Pilar Bas-Sarmiento

Universidad de Cádiz | UCA · Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy

Background According to different reports, Spain is among the European countries that use digital health technologies the most. However, to develop inclusive and fair digital health services, there is the need to feature digital health knowledge, skills, confidence, and a positive attitude about their significance. This work aims to draw a picture...

Purpose To validate the content of the “Health Literacy Behaviour” nursing outcome (NO). Methods A content validation study was conducted during 2022. Each indicator was included in the NO, and its response levels were operationally defined. The initial version of each indicator and its response levels were refined and validated through the Delphi...

Objective: To provide practical information regarding needs, preferences of content and format of an app to assist the self-management in patients with multi-morbidity and heart failure (HF). Methods: The three-phase study was conducted in Spain. Six integrative reviews, a qualitative methodology based on Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology th...

Aim: To develop and evaluate an educational programme aimed at undergraduate training to increase and improve knowledge, attitudes and behaviour towards the organ and tissue donation and transplants (OTDT). Background: The request for OTDT falls on the health personnel and the reduction of family refusals depends on their attitude and competence...

Unlabelled: Health literacy (HL) is a result of health promotion and education that has been included as a nursing intervention since 2013. It was proposed, as a nursing activity, to "determine health literacy status at initiation of contact with the patient through informal and/or formal assessments". Because of that, the outcome 'Health Literacy...

Aim: To describe the development of a mobile health application –mICardiApp- designed by a multidisciplinary professional team and patients with heart failure and to evaluate its content validity. Methods: Critical reviews of the literature, semi-structured interviews with patients, and user stories guided the development of the content of the mobi...

Aim: The aim of this study was to measure of health literacy in the migrant population and establish a type of immigrant profile with a higher risk of presenting low levels of health literacy. Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study. Methods: Health literacy was measured in a total of 278 immigrants using HLS-EU-Q16. An inferential descrip...

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The “infodemic” is one of the main obstacles in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to face it, health literacy (HL) is essential since it allows for knowledge about COVID-19 and the practice of preventive measures to be fostered. This is especially relevant in university students due to their idiosyncrasy. This study aims to evaluate...

BACKGROUND Background: Heart failure (HF) is becoming a global epidemic. To promote healthy behaviors and facilitate the strengthening of the provision of health services in these patients, it is essential to prioritize their opinions and needs. Mobile health applications seem to be an effective tool in the care of these patients. User-centered des...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health literacy to make informed preventive decisions. A specific COVID-19 health literacy questionnaire (CHL-Q) is included in the COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring WHO initiative to conduct behavioral insights studies related to COVID-19. The objective was to assess the psychometric pr...

Aim The aims of this study were (1) to develop a multimodal intervention according to the NLN Jeffries Simulation Theory planned to improve attitudes and empathy towards older adults in undergraduate nursing students using theoretical contents, age simulation suits, and storytelling of old participants, and (2) to evaluate the influence of the simu...

Aim: To analyze the attitude of university nursing students at Spanish universities toward organ donation and transplantation and the factors affecting to their attitude. Background: The opinion of future nurses toward organ transplant donation could have an important influence on the population. Knowing that opinion and what factors influence i...

Aim: To describe the development of a mobile health application –mICardiApp- designed by a multidisciplinary professional team and patients with heart failure and to evaluate its content validity. Methods: Critical reviews of the literature, semi-structured interviews with patients, and user stories guided the development of the content of the m...

Background: Patients with multimorbidity and complex health needs are defined as a priority by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union. There is a need to develop appropriate strategies with effective measures to meet the challenge of chronicity, reorienting national health systems. The increasing expansion of mobile health (mHe...

Improving health literacy (HL) is critical for addressing health inequalities. Low literacy rates are believed to be more prevalent in ethnic minorities, which may have an impact on people's health. For measures to be implemented in this regard, HL must be evaluated to obtain specific indicators. Our aim, therefore, was to develop a version of the...

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 knowledge acquired during university education about organ donation and transplantation (ODT) decisively influences the information future health professionals transmit. This is important in ODT where the participation of the general public is essential to obtain organs. Objective To determine notions of Spanish medicine and nursing students o...

Effective empathy training interventions based on scientific evidence becomes essential. A theoretical framework should guide the proposed interventions and be coherent with the evaluation of the dimensions taking in account that empathy is currently a multidimensional concept. The study aimed to determine, in health care professionals and/or stude...

1) Background: Obesity is a global health problem, and its prevention must be a priority goal of public health, especially considering the seriousness of the problem among children. It is known that fetal and early postnatal environments may favor the appearance of obesity in later life. In recent years, the impact of the programs to prevent obesit...

Introduction: Information provided by health care professionals is crucial to create a climate of social opinion. This is important in organ donation and transplantation (ODT), where the participation of the general public is essential to obtain organs. Objective: To determine the attitude toward the Law of Presumed Consent (LPC) among Spanish u...

Introduction: A favorable attitude toward organ donation and transplantation (ODT) is fundamental among health professionals at the time of transplant promotion. In this sense, the training and awareness of professionals are fundamental. Objective: To analyze the differences in the attitude toward ODT and the factors that condition it among Anda...

A primary care physician (PCP) not only accompanies the patient in the process of an illness, but throughout his or her life. The confidence we have in these health professionals is fundamental, and their favorable attitude toward organ donation and transplantation (ODT) has a significant influence on the population. Objective: To analyze trust i...

Background: Empathy has been reported to produce a positive effect on improving patient health outcomes, becoming a fundamental skill in any health personnel-patient relationship. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to improve the nursing students ́ empathy, the learning perception, the improvement of the perception...

Health literacy is a social determinant of the basic health of populations and is especially important to enhancing and developing the empowerment of migrant populations. To evaluate the effectiveness of an mHealth intervention to improve the cognitive and social skills that enable migrants to access and use health services, we developed a quasiexp...

This paper examines self-esteem and its dimensions using the Revised Janis-Field Feelings of Inadequacy Scale (RJFFIS) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) in a sample comprising mostly university undergraduates (n= 826). We analyzed their relationship with social anxiety (SA) and social skills (SS), assessed with the Social Anxiety Questionn...

Infocalidad 1.0. Este instrumento permite analizar y obtener índices de legibilidad, comprensión, usabilidad y adecuación cultural de la información sanitaria; considerando el nivel de Alfabetización en Salud de la población destinataria. Integra la herramienta Legibilidad Mu de Muñoz y Robledo (2006), la herramienta PEMAT de Shoemaker et al., (201...

Background: Empathy is a competency to be learned by nurses and a therapeutic tool in the helping relationship that has repercussions on the health of both patients and professionals. Objectives: To determine the efficacy of an experiential training for improving the empathy of nursing students in terms of capacity building, empathic performance...

Objective: to determine the incidence of NANDA-I diagnostic labels (North American Nursing Diagnosis Association-International) and to establish the distribution of cases of assistance and the associated labels, according to sociodemographic variables (age and sex). Method: descriptive, cross-sectional epidemiological study of labels of NANDA-I, u...

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...

Objectives: To determine whether there is a higher incidence of mental illness among immigrants, to describe the nosologic differences between immigrant and native populations, and to identify the risk factors involved of immigration. Methods: A systematic review was conducted using the PubMed, Science Direct, ISI, Scopus, Psycinfo, Cochrane, an...

The assessment and training of social skills constitutes a continuous hot topic both in clinic and research settings. However, social skills assessment has been since its beginnings a difficult area to address. One ongoing issue is that even today self-report instruments for social skills published in the 1970s are still profusely used. The main ob...

This article presents the psychometric properties of a new measure of social anxiety, the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for adults (SAQ), composed of 30 items that were developed based on participants from 16 Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Two groups of participants were included in the study: a nonclinical group involving 18,133 per...

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...

Health Literacy is considered by World Health Organization (WHO) as a basic social health determinant to enhance and develop the empowerment of the most disadvantaged populations. Low literacy has an effect on important aspects such as: general health status, level and quality of self-care, level of understanding and monitoring of health recommenda...

Immigration in the EU is central to the public and political debate in Europe, receiving more attention in recent years, especially in relation to immigration from the southern border. The 39 million registered immigrants represent about 8% of the EU population to which must be added the irregular influx. The Strait of Gibraltar represents the gate...

Sex differences between men and women in social anxiety are largely unexplored. This study sought to shed some light on this topic. We administered self-report measures of social anxiety to community samples of 17,672 women and 13,440 men from 16 Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal, as well as to a clinical sample of 601 patients diagnosed...

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...

Much has been written about the situations most often feared by persons with social phobia, and several self-report measures are frequently used to assess such feared situations. However, it is not clear whether the situations feared by persons with social phobia form unidimensional or multidimensional factors. If these situations are multidimensio...

This paper reports on two studies conducted to develop and validate a new self-report measure of social phobia/anxiety – the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A) (Cuestionario de ansiedad social para adultos, CASO-A). A diary-item recording procedure was used to generate the initial pool of items. In Study 1, data from 12,144 participant...

Introduction: According to a correct Mental Health planning, to know the hospital assistance load derived from the psychiatric admissions is required. Thus, we studied the psychiatric hospitalization reality in Spain. Objective: To analyse the psychiatric hospitalization episodes in Spain, and its clinical and social-demographic variables associate...

Introduction: According to a correct Mental Health planning, to know the hospital assistance load derived from the psychiatric admissions is required. Thus, we studied the psychiatric hospitalization reality in Spain. Objective: To analyse the psychiatric hospitalization episodes in Spain, and its clinical and social-demographic variables associate...

Very little attention has been paid by researchers to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the paediatric population. Not until 1987 the fact that child reaction to trauma may differ from adult reaction is reflected in diagnostic criteria. Bearing these differences in mind with regard to the PTSD semiology, we may think that planning of assessm...

Very little attention has been paid by researchers to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the paediatric population. Not until 1987 the fact that child reaction to trauma may differ from adult reaction is reflected in diagnostic criteria. Bearing these differences in mind with regard to the PTSD semiology, we may think that planning of assessm...

Social anxiety is one of the most frequent psychological problems nowadays. Its diagnosis and assessment depend on different measures, particularly interviews and questionnaires. Most of these measures have been developed in English-speaking countries and their adaptation to Spanish-speaking countries has not been very accurate. The goal of this wo...

En este artículo se ofrece una revisión actualizada del concepto y sintagma de "Estilos de vida" y de su influencia sobre la salud, bajo una perspectiva integral y biopsicosocial; estilos de vida que se adquieren en el marco sistémico familiar- escolar, normalmente. Así, partiendo de un análisis de los diversos "Modelos sobre la Salud", llegamos al...

Toda relación terapéutica implica influencia interpersonal; por ello, el adecuado manejo de la comunicación y de las percepciones interpersonales es esencial a todo rol sanitario; la propia OMS subraya que todo Profesional Sanitario (P.S.) debe reconocerse como un agente multiplicador de recursos humanos. Desde os años 30 del S. XX se ha venido ges...

El término "Codependencia" se empezó a utilizar para describir a aquéllos que subordinan su vida a las conductas de un familiar alcohólico. Luego, se ha generalizado a los familiares de otras personas con otras dependencias, enfermos crónicos, familias disfuncionales, incluso a los Profesionales de la Salud y a la sociedad en general. Bajo este pri...

El lenguaje tiene, entre otras, una función connotativa (afectiva) y otra denotativa (cognitivo-racional). Para medir el perfil connotativo de las palabras y sintagmas se utiliza el Diferencial Semántico, muy útil en Psicología de la Salud pues nos permite evaluar las evocaciones subjetivas de las palabras del medio sanitario. En este escenario, he...