Teresa Botigué

Universitat de Lleida | UDL · Facultad de Enfermería

Background Infection is more frequent, and serious in people aged > 65 as they experience non-specific signs and symptoms delaying diagnosis and prompt treatment. Monitoring signs and symptoms using decision support tools (DST) is one approach that could help improve early detection ensuring timely treatment and effective care. Objective To identi...

Anxiety is one of the most common problems among nursing students. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) is used to detect anxiety in this population; however, its length hinders speedy detection. For this reason, a faster and more efficient instrument is needed for early detection. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the anxi...

Objectives: 1) To assess nursing students' evidence-based knowledge on the use of PVCs, and 2) to examine the perception of learning and teaching strategies aimed at this skill. Background: Insertion and care of Peripheral Venous Catheters (PVCs) are essential skills in undergraduate nursing education. Appropriate knowledge of this skill is crucial...

Objective To identify and analyse topical treatments for peripheral venous catheter (PVC)-related phlebitis. Design The methodological framework used to make this scoping review was developed by Arksey and O'Malley (2005; (International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8, 2005 and 19)). Data sources A literature search was performed in var...

Aim: To explore the perception of education and professional development of final-year nursing students who carried out health relief tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global health emergency. This situation has exacerbated the need for additional healthcare employees, forcing the Spanish government...

he COVID‐19 crisis in Spain has exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff to respond to increasing healthcare demands. For this reason, nursing students were requested to collaborate voluntarily as auxiliary health staff. This emergency has led to mental health problems in health professionals, hence the relevance of coping techniques. The objectiv...

The COVID‐19 crisis in Spain has exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff to respond to increasing healthcare demands. For this reason, nursing students were requested to collaborate voluntarily as auxiliary health staff. This emergency has led to mental health problems in health professionals, hence the relevance of coping techniques. The objecti...

In addition to complying with strict academic standards, nursing students must acquire relevant knowledge and skills, and learn how to carry themselves in different and often stressful professional settings. These obligations could severely affect their mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine the mental health status of undergraduat...

Background Despite technological advances and specialist training of neonatal teams, perinatal deaths still occur. Such events are traumatic experiences for the parents and increase the risk of pathological grieving. Nursing is one of the main sources of support. However, the important work of nurses in these situations is made more difficult by th...

Background: dehydration in institutionalized older people is a little explored problem, without evidence for the elderly in the Spanish residential care context. Aim: to estimate the prevalence of dehydration and to identify the associated factors in institutionalized older people in a nursing home. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried...

The COVID‐19 pandemic has had an important impact on the academic world. It is known that university studies can influence the mental health of students, and especially those studying health sciences. In this study, we therefore sought to analyse whether the current pandemic has affected the mental well‐being of final‐year nursing students. This wa...

The aim of this critical review was to clarify recommended fluid intake for older people. A literature search of published articles and guidelines on fluid intake recommendations until April 2020 was carried out using PUBMED, Scopus, Cochrane, and Google Scholar. In this review, we focused on people over 65 years old at different care levels. The r...

Objective: The study aimed to describe the characteristics and circumstances of falls in the community-dwelling older adult population. Design: This was a cross-sectional observational and descriptive study involving primary health care centers in Lleida and Castellón de la Plana, Spain. Randomized sampling was used to include 966 individuals aged...

Introducción: los residentes son vulnerables a sufrir deshidratación por los cambios fisiológicos y las limitaciones físicas y cognitivas que padecen. Objetivo: para manejar esta situación, se ha decidido evaluar las intervenciones que se llevan a cabo para el manejo de la deshidratación y la baja ingesta hídrica en las personas mayores institucio...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of low fluid intake in institutionalized older residents and the associated factors. Design: This was a cross-sectional study. Setting and participants: The study was carried out at a nursing home with a capacity for 156 residents, all of whom were older than 65 years. Measures:...

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Background Despite the number of studies that have tried to demonstrate that there is an association between previous falls and the fear of falling, the relationship between these two variables remains a matter of controversy. Objectives Our objective was to investigate whether the fear of falling is a cause of falls, a consequence, or both in com...

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Background Dehydration in the older people is a prevalent problem that is often associated with physiological changes, physical limitations and environmental conditions. Objectives The scoping review was carried out to identify risk factors associated with dehydration in older people living in nursing homes. Design The revised scoping methodolog...

Objective: To know and analyse the 9 dimensions of life related to the frailty of elderly people aged 75 and over who live in the local community of Castellón de la Plana. Methodology: Descriptive and transversal study, involving 992 elderly people of 75 years old or over, who have a health card and live in familiar dwellings, by means of a stratif...

To estimate the prevalence of falls and to identify their associated factors in community-dwelling elderly. A descriptive, cross-sectional study. Primary Health Care, Lleida. Six hundred and forty people aged 75 and older were included, in possession of a health card and living in single-family houses, through random sampling. Main measurements Dat...

Objective To determine the association between frailty in older persons and mortality in the city of Lleida (Spain) between 2009 and 2012. Methods We conducted a prospective longitudinal study based on persons living in the city of Lleida aged 75 years and older, covered by the public health system and living in single-family households. The cross...

To determine the association between frailty in older persons and mortality in the city of Lleida (Spain) between 2009 and 2012.

Background and objective To assess the association between Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and the Fried frailty index in older people living in the community. Material and method Cross-sectional study of individuals aged 75 and over living in the community. Variables: nutritional status measured by Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF...

Objective To know the prevalence of mistreatment and to identify the associated factors among elderly people without cognitive impairment, seen in the geriatric unit, located in the hospital emergency area.Methods Cross-sectional study of a population of 65 years or older assessed by the geriatric Interdisciplinary Social Welfare Functional Unit (I...

Objective To examine gender differences in depressive symptoms in people over 75 years of age in the community.Methods This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The data was obtained from the study of frailty in Lleida (FRALLE survey). Depressive symptoms were measured using the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Logistic...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of mood and the factors that can affect older people. Cross-sectional epidemiological study including people aged >ó= 65 years of institutions with different levels of care located in the city of Lleida. The variables included, in addition to depressed mood characterized by loneliness and sadnes...

OBJECTIVE: To know the prevalence of mistreatment and to identify the associated factors among elderly people without cognitive impairment, seen in the geriatric unit, located in the hospital emergency area. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of a population of 65 years or older assessed by the geriatric Interdisciplinary Social Welfare Functional Unit...

People infected with venous wounds need to solve the acute problem (infection), later to treat the underlying cause (venous hypertension). By a proper assessment of the person can establish a comprehensive treatment. In the case above is achieved healing a venous ulcer 12 years of evolution in 11 weeks of treatment, with consequent savings for the...

OBJECTIVE: To examine gender differences in depressive symptoms in people over 75 years of age in the community. METHODS: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The data was obtained from the study of frailty in Lleida (FRALLE survey). Depressive symptoms were measured using the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Logis...

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of frailty and to identify factors associated with frailty in older people living in the community through a cross-sectional study of community-dwelling persons age 75 and older. A total of 640 individuals were interviewed using the FRALLE survey between 2009 and 2010. This survey measures frailty...

Objective To measure the frailty of people 75 years or over and who live in their own homes based on Fried's criteria and modified by Ávila-Funes.

To measure the frailty of people 75 years or over and who live in their own homes based on Fried's criteria and modified by Ávila-Funes. Pilot study of cross-sectional design. SITE: Primary Health Care Centres (7) in the city of Lleida. A probabilistic sample was selected for every stratum. The total sample was 323 individuals. PRIMARY MEASUREMENTS...

The aim of this study was to define the factors associated with the presence or risk of malnutrition in older adults (>65 years of age) attending health care centers in Lleida, Catalonia, using a cross-sectional study approach. Nutritional parameters assessed included the Mini Nutritional Assessment Scale, sociodemographic and psychosocial factors,...

La enfermera tiene un papel fundamental en el campo de la alimentación, sobre todo en la vigilancia de la composición de las dietas. Los objetivos de este estudio fueron describir el tipo de paciente que lleva una dieta triturada y analizar la influencia de la dieta triturada sobre el estado nutricional. Se trata de un estudio transversal con perso...

The nurse has a key role in the field of nutrition, especially in monitoring the composition of the diets. The objectives of this study were to describe the type of patient who carries a pulverized diet and analyze the influence of diet on nutritional status crushed. This is a cross-sectional study with people 65 years or older and who attended med...

Nutritional status of Catalonia's elderly people with different health care needs. The aims of this study were to assess the prevalence of malnutrition through the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) in the elder population of Lleida (Catalonia) from different levels of care and to determine if that scale is a good way of monitoring our population. A...

Los objetivos de este estudio fueron evaluar la prevalencia de desnutrición a través de la Mini Encuesta Nutricional del Anciano (MNA) en la población mayor de Lleida (Cataluña) de diferentes niveles asistenciales y valorar si dicha escala es un buen método de monitorización en nuestro medio. Para ello se diseñó un estudio transversal en el que se...