Red de Investigación en Actividades Preventivas y Promoción de la Salud

Mental health and substance use in Europe: initial steps towards a common European approach

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Comorbid substance use and other mental health disorders contribute to more than one million years lived with disability in Europe according to the Global Burden of Disease study. They require a comprehensive approach, yet, in Europe, there is considerable va...

Mapping the evidence on interventions to reduce potentially inappropriate prescriptions in older adults: a scoping overview of 127 systematic reviews

Potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs) are highly prevalent among older adults and associated with adverse outcomes, including hospitalisations and mortality. Numerous interventions have been evaluated and synthesised in reviews, but the review-level evidence remains hete...

Efectividad de las intervenciones en las escuelas para la prevención y reducción de la obesidad y el sobrepeso infantil: una revisión sistemática y un metaanálisis

Resumen Objetivo Sintetizar la evidencia sobre la efectividad de las estrategias de los programas escolares destinados a la disminución de la prevalencia de la obesidad y el sobrepeso infantil. Diseño Revisión sistemática y metaanálisis siguiendo las recomendaciones PRISMA. Fuent...

Lifestyle and its relationship with health literacy, sense of coherence and sociodemographic factors in a Spanish primary care population: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Health behaviors are driven by a complex interplay of individual and structural factors. While health literacy and sense of coherence are widely studied as psychosocial enablers of healthy lifestyles, evidence comparing their impact against broader social determinants of health r...

Healthy ageing phenotypes and four-year health outcomes: findings from a prospective cohort study

Global aging presents major public health challenges. Promoting Healthy Aging (HA) is a priority for organizations such as WHO and the American Geriatrics Society. However, inconsistent HA definitions hinder research and policy. This study examines the associations of two clinica...

Evolution of functional and mental status and quality of life in people aged 75 years and over after the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a prospective cohort study

The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant health and psychosocial consequences in the older adults. However, there is little community-based evidence that clearly distinguishes the effect attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection to be differentiated from the contextual impact of the...

Usefulness of custom-made orthoses with 3D scanning and printing for the conservative treatment of rhizarthrosis

Background: Trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis (rhizarthrosis) is often managed with orthopedic orthoses that are prefabricated in various sizes and may be manipulated to be adapted to the patient’s anatomy. Advances in three-dimensional scanning and printing now allow fabrication...