The research group aims at the application and validation of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (Linehan, 1993) in: borderline personality disorder, cluster B personality disorders, and other psychological disorders with problems in the regulation of affect.
Study of the relationship between air pollution and health effects, with multi-centre studies being carried out. Studies are also carried out to evaluate the impact of pollution on the health of populations.
To assess the postural control of different populations as well as its evolution during childhood and adolescence.
Identification of the anatomical variants of the spinal column that can lead to the appearance of clinical symptoms such as headache, dizziness, tinnitus, vertebrobasilar insufficiency syndrome, etc.
Study of the anatomy and geometric morphometry of the thorax in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta and its relationship with pulmonary pathology.
Evaluation of different factors of prevention and treatment of cognitive impairment and mental health related to the role of new technologies.
The longitudinal assessment of the characteristics associated with childhood and adolescence allows the identification of healthy psychosocial profiles.
Characterisation of atmospheric aerosols from extinction measurements of solar irradiance and sky radiance. Dependence of atmospheric aerosols on the origin of air masses. Inversion methods to determine aerosol size distributions. Atmospheric correction. Study of the interrelationship of aerosols and clouds.
Audiovisual coeducation, gender, semiotics and cultural studies. Critical analysis of audiovisual culture and its coeducational dimension. Meaning and codification of gender in audiovisual discourses. Media interpellation: processes of identification and subjectivation.
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) are, by definition, dynamic and changing over time. This dynamism of neurodevelopmental disorders means that comorbidity with other disorders and diseases is very high throughout the life cycle, especially in adulthood and ageing. The aim of the Research Group is to study these disorders and their evolution over time, with special emphasis on techniques and methods that improve the abilities of the people who suffer from them and their family environment, so as to generate a better quality of life, promoting the general health not only of the person with a Developmental Disorder but of all the members of the family unit.
The main goal of this line is the development of bibliometric indicators useful in the evaluation of scientific activity that allow the easurement of research results and the performance of science, thus enabling public research policies to be better adapted.
The pattern of heavy alcohol consumption, alone or in polydrinking with cannabis, initiated early in adolescence is a precipitant for the development of cognitive impairment and stress response and should therefore be studied in this at-risk population with special attention.
The pattern of heavy alcohol consumption, alone or in polydrinking with cannabis, initiated early in adolescence is a precipitant for the development of cognitive impairment and stress response and should therefore be studied in this at-risk population with special attention.
Analysis of the spatial distribution of aquatic organisms in relation to the environment and dispersal processes.
The analysis of biographical events and life trajectories from micro- and macro-analytical perspectives has as its areas of study education, emancipation, integration into the labour market, the formation and dissolution of unions, motherhood and fatherhood, family changes, gender gaps throughout life and in the private and public spheres, life episodes during old age.
Study of the effects of biopower applied to the analysis of bodies, genders and sexualities. Social construction of health and illness.
This line argues that the body is essential in the configuration of identity and in the understanding of psychological processes. The main objective is to analyse the bodily processes involved in psychopathological alterations, as well as the psychological effect of the manipulation of the body.
Study of the bryophyte flora of Mediterranean environments. Biogeography of mosses and liverworts. Systematics and phylogeny of bryophytes. Assessment of the conservation status of bryophyte species.
Identification of molecular mechanisms, new pharmacological targets and active molecules in cardiovascular pathologies and obesity.
Compilation of demographic data sources prior to the digitisation of current censuses and registers, production of socio-demographic data on the Valencian population and elaboration of demographic, resilience, social vulnerability and health indicators.
Isolation and characterisation of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in different helminth parasites. Identification of molecules present in EVs. Analysis for the usefulness of EVs in helminthiasis control and other diseases (diagnosis, vaccination and treatment).
Describe the level of exposure and pollution during gestation and early childhood, assess the role of common environmental pollutants and protective dietary factors on foetal growth and neuro-endocrine-immune development to develop health indicators.
Analysis of the role of practices, methods and techniques in the field of social intervention in the production of identities and sexualities.
Classical methods to characterise chromatographic columns are based on the measure of retention and the use of a selected group of compounds. The validity of these approaches is investigated and new, more reliable strategies based on retention, selectivity and peak shape are proposed.
The aim of this line is to investigate the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying chronic pain and to test the therapeutic efficacy of treatments targeting these mechanisms.
Analysis of the components of population dynamics such as birth rate, fertility, morbidity, infant mortality, adult mortality, mortality shocks, migration, and population structure.
This line focuses on the analysis of the physical conditions and human movement for the development of tools for the assessment and diagnose as well as for the design of interventions programs.
Molecular and genetic basis of neurocognitive alterations in patients with SMI, in order to develop biomarkers, diagnostic assessment tools and therapeutic interventions helping to improve the functional prognosis, the autonomy and the life quality of these people.
Characterisation of cognitive impairment, its relationship with the frailty syndrome and searches for diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. Study of effective interventions to prevent or delay the progression of cognitive impairment in vulnerable people.
The combination of HPLC separation mechanisms allows unreachable selectivities with individual columns to be obtained. Several strategies are proposed, including the use of parallel columns, sequential column coupling and two-dimensional HPLC.
Social involvement processes should result in the self-development of these communities that have been subjects of training, monitoring and planning. The self-development methodology has proven to be a positive strategy to cement social change in the municipalities with high rates of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion.Involvement, self-development, strategic planning, social change.
Community Social Services are the gateway to the social welfare system and its different benefits and programmes that address the needs of the most vulnerable groups. Its analysis and evaluation allows to make improvements in local social welfare structures.
Social Services are part of public policies for local development because they facilitate the social inclusion of groups with subjective difficulties in integrating into the labour market. Active employment policies aimed at the population at risk of social exclusion are the target population of this line.Local development, community-based social services, inclusion of vulnerable groups, active employment policiesLocal development, community-based social services, inclusion of vulnerable groups, active employment policies
The end-of-life care line began with the participation of Enric Benito and Pilar Barreto in agreements between the UV and the SECPAL (Spanish Society of Palliative Care) to jointly design a measure of spirituality in patients that was clinically, psychometrically and culturally relevant to measure the resources to deal with symptomatology beyond the physical at the end of life. After a decade of productive collaboration, research in this field (EPIONE study) progressed towards intervention (KIBO protocol). On the other hand, always with the emphasis on methodology, the proposal and validation of new measurement tools, research was extended to other relevant topics such as dignity or demoralisation syndrome in patients.
The efficiency of interventions on quality of life is designed and studied in patients and their environment as well as in professionals. In the case of professionals, research is carried out not only in the health field, whether in palliative care, intensive care or home care, but also in general in professional activities with high emotional demand, such as care for people with functional diversity, children with developmental disorders or police. There are several interventions based on Positive Psychology that show effectiveness in reducing stress in professionals with high emotional demand.
From ARMAQoL, with an emphasis on methodology and in collaboration with clinical experts from the UV, we investigate the use of different mechanisms and formats of these interventions, making them more appealing, and trying to reduce dropout rates. In professionals, the multicentre YASO study, in collaboration with the UIB (Noemí Sansó, member of the team) was our first incursion into the inner curriculum of palliative care professionals. Nowadays, this research, with a strong theoretical basis, has been consolidated as a diagnostic approach in health systems in numerous countries, in different languages.
Currently, in this line, we are developing the project ‘Longitudinal study of compassion’ and other determinants of professional quality of life: A research on palliative care professionals at national level (CompPal), financed by the State Research Agency - 2018 Calls, R&D&I Projects Research Challenges.
- Galiana, L., Sansó, N., Muñoz-Martínez, I., Vidal-Blanco, G., Oliver, A., & Larkin, P. J. (2021). Palliative Care Professionals' Inner Life: Exploring the Mediating Role of Self-Compassion in the Prediction of Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue, Burnout and Wellbeing. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
- Sansó, N., Vidal-Blanco, G., & Galiana, L. (2021). Development and Validation of the Brief Nursing Stress Scale (BNSS) in a Sample of End-of-Life Care Nurses. Nursing Reports, 11(2), 311-319.
- Moreno-Mulet, C., Sansó, N., Carrero-Planells, A., López-Deflory, C., Galiana, L., García-Pazo, P., ... & Miró-Bonet, M. (2021). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on ICU Healthcare Professionals: A Mixed Methods Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), 9243.
- Sansó, N., Vidal-Blanco, G., Galiana, L., & Oliver, A. (2021). Development and Psychometric Validation of the Brief Nurses' Practice Environment Scale and Its Relation to Burnout Syndrome and Job Satisfaction: A Study in Spanish Nurses. Frontiers in public health, 9.
- Pérez-Belmonte, S., Galiana, L., Fernández, I., Vidal-Blanco, G., & Sansó, N. (2021). The Personal Wellbeing Index in Spanish Palliative Care Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study of Wellbeing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.
- Oliver, A., Galiana, L., Simone, G. D., Tomás, J. M., Arena, F., Linzitto, J., ... & Sansó, N. (2021, January). Palliative care professionals' inner lives: Cross-cultural application of the awareness model of self-care. In Healthcare (Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 81). Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.
- Rudilla, D., Oliver, A., Galiana, L., Valenzuela, C., & Ancochea, J. (2021). Patients Suffering from a Chronic, Irreversible Illness: A Novel Study on the Psychological Intervention out of the Hospital. In Palliative Care for Chronic Cancer Patients in the Community (pp. 133-143). Springer, Cham.
- Galiana, L., Oliver, A., Arena, F., De Simone, G., Tomás, J. M., Vidal-Blanco, G., ... & Sansó, N. (2020). Development and validation of the Short Professional Quality of Life Scale based on versions IV and V of the Professional Quality of Life Scale. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 18(1), 1-12.
- Soto-Rubio, A., Perez-Marin, M., Rudilla, D., Galiana, L., Oliver, A., Fombuena, M., & Barreto, P. (2020). Responding to the Spiritual Needs of Palliative Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Test the Effectiveness of the Kibo Therapeutic Interview. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1979.
- Sansó, N., Galiana, L., Oliver, A., Tomás-Salvá, M., & Vidal-Blanco, G. (2020). Predicting professional quality of life and life satisfaction in Spanish nurses: a cross-sectional study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(12), 4366.
- Arena, F., Oliver, A., & Galiana, L. (2019). Overview of the Quality of Work Life of Palliative Caregivers in Brazil. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 28(2), 33-45.
- Sansó, N., Galiana, L., González, B., Sarmentero, J., Reynes, M., Oliver, A., & Garcia-Toro, M. (2019). Differential effects of two contemplative practice-based programs for health care professionals. Psychosocial Intervention, 28(3), 131-138.
- Galiana, L., Oliver, A., De Simone, G., Linzitto, J. P., Benito, E., & Sansó, N. (2019). A brief measure for the assessment of competence in coping with death: The coping with death scale short version. Journal of pain and symptom management, 57(2), 209-215.
- Sanso, N., Galiana, L., Oliver, A., Cuesta, P., Sanchez, C., & Benito, E. (2018). Evaluation of a mindfulness intervention in palliative care teams. Psychosocial Intervention, 27(2), 81-88.
It is based on the cultural and linguistic contrast, using corpus linguistics as a basis, between several modern majority languages such as Peninsular Spanish and English. The aim is to clarify concepts and look for practical applications both at a particular level between specific communicative communities and at a global level within the educational setting, as well as in social and professional communication, such as business communication. The tools of corpus linguistics, from a cross-cultural perspective, prove to be essential both for the collection of real data and compilation of corpora and for their analysis and application of results. In this team, the study of current social and professional communication is approached in symbiosis with the digital world, not only as a mediator, but also as a target for new generation applications.
The group also studies contrastive linguistics and its application to translation at a lexical-semantic and pragmatic-discursive level between majority languages, e.g. Peninsular Spanish and English, in specialised fields such as health sciencies as well as in other academic and professional contexts.
Study on the use of molecular gates in drug release. Application to different pathologies with emphasis inflammatory bowel disease.
The addition of additives to the mobile phase allows the volume of organic solvent to be reduced in conventional reversed-phase HPLC. When the additive is biodegradable, a clean method (classified as Green Chemistry) is achieved. In particular, by using microemulsions, water and soap separations are developed.
Research in emotional education focuses on the knowledge and skills (competences), which children and adolescents have and which allow them to identify their own and other people's emotions, as well as to express and regulate pleasant and unpleasant emotions.
The research line covers all stages involved in the development of an immunoassay, design and synthesis of target analyte analogues (haptens), preparation of immunisation and assay conjugates, production of antibodies, development and validation of the immunoassay.
Due to the increasing number of analyses performed in laboratories, there is an interest in reducing the analysis time. For this purpose, instrumental techniques and rapid columns, as well as direct injection strategies of the analysed samples, are used.
Protection of the worker’s health and personal sphere outside the workplace.
Comprehend the unexpected associations between apparently different diseases, like cancer and certain diseases of the central nervous system.
Modelling social systems, values and quality of life, and demographic flows.
Early interactive patterns associated with (in)secure attachment to detect predictors and design counselling/intervention. Sequential analysis techniques and non-linear dynamic analysis. Maternal sensitivity to cues. Non-contingent maternal behaviour. Contextual factors.
Epidemiological (life cycle, transmission, population dynamic) and ecological (influence of biotic and abiotic factors) analysis of human and animal parasites (especially rodents). Analysis of behaviour and response of parasites after natural disasters.
Current developments in the connection between the education system and the labour market make it necessary to pay attention to some effects that are already visible on the condition of young people. The first question that will be analysed in this line concerns the concept of human capital and its capacity to create new youth subjectivities that respond to the idea of the entrepreneur of oneself. This idea has been developed by political philosophy in recent decades. Human capital is a machine for activating subjects, which entrepreneurialises social relationships and introduce us the other as a competitor. This is a disturbing scenario for social and human relationships that hovers over today's youth. Human capital is connected to a series of notions such as employability or entrepreneurial spirit that guide the educational and labour conceptions of young people. The second issue studied in this line is the brain drain of Spanish young people as a result of the economic crisis of 2007. The third question refers to free work (internships, scholarships) which is increasingly becoming a compulsory requirement for young university students and opens up a whole field for possible exploitative, abusive and arbitrary practices.
Use of Oxidative stress as a biomarker for embryo viability in human IVF and its use as an additional marker to the existing morphokinetic algorithms provided by time-lapse.
It aims to explore the importance of emotional management, as a key element of what constitutes optimal or healthy functioning of the person throughout the life cycle. In this sense, it considers not only the relationship of emotional self-efficacy with relevant variables of individual differences (such as personality dimensions and coping styles), but also its association with important life outcomes (health, subjective well-being, academic and occupational commitment and performance, etc.).
The group studies the mechanisms of this enigmatic and common disease, its physiopathology and ways of early detection. It's also involved in the development of new medication for its treatment via clinical trials.
Molecular haplotyping of Triatominae insects transmitting Chagas disease for the differentiation of species, subspecies and populations for phylogenetic and taxonomic reconstruction and study of gene flow between wild, peridomiciliary and intradomiciliary populations.
Biopsychosocial variables aimed at improving the quality of life in the life cycle. José Manuel Tomás' career in the field of his research line is well known. He has co-directed with Amparo Oliver competitive longitudinal projects in the field under the MICIN/AEI/FEDER Challenges call for proposals. Currently in 2021-2022, together with Laura Badenes, he is the Director of the Official Master's Degree in Social and Health Care in Dependency at the Universitat de València. The scientific and technical objectives focus on identifying the variables that most influence the quality of life of the elderly, how they relate to each other and how we can work on them according to theoretical reference models from different cultures. We research both in the field of so-called successful elderly (such as active and healthy people who attend educational programmes for older adults), as well as older people living in community or those who are institutionalised. The research with national and international impact of the team members in this line is reflected in impact journals and includes research collaborations in the field with researchers from our own university, or collaborations with universities such as UNCC Charlotte in the USA, Universidad Privada del Norte in Lima-Peru or the Universidad de Costa Rica.
- Sentandreu-Mañó, T., Cezón-Serrano, N., Cebrià I Iranzo, MA., et al. (2021). Kihon Checklist to assess frailty in older adults: Some evidence on the internal consistency and validity of the Spanish version. Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 21, 262-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggi.14126.
- Caycho-Rodríguez, T.; Tomás, J. M.; Barboza-Palomino, M.; Ventura-León, J.; Gallegos, M.; Reyes-Bossio, M.; Vilca; L. W. (2021) Assessment of Fear of COVID-19 in Older Adults: Validation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale. International Journal Of Mental Health And Addiction, 6, pp. 1 - 15 . ISSN: 1557-1874.
- Galiana, L., Tomás, J. M., Fernández, I., & Oliver, A. (2020). Predicting Well-Being Among the Elderly: The Role of Coping Strategies. Frontiers in Psychology, 616. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00616.
- Fernández, I., Sentandreu-Mañó, T., & Tomás, J. M. (2020). Impacto del estatus de fragilidad sobre la salud y calidad de vida en personas mayores españolas. Atención Primaria, 52, 731-737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2019.11.006.
- Pérez-Belmonte, S., Galiana, L., Sancho, P., Oliver, A., & Tomás, J. M. (2020). Subtypes of Depression: Latent Class Analysis in Spanish Old People with Depressive Symptoms. Life, 10, 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/life10050070.
- Sentandreu-Mañó, T., & Tomás, J. M. (2020). Indicators of pain management and their relationship with frailty. En M. C. Pérez-Fuentes et al. (2020): Investigación e intervención en salud: revisando la evidencia científica (pp. 95-106). Dykinson: Madrid, España.
- Tomás, J. M., Sentandreu-Mañó, T., & Fernández, I. (2020). Frailty status typologies in Spanish older population: Associations with successful aging. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 6772. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186772.
- Sancho, P. Tomás, J. M., Oliver, A., Galiana, L., and Gutiérrez, M. (2020) Predicting Life satisfaction in Spanish Adults of Advancing Age Attending University Educational Programs. Journal Of Happiness Studies, 21, pp. 271 - 287 . ISSN: 1389-4978.
- Cebrià i Iranzo, Maria dels Àngel; Arnal Gómez, Anna; Tortosa Chuliá, María Angeles; Balasch i Bernat, Mercè; Forcano, Silvia; Sentandreu Mañó, Trinidad; Tomas Miguel, Jose Manuel; Cezón Serrano, Natalia (2020) Functional and Clinical Characteristics for Predicting Sarcopenia in Institutionalised Older Adults: Identifying Tools for Clinical Screening. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 17(12), p. 4483 . ISSN: 1661-7827.
- Constanza San Martín Valenzuela; Lirios Dueñas Moscardó; JuanLópez-Pascual; Pilar Serra-Añó; José M.Tomás (2020) Effects of Dual-Task Group Training on Gait, Cognitive Executive Function, and Quality of Life in People With Parkinson Disease: Results of Randomized Controlled DUALGAIT Trial. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. ISSN: 0003-9993.
- Constanza San Martín Valenzuela, Lirios Dueñas Moscardó, Juan López-Pascual, Pilar Serra-Añó, José M. Tomás. (2020) Interference of functional dual-tasks on gait in untrained people with Parkinson's disease and healthy controls: a cross-sectional study. Bmc Musculoskeletal Disorders, 21(396) . ISSN: 1471-2474.
- Sancho, P; Pinazo-Hernandis, S.; Donio-Bellegarde, M.; Tomás, J. M.; (2020) Validation of the University of California, Los Angeles Loneliness Scale (version 3) in Spanish older population: An application of exploratory structural equation modelling. Australian Psychologist, 55, pp. 283 - 292 . ISSN: 0005-0067.
- Caycho-Rodríguez, T.; Sancho, P.; Tomás, J. M.; Carranza, R. F.; Ventura-Leóne,J.; Neto, F.; Reyes-Bossiog, M.; Cabrera-Orosco; I. (2020) Validity and Invariance of Measurement of the Satisfaction with Love Life Scale in Older Adults. Psychological Thought, 13(2), pp. 439 - 458 . ISSN: 2193-7281.
- José M. Tomás;Trinidad Sentandreu-Mañó; Irene Fernández (2020) Frailty status typologies in Spanish older population: associations with successful aging. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 17(18), p. 6772 . ISSN: 1661-7827.
- Tomás, JM; J; Pinazo-Hernandis, S; Oliver, A; Donio-Bellegarde, M.; Tomás-Aguirre, F. (2019) Loneliness and social support: differential predictive power on depression and satisfaction in the old age. Journal of Community Psychology, 47(4), pp. 1225 - 1234 . ISSN: 0090-4392.
- Sentandreu-Mañó, T., Badenes-Ribera, L., Fernández, I., Oliver, A., Burks, D. J., & Tomás, J. M. (2019). Frailty in the Old Age as a Direct Marker of Quality of Life and Health: Gender Differences.Social Indicators Research. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-019-02246-1.
- Sentandreu?Mañó, T., Fernández, I., Cebrià i Iranzo, M. À., & Tomás, J. M. (2019). Dimensions underlying frailty indicators in the Kihon Checklist. Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 19, 982-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggi.13754.
Study of the distribution of oral disease and related risk factors. Risk factors studied: cariogenic diet, oral hygiene habits, microbiology associated with oral diseases: caries and periodontal disease, socioeconomic factors, obesity, alcohol, tobacco.
Search for published scientific information and analysis of data through systematic reviews and meta-analyses aimed at answering focused questions to facilitate clinical dental practice based on the best scientific evidence.
Study and improvement of ovarian tissue cryopreservation techniques, detection of occult metastatic diseases in breast cancer patients, in vitro activation and maturation, fertility preservation in leukaemia patients and uterus transplant.
The esTOCma app was developed to fight against the stigma associated with mental illness in general, and OC spectrum disorders in particular, by disseminating current knowledge and the possibilities for effective treatment and recovery from these disorders. https://estocma.blogs.uv.es/
Epidemiological study of food-transmitted human parasites (protozoa and helminths). Study of the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factor on parasitism. Morphological and molecular diagnosis and identification of parasite species. Anisakiasis study.
Prevention of fragility signs in populations at risk by assessing human functions (functional and neurocognitive assessment) and by incorporating nutritional medicine studies on Omega 3.
Frailty is a state of vulnerability to illness and death and in its early stages can be prevented. It is more prevalent in women than in men in every age group. Multidimensional frailty, both physically and cognitively, its prevalence and characteristics are investigated.
Research on frailty sydnrome, a syndrome that appears as a response to different stressful situations and that can serve as a conceptual and experimental framework to explain some of the different pathways that lead to disability and dependence in elderly or vulnerable patients. Study of effective interventions to prevent or delay the progression of the frailty syndrome.
Fundamental and applied limnology: Dynamics and functioning of epicontinental aquatic ecosystems. Community structure and functional diversity. Assessment of environmental and conservation status. Microbial ecology in lentic ecosystems: Study of the composition and functionality of the microbial community by molecular techniques. Metagenomics. Metabarcoding and e-DNA Biogeochemistry and carbon balances in Mediterranean wetlands, fluxes of carbonate greenhouse gases. Effects of environmental properties and conservation status on the climate change mitigation capacity of lentic ecosystems. Ecotoxicology. Geographic information systems (GIS). Remote-sensing. Polar limnology.
Study of sex differences in the different processes of drug addiction and in the presence and manifestation of dual pathology.
Proposal of a psychobiological model of General Personality Factor (GPF). Creation of an instrument for measuring the GPF.
The objectives of this line of research are, on the one hand, to identify genes and polymorphisms associated with bone phenotypes through candidate gene association studies and through translational studies from animal models, and on the other hand, the functional characterisation of each variant.
Evolutionary and functional genomics.
Creation of Geographic Information Systems with the use of satellite images and thematic maps (climate, surface, parasitological parameters, etc.) for the modelling of epidemiology and the transmission of human / animal parasites, as well as the influence of climate change on them.
Networking on the burden of disease.
The research line focuses on research in health services and technologies applied to health, and on the design, implementation and evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention interventions.
Socio-health strategies related to physiotherapy treatment of the elderly.
Molecular characterisation of Trematode Fasciolidae parasites of humans and animals from human endemic areas in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia and of Lymnaeidae molluscs transmitting Fascioliasis.
To examine transcultural variants of IMD (for its Spanish acronym, Unpleasant Mental Intrusions) with obsessive, dysmorphic, hypochondriacal and alimentary content.
This research line seeks to understand how ovaries in female patients undergoing in vitro fertilisation work and to improve the results by reducing complications.
Coercive family relationships. The development of child behavioural problems. Escalation and child abuse. Study of (in)competent parenting practices; failures in child socialisation. Victimisation, psychological maladjustment and mediators. Case studies and intervention.
Assessment of scientific activity and analysis of the sharing of raw research data in the health sciences.
Study of injuries in the work environment (health and non-health), and action for their prevention through physical exercise programmes.
Commitment, entrepreneurship and employability of graduates with functional diversity. In this line, among other subjects, research is being carried out on entrepreneurship, with three PhD theses, two of which have received grants from pre-doctoral training programmes from the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Valencian Department of Education, Valencian government (GVA). We also collaborate with EVAP (Association of Businesswomen and Professionals of València) on this subject and with the team of Prof. Lorenzo Revuelto, from the Research Group on Human Resources Strategy, Knowledge Management and Innovative and Entrepreneurial Behaviour - RRHHCIRO (UV). A very important part of this line are the collaborations with the Research Group on Social Studies, Intervention and Innovation - GESinn (UV), directed by Prof. Jose Javier Navarro-Pérez. This involves methodological support in the design, development and evaluation of protocols aimed at diagnosis and/or intervention in essentially vulnerable environments. Whether in contexts of gender-based violence or child abuse.
- Reyes, B., Georgieva, S., Martínez-Gregorio, S., De los Santos, S., Galiana, L. and Tomás, J.M. (2021). Assessment of learning strategies with the ACRA and the Brief-ACRA scales: Competitive models, measurement invariance, and prediction of academic achievement in secondary elementary students from the Dominican Republic. Psychodidactics, 26(10), 1-9.
- Martinez-Gregorio, S. and Oliver, A. (in press). Measuring Entrepreneurial Intention in Secondary Education: Validity evidence for the EIQ. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.
- Martínez-Gregorio, S., Badenes-Ribera, L., and Oliver, A. (2021). Effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship intention and related outcomes in educational contexts: a meta-analysis. The International Journal of Management Education, 19(3), 100545.
- Martínez-Gregorio, S., Badenes-Ribera, L., and Oliver, A. (2021). Effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship intention and related outcomes in educational contexts: a meta-analysis. The International Journal of Management Education, 19, 100545. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijme.2021.100545.
- Navarro-Pérez, JJ; Oliver, A.; Carbonell, A.; Schneider, BH. (2020). Effectiveness of a Mobile App Intervention to Prevent Dating Violence in Residential Child Care. Psychosocial Intervention doi.org/10.5093/pi2020a3 Q1.
- Fernandez, I.; Enrique, S.; De los Santos, S.; Tomás, J. M. (2020). Can engagement and burnout be distinguished? A study in a representative sample of teachers. TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 27, pp. 71 - 84 . ISSN: 1972-6325.
- Tomás, J. M., Gutiérrez, M., Hernández, M. and Georgieva, S. (2020). The effects of self-efficacy, hope, and engagement on the academic achievement of secondary education in the Dominican Republic. Psychology in The Schools, 57, pp. 191 - 203 . ISSN: 0033-3085.
- Navarro-Pérez, JJ.; Carbonell, A.; Oliver, A. (2019). The Effectiveness of a Psycho-educational App to Reduce Sexist Attitudes Among Adolescents. Psychodidactics, DOI: 10.1016/j.psicod.2018.07.002, Q1.
Integration of different omics (genomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, metabolomics, proteomics) with environmental factors for the study of gene-diet interactions in different health-disease phenotypes.
Ecology of aquatic interactions and their applications.
The group approaches language variation from different perspectives that integrate the multiple variables that interact in current communication. The predominant approach is the pragma-semantic variationist one, highlighting the interpersonal and multimodal versatility of communication and its influence on social, professional and educational transformations. In a pioneering way, the team approaches variation in all fields of applied linguistics from a multidisciplinary perspective.
The objectives of these lines of research are to clarify at epidemiological/population, cellular and molecular/epigenetic levels the effect of maternal oocyte ageing and assisted reproduction techniques on the reproductive health of women and their offspring.
Molecular characterisation of Culicidae of vectorial interest for infectious diseases currently present in areas that in the past were endemic for Malaria in Spain.
Our study must be considered an initial attempt to create an in vitro model for the direct conversion of somatic cells from patients with gamete-alterations production into germ cells in vitro, opening the field to discover new cell therapies to treat them in the future.
Mathematical modelling of electroencephalographic (EEG) brain activity in relation to drug effects and from the paradigm of individual differences.
Diagnosis and epidemiological study of human ectoparasite arthropods (mosquitoes, myiasis, lice, bedbugs, etc.). Pest control and vectors on an individual level. Analysis of vector-transmitted parasitic diseases and influence of climate change on them.
Influence of the Mediterranean diet on different states of health and disease.
Based on the fundamental advances in HPLC made by the research group, analytical methods for several samples in the pharmaceutical, clinical and food fields are designed. Method development is accompanied by an extensive validation.
Psychological interventions based on mindfulness and compassion have strongly burst into the field of psychological treatments. This line of research aims to investigate the effects of their practice on different psychological aspects, such as attention, emotional regulation or values.
Reliable optimisation of chromatographic separation conditions requires tools that use retention and peak shape models. Diverse tools and new strategies for the analysis of complex samples are developed, which consider one to three experimental factors.
Design, synthesis and characterisation of sensors for the detection of molecules of biological and environmental interest. Among the molecules studied are nerve gases, pollutant gases and drugs of abuse.
Music is a common element in practically all cultures. However, taking into account the diversity of music, it is necessary a more precise and rigorous analysis of it. This line studies the emotional, cognitive and psychophysiological response to music.
Systematics and identification of lichens (both fungus and lichenised algae) and non-lichenised fungi (including mushroom-forming fungi) of the Mediterranean area, as well as the identification of their secondary metabolism products. Conservation of species and their habitats. Biodeterioration of monuments.
Study of the biological and environmental factors involved in cocaine addiction. Study of different neurotransmitter systems on the reinforcing effects of cocaine. Influence of environmental factors, exposure to stress (physical, social or psychological) or personality.
Chemical synthesis of new multi-diane compounds, in particular peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors and liver X receptors, which are regulators of lipid metabolism, glucose and cholesterol homeostasis, as well as of the inflammatory process.
Study of the processes of precariousness in social contexts discursively dominated by the knowledge economy and which particularly involve people with higher education qualifications. Phenomena: entrepreneurial activation, new forms of vital precariousness and the role of higher education institutions.
Design and validate new models of CBT dispensing for OC spectrum disorders, specifically Virtual Reality and mobile applications (App) to facilitate CBT dispensing and dissemination.
Study of Retinoic Acid Related Receptors (RORs) involved in the regulation of glucose metabolism, inflammation and angiogenesis in endothelial dysfunction and angiogenesis associated with obesity and abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Comparative validity of the several proposals on the disorders to be included in the obsessive-compulsive spectrum.
Analyse whether the different symptomatic manifestations of OCD are:
- Consequence of diffeent aetiopathogenic factors.
- Respond differently to empirically validated psychological treatments (i.e., Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT).
- They present a different comorbidity.
To analyse the different cognitive explanatory proposals for OCD (model based on dysfunctional appraisals versus inferential confusion) in relation to the context of occurence of intrusions/obsessions, the self, cognitive variables and content of thoughts.
Instrument development: The ongoing evaluation of the psychometric properties of the CITMI-R and the SOC-III in their English, Spanish and Portuguese versions. Development of optimal methods for the training of coders. Dissemination through new media among researchers and practitioners.
There's an analysis for the parasites-food intolerance relationship and the prevalence, transmission routes and risk factors of suffering from intestinal parasitosis, the correlation between parasitosis and the reception of breastfeeding, as well as the parasites-child development relationship.
Search for the effectiveness and use of new techniques for prevention, training, rehabilitation and physiotherapy treatment of physiopathological processes related to ageing.
Development of effective therapeutic approaches that enable both therapeutic avoidance and eradication of the disease before metastasis.
Evaluation of comparative lipidomic, metabolomic and epigenetic profiles between healthy and diseased patients.
Analysis of the production of pedagogical identity in specific contexts of educational and professional transition from a Social Justice perspective. Construction of the social positioning of young people in institutional transition processes. Analysis of Educational Policies from a critical perspective: conservative modernisation.
Study of the biodiversity, systematics and nomenclature of Mediterranean benthic seaweeds and marine phanerogams. Conservation of species and their habitats.
In this line of research, studies are carried out to quantify the habitual physical activity of groups of people with some special situation, usually a pathology that affects the musculoskeletal system. In this way, the aim is to establish the effect of the practice of physical activity on parameters related to the health and functionality of these people.
To assess the effect of therapeutic exercise and physiotherapy on cardiocirculatory function in adults and older adults with cardiovascular disease, as well as to study the effectiveness of strategies to improve adherence to a physically active lifestyle in these subjects.
Physiotherapy from a global perspective can improve the health of patients with respiratory problems. This line of research aims to develop new tools and implement interventions to assess the prognosis and improve the functional capacity of these patients.
To demonstrate the effects and cost-effectiveness of new proposals for the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, with the aim of optimising recovery times at the lowest cost.
This line focuses on the search for assessment tools and the definition of health promotion and specialised physiotherapy intervention programmes for young children with psychomotor developmental disorders as well as for children or adults with neurological pathologies.
Plant ecology (dune vegetation, nitrophilous vegetation, scrubland, forest fires, bioclimatology and biogeography); plant taxonomy (cariology, phenology, phylogeography, nomenclature); conservation biology.
Les polítiques de protecció a la família són una assignatura pendent per al sistema de benestar social espanyol. A més, tenim constància que són en les entitats socials on es poden generar resultats d'investigació aplicats a la solució de les problemàtiques de família i de conciliació entre vida laboral i familiar.
Positive Psychology defends the importance of studying the well-being of individuals. In the research group we aim to investigate in this field, developing Positive Interventions applied through ICTs and studying the processes involved in well-being.
Pedagogical relations in contexts of social and educational exclusion (poverty, ghettoisation, ethnic minorities). Analysis of policies to combat failure and early school leaving. Curricular justice and educational equity. Childhood and RECE.
Search for vulnerability and prevention factors in the development of psychiatric disorders and addiction to substances of abuse.
Statistical models usually of structural equation models that explain the interrelationship between key variables to understand the impact of each variable and predict one or more issues of interest with minimal error. Multi-sample models, multilevel models, multitrait-multimethod models and longitudinal models or models with latent growth curve trajectories. These models test invariance in its different phases of expression, they also allow us to approach AFC, path models, covariance structure models, hybrid EFA models, MIMIC models... in other words, they provide us with a great versatility to capture, to model the complex reality of trying to explain the quality of life in citizenship. In this line, researchers of the group based in the area of Methodology of Knowledge Sciences participate the most.
Women have a specific disease profile, which is particularly evident in some pathologies, such as osteoporosis, heart disease, etc. It is important to develop prevention policies, especially through healthy lifestyles, including physical activity, and with the support of ICTs.
Study of pedagogical practice based on Basil Bernstein's theory. Analysis of the processes of distribution and construction of legitimate knowledge in the pedagogical device. Pedagogical modes of transmission. Sociology of pedagogy. Critical pedagogy and critical table.
Separation is a highly stressful event that requires the family to adapt to the changes brought about by the break-up. When parents maintain a very conflictive relationship with children or use them in their confrontational dynamics, emotional abuse occurs with adverse effects.
To analyse attitudes, professional values and other parameters related to professional ethics and health in physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and patients. To design and validate assessment tools. To study the effectiveness of innovative programmes on ethics and health in physiotherapy.
Implementation and evaluation studies of the Parent-Child Psychological Support Programme (PAPMI) and the Parent-Child Psychological Support Programme (PCPS).
Through the design of specific physical exercise programmes, the effect on the musculoskeletal system of elderly people is investigated, as well as the promotion of active ageing in this population.
The way of living has an impact on the physical and mental health of individuals. The research group aims to investigate and provide strategies to achieve a better quality of life in people, developing interventions applied through ICTs.
The psychological aspect of frailty includes clinical (cognitive and emotional), functional and socio-familial aspects as well as different demographic and lifestyle variables. The aim is to research and define the profile of these variables in different population groups.
Study of the adaptation to the disease of both the patient and the family environment - at different times or in different areas that include not only the process of diagnosis and treatment, but also other phases such as the prevention of the disease or its survival. It also deals with different aspects related to the performance of the healthcare professional in oncology (e.g. burnout, communication skills and management of crisis and stressful situations in the interaction with the patient).
This line studies the neurobiological and environmental factors involved in the development of MDMA dependence and, especially, in relapse after a period of abstinence.
This research line studies the effects of the psychophysiological response to stress on behaviour, emotions and cognition, taking into account the adaptive/maladaptive value of these changes and their relationship with health/illness.
The variables involved in prosocial versus aggressive behaviour are investigated, analysing the different contexts involved in these behaviours: family, school and peer groups, fundamentally around family and the different types of family, related to family cohesion and conflict, child-to-parent violence, the hierarchy of values, prosocial development and agressive behaviour in children and adolescents and their integration in an intercultural context. Based mainly on how, in recent years, different forms of violence have increased in adolescence, such as peer violence (bullying and cyberbullying), child-to-parent violence and gender-based violence (between couples), with important consequences in the personal, family, school and social spheres. Emotions and their lack of self-regulation, lack of empathy, coping mechanisms, peer preassure, the socialisation process and the values that society transmits are factors that may be behind these behaviours. In particular, we focus our research on the protective factors that favour and strengthen prosocial behaviour in adolescence: factors of protection and vulnerability to aggression, taking into account personal, family, school and peer relationship variables. Types of family: given their importance in the psychosocial development of children, the variables are analysed considering the different types of family and aggressiveness/prosociality of children (discrimination between single-parent families, family structure, biological or adoptive family). Adolescence: analysis of emotional competences in adolescence (11-18 years old), as well as of parenting practices and styles, school failure and risk behaviours in adolescents, such as alcohol abuse. Other variables to be analysed: anxiety, depression, stress, coping mechanisms and the relationship with peers, prosocial peers-aggressive peers.
Application of psychological intervention techniques (self-regulation therapy) to modify personality and drug management.
The use of ICTs is growing exponentially in the field of Clinical Psychology. Our aim is to design applications (web platforms, virtual reality, mobile systems) that serve as therapeutic tools in the assessment and treatment of psychological disorders.
Active and healthy ageing is a construct of growing relevance. In its psychological aspect, clinical (cognitive and emotional), functional, cultural and socio-familial aspects must be included, as well as different demographic and lifestyle variables. Among the objectives of the group is the assessment and intervention throughout the life cycle, including the optimisation of their development, both of the persons or patients involved and their family environment, carers, etc., especially in the cognitive, emotional, functional and lifestyle areas. Within frailty in ageing, the topic of cognitive frailty and the variables involved in it is of particular interest.
Focused on the specific field of addictive behaviours, this research line develops intervention PROGRAMMES for young people who have been fined for the consumption or possession of addictive substances on the street, with an important aspect being the adaptation of the action to the characteristics of each of the groups to be intervened, adjusting to the many differences found among young people from different cultures and races. On the other hand, this research line is also aimed at the ADAPTATION of tools, given that in recent years intensive alcohol consumption has become consolidated among Spanish minors, often leading to alcohol intoxication and in which the incorporation of female teenagers between 14 and 15 years of age is increasingly notorious and worrying (Cortés, Giménez y Motos, 2012; Cortés, 2012; OED, 2013). The consequences of this pattern of consumption on brain development and the effects it has on attention, processing and retention of new information, emotional control, etc., are known with considerable accuracy (López et al.,, 2013; Crego et al. 2009; Guerri, 2010; Tapert, 2007), but there is not the same level of knowledge about to what extent and in what way it is interfering in the development of each of the social and personal skills that are acquired at this age and which, like the deterioration in brain structure, will also have consequences on the optimal development of these young people. It has become evident that in this aspect it is not possible to use tools adapted from other countries, since the pattern of consumption differs markedly (OED, 2013).
Prevention of psychosocial risks at work and work-related stress, prevention of accidents at work, improving the safety culture and climate in companies, improving the occupational health of workers, increasing the productivity of organisations and companies in the public and private sectors.
Study of ocular quantitative anatomy in relation to pathologies such as dry eye, glaucoma, diabetes, ocular hypertension, corneal anaesthesia, etc.
Effects of UVB radiation on humans. Prediction of the UVI (UltraViolet Index). Modelling of solar UV radiation on inclined planes. Measurements of solar UVB radiation and prediction of erythematic solar UV radiation under clear, cloudless skies.
Use of remote, satellite or airborne sensors to measure the values of environmental variables related to the environmental properties, quality and ecological status of inland aquatic ecosystems.
Basic research into processes involved in gambling addiction. Development of gambling addiction (Ludens) and technological addictions (AdiTec) prevention programmes. Development of evidence-based gambling addiction treatment protocols. Development of regulation proposals.
Research on techniques and methods of analysis based on statistical data as well as discursive and textual data.
New intervention strategies: motivational techniques and social support networks; change indicators and trajectories in the intervention process; effectiveness of intervention programmes with abusers developed in the community.
Molecular characterisation of vectors: sequence analysis, phylogenies, population genetics and haplotyping using ribosomal and mitochondrial markers; influence of human migrations; analysis of potential risk of transmission.
Basic translational research on biochemical and molecular mechanisms related to free radical formation and oxidative stress in metabolic, cardiovascular and tumour diseases. Molecular signalling pathways in DNA damage and repair.
Development and validation of new attitude measures towards gender-based violence; changing attitudes towards gender-based violence in abusers.
To contribute to the body of knowledge on human behaviour and social interaction by collecting data of interest from different social sectors and decision-makers in the public and private spheres, as well as from research personnel.
Deepen knowledge of common musculoskeletal injuries in patients with haemophilia and their sequelae, as well as design and validate assessment methods. Study the effectiveness of physiotherapy techniques and protocols to improve physical function and quality of life.
Corresponding to its complexity and wide range, it focuses on studies and developments concerning strategy (including tactical and operational levels) and all the components involved in the decision-making process, based on normative or descriptive models (mathematical versus psychological), as well as at the individual and group level.
Study of the effects of stress on decision-making in healthy people.
Effects of stress and treatment on cognitive aspects, hormone levels and quality of life in people with epilepsy.
Assessment of factors that may help promote cognitive reserve and healthier ageing as well as mechanisms that may protect against the deleterious effects of stress.
Fundamental studies are carried out to explain the shape of chromatographic peaks which continue or question historical studies by other authors on this subject. Peak models and peak prediction strategies are developed to optimise separation conditions.
Study of the abdominolumbar musculature (also called core musculature) and its muscular activation, by means of specific exercises for this purpose.
Many compounds of pharmaceutical interest have an acid-base character, therefore the nature and concentration of the dominant species depend on pH. Models of mobile phase behaviour are developed in the absence and presence of additives, and with conventional or extended pH columns.
Study of molecular interactions between helminth parasites and their hosts. Tools destined to the control of said parasitosis (proteins and recombinant peptides along with polyclonal antibodies) stem from identified molecules.
The research line focuses on the optimisation of the synthesis of agrichemicals of the type of pheromones and parapheromones for their industrial scale-up and their application in the control of agricultural pests.
A systematic review is an objective review of a clearly formulated question whose answer requires the integration of the empirical studies that have been carried out on it. Its aim is to systematically and objectively accumulate the evidence obtained in empirical studies on a given problem. Therefore, systematic reviews are secondary studies that synthesise the available scientific information through rigorous and explicit methods, which saves time for health and social care professionals and provides them with an overview of what the scientific evidence suggests about studies in promotion of the life quality.
- Martínez-Gregorio, S., Badenes-Ribera, L., and Oliver, A. (2021). Effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship intention and related outcomes in educational contexts: a meta-analysis. The International Journal of Management Education, 19, 100545. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijme.2021.100545.
- Badenes-Ribera, L., Molla-Esparza, C., Longobardi, C., Sánchez-Meca, J., and Fabris, M. A. (2021). Homicide as a Source of Posttraumatic Stress?: A Meta-Analysis of the Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Committing Homicide. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34, 345-356. Doi: 10.1002/jts.22630.
- Ventura, S., Badenes-Ribera, L., Herrero, R., Cebolla, A., Galiana, L., and Baños, R. M. (2020). Virtual Reality as a Medium to Elicit Empathy: A Meta-Analysis. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 23, 667-676. Doi: 10.1089/cyber.2019.0681.
- Rubio-Aparicio, M., Badenes-Ribera, L., Sánchez-Meca, J., Fabris, M., and Longobardi, C. (2020). A Reliability Generalization Meta-analysis of self-report measures of Muscle Dysmorphia. Clinical Psychology-Science and Practice, 27, e12303. 2020. Doi: 10.1111/cpsp.12303.
- Longobardi, C., Badenes-Ribera, L., Fabris, M. A., Martinez, A., and McMahon, S. (2019). Prevalence of Student Violence Against Teachers: A Meta-Analysis. Psychology Of Violence, 9, 596-610. Doi: 10.1037/vio0000202.
- Longobardi, C., and Badenes-Ribera, L. (2019). The relationship between animal cruelty in children and adolescent and interpersonal violence: A systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 46, 201-211. Doi: 10.1016/j.avb.2018.09.001.
- Badenes-Ribera, L., Sánchez-Meca, J., and Longobardi, C. (2019). The Relationship Between Internalized Homophobia and Intimate Partner Violence in Same-Sex Relationships: A Meta-Analysis. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 20, 331-343. Doi: 10.1177/1524838017708781
- Badenes-Ribera, L., Rubio-Aparicio, M., Sánchez-Meca, J., Fabris, M. A., and Longobardi, C. (2019). The association between muscle dysmorphia and eating disorder symptomatology: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 8, 351-371. Doi: 10.1556/2006.8.2019.44.
- Badenes-Ribera, L., Fabris, M. A., and Longobardi, C. (2018). The relationship between internalized homonegativity and body image concerns in sexual minority men: a meta-analysis. Psychology and Sexuality, 9, 251-268. Doi: 10.1080/19419899.2018.1476905.
- Longobardi, C., and Badenes-Ribera, L. (2017). Intimate Partner Violence in Same-Sex Relationships and The Role of Sexual Minority Stressors: A Systematic Review of the Past 10 Years. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 2039-2049. Doi: 10.1007/s10826-017-0734-4.
- Badenes-Ribera, L., Bonilla-Campos, A., Frias-Navarro, D., Pons-Salvador, G., and Monterde-i-Bort, H. (2016). Intimate Partner Violence in Self-Identified Lesbians: A Systematic Review of Its Prevalence and Correlates. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 17, 284-297. Doi: 10.1177/1524838015584363.
- Badenes-Ribera, L., Frias-Navarro, D., Bonilla-Campos, A., Pons-Salvador, G., and Monterde-i-Bort, H. (2015). Intimate Partner Violence in Self-identified Lesbians: A Meta-analysis of its Prevalence. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 12, 47-59. Doi: 10.1007/s13178-014-0164-7.
Study of systemic inflammation induced by different risk factors for atherosclerosis: angiotensin-II, menopause, cigarette smoke, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance or familial hypercholesterolemia. Search for biomarkers of cardiovascular pahtology.
Epidemiological study of teniasis / cisticercosis, with special reference to the third new parasitic tapeworm: Taenia asiatica. Ultrastructural studies of infective forms. Secretomics analysis of cisticercosis' infective forms (eggs) of the three human Taenia species.
Municipal public policies require a territorial analysis to be able to implement plans, programmes and projects adapted to the emerging priority needs for citizens. The participatory action research methodology has been identified as strategic to provide a solution to this type of policy and relevant results have been produced in this regard.
Decision-making is a complex cognitive process that is influenced by emotions. In this line, we analyse these relationships applied to different experimental contexts and social settings.
The constructivist paradigm is gaining ground among qualitative researchers and new methodologies such as the narrative are opening up for research in local communities. Especially on problems that are not usually visible and that, through the recognition of the strategy of the citizens’ involvement in the solution of them, it is possible to plan processes of social change that recognize the need to generate public policies of community development.
Study of the geometric shape of the lumbar spine and its relationship with chronic non-specific low back pain.
Spatio-temporal epidemiology of child abuse and gender-based violence in the city of Valencia; socio-demographic correlates of the spatial distribution of violence in close relationships; neighbourhood characteristics and social attitudes geography in the city of Valencia.
The topics of research and development are very broad and include epidemiological studies, accident research, causes of accidents, risk factors, risk groups, vulnerable users, driver behaviour, basic psychological processes, attitudes, motivations and values underlying behaviour, the special case of offenders and repeat offenders, as well as autonomous driving.
In addition to the human factor, the subject of study includes the roads (with special attention to black spots and accident hotspots, as well as signage, which is particularly variable), vehicles, and the condition of all of them.
To find out which variables of factors operate transdiagnostically in the various dimensions and/or subtypes of OCD and in other disorcers of the emotional spectrum (anxiety and mood disorders). Specifically, we focus the study on unpleasant mental intrusions (IMD for its Spanish acronym).
The research and development topics are very broad and include studies of the travel habits or needs of users of a given territory or means of transport, user satisfaction, public transport, the impact of changes in supply, soft modes, freight, logistics, last mile, fares, accessibility, inclusiveness, gender, environment, electric mobility, etc.
Likewise, and even more so in the case of Road Safety, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are the object of study and development, as well as other means of land transport, such as rail, tram and metro, as well as maritime and air transport.
Study of molecular mechanisms potentially linking type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), as well as the study of new therapeutic pathways.
Commercially available RPLC columns do not allow the analysis of charged or highly polar compounds. A line is developed to improve chromatographic performance using secondary equilibria, with special emphasis on the addition of surfactants and ionic liquids to the mobile phase.
To analyse the polyphenolic antioxidant capacity as protection against the development of retinopathies related to oxidative stress.
Analysis of intercultural differences in the use of discipline practices; development of implicit measures of attitudes towards aggression in parent-child relationships; attitudes towards corporal punishment and child maltreatment risk.
Evaluation of the relationship between climatic factors and weather variables, especially ambient temperature and health, as well as public health measures that can minimise the impact of foreseeable future climate changes.
This line of research aims to research the emerging forms of work both in terms of their material insecurity and in terms of the new configuration of subjectivities that are taking shape. The recent changes in the world of work linked to cognitive work, digital work, platform capitalism and new forms of work organisation that particularly affect young people - project work, the rise of independent forms of work and freelances- are giving room to new precariousness. The aim is to research the effects of jobs in which: 1) The frontier between work and personal life is narrowing; 2) Cognitive, creative and emotional skills are expanding; those that take advantage of personal qualities and open up a whole new scenario of cognitive exploitation; 3) New business demands are being made for involvement, vocation and dedication in these jobs, which call for a "psychological contract", for the identification with the company; 4) Work is recently identified as a space for recognition, reputation, the brand of the corresponding individualisation; 5) Autonomy is glorified as a competence and as an employment situation, which leads us towards the predominance of the entrepreneurial and the independent worker figures; 6) The capacity for negotiation on wages and working conditions is low and increases precarious situations. The weakness of the trade union movement and the protective family framework - which provides support for young people in precarious situations - strengthen the negotiating power of the company, which establishes precarious material conditions with little resistance. Initially, the qualitative approach will guide the research methodologically.
Studying people's behaviour at work in order to improve their quality of working life and productivity, by means of personnel selection, management and leadership training, coaching, mediation, conflict resolution, communication improvement, etc.
Requirement to keep working time records, socio-labour implications, productivity, accidents, working time, prevention of occupational risks, flexibility, teleworking, etc.
The latest economic recession that has hit the Western countries has revealed not only the fragility of the capitalist system and the social guarantees that have been associated for some years to Fordism, but also the existence of a deep systemic crisis of a structural rather than a conjunctural nature. Those who are young today have grown up immersed in this crisis and in the uncertainty that the ineffectiveness of social structures produces. In the face of the challenge of "growing up" in this context, young people are adopting the most diverse strategies. This line of research aims precisely to analyse what these strategies are by trying to identify the existence of patterns and construct some new theoretical categorisations. Starting with Hirshman's famous "exit, voice or loyalty", protest or conformity, the studies carried out in this line analyse the phenomenology of these reactions: processes such as emigration, protest and participation that are manifested in the new social movements, innovation as the construction of new paths, are the central phenomena of this line. The destructuring of Western societies and their organisation is generating, on the one hand, a lack of univocal orientation in the processes of socialisation in favour of the pluralisation of life paths and, on the other hand, an urgent need to build new "solutions" in the life of the community in all areas. From the models of coexistence and the pluralisation of family models, to the ways in which work is organised, including training processes, the life of young people is characterised by a very interesting mixture of conservation and innovation, of ruptures and the emergence of new identities, where subjective processes and interpersonal relations take on great importance. Hence the key use of qualitative research methodologies.
