Jorge Luis Méndez Ulrich- Psychology PhD
- Professor (Associate) at University of Barcelona
Jorge Luis Méndez Ulrich
- Psychology PhD
- Professor (Associate) at University of Barcelona
GRISIJ-Research Group in Socieducative Interventions in Childhood and Youth
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Introduction
Lecturer at the Department of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education of the University of Barcelona. I teach Health Education and Inclusive Education. My current research interests are Health Psychology, Health Education, Teaching Innovation and social inclusion. I am interested in networking with other researchers around the world. Don't hersitate to contact me: jordi.mendez@ub.edu
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This paper presents a study related to burnout and well-being
deriving from professional practice in community mental health
services. The sample consisted in 133 workers from the public
mental health system of Barcelona (Spain). An ad-hoc questionnaire was used, and data was analyzed from a descriptive
approach. The results reveal a high level of...
Es presenten els resultats d'un projecte d'innovació educativa orientat a comparar la docència en context exterior, interior i en línia en experiència d'aprenentatge i condicions d'aprenentatge. Els resultats mostren que les millors condicions d'aprenentatge dels contexts interior i en línia van quedar compensades per la millor experiència hedònica...
Se presenta un estudio cuyo objetivo consistió en analizar la relación entre la participación universitaria, la motivación y la satisfacción de los estudiantes de Ciencias de la Educación como factores relevantes del compromiso académico e identificar los predictores de la participación estudiantil. La muestra consistió en 13939 estudiantes de 21 i...
Abstract
Background/Objective: During Covid-19, high prevalences of anxiety and depression were reported among university students, suggesting that they may be at higher risk than the general population of developing psychological disorders in lockdown situations. This study aimed to analyze how sociocultural factors and individual differences con...
En aquest treball es presenten els resultats d’un estudi transversal i descriptiu realitzat en el marc de les pràctiques externes del grau de pedagogia de la Universitat de Barcelona amb l’objectiu de valorar la percepció de l’alumnat respecte a la utilitat de la metodologia de seminaris de pràctica reflexiva (SPR) per al desenvolupament de les com...
This paper presents a study whose objective was to characterize the formative, human, physical and community resources that make up good educational practices for the educational inclusion of students who suffer from a rare disease, as well as to detect the needs experienced by professionals and families regarding these resources. To this end, a cr...
Previous studies have reported that adolescents were at higher risk for mental health disorders during and after the COVID-19 pandemic due to the characteristics of their developmental period and to the impact of social and mobility restrictions on their daily routines. In response to these reports, we designed, implemented, and evaluated the impac...
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, professors of the Psychology Degree at UAB implemented a new teaching experience in a first year subject. MOTEMO-OUTDOOR is an active learning program applied to three environments: indoors, outdoors and online. At the same time, they evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of this teaching strategy. The su...
Widespread population vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a matter of great interest to public health as it is the main pharmacological measure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Hesitancy/reluctance to vaccination has become a main barrier to containing the pandemic. Young adults are the age group with the greatest resistance to vaccination...
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The restriction measures put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic posed notable challenges for formal teaching-learning processes because they had to be adapted to ensure health security. An active learning programme applied to three environments (indoors, outdoors, and online) was tested with 273 undergraduate university students in...
En este artículo se hace referencia a la historia del Prácticum de Pedagogía de la UB, visualizada por los intereses e inquietudes manifestadas en las publicaciones del Grupo de innovación PRAXIS. A partir de allí se realizan algunas reflexiones sobre el proceso y la caracterización de la institucionalización del modelo de prácticas de Pedagogía de...
Previous studies during the Covid-19 pandemic reported particularly high prevalence of anxiety and depression among university students, suggesting that they can be a vulnerable group at greater risk than the general population for developing psychological disorders in situations of confinement. However, the impact varied between countries and indi...
These are the two datasets extracted from the PSY-COVID-1 study for the analysis of the university students's mental health. Dataset labelled "Dataset PSY-COVID university students " contains only data of 7601 from 6 Ibero-American countries (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, and Uruguay). Dataset labelled "Dataset PSY-COVID university s...
Atravesar un proceso de enfermedad supone un impacto en la vida de los pacientes y su entorno que ocasiona una serie de alteraciones de mayor o menor magnitud a nivel físico, emocional y social. Una enferme-dad es, ante todo, una situación estresante que se ha de afrontar. De este afrontamiento dependerá el progreso y eventual curación de la enferm...
The restriction measures posed notable challenges for formal teaching-learning processes in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic since they had to be adapted to guarantee health security. An active learning programme applied to three environments (indoor, outdoor, and online) was tested on 273 undergraduate university students in an a within-subjec...
Rationale: widespread population vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a matter ofgreat interest to public health managers as it is the main pharmacological measureto contain the COVID-19 epidemic. Hesitancy or reluctance to vaccination hasbecome one of the main barriers to containing the pandemic. The young adultpopulation appears as one of...
The containment measures in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic have posed a notable challenge for formal teaching-learning processes, which have had to be adapted to a context of health security. An active learning program, MOTEMO-OUTDOOR was tested on a sample of 273 university undergraduate students. A within-subjects design was carried out with a...
Methods. A randomised controlled trial was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of a 12-week multicomponent treatment based on pain neuroscience education, therapeutic exercise, cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness, in addition to treatment as usual, compared to treatment as usual only in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). A total of 272...
The identification of general population groups particularly vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on mental health and the development of healthcare policies are priority challenges in the current and future pandemics. This study aimed to identify the personal and social determinants of the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on...
This article presents a narrative review of the scientific production generated over the last 10 years by the coordination department of the Pedagogy degree practicum at the University of Barcelona, through the consolidated teaching innovation group PRAXIS. Following a bibliometric approach, a total of 14 articles and numerous participations in con...
In this webinar, the results of the PSY-COVID study at the Autonomous University of Barcelona are presented in relation to the impact on mental health (anxiety disorder, depression and somatization), comparing the different clusters of the academic community with each other (students, professors and administration and services staff) and with the g...
This preprint has been published in Journal of Clinical Medicine:
DOI:
10.3390/jcm10225297
ResearchGate link to published version: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356199784_Social_Inequities_in_the_Impact_of_COVID-19_Lockdown_Measures_on_the_Mental_Health_of_a_Large_Sample_of_the_Colombian_Population_PSY-COVID_Study
Link to the paper's...
This study explores the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on the performance
of external internships for the Pedagogy degree at the University of Barcelona.
By means of 3 questionnaires, as quantitative techniques for collecting and
analyzing information, a sample of 192 students, 167 tutors from the internship
centers and 27 teachers from the Unive...
La comunicación presenta los resultados preliminares sobre salud mental de una muestra de población residente en Perú (n = 530) durante las medidas de restricción demovilidad adoptadas para el control de la pandemia de COVID-19
The conference presents the preliminary results on mental health from a sample of the population resident in Peru (n = 530) during the mobility restriction measures adopted to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
A recent study (FIBROWALK) has supported the effectiveness of a multicomponent treatment based on pain neuroscience education (PNE), exercise therapy (TE), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness in patients with fibromyalgia. The aim of the present RCT was: (a) to analyze the effectiveness of a 12-week multicomponent treatment (nature...
This study explores the effects of confinement caused by COVID-19 on the development of external internships in the degree in Pedagogy at the University of Barcelona. Through
3 questionnaires, as quantitative techniques for collecting and analyzing information, a sample of 192 students, 167 tutors from the internship centers and 27 teachers from t...
Second report on the results of the PSY-COVID study in Colombia This document, entitled "Social behavior of the Colombian population during the COVID-19 pandemic," presents descriptive analyses of public health variables.
Aim: To provide a preliminary assessment of the efficacy of the NAT-FM protocol as a complimentary treatment in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). Methods: A trial was conducted, with two arms: TAU (n = 6) and TAU+NAT-FM (n = 6). Results: There was a reduction in physical limitations and anxious/depressive symptoms and an improvement in positive affe...
Methods. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of a 12-week multicomponent treatment based on pain neuroscience education, therapeutic exercise, cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness, in addition to treatment as usual (TAU), compared to TAU only in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). The multicompone...
Segundo informe de resultados del estudio PSY-COVID en Colombia. En este documento, titulado “Comportamiento social de la población colombiana durante la pandemia del COVID-19“, se dan a conocer los análisis descriptivos de las variables de salud pública.
The present communication collects the data obtained through an online questionnaire on the subjective well-being of children and young people, between 3 and 21 years old, with intellectual disabilities during the period of strict confinement by COVID-19 in Spain. The questionnaire used was administered online during the period of strict confinemen...
First report on the results of the PSY-COVID study in Colombia. In this document, entitled "Effects on the mental health of the Colombian population during the COVID-19 pandemic", descriptive analyses of mental health variables are presented.
Primer informe de resultados del estudio PSY-COVID en Colombia. En este documento, titulado “Efectos en la salud mental de la población colombiana durante la pandemia del COVID-19“, se dan a conocer los análisis descriptivos de las variables de salud mental.
This paper presents part of the results of the international project titled ‘From Tradition to Innovation in Teacher Training Institutions (TO-INN)’, in which 13,939 European and Latin American university students taking Education Sciences participated. The objective of the study was to trace the students’ motivational profiles and to detect which...
A field study was carried out in an optometry clinic, aimed at assessing the role of perceived control and aversiveness of non-contact tonometry in intraocular pressure (IOP) reactivity to psychosocial stressors, and analyzing the covariation with cardiovascular and affective reactivity. Forty-four customers volunteered to participate in the study....
El interés en la naturaleza de la participación estudiantil en la gobernanza y vida de la universidad se construye sobre los principios de democracia, autonomía y participación. En el texto se profundiza sobre los modos de participación estudiantil y los factores inhibidores del mismo. Se muestran y detallan los resultados de una investigación en l...
In the present study, we explored the effects of high arousal on cognitive performance when facing a situation of risk. We also investigated how these effects are moderated by either positive or negative emotional states (valence). An ecological methodology was employed, and a field study was carried out in a real-life situation with 39 volunteer p...
This article proposes electrodermal activity (EDA) as a new objective measure for experimental studies in media accessibility. It first presents a theoretical framework in which the concept of emotion and its categorisation are presented. It then explains how EDA can be used to measure emotional reaction: the article reports on experimental design,...
The study protocol of a prospective and randomized controlled trial for the assessment of the efficacy of nature activity therapy for people with Fibromyalgia (NAT-FM) is described. The primary outcome is the mean change from baseline in the Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR) score at post-treatment (12 weeks) and at 9 months of follo...
This publication is the result of collaboration between people and institutions of the project
From Tradition to Innovation in Teacher-Training Institutions (TO INN), with reference
number 573685-EPP-2016-1-ES-EPP KA2-CBHE-JP, funded by the European Union through
the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Capacity Building programme. It is an initiative coordina...
The present chapter focuses on student analytics questions involved in inclusive education. Who are our students? Why have they chosen a certain study? How is their reality? What are their backgrounds? To answer these questions, a quantitative instrument has been developed-as an online questionnaire-with the aim of getting to know the students' rea...
El actual capítulo sienta las bases sobre una reflexión actual ¿Quién estudia carreras de educación? ¿Cómo son nuestros estudiantes? Para ello se ha creado un instrumento cuantitativo-un cuestionario online-con la finalidad de conocer dicha realidad, así como las condiciones de vida y de estudio de los y las estudiantes, en este caso de educación,...
The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) is one of the most extensively used instruments in the situational assessment of the emotional state in experimental or clinical contexts of emotional induction. However, there is no instrument of this kind adapted for blind or visually impaired people. In this paper, we present the results of the preliminary valid...
The NAT (Nature, Activity and Therapy) research project aims to design therapies based on activities in the natural environment. NAT-FM is a therapeutical protocol focused on Fibromyalgia (FM). This pathology is a central sensitivity syndrome, characterized by generalized chronic pain and intense fatigue. The interventions through physical activity...
Uno de los objetivos principales del proyecto From Tradition to Innovation in Teacher Training Institutions (TO-INN), ha consistido en conocer a los estudiantes de educación a través del análisis de la dimensión social de las instituciones de Educación Superior. El presente trabajo pretende establecer un debate sobre la presencia de estudiantes ind...
[ENG] An empirical study of the therapeutic potential of various adventure activities to be incorporated into an adventure-nature therapy protocol (ATN) is presented.
To determine the therapeutic potential of these activities, four sources of information have been integrated: panel of experts, interviews and focus groups of specialists, questionnai...
[ENG] Fibromyalgia is the main idiopathic pain syndrome today, and consists of hypersensitivity in a series of body points, known as tender points. This disease is also associated with a multitude of other complaints such as chronic fatigue or sleep disorders, as well as depressive symptoms. This paper presents the results of two systematic reviews...
Are we less or more capable of reacting when we face an objectively dangerous situation? Based on the Efficiency Processing Theory and on previously reported findings, an impairment in cognitive performance would be expected as a product of worry and anxiety. To test this theory, the present study made use of a real-life situation where individuals...
White coat ocular hypertension: What your eyes say about anxiety The Research Group on Stress and Health, has investigated whether the ocular system, regulated by the same neural mechanisms as the arteries, also suffers the phenomenon known as white coat hypertension in its intraocular pressure. You probably have a blood pressure monitor at home, a...
Conferència al III Congrés de Psicologia Sanitària i Salut Mental. Sant Cugat del Vallès, 8 de juny del 2018.
Objectives: This conference paper describes the work of a panel of experts who have assessed the therapeutic potential of adventure sports and natural environment activities that could be integrated into psychological interventions based on the wilderness adventure therapy. The aim was to define the cognitive and affective attributes linked to the...
Sixty-one healthy subjects participated in a
laboratory study carried out in a simulated clinical setting.
Anticipatory anxiety-state was assessed at the arrival and
immediately after, with no brief phase of adaptation, measurements
of intraocular pressure, heart rate, systolic and
diastolic blood pressure were collected. At the end of the
procedur...
Situations of vulnerability or risk of social exclusion in childhood are a complex reality that professionals
of formal and non-formal education have to face today in their daily work. In addition, since the outbreak
of the economic crisis in 2008, there has been an alarming increase in child poverty levels in Spain, with
a consequent negative impa...
Media Accessibility, understood as a branch of Audiovisual Translation studies devoted to the study of access services to media, has experienced a growth in research in recent years. Even if some of the techniques in this field have produced a great number of works, others are still underresearched. This article reports on a pilot study carried out...
En este trabajo se presentan el diseño y los resultados preliminares del pilotaje de un protocolo experimental de inducción emocional basado en el visionado de fragmentos breves de películas. Se explica el protocolo del mismo (de 30’ de duración), los instrumentos utilizados, y los primeros resultados y su valoración. Este piloto se hacho para real...
We proppose the design of an intervention protocol based on the Nature Adventure Therapy as a treatment for chronic pain illnesses, focusing on fibromyalgia.
Researchers from the UAB through a study of the scientific literature on emotional and cognitive aspects reveal a new subdiscipline called (Psycho-ophthalmology), which allows us to contribute their knowledge and methods to improve the health and quality of life of people suffering from this ophthalmological disease. By including a complementary ps...
La adolescencia es un periodo en el que se inician muchos comportamientos de riesgo, entre ellos el consumo de drogas, debido sobre todo por el conocimiento sesgado que tienen sobre las drogas y sus efectos. La sustancia ilegal más consumida entre los adolescentes es el cánnabis. En Barcelona, cada año hay alrededor de 80 inicios de tratamiento de...
Resumen. Actualmente, las situaciones de riesgo de exclusión social, ya sean causadas por maltrato infantil, desamparo, dificultad social estructural o transitoria de la familia, o de cualquier otro tipo, son una compleja realidad que los docentes han de afrontar en su labor cotidiana y que afectan a los niños y niñas de aquellas familias con menos...
The recent economic recession has had a great impact on the living conditions of the Spanish population. In the present study, an approximation is made to the effect of the economic crisis on the access to university studies, as well as the behaviors related to social exclusion that university students would be able to perform or have already done,...
Background: Asymptomatic in its early stages, glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. While psychosocial factors are taken into consideration for a host of diseases such as cancer, heart disease and autoimmune conditions, to date, psychological issues have been ignored in the clinical management of glaucoma.
Objective: This wor...
ABSTRACT
A group of 35 visually impaired people participated in a cross-sectional, correlational study in order to assess the role of control beliefs on coping, perceived quality of life and psychological adjustment to disability. Participants completed a battery of psychometric tests that were adapted to an oral presentation format in the context...
Introducción:
El glaucoma causa una pérdida de visión irrecuperable. La causa principal es el aumento de la presión intraocular (PIO). El glaucoma afecta al 2% de la población. Es una de las causas principales de ceguera en el mundo. Diversos trabajos sugieren que la PIO es reactiva al estrés, con aumentos cercanos al 10-15% (Brody, 1999; Kaluza, 1...
[English]
Introduction: Glaucoma represents one of the main causes of preventable blindness in the industrialized world. Some studies relate certain personality traits with: glaucoma course and treatment, iatrogenesis, quality of life of the patients, and therapeutic adherence. The scientific literature in this field presents a high chronological d...
Se muestran los resultados de una primera aproximación al estado de la cuestión y se organizan cronológicamente y también en función del ámbito de las revistas donde estos estudios han sido publicados, así como en cuanto a sus principales tópicos existentes en la literatura científica en relación a glaucoma y personalidad.
Apostando por la perspectiva más amplia y comprensiva de los determinantes
de la salud, que ofrece el modelo biopsicosocial, la tesis que se presenta a
continuación centra su foco de atención sobre los propios pacientes y los
médicos y profesionales sanitarios que los atienden en su lucha diaria frente al
glaucoma. La contribución que pretendemos h...
Con la culminación del proceso de profesionalización de la Educación Social se ha dibujado un perfil profesional de/la educador/a social que ha cristalizado en los Planes de Estudios del Grado que se cursan en la actualidad. No obstante, existen algunas razones que sugieren que la Educación Social podría tener una escasa difusión entre la sociedad,...
La adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) significó un importante reto de reflexión y planificación orientada a la adaptación de los planes de estudio existentes, cuando no directamente la creación de nuevos estudios. En este nuevo contexto surge la necesidad de implementar un nuevo Trabajo Final de Grado (TFG) en aquellos progr...
The aim of the present study is to detect and characterize the possible white coat effect on the measurement of Intraocular Pressure (IOP). This has been widely studied on the measurement of blood-pressure; however its effect on IOP measurement has yet to be assessed. In order to achieve this, a pilot field study was conducted amongst fourteen volu...
La hipertensión de bata blanca (HBB) es un fenómeno consistente en la obtención de medidas de presión arterial (PA) por encima del rango de normalidad cuando se efectúan por parte de un médico, mientras que ambulatoriamente éstos valores se sitúan dentro del rango de normalidad (Pickering, 2002). Algunas variables que podrían determinar la presenci...
Diversos estudios previos cómo los de Méndez-Ulrich (2010), Erb y Brody (1999), Sauerborn (1992) o Kaluza (1996), evidencian la reactividad de la presión intraocular (PIO) al estrés agudo experimental tanto en pacientes de glaucoma cómo en personas sin patología ocular. Sin embargo, los estresores empleados en éstos estudios han consistido mayorita...
El glaucoma afecta a aproximadamente al 2,1 % de la población española, siendo una de las principales causas de ceguera. Esta enfermedad causa una pérdida de visión irrecuperable, a través del daño progresivo de las fibras que forman el nervio óptico, usualmente asociadas a un aumento de la presión intraocular PIO). Trabajos previos como los de Bro...
Questions
Question (1)
Dear colleagues. I am interested in knowing methods and appares for measuring intraocular pressure using transportable and reliable devices that do not require anesthesia or connection to electric current. Someone could tell me, based on your experience, models or references of tonometers that meet these characteristics. Thank you very much in advance.
