práctica de simulación para adquirir la competencia clínica de “inmovilización cervical: manejo del collarín cervical” en estudiantes de segundo curso del grado de En...
Objective:
to describe how the progressive creation of the Social Security (providing widespread health care) affected the birth assistance in Spain from the 1940s to the 1970s in a rural area.
Method:
historical ethnography. Twenty-seven people who lived at that time were selected and interviewed guided by a semistructured script. Based on thei...
La historia que sigue es la de Petrina, una mujer que compaginó sus labores en el campo, costura y hogar con la de partera en su localidad, Alvares de la Ribera, un pequeño pueblo situado en la comarca leonesa del Bierzo. Desarrolló esta actividad durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970, hasta que las embarazadas comenzaron a ir a dar a luz a la Residen...
The story that follows is that of Petrina, a woman who combined her work in the farm, sewing and the housework with that of a midwife in her village, Alvares de la Ribera, a small town located in El Bierzo, in the province of Leon. She worked as a midwife during the 1960s and 1970s, until women started going to give birth to the public hospital in...
The cinema may be a good way to analyse and think over health and illness. Objectives: descriptive-interpretative analysis of the role played by the Nursing in the film "Talk to her" and the life-health situations. Method: we use those guidelines proposed by the stuntmen of the field. Conclusions: "Talk to her" shows an autonomous professional of N...
Concha Espina writes the book Princesas del Martirio at the turn of the 40s, in the last century. This is a book in honour of three nurses, who were killed during the Spanish Civil War. The three nurses, who were voluntaries of The Red Cross in Astorga (León), were called to attend the sick and injured people in Puerto de Somiedo (Asturias), in Oct...
El papel que las matronas han desempeñado a lo largo de la historia ha estado íntimamente condicionado por la cultura de la sociedad en la que vivían: las costumbres, las creencias y los ritos. El objeto del presente trabajo fue acercarse al conocimiento y evolución de los cuidados brindados por las matronas a lo largo del siglo XX en una zona conc...
Las puertas de urgencias de los hospitales son un punto de encuentro de poblaciones con distinto concepto de los términos salud y enfermedad. Fundamentándonos en la teoría fenomenológica hemos pretendido describir e interpretar el marco y las formas en las que se realiza la interacción de estas poblaciones. En el presente trabajo nos hemos centrado...