Marian Perez-Marin

University of Valencia | UV · Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamientos Psicológicos

Background: Quality of life (QoL) is a widely studied term concerning asthma because it allows the impact of the disease on the patient's life to be assessed through the patient's perception. The study aims to analyze which asthma-related, psychological, and family variables affect the QoL of adolescents with asthma. Design and methods: This cro...

This study aims to determine the impact of the disease on the perceived stress levels of caregivers of adolescents with asthma. A total of 140 primary caregivers, whose mean age was 45.43 years (SD = 5.03), of whom 85% were mothers, were assessed using the perceived stress questionnaire (PIP), and medical indicators related to asthma were recorded....

Introduction. – Substance use is a global health problem. Craving is one of the main predictors of relapse. If the presence of psychopathology and the deficit of emotional intelligence are combined, the course and outcome of the disease can worsen. Objective. – The aim is to analyze the impact of time in abstinence, psychopathology, and emotional i...

The presence of a chronic non-communicable (NCD) in adolescence can increase emotional distress. Emotional competencies may buffer this impact. The aim was to analyse the relationship between emo- tional competencies and emotional distress, and to observe whether there are gender differences be- tween adolescents with and without NCDs. A total of 4...

Objectives: Analyze the relationship between family styles and quality of life in adolescents with bronchial asthma and study the influence of self-esteem as a protective factor and threat perception as a risk factor. Methods: Family styles, quality of life (QoL), perceived threat of the disease, and self-esteem were assessed in a total of 150 a...

Rationale: To identify high-risk survivors in order to provide appropriate care. Purpose: To analyse the quality of life (QOL) of cancer survivors using an instrument designed specifically for this population and considering different sociodemographic and disease-related characteristics as possible modulating variables. Methods: The Quality of...

Introduction: People with comorbid borderline personality disorder (BPD) and substance abuse disorder (SUD) show great affectation and poorer treatment outcomes. Objective: e aim was to examine useful psychological treatments for people with co-morbid BPD and SUD. Method: the Cochrane Library, ISOC, Psychodoc, ProQuest Central, Pubmed, Web of Scie...

El suicidio consituye un problema de salud mundial que ha sido agravado por la pandemia de COVID-19. A pesar de su gran relevancia psicosocial, existe un elevado número de mitos acerca del suicidio. El objetivo del estudio fue dar a conocer aspectos básicos sobre el suicidio a través de metodologías docentes atractivas que combinan el entorno virtu...

Introduction: Most victims of sexual abuse have symptoms that may lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. This study aims to offer evidence-based psychological treatment to women who have been sexually abused earlier in life and currently have sequelae from that trauma. With this treatment, each of the women in the study will hopefully improve the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the emotional health of adolescents, especially those with low resilience and life satisfaction. The aim is to analyze the predictors of anxiety, depression, and stress among adolescents in Ecuador during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were 586 adolescents from Ecuador aged between 12–18 years (M = 15.30; SD...

COVID-19 and the measures adopted have been a problem for society at all levels. The aim of the study was to analyze the main predictors of life satisfaction among adolescents in Ecuador during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were 902 adolescents from Ecuador aged between 12 and 18 years (M = 15.30; SD = 1.28). Variables such as life satisfacti...

Abstract: Suffering from a chronic disease (CD) in adolescence can significantly impact the emotional health of adolescents and their families. MHealth can be a useful tool for these groups. However, few intervention programmes include the family system. The aim is to design an intervention programme (10Vida) for a paediatric population with a CD,...

Resumen La pandemia de la COVID-19 está impactando en la salud emocional de los adolescentes. Factores como la resiliencia pueden amortiguar este impor-tante impacto sobre su bienestar. Nuestro objetivo fue estudiar la asociación entre la sintomatología ansioso-depresiva y la resiliencia en adolescentes de España y Ecuador, y comparar las diferenci...

Problem Precocious puberty (PP) is an illness that appears when puberty, begins some years earlier than usual, provoking inferences in preadolescents and adolescents and their families. Therefore, the aim is to analyze if psychological consequences can be observed in groups of preadolescents or adolescents with PP. Method A bibliographic search of...

La pérdida de un ser querido por suicidio puede ser uno de los eventos más estresantes de la vida. Los factores de riesgo y protección asociados a cada caso pueden favorecer o dificultar el procesamiento de la pérdida. Se presenta un caso de trastorno de duelo complejo persistente en el que se aplica el Protocolo Mindfulness para la Aceptación del...

The aim of this study was to analyse the anxious and depressive symptomatology, stress and life satisfaction of adolescents from Spain and Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, the aim was to carry out a cross-cultural study looking for possible differences and similarities in the adaptation of adolescents from these two countries of the s...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare disease that severely compromises health and interferes with the lives of those who suffer from it and is especially challenging in adolescence. The use of tools such as MHealth may benefit the physical and psychological health of adolescents with CF. Therefore, this study aims to examine the benefits of MHealth in ad...

La enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA) es la demencia más frecuente, un proceso crónico e incurable. Los cuidadores de personas con EA pueden experimentar duelo anticipado, así que el objetivo fue observar el desarrollo de este proceso en familiares de personas con EA. Participaron 10 cuidadores familiares de personas con EA en estado moderado o avanzado...

Objetivo: Valorar la satisfacción con la vida, la vitalidad, el afecto positivo y la presencia de duelo complicado en dolientes de primer grado. Método: 26 dolientes de 19 a 73 años, hombres y mujeres, fueron evaluados mediante las Escalas de Satisfacción con la Vida, de Vitalidad y de Afecto Positivo y Negativo, y el Inventario de Duelo Complicado...

Short stature in childhood and adolescence: psychopathology and family educational style. Having short stature (stunting) during childhood oradolescence may be associated with increased clinical distress and depression. Factors such as parenting styles, gender, age, treatment, hospital-izations and height of the adolescent and parents may influence...

Los sucesos vitales estresantes (SVE) pueden influir en nuestras vinculaciones, y con ello en: la compa- sión, la regulación emocional y en nuestro bienestar físico y psicológico. El objetivo del presente artículo es proponer e implementar un programa de interven- ción basado en la compasión (TBC). Tras la firma del consentimiento informado, los pa...

Purpose Adolescence is a time of change when suffering from a medical condition such as short stature can impact the emotional well-being of adolescents. Our objective was to study the adjustment of adolescents with short stature (SS), ana- lyzing the factors influencing it. Method In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated 101 adolescents with SS...

Altought compassionate care is an important factor in health care, remains an unmet need in patients. The studies have been carried out in Anglo-Saxon countries with cultural environments and health systems that are very different from Spanish-speaking contexts. The aim of this study to understand the conceptual, evaluation and clinical application...

This study analyzed the predictive power of sociodemographic (age, sex) and medical variables (months since diagnosis and in treatment, immunotherapy, number of environmental allergens, food allergies or atopic dermatitistypes) on the quality of life of patients with rhinoconjunctivitis and bronchial asthma, using mod- els based on comparative qual...

La fibrosis quística (FQ) es una enfermedad crónica y hereditaria que compromete la vida de quienes la padecen, y se hace especialmente impor- tante su impacto en la adolescencia. El afrontamiento que estos pacientes y sus familiares hagan de estas circunstancias que les han tocado vivir, puede mejorar o empeorar el curso y desenlace de la enfermed...

Resumen Debido al confinamiento por la COVID-19, las fa-milias españolas tuvieron que adaptarse a nuevas si-tuaciones y rutinas. El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido conocer qué variables explicaban el ajuste psicológico de cuidadores familiares de adolescentes ante la COVID-19, mediante un estudio longitudinal (evaluando primero a las 2-3 sem...

Purpose: adolescence is a time of change and it generally entails a greater family vulnerability thus; the aim of this study was to identify the risk factors for poor emotional adjustment to COVID among parents of adolescents. Design and methods: 94 parents of adolescents (11-18 years old, M = 13.90, SD = 1.85) participated at different times du...

Marco teórico: la pérdida de un familiar de primer grado genera un gran impacto emocional y físico en la persona, pero la atención al presente y la autocompasión pueden amortiguarla. El objetivo general fue valorar la capacidad mindful, la autocompasión y la presencia de duelo complicado (DC) en dolientes de primer grado. Método: 26 dolientes (84,6...

Short stature (SS) is one of the main diagnoses in Pediatric Endocrinology. SS can have a negative impact on family dynamics, causing stress and psychopathology. Poor adaptation by the family caregiver negatively affects the pediatric patient. Our objective was therefore to study the adjustment of the main family caregivers of pediatric patients wi...

Family adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: a dyad study. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has brought a host of vital changes to society. Families and their children have had to adapt to new routines and situations, which may have increased or aggravated the suffering of emotional symptoms. However, the presence of resilience and positive emo...

Background Few studies have focused on patients’ emotional distress with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their main family caregivers. Methods Cross-sectional data about emotional, functional, and burden-related variables were collected from 85 patients with end-stage COPD and their 85 respective main family caregivers to...

Background Few studies have focused on patients' emotional distress with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their main family caregivers. Methods Cross-sectional data about emotional, functional, and burden-related variables were collected from 85 patients with end-stage COPD and their 85 respective main family caregivers t...

Objective: was to assess the presence of complicated grief (CG), anxious and depressive symptoms, in first-degree mourners. Methods: 26 mourners (84.60% women), from 19 to 73 years old (M=44.04; SD=14.21) were evaluated by means of: The Complicated Mourning Inventory and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Descriptive analyses, Cohen's t, d...

Adolescence is a challenging time when emotional difficulties often arise. Self-esteem, good relationships with peers, and emotional competences can buffer the effects of these difficulties. The difficulties can be even greater when coupled with the presence of a chronic physical illness (CD). Our goal is to analyze psychosocial factors and CD as p...

This study aims to analyse the impact that a psychological intervention programme has on the emotional state of family caregivers of patients at the end of life. The study is longitudinal with two arms (control and experimental). Data was collected from 154 primary family caregivers of patients at the end of life as well as from their respective 15...

Objectives Childhood adaptation is essential for proper social‐emotional development. Children growing up in a family context where they feel supported and protected are less vulnerable in the presence of psychopathology. The aim of this study is analysing the impact of parenting styles and the anxious‐depressive symptoms on child adaptation. Desi...

Context: The WHO recognizes the need to attend to patients' spiritual needs as being fundamental to comprehensive and high-quality end-of-life care. Spiritual needs must be attended to since the resolution of biological and psychosocial issues is insufficient to reduce patients' suffering. Associations have been found between spiritual needs and o...

Objective: to design a psychological intervention protocol for the accompaniment of pain and emotions in the grieving process based on attention and compassion. Method: mourners over 18 years of age, who have lost their family member at least 6 months ago, who are in phase 2 or 3 of the grieving process and who have no previous mental health probl...

Resumen: El cuidado de personas en situación de dependencia ha recaído habitualmente en las mujeres, siendo este factor muy relevante en la pérdida de salud física y emocional, en la afecta- ción de las relaciones sociales y familiares, y en la disminución de las posibilidades de mantener un trabajo remunerado y con ello, de los ingresos. El objeti...

Objective: the objective of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire in a sample of adolescents with chronic endocrine or pneumological conditions and to analyze the dimensionality and reduce the scale elaborating scales by sex and medical diagnosis. Method: we evaluated 510 patients aged 9-...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare autosomal recessive disease with low prevalence in pediatrics. Health studies have not sufficiently analyzed the role of psychological variables in rare diseases such as PCD. This paper studies the psychological characteristics of a group of pediatric patients diagnosed with PCD compared to their healthy p...

Introduction: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a screening instrument that assesses emotional symptoms in different populations and medical conditions. This study analyzes the psychometric properties and factor structure of the HADS in adolescents with chronic disease and the differences based on their medical condition. Method...

ntroduction. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a screening instrument that assesses emotional symptoms in different populations and medical conditions. This study analyzes the psychometric properties and factor structure of the HADS in adolescents with chronic disease and the differences based on their medical condition. Method. T...

Introduction The Chronic Respiratory Disease Questionnaire Self-Administered Standardized (CRQ-SAS) format is used to assess health-related quality of life in different languages and adult populations, but it has not been validated in adolescents. This study analyzes the psychometric properties of the CRQ-SAS in a sample of adolescent patients with...

Resumen Marco teórico: el asma bronquial es la enfermedad crónica más prevalente en la infancia y adolescencia. Su presencia es un factor de riesgo para desarrollar un trastorno psicológico, siendo la ansiedad la sintomatología más común en estos pacientes. Por otro lado, el bienestar psicológico es un factor de protección para un adecuado ajuste a...

Objective: to study the psychometric properties of an adaptive disease response questionnaire for use with Spanish children with type 1 diabetes; to analyse this response in this sample and to observe the relationship between adaptive response and levels of anxiety-depression. Method: a total of 100 patients with type 1 diabetes aged between nin...

Background: Patients at the end of life and their families experience a strong emotional impact. The well-being of these patients and that of their family caregiver are related. Aim: To study the variables related with the emotional well-being of patients with and without cognitive impairment at the end of life and that of their primary family care...

Context Spirituality can be seen as a fundamental condition of a person's sense of being. It is included among the fundamental objectives of palliative care work, considering that the quality of life of patients cannot be enhanced as a whole if the spiritual dimension is not addressed. Objective The objective of this systematic review is to summa...

Los adolescentes con una enfermedad crónica (EC), tales como son el asma bronquial, la Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1 o la Talla Baja, deben adaptarse al desafío que supone este diagnóstico en esta etapa vital de grandes cambios, lo que puede contribuir a la aparición de dificultades emocionales y repercutir en su autoestima. Los objetivos del presente e...

A chronic illness in childhood has a negative impact on the paediatric patient and on family functioning. Psychological stress in parents influences the level of adjustment to the illness of their children. The Pediatric Inventory for Parents (PIP) was designed to measure stress in parents whose child has a chronic illness or requires prolonged med...

El modelo de los cinco factores es uno de los principales enfoques para el estudio de la personalidad. Tras su surgimiento, entre los aspectos más relevantes a analizar ha sido su relación con la autoestima, en tanto ésta constituye un aspecto central del modelo. Esta relación cuenta con numerosos aportes empíricos pero sigue señalándose la necesid...

Title: Stress and attachment of the primary caregiver as predictors of emotional and relationship difficulties in pediatric patients with short stature. Abstract: Short Stature (TB) is one of the main diagnoses in Pediatric Endocrinology. TB is considered to be TB when a child is 2 Typical deviations below the mean of the reference population in t...

A chronic illness in childhood has a negative impact on the paediatric patient and on family functioning. Psychological stress in parents influences the level of adjustment to the illness of their children. The Pediatric Inventory for Parents (PIP) was designed to measure stress in parents whose child has a chronic illness or requires prolonged med...

Introduction: Adolescents with asthma face problems inherent to this stage in their development, to which the challenges of taking over control of their disease, complying with a daily treatment and regular medical followup are added. Any rejection generated by this may lead to treatment non-adherence and poor asthma control, which brings about pr...

Internalizing disorders are mainly defined as psychosomatic, anxiety and depression problems. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between dairy affective states and internalizing disorders in early adolescence (10–12 years old), considering the influence of sex. The participants of the study were 367 children aged between 10 and...

Recent research has investigated the relationship between attachment, as a mediator, and overcoming an adaptive loss. A cross-sectional study of 96 persons who have lost a significant person was performed. Two types of loss were analyzed: loss by death (n = 50) and loss by rupture of the couple (n = 46). Results show greater difficulty in overcomin...

Introducción: la Patología Dual se define como una enfermedad en la que concurren de forma simultánea en un mismo individuo, por lo menos, un trastorno por uso de sustancias y un trastorno mental. Ambos trastornos se influyen de manera mutua, por lo que se recomienda hacer un abordaje conjunto. Objetivo: analizar las características psicopatológica...

Purpose of the study: (1) To identify the main predictors of the emotional state of the frail elderly at the end-of-life and that of their primary family caregivers, taking into consideration the presence/absence of significant cognitive impairment in the patient and (2) to analyse the relationship between the emotional state of the patient and th...

Introduction: Psychosocial and adaptation factors in relatives of patients who died of sudden cardiac death. Objective: To study the relationship between attachment styles, stressful life events accumulation and psychopathology development, especially complicated grief, in relatives of patients who died of sudden cardiac death. Method: The sample c...

This work presents an observational scale which takes into account different observable indicators of discomfort of patients in end-of-life situations with difficulties in communicating due to cognitive impairment, fatigue or sedation and provides details of its validation. In all, 71 adults participated. Model fit was adequate (χ²(27) = 43.28, p =...

La Diabetes Melitus Tipo I (DMI) es la enfermedad crónica endocrinológica más diagnosticada en la infancia y la adolescencia. Un control metabólico adecuado es crucial para prevenir complicaciones a corto y largo plazo, que podrían impactar gravemente en la calidad de vida del paciente. La hemoglobina glicosilada (HbA1c) constituye un indicador muy...

La presencia de una enfermedad crónica en la adolescencia, como la Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1 (DM1), puede influir negativamente en el bienestar. Tener una alta autoestima está ligada a bienestar psicológico en la adolescencia, favoreciendo la adherencia al tratamiento y el control glucémico. El objetivo del presente trabajo es estudiar el bienestar...

La presencia de una enfermedad crónica en la adolescencia, como la Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1 (DM1), puede impactar en el sistema familiar. Tener apego inseguro está relacionado con la presencia de ansiedad y depresión en los padres, lo cual puede influir en la adherencia al tratamiento y el control glucémico de los adolescentes. El objetivo del pres...

Around 26 and 43% of pediatric patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus presents psychological problems, being anxiety and depression the more frequent ones. An important factor regarding the wellbeing of these patients is the presence of good adjustment indicators in the process of adapting to this chronic disease.The present study aims to...

Resumen: El diagnóstico de talla baja es uno de los más recurrentes en las consultas de Endocrinología Pediátrica. Teniendo en cuenta la influencia del bienestar psicológico de los padres en la adaptación de los pacientes a su diagnóstico, y los altos niveles de ansiedad, depresión y estrés que suelen presentar los cuidadores, el principal objetivo...