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Jugar a videojuegos puede convertirse en una conducta problemática. Los factores asociados a esta transición han sido ampliamente estudiados en varones, mientras que entre las mujeres es un campo aún no suficientemente abordado. El objetivo de este trabajo fue identificar qué factores de riesgo pueden estar asociados al uso problemático de videojue...
Background and Objectives
Problematic video game use is a source of concern. In addictions, difficulties with emotional regulation have become an important variable of interest. However, their study in relation to problematic video game use remains insufficient.
Methods
A systematic review was conducted following PRISMA 2020 guidelines; 322 studie...
Background: Video game playing (VGP) is an increasingly common leisure activity among children and adolescents, although in some cases, it is accompanied by problems due to misuse. Method: A sample of 2884 children and adolescents aged between 12 and 20, representative of the Community of Madrid (Spain), were studied using a cluster analysis to exp...
In recent times, growing concern has arisen regarding the utilization of technology, video games, and the emergence of internet gaming disorder (IGD), particularly among young adolescents. This worry arises from the ambiguity in distinguishing between “normal” and “problematic” video game behavior, despite efforts to establish clear criteria for de...
Gaming is increasingly prevalent among young people, and Gaming Disorders are a growing concern. Maladaptive cognitions related to gaming may affect the psychological development of young people. We examined psychometric properties of the Dysfunctional Cognitions Gaming (DCG) Scale in Spanish adolescents and young adults. We applied 16 items of the...
The information on the use of Videogames (VG) in general samples fundamentally reflects the characteristics of men, because of their greater participation in VG, making it difficult to identify the characteristics of women and their gaming activity. Objective: To describe the gaming behaviour of adolescent and young women in Madrid, and its relatio...
Gambling advertising can influence attitudes and gaming behavior of adolescents and young adults (A&Y). To study the effect of advertising on the attitudes and gaming behav- ior of a sample of 2887 Spanish A&Y (12–22 years old), by means of a self-report assess- ment. On average, participants show a weak effect of advertising, however there are gre...
The aim of this study is to identify which factors are associated with the problematic use of video game play in adolescents and young people. Data were collected from a stratified random sample (N = 2173) of students aged 12 to 22 (M = 15.3 years old) in high school and professional training in the city of Madrid. A stepwise hierarchical linear re...
Título: Exposición de jóvenes y adolescentes a la publicidad de los juegos de azar: una revisión sistemática Resumen: Los posibles efectos negativos de la publicidad de juegos de azar (JdA), sobre todo en Adolescentes y Jóvenes (AyJ), generan alarma social. Se realizó una revisión sistemática de las investigaciones sobre publici-dad y juego en AyJ,...
Se revisa la literatura científica sobre la importancia de los sesgos cognitivos en el juego y el juego patológico. Se analizan los trabajos al respecto del equipo de investigación dirigido por el Prof. F.J. Labrador. Como principales aportaciones se señalan: presencia de sesgos en todas las personas, si bien con mayor frecuencia e intensidad confo...
Since the inclusion of the Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.) (DSM-5), the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGDS9-SF), a short nine items test, has become one of the most used standardized instruments for its psychometric evaluation. This study presents a validation and ps...
Demographic and clinical variables of adolescents 12 to 16 years old regarding gaming, supporting the paper "Profiling of Video Game Playing in Children and Adolescents" (in press)
Cognitive biases or distortions related to gambling, present in all people, are considered a relevant factor in the development of gambling-related problems.
Objective:
to establish whether the presence of these biases or cognitive distortions, in gamblers and non-gamblers, is related to the presence of gambling problems.
Method:
3000 people ag...
The inclusion of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in the DSM-5 has generated controversy over its diagnosis, and it therefore seems necessary to establish a clear cut-off point to identify when excessive gaming becomes problematic. Such identification is especially difficult in adolescents and young people, who frequently dedicate a great deal of tim...
The efficacy and the effectiveness of anxiety disorder treatments have been proven. However, the desired results are not always achieved. Studying the factors that interfere with the natural course of the treatments could help to correct and to adapt them. Two of these factors are the unnecessary prolongation of treatments and their premature termi...
The purpose of this study is to analyze psychological treatment in social phobia, identifying levels of effectiveness,
treatment length, treatment cost and techniques used. The sample consists of 51 patients, average age 30.14 (SD = 8.309),
mainly women (60.8%), single (78.4%), and students (64.7%). Descriptive analyses for sociodemographic charact...
Background:
Gambling facilitates the development of psychopathological problems in some gamblers. Rapid and easy detection of the presence of these problems, or the risk of their development, will allow early action at the beginning of the problem, including preventive action. For this purpose, we developed the “Sistema de Cribado de Riesgo de Pro...
Background: Empirically supported psychological treatments (ESTs)
have demonstrated their effectiveness and clinical utility for the treatment
of anxiety disorders (AD) but few studies have assessed the factors
associated with premature termination in ESTs for AD. Method: The
goals of this study, which involved 291 patients with a diagnosis of anxi...
The objectives of this study are to describe the most common characteristics of patients receiving psychological treatment and the treatments administered. We analyzed a sample of 856 patients at the University Psychology Clinic of the Complutense University of Madrid. Five diagnostic categories accounted for 78.4% of demand: anxiety disorders (31....
En la actualidad existen tratamientos eficaces para reducir los síntomas de ansiedad y el malestar asociado. Sin embargo, se observa con frecuencia que las respuestas de ansiedad, después de haberse extinguido, se recuperan, sin que esté claro el mecanismo que subyace a dicha recuperación. Desde hace décadas se considera la posibilidad de un mecani...
People with anxiety disorders demand psychological attention most often. Therefore, it seems important to identify both the characteristics of the patients who demand help and the clinical variables related to that demand and its treatment. A cohort of 292 patients who requested help at a university clinical facility was studied. The typical profil...
Anxiety disorders are one of the disorders most frequently requested for psychological attention. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that can explain a longer duration of psychological treatment for anxiety disorders.
202 patients from the University Psychology Clinic of the Complutense University of Madrid were analyzed.
Multivar...
Psychotherapy in Spain in 2014
Psychotherapy is not recognized as a profession and the title of psychotherapist is not recognized by the law. The activities of psychotherapy are legally recognized by the law as professional activities specific to the clinical psychologists. Two titles related to psychology allow the exercise of the profession in th...
La asociación entre trastornos psicopatológicos y variables de funcionamiento psicosocial ha sido documentada, pero son escasos los estudios que evalúan su impacto sobre la eficacia de los tratamientos psicológicos. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la organización vital de 78 pacientes de un servicio de atención psicológica y examinar la rel...
Objectives: To determine the frequency and nature of violence directed at responders giving urgent or emergent care so
that preventive measures can be proposed.
Method: A stratified random sample of 441 emergency responders belonging to the SUMMA-112 emergency health
service of Madrid (135 physicians, 127 nurses, and 179 emergency paramedics) were...
Objectives: To determine the frequency and nature of violence directed at responders giving urgent or emergent care so that preventive measures can be proposed. Method: A stratified random sample of 441 emergency responders belonging to the SUMMA-112 emergency health service of Madrid (135 physicians, 127 nurses, and 179 emergency paramedics) were...
The aim of this article is to describe the use of relaxation tech-niques (RT) in the practice of clinic psychology care. Relaxation techniques are analyzed considering what type of technique they are and their use, go-ing from a general overview to a specific diagnosis context and treatment results. 67.2 percent of 880 clinic patients with all type...
A standard personality report was presented to the subjects to study the degree of its acceptance as a correct description of themselves. It was predicted that the degree of acceptance of these reports would vary according to the subjects� personality characteristics. In agreement with Eysenck (1967) model the subjects with extreme values in both E...
The aim of this work is to explore the use of exposure techniques at the health care context of a clinical psychology facility. Different modalities of exposure techniques, their frequency of usage-both across the entire sample and considering different diagnostic groups - and their relationship to the treatment results, were analysed. From the 880...
Workplace violence has grown exponentially in recent years. The objective of this paper is to present a systematic review of the literature, as well as to point out some specific outlines of psychological intervention. Generally, high rates of physical and verbal violence are reported; however, major differences are observed in the variables associ...
Workplace violence has grown exponentially in recent years. The objective of this paper is to present a systematic review of the literature, as well as to point out some specific outlines of psychological intervention. Generally, high rates of physical and verbal violence are reported; however, major differences are observed in the variables associ...
Workplace violence has grown exponentially in recent years. The objective of this paper is to present a systematic review of the literature, as well as to point out some specific outlines of psychological intervention. Generally, high rates of physical and verbal violence are reported; however, major differences are observed in the variables associ...
Background and objective
To validate the best cut-off point of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), Spanish version, for the screening of eating disorders (ED) in the general population.
Material and method
This was a transversal cross-sectional study. The EAT-40 Spanish version was administered to a representative sample of 1.543 students, age ran...
The objective of this paper is to develop and validate an instrument to assess the problematic use of new technologies (NT) in youth and adolescents. After the pilot study, an initial questionnaire of 35 items was developed. The questionnaire was applied to a sample of 2747 students from 5th grade to 5th university degree. Results from the analysis...
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo conocer la frecuencia y naturaleza de las agresiones que sufren los profesionales asistenciales de los servicios de urgencia y emergencia del SUMMA-112 por parte de pacientes y/o familiares/acompañantes y las variables implicadas con el fin de establecer las necesidades
más importantes para poder aportar solu...
Resumen: El objetivo del estudio es identificar qué variables pueden rela-cionarse con una mayor duración de los tratamientos psicológicos empíri-camente apoyados. Se analizaron los datos de 122 pacientes de la Unidad de Psicología Clínica del Master de Psicología Clínica y de la Salud, divididos en tres grupos en función del número de sesiones de...
Resumen: El objetivo del presente estudio es identificar la intervención psicológica en el contexto de la práctica clínica en contraposición al con-texto investigador. Se analizan las características de una muestra de 122 pacientes que acuden en demanda de ayuda psicológica a la Unidad de Psicología Clínica asociada al Master de Psicología Clínica...
Background:
The goal of this work is to determine whether the combined use of empirically supported psychological treatments (ESTs) and pharmacological therapy (PT) achieves better results than the isolated use of ESTs in the treatment of Anxiety Disorders (AD) in a welfare clinical setting.
Method:
A quasi-experimental study was designed, with...
To validate the best cut-off point of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), Spanish version, for the screening of eating disorders (ED) in the general population.
This was a transversal cross-sectional study. The EAT-40 Spanish version was administered to a representative sample of 1.543 students, age range 12 to 21 years, in the Region of Madrid. Si...
The aim of this study was to analyze differences among cases of short (5-10
sessions), medium (11-18 sessions) and long term (more than 18 sessions)
in sociodemografic, clinical and treatment variables. Data from 349 patients
of the Clínica Universitaria de Psicología de la Universidad Complutense
de Madrid (CUP-UCM), who had successfully completed...
Background:
This study presents normative data on the Spanish Version of the Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire (S-EDE-Q) for adolescents and young adults in Spain.
Method:
A sample of 1,543 men and women, aged 12 - 21 years, completed the S-EDE-Q as part of a larger assessment battery.
Results:
Means, standard deviations, clinical sig...
The purpose of this study was to find out what factors can explain a longer treatment length. The results of treatments developed with 122 patients at the Clinic of Psychology of the Master of Clinical and Health Psychology were analyzed. The patients were divided into three groups, according to the number of treatment sessions received: Group 1 (2...
The aim of this study was to analyze differences among cases of short (5-10 sessions), medium (11-18 sessions) and long term (more than 18 sessions) in sociodemografic, clinical and treatment variables. Data from 349 patients of the Clínica Universitaria de Psicología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (CUP-UCM), who had successfully completed...
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is the most prevalent mental disorder in our environment, and one of the main causes of disability. While several empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for MDD exist, some doubts have been cast on the applicability--in time, components, and effectiveness--of these ESTs in routine clinical practice. A few attempts h...
The aims of this paper are to analyze differences in sociodemographic and clinical characteristics among the various anxiety disorders treated in a Psychology Clinic, and the results of treatment in each anxiety disorder. Data from 282 patients of University Psychology Clinic at the Complutense University of Madrid, who had at least one diagnosis o...
This research examines the internal consistency, convergent validity, and sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value of the Spanish version of the Eating Disorder Examination-Self-Report Questionnaire (S-EDE-Q), as a screening questionnaire for eating disorders (ED) in a community sample. Participants were 1543 male and fe...
This research examines the internal consistency, convergent validity, and sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value of the Spanish version of the Eating Disorder Examination-Self-Report Questionnaire (S-EDE-Q), as a screening questionnaire for eating disorders (ED) in a community sample. Participants were 1543 male and fe...
La Guía de Referencia Rápida (GRR) es un proyecto que se enmarca en la Psicología Clínica basada en la evidencia y que pretende proporcionar una herramienta que permita una búsqueda sencilla (organizada en función de trastornos) de las recomendaciones de las principales guías de tratamientos psicológicos con apoyo empírico y posibilitando con ello...
BENITO MENNI, COMPLEJO ASISTENCIAL EN SALud MENTAL dr. Pujadas, 38 -08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona) Tel.: 936529999 / Fax: 936400268 e-mail: inf-psiquiatricas@hospitalbenitomenni.org / http://www.hospitalarias.org Las referencias de esta revista se publican periódicamente en: iMe/Índice Médico español; PSico-Doc/colegio oficial de Psicólogo...
In order to characterize a typical clinical context, as opposed to an academic or research context, this article will analyze the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients who turn to a psychology clinic in need of professional help. This study was conducted using an initial sample of 1,305 patients at the Universidad Complutense de...
BENITO MENNI, COMPLEJO ASISTENCIAL EN SALud MENTAL dr. Pujadas, 38 -08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona) Tel.: 936529999 / Fax: 936400268 e-mail: inf-psiquiatricas@hospitalbenitomenni.org / http://www.hospitalarias.org Las referencias de esta revista se publican periódicamente en: iMe/Índice Médico español; PSico-Doc/colegio oficial de Psicólogo...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a hallmark of today's societies. These tools are necessary and useful for any successfully functioning organisation, and they are used by the majority of the population. The major factors that foster the ICT use to get in touch with other people are accessibility, availability, intimacy, high sti...
La fobia social es uno de los trastornos más prevalentes y por los que más se demanda atención psicológica. Se estudia la efectividad de los tratamientos psicológicos en una Clínica Universitaria de Psicología. Demandaron asistencia por fobia social 71 pacientes. La media de sesiones de evaluación fue de 3.8 y de tratamiento 16.1. El porcentaje de...
Social phobia is one of the most common disorders and one that requires the most attention from psychological clinics. The aim of this article was to study the effectiveness of psychological treatments in a University Psychological Clinic. Seventy-one social phobia patients requested psychological assistance. The average number of assessment sessio...
The purpose of this study was to identify variables that may explain a longer psychological treatment and to analyze differences between short- and long-term cases. Data from 419 patients of the University Clinic of Psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid were analyzed. Number of intervention techniques, comorbidity, previous treatments,...
The aim of the study is to characterize psychological intervention in the usual clinical practice as opposed to the research's context. The characteristics of a sample of 122 patients asking for psychological help at the Unit of Clinical Psychology in the Complutense University of Madrid, are presented. Patients are mainly women (68.85 %), and the...
INTRODUCCIÓN OBJETIVO Los trastornos de ansiedad son los problemas por los que con más frecuencia se demanda atención psicológica (Estrategia Salud Mental S. N. de Salud, 2007; Labrador, Estupiñá y García Vera, 2010; Valero y Ruiz, 2003. Parece importante caracterizar esta área de intervención psicológica, identificando tanto las principales caract...
Los trastornos de ansiedad conforman el principal grupo diagnóstico en cuanto a demanda de atención clínica. A pesar de ser una categoría con amplia heterogeneidad en cuanto a diagnósticos (APA, 2000), múltiples grupos de investigación defienden la idea de que los procesos que subyacen a los problemas de ansiedad son comunes y que la elección de la...
With the aim of describing the usual clinical context as opposed to the academic or research context, the characteristics of patients and psychological treatments applied in a sample of 856 patients from the Clinic of Psychology of the Complutense University is analyzed. The disorders that require attention, the characteristics of the therapists an...
Objetivo: En este artículo se recopilan y revisan los estudios epidemiológicos sobre trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) realizados en España hasta la fecha. Método: Se ha realizado una búsqueda bibliográfica mediante las bases de datos PSYCINFO y MEDLINE de estudios empíricos publicados sobre epidemiología de TCA en España. Resultados: La...
The aim of this work is to evaluate adolescents' subjective risk perception derived from the use of the New Technologies (NT), and to identify behaviours or warning symptoms of possible addiction problems. A sample of 1,710 underage students of Madrid responded to the DENA questionnaire. Firstly, we found a positive correlation between the time of...
Psychopathological characteristics of female victims of intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence has caused much social alarm. Knowing the characteristics and problems of the female victims of this type of violence is necessary to be able to provide adequate psychological attention. This is the purpose of the present study. We studied a...
Objective: This article reviews the epidemiological studies of eating disorders (ED) among Spanish population published to date. Method: PSYCINFO and MEDLINE databases have been used to look for empirical Spanish epidemiological studies of ED published. Results: Most of the studies in the 90's have not used a diagnostic method for the clinical iden...
Con el objetivo de caracterizar el contexto clínico habitual, en contraposición al contexto de investigación, se analizan las características de pacientes y tratamientos aplicados en una muestra de 856 pacientes de la Clínica de Psicología de la Universidad Complutense. Se identifi can los tipos de problemas por los que se demanda atención, las car...
La violencia de pareja provoca gran alarma social. Conocer las características y problemáticas de las mujeres víctimas de este tipo de violencia parece necesario para poder ofrecer una atención psicológica adecuada. Éste es el objetivo del presente estudio. Se estudia una muestra de 212 mujeres que ha sufrido maltrato por su pareja, derivadas por d...
El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la percepción subjetiva de peligro derivada del uso de las Nuevas Tecnologías (NT) en los menores, y la identificación de conductas indicadoras de un posible problema de adicción a NT. Tras analizar las respuestas al cuestionario DENA de 1710 estudiantes de la Comunidad de Madrid, con edades entre 12-17 años,...
Vol. I: Marco teórico y fundamentos básicos
Vol. II: Protocolo de evaluación y de actuación en urgencias
Vol. III: Protocolo de tratamiento
RESUMEN El uso de las Nuevas Tecnologías (NT) por parte de menores genera cierta alarma social debido a su alta frecuencia. No obstante, son escasos lo datos disponibles sobre el uso de las NT por éstos, objetivo del presente trabajo. Se estudió una muestra de 1710 menores, con edades entre 12 y 17 años. Los datos señalan una alta frecuencia de uso...
El objetivo de esta investigación es evaluar la eficacia de un tratamiento breve e individual del trastorno de estrés postraumático (TEPT) en mujeres víctimas de pareja. Participaron 20 mujeres víctimas de malos tratos por su pareja, todas con diagnóstico de TEPT (DSM-IV-TR). El tratamiento, aplicado en formato individual, consta de ocho sesiones,...
The aim of this research was to compare two different case-identification designs: (a) a one-stage anonymous design using the Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q; Fairburn & Beglin, 1994) as diagnostic instrument and (b) a two-stage-non-anonymous design using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT; Garner & Garfinkel, 1979) and the EDE-Q as s...
Violence and the sociodemographic characteristics of the victims were analyzed in a group of Spanish, Mexican and immigrant battered women with posttraumatic stress disorder. They were middle-age women, separated from the aggressor, coming from a low average socioeconomic status, underemployed, with an average educational level and socially isolati...
The verbalizations of 80 pathological gamblers, at a slot-machine gambling situation, were analyzed using the thinking aloud method, pre and post a treatment. The cognitive distortions included in these verbalizations are compared after the gambles were broken up in two groups, success and failure, according with the results of the treatment. At th...
The aim of this research was to compare two different case-identification designs: (a) a one-stage anonymous design using the Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q; Fairburn & Beglin, 1994) as diagnostic instrument and (b) a two-stage-non-anonymous design using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT; Garner & Garfinkel, 1979) and the EDE-Q as s...
Objetivo: El objetivo de este estudio es identificar las fuentes de estrés laboral de los profesionales que trabajan en los servicios de urgencia de atención primaria.
Diseño: Descriptivo, transversal.
Emplazamiento: Servicios de urgencia de atención primaria del Área 9 de Madrid.
Participantes: En total, 76, entre médicos, enfermeras y celadores (...
Objetivo
El objetivo de este estudio es identificar las fuentes de estrés laboral de los profesionales que trabajan en los servicios de urgencia de atención primaria.
Diseño
Descriptivo, transversal.
Emplazamiento
Servicios de urgencia de atención primaria del Área 9 de Madrid.
Participantes
En total, 76, entre médicos, enfermeras y celadores (e...
Cognitive distortions and treatment success in pathological gambling. The verbalizations of 80 pathological gamblers, at a slot-machine gambling situation, were analyzed using the thinking aloud method, pre and post a treatment. The cognitive distortions included in these verbalizations are compared after the gambles were broken up in two groups, s...
Se comparan las distorsiones cognitivas referidas al azar en jugadores patológicos, antes del tratamiento, versus un grupo de no jugadores o jugadores sin problema. La muestra está compuesta por 160 varones, 80 jugadores patológicos (DSM-IVTR; A.P.A. ), cuya actividad principal de juego eran las máquinas recreativas, y 80 varones sin problemas de j...
Objective: The prevalence of eating disorders (EDs) in a representative scholastic sample was evaluated, and the demo-graphic factors associated with ED were assessed. Method: The study used a two-stage epidemiological design. The study population was a randomly selected sample of 1545 students (12-to 21-year-old males and females) in the region of...
The prevalence of eating disorders (EDs) in a representative scholastic sample was evaluated, and the demographic factors associated with ED were assessed.
The study used a two-stage epidemiological design. The study population was a randomly selected sample of 1545 students (12- to 21-year-old males and females) in the region of Madrid (Spain).
ED...
