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Differential Effects of Two Contemplative Practice-based Programs for Health Care Professionals
2019
The aim of the study was testing the differential effectiveness of two interventions to improve Majorcan primary care professionals' quality of life: Mindful-Based Stress Reduction Training (MBSRT) and Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT). 50 professionals participated in the study; 81% were women. We evaluated mindfulness, empathy, self-compassion, and professional quality of life. Results showed statistically significant effects of the programs on the improvement of mindfulness, self-compassion, and professional quality of life, and differential effects on two dimensions of mindfulness, acting with awareness and non-reacting to inner experience, and on the dimension of burnout of the pro…
Overload of Medical Documentation: A Disincentive for Healthcare Professionals
2020
This review addresses the theories concerning the development and functioning of medical bureaucracy creating an excess of the patient records. An ever-growing number of medical files comply with the typical development of the bureaucratic management of an entrepreneurial organization, an essential feature of which is the life cycle of documentation. When the life cycle ends, an update is created with a multiplication of forms and items to be filled out, resembling that of what happens with the outdated computer program. Yet medical records should have a logical and well-functioning structure using the language of computer science in the form of a cascade or evolutionary model. Further, we …
From Sustainable Development to Personalised Healthcare. The Role of Institutions in the Sustainable Development of the Healthcare Systems
2015
Abstract The current issues concerning healthcare institutions are generated by: aging of the population; the increase in prevalence of non-communicable diseases, even in low/medium income countries; the continuous increase of indirect costs generated by chronic diseases; the necessity of new- patient-specific oriented therapies; the need of translation of fundamental research into practice; need of applicability of prevention strategies; an important segment of the working population becomes inactive; migration of healthcare professionals. An essential condition for the sustainable development of any community is the health and the maintenance of the health of its population, and it is ess…
El efecto de las TIC en la adquisición de competencias. Un análisis por tipo de centro educativo
2016
El objetivo del trabajo es conocer la incidencia de estas Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la adquisición de determinadas competencias y teniendo en cuenta la titularidad del centro (público o privado). En los últimos años el sistema educativo español ha experimentado la introducción masiva del ordenador e Internet en las aulas. En este contexto, el objetivo del trabajo es conocer la incidencia de estas Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la adquisición de determinadas competencias y teniendo en cuenta la titularidad del centro (público o privado). Para ello se emplea una base de datos novedosa que incorpora información desglosada sobre la tenenc…
Student teachers and their attitudes towards ICT: Lessons learned from three different countries
2021
This paper explores the attitudes that student teachers in Malta, Norway, and Spain convey to digital technologies in formal educational settings as they start the 1st semester. A number of studies look at educational inclinations and employment of digital technologies (Granić & Marangunić, 2019; Ritter, 2017; Scherer & Teo, 2019). We have chosen to examine student teachers’ attitudes towards the professional use of digital technologies within a pedagogical framework. In this respect, a comparative qualitative analysis of one open-ended question that forms part of a more extensive questionnaire distributed to all participants is considered. The employed analytical lens subsequently …
Lecciones educativas del COVID-19 para América Ltina y el Caribe. La exigencia de repensar un nuevo concepto de aprendizaje
2023
La situación generada por las consecuencias educativas del Covid-19 supone unaoportunidad inmejorable para repensar algunos paradigmas del relato pedagógico presenteshasta la actualidad. Las enormes cotas de desigualdad de América Latina y el Caribe, tanto dentrode los países como entre ellos, convierten esta conveniencia en una exigencia ineludible: repensarel mañana educativo nunca ha tenido más sentido que en los momentos de excepcionalidad quevivimos. A través de un enfoque hermenéutico, bajo el análisis de contenido de los principalesinformes y documentos de los organismos internacionales vinculados al mundo educativo, serealiza una primera revisión de urgencia del impacto de la pandem…
HCI for biomedical decision-making: From diagnosis to therapy.
2020
Abstract Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) plays a fundamental role in the design of software oriented towards clinical decision-making tasks. Currently, physicians have to deal with an ensemble of systems and software tools in the clinical environment, such as clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs), Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACSs). Moreover, additional platforms aim at collaborative work particularly in telemedicine, where rehabilitation technologies and conversational agents can support the healthcare professionals.
Challenges of translation process research at the workplace
2014
Translation usually takes place at translators’ workplaces, yet much translation process research refers to data collected under controlled conditions such as the classroom or the lab. Pursuant with recent descriptions of translation as a situated activity comes the necessity of investigating that activity where and when it occurs. Many of the methods that have proved useful in the lab have also been applied in the field, and some of the challenges associated with investigating translation at the workplace are common to any kind of empirical translation research. However, certain workplace constraints present special challenges to everyone involved. Some solutions that were developed for a …
Conductes de risc associades en jugadors patològics i professionals de pòquer i escacs
2016
espanolEl juego esta cada dia mas presente en la sociedad con prevalencias muy importantes, sobre todo, en jovenes y adolescentes. Como consecuencia, este estudio tiene como objetivo estudiar la relacion entre el juego patologico, el juego a nivel aficionado el juego profesional (ajedrez y poquer) en el control de impulsos y en el consumo de alcohol. Para ello, se ha utilizado una muestra compuesta por jugadores aficionados y profesionales de ajedrez y poquer, un grupo de jugadores patologicos y un grupo control. Los instrumentos han medido conducta de riesgo de ingesta de alcohol, control de impulsos y los criterios diagnosticos de juego patologico. Los principales resultados han mostrado …
Professional thinking in Individual Plan processes
2014
This article explores the kind of critical and reflective thinking taht influences the social and health care professionals in the Individual Plan process. An inter-professional group of six healthcare and social researchers collected the data, which consisted of indepth interviews with 12 service providers who were the clients´ coordinators and one day centre leader. By focusing on reflective thinking in a critical perspective, it is concluded that coordinators are guided by different philosophical and theoretical perspectives in this process; a mixture of reasoning strategies, caring as a relational concept and a mixture of philosophical frameworks. To improve critical thinking in Individ…