36 research outputs found
Spanish medical students’ attitudes and views towards Mental Health and Psychiatry: a multicentric cross-sectional study.
Objective The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes
towards mental illness and psychiatry among fifth year
Spanish medical students.
Methods The study included 171 students from three medical
schools located in different areas of Spain: Cádiz; UCA (n=
113), Madrid; San Pablo-CEU (n=22), and Barcelona; UAB
(n=36). They responded, prior to their undergraduate medical
course in psychiatry, to the AMI questionnaire to measure the
attitudes towards mental illness and to Balon’s adapted questionnaire
to investigate their view towards psychiatry.
Results The students (93.4 %) had a positive attitude towards
mental illness (AMI). Attitudes towards psychiatry were fairly
positive with a few negative views, specifically regarding the
role of psychiatrists (items 11 and 13) and the prestige of the
specialty (item 16). There were some statistically significant
differences between the three medical schools in the perception
of psychiatry as a medical discipline. A better attitude
towards mental illness was associated with a better view of the
overall merits of psychiatry.
Conclusions Findings suggest that Spanish medical students
do not have a negative attitude towards mental illness and they
have a good perception of psychiatry, although there are still
some misconceptions about this specialty. These student’s
attitudes could favor an appropriate management of patients
suffering from mental illness
A Compact Dication Source for Ba Tagging and Heavy Metal Ion Sensor Development
We present a tunable metal ion beam that delivers controllable ion currents
in the picoamp range for testing of dry-phase ion sensors. Ion beams are formed
by sequential atomic evaporation and single or multiple electron impact
ionization, followed by acceleration into a sensing region. Controllability of
the ionic charge state is achieved through tuning of electrode potentials that
influence the retention time in the ionization region. Barium, lead, and cobalt
samples have been used to test the system, with ion currents identified and
quantified using a quadrupole mass analyzer. Realization of a clean
ion beam within a bench-top system represents an important
technical advance toward the development and characterization of barium tagging
systems for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon gas. This system
also provides a testbed for investigation of novel ion sensing methodologies
for environmental assay applications, with dication beams of Pb and
Cd also demonstrated for this purpose
Subsidence hazard avoidance based on geomorphological mapping in the Ebro River valley mantled evaporite karst terrain (NE Spain)
Estudio geologico-estructural de la region Aracena-Cumbres Mayores (provincias de Huelva y Badajoz)
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Actas de la 1. reunion nacional de geomorfologia
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Record of climatic fluctuations and high pH weathering conditions in a thick Ordovician palaeosol developed in rhyolite of the Dunn Point Formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia, Canada
Exploring clinical, echocardiographic and molecular biomarkers to predict bronchopulmonary dysplasia
INTRODUCTION: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is the most common chronic lung disease in childhood, related to prematurity, and the most common cause of pulmonary hypertension (PH) secondary to pulmonary disease in children. Moderate and severe BPD have a worse outcome and relate more frequently with PH. The prediction of moderate or severe BPD development in extremely premature newborns is vital to implement preventive strategies. Starting with the hypothesis that molecular biomarkers were better than clinical and echocardiographic factors, this study aims to explore the ability of clinical, echocardiographic and analytical variables to predict moderate or severe BPD in a cohort of extremely preterm infants. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We designed a prospective longitudinal study, in which we followed a cohort of preterm newborns (gestational age <28 weeks and weight </= 1250 grams). In these newborns we recorded weekly clinical and echocardiographic variables as well as blood and tracheal aspirate samples, to analyze molecular biomarkers (IL-6, IL-1, IP10, uric acid, HGF, endothelin-1, VEGF, CCL5). Variables and samples were collected since birth up to week 36 (postmenstrual age), time-point at which the diagnosis of BPD is established. RESULTS: We included 50 patients with a median gestational age of 26 weeks (IQR 25-27) and weight of 871 g (SD 161,0) (range 590-1200g). Three patients were excluded due to an early death. Thirty-five patients (74.5%) developed BPD (mild n = 14, moderate n = 15, severe n = 6). We performed a logistic regression in order to identify risk factors for moderate or severe BPD. We compared two predictive models, one with two variables (mechanical ventilation and inter-ventricular septum flattening), and another-one with an additional molecular biomarker (ET-1). CONCLUSIONS: The combination of clinical and echocardiographic variables is a valuable tool for determining the risk of BPD. We find the two variable model (mechanical ventilation and echocardiographic signs of PH) more practical for clinical and research purposes. Future research on BPD prediction should be oriented to explore the potential role of ET-1
Quantificaion of fluvial incision in the Duero Basin (NW Iberia) from longitudinal profile analysis and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide concentrations
The Duero Basin is one of the largest Cenozoic basins in Iberia and contains a relatively well-preserved sedimentary infill. The top of the sedimentary sequence crops out at elevations up to 900 m above sea level. The present-day basin drains to the Atlantic Ocean via the Duero River through the Arribes Gorge, but during the Cenozoic the basin experienced a long endorheic period marked by the formation of evaporites. The time the basin opened to the Atlantic Ocean and the formation of the modern Duero River drainage system remains poorly constrained. In this study we quantify the spatial distribution of river incision within bedrock and sedimentary units by comparing the nearly relict higher reaches with the lower deeply incised reaches of the tributary system. Results show an abrupt increase in stream incision westward, reaching a minimum bedrock incision depth of 600 m in the Arribes Gorge. Using cosmogenic 10Be and 21Ne data we estimate exposure ages for erosion surfaces at various levels in the incised Duero River. The cosmogenic nuclide dataset suggests that the final 2–300 m of fluvial incision in the Arribes Gorge occurred at a rate of 2–3 mm/yr over the last ~ 100 ka
P1009: PREDICTORS OF HOSPITALIZATION AND SEVERE OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH MPN AND COVID-19
Long-term follow-up of recovered MPN patients with COVID-19
Long-term follow-up of recovered MPN patients with COVID-1