Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health literacy to make informed preventive decisions. A specifc COVID-19 health literacy questionnaire (CHL-Q) is included in the COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring WHO initiative to conduct behavioral insights studies related to COVID-...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 community-wide transmission declined in Spain by early May 2020, being replaced by outbreaks and sporadic cases. From mid-June to 2 August, excluding single household outbreaks, 673 outbreaks were notified nationally, 551 active (>6,200 cases) at the ...

[ES] A pesar de ser una enfermedad rara, el cáncer es la primera causa de mortalidad por enfermedad durante la edad pediátrica en los países desarrollados. En este momento, la irrupción de nuevos tratamientos como la inmunoterapia constituye un nuevo paradigma clínico y regulatorio. Uno de estos ti...

Aim: This review aimed to synthesise the available reviews on the effects of nursing interventions on sleep quality among patients hospitalised in intensive care and non-intensive care units. Background: Poor sleep quality is a common fact in hospitalised patients. Nurses can contribute to the impr...

Background: Blue spaces have been a key part of human evolution, providing resources and helping economies develop. To date, no studies have been carried out to explore how they may be linked to paediatric oncological diseases. Objectives: To explore the possible relationship of residential proximi...

The aim was to assess the effect of adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, measured with five different indexes, on the risk of gastric cancer. Data come from the multicase-control study MCC-Spain, which included 354 gastric cancer cases and 3040 controls with data on diet. We used five indexes to ev...

[ES] Objetivo: El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar la asociación entre antecedentes familiares (AF) de primer grado y cáncer colorrectal (CCR). Método: Se incluyeron 2857 controles y 1360 casos de CCR, del estudio MCC-Spain. La odds ratio (OR) y el intervalo de confianza del 95% (IC95%) de los A...

When responding to infectious disease outbreaks, rapid and accurate estimation of the epidemic trajectory is critical. However, two common data collection problems affect the reliability of the epidemiological data in real time: missing information on the time of first symptoms, and retrospective r...

The monthly retrospective search for unreported acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases conducted as a complementary component of the Spanish AFP surveillance system identified a case of AFP in a child admitted in Spain from Senegal during August 2021. Vaccine-derived poliovirus 2 was identified in the...

Sleep duration is a novel and potentially modifiable risk factor for cancer. We evaluated the association of self-reported sleep duration and daytime napping with odds of colorectal and gastric cancer. We included 2008 incident colorectal cancer cases, 542 gastric cancer cases and 3622 frequency-ma...

Background: We assessed the prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV-Abs) and active HCV infection in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Spain in 2016 and compared the results with those of similar studies performed in 2002, 2009, and 2015. Methods: The stud...

The geographical distribution of mortality has frequently been studied. Nevertheless, those studies often consider isolated causes of death. In this work, we aim to study the geographical distribution of mortality in urban areas, in particular, in 26 Spanish cities. We perform an overall study of 1...

There is evidence for the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on healthy behaviours but the effect of social mobility (SM) is not yet well known. This study aims to analyse the influence of origin and destination SES (O-SES and D-SES) and SM on healthy behaviours and co-occurrence, from an inte...

[ES] Objetivo: Resumir la evidencia cualitativa sobre el papel de los proveedores de cuidados en la prevención de las caídas de personas mayores de 65 años en centros y en la comunidad. Diseño: Metarresumen de evidencias cualitativas siguiendo el método de agregación. Fuentes de datos: Búsqueda man...

Several anticancer properties have been largely attributed to phenolics in in vivo and in vitro studies, but epidemiologic evidence is still scarce. Furthermore, some classes have not been studied in relation to gastric cancer (GC). The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the i...

[ES] El objetivo de este estudio fue describir las características diferenciales por sexo y edad en un Programa de actividad física (ACTIVA-Murcia) desde una perspectiva de género. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo mediante análisis secundario en 411 participantes de dos centros de salud de Murcia...

Background: The first wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic spread rapidly in Spain, one of Europe's most affected countries. A national lockdown was implemented on 15 March 2020. Aim: To describe reported cases and the impact of national lockdown, and to identify disease severity ris...

[ES] Objetivo: Sintetizar la evidencia disponible sobre el uso de antisépticos y desinfectantes ante la infección de COVID-19. Método: Búsqueda bibliográfica en las principales bases de datos (WOS, CCC, DIIDW, KJD, MEDLINE, RSCI, SCIELO, PubMed, BMJ Best Practice, Cochrane Library, UptoDate) y en w...

[ES] Objetivo: La pandemia de COVID-19 ha afectado a países de todos los continentes, donde se ha aplicado de forma sistemática medidas de confinamiento y aislamiento. El objetivo es sintetizar la evidencia disponible sobre el manejo del aislamiento domiciliario por infección por COVID-19. Método: ...

INTRODUCTION: In Spain, one third of all children and two-thirds of adults suffer from excess weight, a condition that generates a direct excess medical cost of 2000 million Euros. Obesogenic food environments cause obesity by promoting the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and ultra-process...