Maria-Jesus Albar

Universidad de Sevilla | US · Nursing

This contribution presents an initiative to overcome health inequities suffered by the Roma silent ranks from a social justice perspective. Roma health inequities are the result of a vicious cycle between poor health, poor living conditions, low socio-economic status, social rejection, and discriminatory policies and practices. All this has led the...

Objective The objective of this study is to build advocacy capacity among a group of gipsy Roma neighbours living in contexts of risk of social exclusion. Methods A Community Based Participatory Action Research design was used, in which 4 members of the community participated in the process of collecting evidence by photo-voice, analysing it using...

Purpose: To develop a preliminary clinical validation the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis "Grieving" in cases of perinatal loss. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study using the Fehring model. Findings: The overall clinical validity index for the diagnosis was 0.15. Only four defining characteristics and five manifestations identified in the lit...

The pervasive failure of policies aimed at overcoming health inequities suffered by European Roma reflects the oppressive and impoverished living conditions of many ethnic minorities in the Western world. The multiple social inequities that Roma experience and the cumulative effect on their health prove that the failure of health policies that impa...

This article describes a workshop whose objective was to build Roma health advocacy capacity among a group of health professionals. Health advocacy is recommended by international organizations and public health experts to overcome the health inequities that Roma populations suffer. Sixteen professionals from three health centres located in neighbo...

Objective: To describe the challenges, resources and strategies of the staff of the family planning programme of the Polígono Sur Healthcare Centre in Seville (Spain) in their care of Roma women. Method: This is a descriptive study in which in-depth interviews and discussion groups were held with all programme professionals, including a document...

This manuscript pretends to adapt and validate Pornography Consumption Inventory (PCI) into Spanish in a sample of 211 young students who admitted to consume pornography. They completed a questionnaire that referred to sociodemographic characteristics, sexual behavior and PCI. Results showed a factorial structure of the scale with good data fit, co...

This article presents the experience of a community public health practicum in the Amazon region of Peru. The intervention model is based on the social determinants of health within a participatory approach illustrating the impact of the practicum on the students and on the families and communities. This experience can be instructive for developing...

Background: Health literacy is considered a social health determinant that influences improvement in health, patient empowerment and reduction in inequalities. There is a lack of health literacy interventions for vulnerable social groups (i.e. immigrants), and nurses have shown little familiarity with the concept. Aim: This study aimed to identi...

The cultural competence training (CCT) of health care professionals represents a useful resource to face the challenges involved in health care assistance for multicultural populations. However, the traditional perspective has shown limited results, as it does not consider professionals in their contexts and avoids continuous assessment processes....

To examine the sociocultural factors that determine the eating habits of children aged less than 5 years who attend kindergarten school in Chachapoyas in Peru, we carried out a qualitative study by means of semi-structured interviews of 18 fathers and mothers. The key factors related to eating habits were as follows: availability and easiness to pr...

This study analyzes guilt among family caregivers of dependent patients, from a gender perspective. A qualitative design was used, conducting in-depth interviews and focus groups. Using purposive sampling, we selected 73 family caregivers and 23 health professionals (family medicine, community nursing, and social work) from the Primary Care Distric...

In this paper we address the contribution of the community psychology to the formulation of transformative public health policies for the Roma. The gap in health between the Roma and the rest of population in Europe has led the International Organization for Migration to implement the Equi-Health Project. Its aim is to redefine public health polici...

Objective: To identify the perception of the nursing professional identity between first and fourth grade students. Method: A descriptive study using a questionnaire. A random sample of 50 and 51 students were selected from the first and fourth grade, respectively. The questionnaire was prepared by expert consensus, and it included a sociodemogr...

O objetivo deste estudo é a adaptação para espanhol da escala de empatia etnocultural de Wang, et al. Foi realizado um processo de tradução e retrotradução dos itens e as suas propriedades psicométricas foram exploradas numa amostra de 441 estudantes de Enfermagem de universidades da Andaluzia Ocidental. As análises exploratórias foram utilizadas p...

To identify and describe the needs and problems of the immigrant population related to access and utilization of health services. A descriptive, qualitative, phenomenological study was conducted using focus groups. The study area was the county of Campo de Gibraltar (Spain), which represents the gateway to Europe for immigration from Africa. The fi...

To validate the content of the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis of grieving in situations of perinatal loss. Using the Fehring's model, 208 Spanish experts were asked to assess the adequacy of the defining characteristics and other manifestations identified in the literature for cases of perinatal loss. The content validity index was 0.867. Twelve of the...

The objective of this study is to adapt and translate into Spanish Spreitzer's Psychological Empowerment Scale (1995a). A process of translation and reverse-translation was applied to the scale's items, whose psychometric properties were then examined using a sample of 272 professional nurses at public hospitals in the province of Seville. The data...

1. Community psychology and user involvement for migrant populations In the context of what many regard as the most severe economic crisis ever suffered by the European Union (EU), efforts to improve healthcare should be given more priority than ever, because health problems can be expected to increase. Not only due to the stress associated with ti...

Objective: To examine which contextual factors explain the implementation of the Patient Autonomy Law (LAP) by professionals involved in the surgical process. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study survey. It was conducted at the Hospital Virgen Macarena in Seville with the surgical staff. Dependent variable: the application of LAP. Indep...

To explore the relationship between the perceived characteristics of the information that patients receive on the surgical procedure and their satisfaction. Observational cross-sectional study, conducted by the use of surveys at the Virgen Macarena University Hospital (VMUH) of Seville, in July 2009. It involved 75 patients selected by convenience...

AimTo explore the relationship between the perceived characteristics of the information that patients receive on the surgical procedure and their satisfaction.Method Observational cross-sectional study, conducted by the use of surveys at the Virgen Macarena University Hospital (VMUH) of Seville, in July 2009. It involved 75 patients selected by con...

To examine which contextual factors explain the implementation of the Patient Autonomy Law (LAP) by professionals involved in the surgical process. A descriptive cross sectional study survey. It was conducted at the Hospital Virgen Macarena in Seville with the surgical staff. Dependent variable: the application of LAP. Independent variables: the pe...

Mobility is a human dimension that has been a part of human behaviour since humanity began. However, the actual exodus of impoverished people to the more opulent zones of the planet represents new challenges that need to be explored with new perspectives and approaches. Liberation psychology can assist in answering these challenges. On one hand, it...

Objective: To describe children's perceptions about nursing characteristics and to know children's valuation of the activities and resources employed during their hospital stay. Method: A descriptive study by means of qualitative techniques was done. 24 children hospitalized in the Infant and Hemato-Oncological Unit participated. To collect the inf...

Objective: To describe children's perceptions about nursing characteristics and to know children's valuation of the activities and resources employed during their hospital stay. Method: A descriptive study by means of qualitative techniques was done. 24 children hospitalized in the Infant and Hemato-Oncological Unit participated. To collect the inf...

Objective To describe a collaborative practice focused on coping with the occupational stress among nursing staff in a hospital setting.

To describe a collaborative practice focused on coping with the occupational stress among nursing staff in a hospital setting. These practices focus on the contextualization of the problems and the design and implementation of actions using the psychopolitical model and the participatory action research (PAR) methodology. Participants were the nurs...

Objectives To identify the needs of the family of admitted patients in the Critical Care Unit (CCU), and their level of satisfaction with the attention that they received.

To identify the needs of the family of admitted patients in the Critical Care Unit (CCU), and their level of satisfaction with the attention that they received. Cross-sectional, observational study. Critical Care Unit, Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Seville. SUBJECTS OF THE STUDY: Two-hundred and sixty-eight families were selected through a r...

Objective To determine the effectiveness of therapeutic touch on weight, the presence of postnatal complications, and length of hospital stay in preterm newborns, as well as on parental satisfaction with the care provided.

To determine the effectiveness of therapeutic touch on weight, the presence of postnatal complications, and length of hospital stay in preterm newborns, as well as on parental satisfaction with the care provided. We performed an experimental study in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville (Spain). Sev...

Objective To determine the needs of the main caregivers of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recipients during admission to the Coronary Unit of the Virgin Macarena Hospital and after discharge.

To determine the needs of the main caregivers of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recipients during admission to the Coronary Unit of the Virgin Macarena Hospital and after discharge. A qualitative descriptive study was performed. Semi-structured and open interviews were carried out. Content analysis of the interviews was performed foll...

Objectives To evaluate the quality of nursing care perceived by patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) hospitalized in the Coronary Unit of the Hospital Virgin Macarena (Sevilla) and to identify the main problems and needs of these patients after discharge in order to improve clinical nursing practice and patients’ adjustm...

We analyzed the role that psychosocial empowerment and social support factors play in the employment status of immigrants who participate in jobreadiness programs financed by the European Social Funds and the Welfare Services of Andalusia, a region in the south of Spain. The goal of these programs is to find new ways to improve immigrants' social–l...

Objectives To determine the prevalence of breastfeeding during hospital admission and at 1, 3 and 6 months of life, as well as the association between hospital practices and type of infant feeding Material and method We performed an observational, longitudinal, prospective study in three large public hospitals in Seville (Spain). A total of 584 wo...

This study explores the relationship between burnout syndrome (emotional exhaustion, lack of personal accomplishment and depersonalization) and support from social networks: informal ties (family and friends) and ties at the work-place (supervisors and coworkers). We collected data using the Multidimensional Support Scale (Winefield HR, Winefield A...

In this paper we identify the key elements in the use of emergency health facilities. Using the data collected from 14 nurses (5 individual interviews & 6 from focal group), and following of Giorgi (1997) method, we found that those elements are: Changes in the Emergency Health concept, b) The lack of information and education about Health Faciliti...

A partir del modelo del convoy social (Khan y Antonucci, 1980), se analiza la elección de fuentes de apoyo entre inmigrantes con la Entrevista Manhein (Veiel, 1990). Participaron voluntariamente 150 marroquíes y filipinos potenciales usuarios de los Servicios Sociales de Marbella (Costa del Sol). Tras aplicar a los datos análisis log-lineales (SPSS...

En la actualidad la Red Pública de los Servicios Sociales Comunitarios de Andalucía se enfrenta a una profunda remodelación. Debe ajustar sus servicios a los nuevos requerimientos, aprovechando el potencial que ofrece el desarrollo de las ciencias de la comunidad y las nuevas tecnologías. Para lograrlo sus recursos humanos deben implicarse en los n...