Maria Elias's research while affiliated with Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and other places

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The demand of social skills interventions for people with ASD has grown in recent years. The main goal of this research was to study social skills: “responding to interaction” and “initiating interaction”, and to capture whether there were differences between an initial and a final session in a program for children with ASD. Additionally, we aimed...
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Having access to parenting interventions in the early years is key to improve the developmental outcomes of children with neurodevelopmental problems. The Incredible Years® (IY) Parent Program is a group intervention that has demonstrated efficacy in terms of reducing stress in parents, as well as improving behavioral, emotional, and social outcome...
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Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by a wide range of clinical manifestations, including obesity, hyperphagia, and behavioral problems. Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis strain BPL1 has been shown to improve central adiposity in adults with simple obesity. To evaluate BPL1′s effects in children with PWS, we pe...
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Having access to parenting interventions in the early years is key to improve developmental outcomes of children with neurodevelopmental problems. The Incredible Years® (IY) Parent Program is a group intervention that has demonstrated efficacy in terms of reducing stress in parents, as well as improving behavioral, emotional and social outcomes in...

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... Afterwards, 46 sessions were randomly selected to calculate reliability. This number of sessions was determined taking into account that the percentage of sessions mostly used by recent observational research to calculate the reliability ranges from 10 to 20% [75][76][77][78][79][80]. The sessions were chosen at random but taking into account that all the participants and all the tasks were reflected. ...
... lactis B94 (45) and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis strain BPL1 (46) was analyzed for effects on stool frequency, stool form, and other GI symptom improvements. For the BPL1 treatment, it was reported that there were reductions in abdominal adiposity in a subgroup of PWS individuals that were older than 4.5 years, and BPL1 improved fasting insulin concentration and insulin sensitivity (46). ...