APRENDER A SER COMUNITARIO. DESDE EL APRENDIZAJE SERVICIO HASTA EL MODELO MINDFULNESS I.A.R.A.®

El rápido desarrollo de las tecnologías electrónicas, de las relaciones entre pares, y sobre todo de la superficialidad de muchas relaciones interpersonales llega a ser necesario volver a valorarse. Científicamente a nivel educativo y metodológico didáctico se han puesto objetivos claros como la persona holística, en su complejidad. Valorar la persona, antes como elemento de singular complejidad y después como parte de una comunidad en desarrollo, donde los tejidos entre individuos permiten conseguir la mejora de la estructura social. Así la comunidad vuelve a su centralidad educativa, comunicativa y de conocimiento porque solo un proyecto bien articulado puede permitir llegar a las satisfacciones de las diferentes necesidades..

Mindfulness-Based IARA Model® Proves Effective to Reduce Stress and Anxiety in Health Care Professionals. A Six-Month Follow-Up Study

Changes in the health care environment, together with specific work-related stressors and the consequences on workers' health and performance, have led to the implementation of prevention strategies. Among the different approaches, those which are mindfulness-based have been institutionally recommended with an indication provided as to their effectiveness in the management of stress. The aim of the present study was to analyze the efficacy of the mindfulness-based IARA Model® (an Italian acronym translatable into meeting, compliance, responsibility, autonomy) in order to ameliorate perceived stress, anxiety and enhance emotional regulation among health care professionals (HCPs; i.e., doctors, nurses, and healthcare assistants). Four hundred and ninety-seven HCPs, 215 (57.2%) of which were women, were randomly assigned to a mindfulness-based training or control group and agreed to complete questionnaires on emotion regulation difficulties (DERS), anxiety, and perceived stress. Results showed that HCPs who attended the IARA training, compared to the control group, had better emotional regulation, anxiety and stress indices after 6 months from the end of the intervention. Furthermore, the results confirmed the positive relationship between emotional regulation, perceived stress and anxiety. The present study contributes to literature by extending the effectiveness of IARA in improving emotional regulation and well-being in non-clinical samples. Moreover, the study provides support for the idea that some specific emotional regulation processes can be implicated in perceived stress and anxiety. From the application point of view, companies should invest more in stress management intervention, monitoring and training, in order to develop worker skills, emotional self-awareness, and relational resources

A new integrative approach to increase quality of life by reducing pain and fear of movement in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty: the IARA model

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) improve the patients' quality of life, and one of the most important problems after surgery is to optimize postoperative pain management. It has been shown that pain is intimately linked to the fear of movement, the so-called kinesiophobia, which can affect the entire perioperative period and quality of life in people undergoing THA. In this study, we aimed to present a new integrative approach called IARA model specifically focused on educational interventions such as knowledge and awareness of illness, guided imagery, and drawings to help the patient achieve full autonomy and confidence about the perioperative period and surgery. The Hip Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HOOS), Tampa Scale Kinesiophobia (TSK) questionnaire, and Numeric Rating Scale 0-10 have been used to test the efficacy of IARA. The main finding in the present study was the effectiveness of IARA model in improving indexes of pain (p < 0.01) and QoL (p < 0.01) and to keep kinesiophobia levels low in patients undergoing THA