Jorge Maté Méndez

Jorge Maté Méndez
Catalan Institute of Oncology | ICO · Psycho-Oncology Service

PhD

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Publications (57)
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Introducción: La atención psicosocial de las personas con enfermedad oncológica y la familia debe formar parte de todo modelo integral de atención que pretenda reducir el impacto vital del cáncer. Las intervenciones psicosociales han probado su eficacia en la ayuda a pacientes y familiares para afrontar las situaciones de alta complejidad psicosoci...
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Background Family caregivers of patients with advanced illness at end of life often report high levels of emotional distress. To address this emotional distress is necessary to have adequate and reliable screening tools. Aim This study analyses the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Family Caregiver Emotional Detection Scale for c...
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Objective Cancer is one of the biggest health challenges of our times, affecting all the personal areas of a patient. The interrelationships between these areas and the need for multidisciplinary care require the assessment of psychosocial complexity in cancer patients. The main aim of this study was to reach a consensus on the general definition o...
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Background and aim To assess emotional distress and complexity of patients referred to the Psychosocial Committee. Material and methods A pre-post single group study was performed in a sample of oncological patients. From the 144 patients referred to the committee, 27 were attended by psychosocial specialists. The patients’ levels of emotional dis...
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Introducción: El impacto psicológico de la pandemia de la COVID-19 es incuestionable, especialmente entre los grupos de mayor vulnerabilidad. Uno de estos grupos es el de profesionales sanitarios. El objetivo es describir la puesta en marcha de un plan de intervención psicológica destinado en la protección de la salud mental de los profesionales sa...
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Objectives To determine whether specific external signs of emotional distress (ESED) can be an indirect measure of emotional distress in caregivers. Methods A cross-sectional multicentre design was used. 148 primary caregivers of advanced cancer patients attended in four Spanish palliative care units participated in this study. The emotional distr...
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BACKGROUND The PSICPAL Program seeks the promotion of quality psychosocial and spiritual care for persons with chronic and/or advanced illness and their families as its main goal. It considers psychosocial and spiritual needs as essential and assessing such needs as a human right.
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Resumen Antecedentes y objetivo Evaluar el malestar emocional y el nivel de complejidad de pacientes presentados al Comité de Atención Psicosocial. Materiales y métodos Estudio pre-post con un solo grupo en pacientes con cáncer. De los 144 pacientes, 27 fueron derivados por el comité a especialistas del área psicosocial, y sus niveles de malestar...
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Aim: To analyze the psychometric properties and the clinical utility of the Scale of Existential Loneliness (EDSOL) in hospitalized patients with advanced disease. Method: To determine the psychometric properties of the scale, the EDSOL scale was administered along with other instruments to 103 adult patients with advanced diseases admitted to 5 pa...
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Objective The goal of this study is to describe the development of a new tool, the Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs Evaluation scale Instrumento de Evaluación de Necesidades Psicosociales y Espirituales del Enfermo al Final de Vida (ENP-E), designed to assess the psychosocial needs of end-of-life (EOL) patients. And, secondarily, to describe the fa...
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El presente documento ofrece recomendaciones para la evaluación y atención psociocial y espiritual a personas con enfermedades avanzadas. Incluye dos instrumentos de detección (uno para pacientes y otro para familiares) y uno de evaluación sistemàtica y monitorización más específico para pacientes.
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Aim: This paper presents the development of Detection of Existential Loneliness Scale (EDSOL) of patients with advanced disease/terminal illness that receiving palliative care. Method: The process of preparing the scale is described. For this: 1) the literature on the subject has been revised, 2) theoretical framework has been established, 3) it ha...
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Objective: To determine whether specific psychosocial interventions can ease discomfort in palliative care (PC) patients, particularly in those with high levels of pain or emotional distress. Methods: Changes in the psychological parameters of 8,333 patients were assessed in a quasi-experimental, prospective, multi-center, single group, pre-test/p...
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El final de la vida aboca a la persona a la vivencia de nuevos escenarios existenciales donde toda la estructura mental y psicológica durante la vida construida se puede tambalear, y hasta derrumbar; además, puede ser, si no la más dolorosa, una de las experiencias más difíciles de presenciar y acompañar. Es en estos escenarios donde más necesaria...
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The overall assessment of the primary caregiver emotional distress is important to provide appropiate intervention to their needs. Results shows that the primary caregiver who presented emotional distress showed specific extarnal signs of emotional distress. It could be useful to identify caregivers who don’t express openly their feelings.
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Se presenta el desarrollo de la Escala de Detección de Malestar Emocional de los Cuidadores principales de pacientes con enfermedad avanzada o terminal que reciben cuidados paliativos (DME-C). Se describe el proceso de elaboración de la escala. Para ello, se ha revisado la bibliografía existente sobre el tema, se ha establecido un marco teórico de...
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The aim of the present study was to provide evidence of validity of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale for use in Spanish young population. A total of 365 university students responded to the Spanish version of the BRCS as well as to other tools for measuring personal perceived competence, life satisfaction, depression, anxiety, negative and positive...
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Objective To evaluate and alleviate the emotional distress suffered by advanced cancer patients, simple screening methods that can be easily used by health staff and easily understood by patients are required. The objective of this multicenter study was to analyze the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Detection of Emotional Distre...
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Objective: Suffering frequently occurs in the context of chronic and progressive medical illnesses and emerges with great intensity at end-of-life. A review of the literature on suffering and distress-related factors was conducted to illustrate the integrative nature of suffering in this context. We hope it will result in a comprehensive approach,...
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To evaluate and alleviate the emotional distress suffered by advanced cancer patients, simple screening methods that can be easily used by health staff and easily understood by patients are required. The objective of this multicenter study was to analyze the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Detection of Emotional Distress (DED) s...
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Introduction: Both patients and their families have physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs to be assessed. Such needs have to be recorded so as to be able to set the therapeutic objectives, the outcomes review, and their further reassessment. The evaluation of these needs using common tools makes it easier to communicate information among...
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Los enfermos se quejan, no de la enfermedad sino de la experiencia subjetiva de la misma. El sufrimiento se da en el ámbito subjetivo: centrados sólo en lo objetivo y medible los profesionales no lo pueden explorar ni atender.● El sufrimiento es un estado específico de malestar emocional que ocurre cuando la integridad de la persona está amenazada...
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Este artículo ha sido retirado de la revista por haberse duplicado accidentalmente su publica-ción. De manera involuntaria había sido previamente publicado en Med Paliat. 2010;17(6):348-59. Como consecuencia, las páginas <92-104> ocupadas por este artículo faltan de la publicación on-line. El editor lamenta las molestias que esto puede causar.
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Objetivo: Las enfermedades graves como el cáncer pueden vivirse como experiencias traumáticas y/o como impulso para realizar cambios vitales positivos (ej. crecimiento pos- traumático). El programa de psicoterapia posi- tiva grupal para supervivientes de cáncer que realizamos integra ambos elementos, trauma y crecimiento. Los objetivos del programa...
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He seguido con gran interés y atención los últimas reflexiones aparecidas en Medicina Paliativa en torno al concepto "dignidad" (1-3), y personalmente agradezco sobremanera este apartado de la revista en el que es posi-ble tanto verter como nutrirse de las opiniones y expe-riencias de nuestros compañeros de profesión. Estaría bastante de acuerdo en...
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Objetivo: Las enfermedades graves como el cáncer pueden vivirse como experiencias traumáticas y/o como impulso para realizar cambios vitales positivos (ej. crecimiento postraumático). El programa de psicoterapia positiva grupal para supervivientes de cáncer que realizamos integra ambos elementos, trauma y crecimiento. Los objetivos del programa no...
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Aim. The main aim of this article is to know whether cancer survivor patients have different communication and information needs in contrast to cancer patients in other stages of the disease. Method. A questionnaire was designed to assess the frequency and importance of 15 doctor-patient situations related to informational and communicational aspec...
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Introduction: both Patients and their families have physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs to be assessed. Such needs have to be recorded so as to allow the setting of therapeutic objectives, the outcomes review and their further reassessment. Needs' assessment undergone with common tools, facilitates information transmission among the wid...
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Objetivo: Establecer la sistemática de trabajo de un grupo multidisciplinar cuyo objetivo es elaborar un instrumento para detectar el malestar emocional en enfermos al fi nal de la vida. Material y métodos: Se describe la formación y composición del equipo investigador así como su dinámica de trabajo a lo largo de 2007 y 2008 en múltiples reuniones...
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RESUMEN Introducción: el proceso de duelo se puede complicar y prolongar en el tiempo, dando lugar a un duelo patológico o complicado, generando un sufrimiento añadido a la pérdida de un ser querido. Es necesario contar con instrumentos de evaluación que nos permitan diferenciar las reacciones normales de las que no lo son, para poder intervenir y...
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Objective: To establish the methodology of work for a multidisciplinary group whose objective is to generate a tool to detect the emotional distress in patients at the end of their lives. Material and method: It describes the configuration and composition of the researching team as well as its method of work throughout 2007 and 2008. The combinatio...
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Els estudis revisats s'han focalitzat en dos temes d'especial rellevància dintre de l'àmbit de la psico-oncologia: els tractaments psicològics i el creixement posttraumàtic en càncer. Tractaments psicològics Intervencions psicològiques i millora de la supervivència en càncer Les prestigioses bases de dades Cochrane publiquen online al 2008 les dade...
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Introducción: Hoy en día, el avance de la ciencia y las tecnologías facilitan que la esperanza de vida se incremente constantemente, es decir, la población envejece día a día y la muerte se puede retrasar más. Todo ello permite pensar en un incremento de la prevalencia de enfermedades degenerativas, y por tanto, de las fuentes potenciales de sufrim...
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La enfermedad oncológica avanzada produce en los enfermos una serie de síntomas frecuentemente invalidantes y molestos que pueden provocar gran malestar psicológico tanto en el paciente como en la familia. En este contexto, incluso a pesar de un aceptable control sintomático, los pacientes pueden presentar ideación autolítica. Esta situación es de...
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Objective: to collect empirical evidence about the identification and care of spiritual needs for patients in palliative care units. Method: an anonymous questionnaire was designed and 1200 copies were distributed through the Medicina Paliativa journal to palliative care professionals all over Spain. Questionnaires included items on the detection,...
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Introduction: Nowadays, the advance of science and technology are facilitating that life expectancy keeps increasing continuously. This means that population ages on a daily basis and death can be delayed even more. All these facts contribute significantly to the increase and prevalence of degenerative diseases, and therefore, the growth of potenti...
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The development of the illness in oncology patients produces a series of uncomfortable and frequently annoying symptoms that can cause significant psychological distress in both patients and their relatives. Under these circumstances, the patients can experience autolytic ideation, even when acceptable symptomatic controls are in place. This situat...
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The presence of psychiatric disorders in the cancer patient has been well documented. In spite of their frequency, the identification of these disorders remains insufficient. There are various reasons for this, such as: a) the mingling of somatic and psychological symptomatology; b) believing that the presence of anxiety, depression, or insomnia is...
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La formación en Psico-Oncología tiene como objetivo principal dotar al residente de Psicología Clínica y Psiquiatría de los conocimientos teórico-prácticos y de las habilidades clínicas necesarias para la evaluación, el diagnóstico y el tratamiento psicológico de las reacciones emocionales y de los trastornos psicopatológicos presentes en el pacien...
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Training in Psycho-Oncology, as its principal objective, seeks to endow the resident in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry with the theoretical-practical knowledge and the clinical-care skills necessary for the psychological evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of emotional reactions and the psychopathological traumas presented by the cancer patient...

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