The Advanced Nursing Research Group (CARING) carries out research in different fields and mainly develops the following lines of research:
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1. ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE
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2. PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY NURSING CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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3. METHODOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH IN MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS
1. ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE
This line includes the research on the development of extended, competency-based and skilled professional practice in any field, to respond to new challenges and outcomes in health, based on innovation and research in advanced nursing clinical practice.
Line Goals:
To empower nursing research from any perspective in the field of biomedicine, epidemiology and advanced clinical practice.
Thematic areas:
- Health promotion
- Prevention and approach with a gender perspective
- Chronic care areas
- Teaching innovation
- New technologies and methodologies
- Patient quality and safety
- Bioethics, applied ethics and deontology
- Critical and reflective thinking, leadership and professional autonomy
- Digitization of health and Care management
- Health psychology
- Autonomy for professional and competency-based practice
2. PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY NURSING CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
This research line is structured around two axes: public health and community nursing. It incorporates the social and humanistic aspects of nursing with a focus that includes everything from the historical and ethical study of care to critical and social epidemiology, with a predominant comparative, transcultural and also local approach to the study phenomena.
Line Goals:
To promote basic and applied research in the field of public health and community nursing, with a special focus on the development of health actions, care strategies and social policies in the face of the challenges posed by the new millennium.
Thematic areas
- Social determinants of health
- Public policies
- History and ethics of care
- Transcultural nursing
- Community-Oriented Primary Care
- Critical epidemiology
3. METHODOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH IN MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS
Line Goals:
To promote nursing research in the field of psychosocial nursing care from a positive perspective focused on the concepts of Positive Mental Health, Emotional Well-being, Health Literacy and Gender.
Methodology:
This area takes into account quantitative, qualitative, clinical trial and research-action methodologies.
Thematic areas:
- Positive Mental Health (PMH) and Health Literacy: Associated variables and measurement instruments.
- Health Programs to promote PMH and reduce distress in the area of family caregivers of chronically ill patients and nursing professionals.
- Suicide: Studies related to identifying risk and protective factors for suicide in different population groups and healthcare settings.
- Mental Health and Gender: Detection and approach to gender-based violence in different populations, people with mental disorders, students and LGTBI+.
- Psychosocial Nursing Care in MH: Improving the therapeutic relationship, quality of life and mental health, Covid and MH, PMH programs, stress reduction and promotion of emotional well-being with nursing students.
- Substance Use and Abuse in Young People (alcohol and cannabis): Risk factors and associated variables.