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Cazorla González, Jorge J. (Date of defense: 2024-06-14)
Adopting an active lifestyle from infancy is crucial for long-term health, preventing future diseases, and addressing problems such as overweight and respiratory diseases. Crawling before walking has the potential to ...
Gonzalez-Hoelling, Samira (Date of defense: 2024-03-18)
Stroke is the leading cause of functional motor disorders in adults and, in most cases, alters gait patterns and balance when standing and walking. Rhythmic techniques are recommended to improve gait and balance, since ...
Gómez Tomás, Jordi Joan (Date of defense: 2023-11-29)
Introduction. Proximal femoral fracture (PFF) is an injury related to the elderly that poses a serious public health problem. Epidemiological data confirm a progressive increase in PFF in Spain, accounting for 45 thousand ...
Batlle Amat, Pau (Date of defense: 2023-10-20)
Introduction: According to the World Health Organization – WHO – life skills "are abilities to adopt an adaptive and positive behavior that allows individuals to effectively address the demands and challenges of everyday ...
Carbó Bagué, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
In this doctoral thesis, the epidemiology of cutaneous and mucosal melanoma is analyzed, as well as its molecular profile to provide new knowledge on a population basis in the province of Girona. The cancer registry of ...
Roura Martí, Pere (Date of defense: 2023-02-16)
Complementary therapies are highly present in our society and they are consulted and used by the general population. This has been shown by the European Commission, the European Council and the WHO, among other international ...
Roqueta Vall-llosera, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-05-30)
Knowing maternal satisfaction linked to interventionism is essential to improve care processes. The aim of this research is to analyze women satisfaction according to the sociodemographic variables, clinical variables ...
Portabella Serra, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-06-01)
The severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) depends on the primary injury and subsequent complications. The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is used to assess its initial severity. We talk about mild TBI when the GCS score ranges ...
Paz Bermejo, Marco Antonio (Date of defense: 2022-05-30)
Background. The relative efficacy of antihypertensive drugs/combinations is not well known; Identifying the most effective ones, and the patients’ characteristics associated to best performance of the drugs will improve ...
Villavicencio Obando, Alicia Silvana (Date of defense: 2022-03-29)
Comprehensive population-based studies assessing the survival of hematological entities are scarce and typically conducted using old classifications schemes, which hampers their interpretation and international comparisons. ...
Perruca Martínez, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
The lack of knowledge and skills in the care of infants in their first years of life often results in frequent paediatric consultations for banal problems and doubts, which are often a result of a low level of health ...
Broncano Bolzoni, Miriam (Date of defense: 2020-07-08)
Objective: To evaluate the mental health perception from a positive, multidimensional and recovery perspective in people with psychotic disorder. Methodology: A multicentre, cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational, ...
Pericot Mozo, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-09-17)
INTRODUCTION: Chronic low back pain has a major impact on the quality of life of those affected, making it difficult to carry out basic activities of daily living. OBJECTIVES: The overall aim was to study the perceived ...
Ferreira dos Santos, Maria do Carmo (Date of defense: 2020-10-26)
Breakthrough cancer pain due to its characteristics, fast onset, short duration and high severity implies a significant reduction in the quality of 2/2 life perceived by affected persons. For this reason, breakthrough ...
López Sánchez, Ángeles (Date of defense: 2019-06-10)
Social determinants of health (DSS) are the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and grow old in relation to their health system. The study of DSS becomes essential for understanding social health ...
Solans Margalef, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-10-14)
Diet is a key modifiable risk factor for several neoplasms, but evidence for lymphoid malignancies is still inconsistent. Previous epidemiological studies were mostly focused on single dietary components (i.e. nutrients ...
Colillas Malet, Ester (Date of defense: 2019-07-08)
Women and Men’s Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) with severe mental disorder (SMD), is a key indicator of its recovery. The aim was to describe the association between different variables with the HRQOL of these ...
Serrat Costa, Mar (Date of defense: 2019-05-24)
Introduction: Arterial hypertension (AHT) is the main risk factor in attributable mortality. It is therefore considered one of the most significant public health problems, in particular for primary health care, which is ...
Salleras Duran, Laia (Date of defense: 2019-02-20)
Patients often require venous access. The lack of a scale to predict this difficulty in the emergency department makes the validation of an instrument all the more necessary. The use of ultrasounds to locate veins makes ...
Gol i Gómez, Roser (Date of defense: 2018-07-17)
This work evaluates the effectiveness of the midwifery telephone support in relation to the abandonment of breastfeeding of primiparous women from a randomized parallel controlled clinical trial. 220 primiparous women who ...