Cine para realizar evaluaciones formativas de Psicología en tres grados diferentes de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (upf)

Se narra el uso del cine comercial para realizar evaluaciones formativas de Psicología en tres grados diferentes de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF): Criminología, Biología Humana y Medicina. Se comparan los resultados en los tres grados. Los estudiantes de Criminología obtuvieron resultados inferiores a los de Biología Humana y de Medicina

Use of commercial movies in Psychology teaching for Medicine and Biology students

In the present paper, we explain our experience using three popular/commercial films to carry out formative assessment in teaching Psychology to students of Medicine and Biology. In both cases, the students watched the films during the intended class hours, and the, following day they completed a formative exam. A few days later, the corrected exams were given back to the students in order to carry out a feedback session. The aim was to deal with all their questions but focussing more closely on those answered with a lesser degree of success. We make a very positive evaluation of our experience, not only because of the satisfaction of the students but also because of their academic performance.En este escrito se narra una experiencia de uso de tres películas comerciales para llevar a cabo evaluaciones formativas en Psicología con estudiantes de Medicina y de Biología. En ambos casos, los alumnos visionaban las películas en horas de clase y posteriormente realizaban el examen formativo. Unos días después, se entregaban a los estudiantes los exámenes corregidos para realizar una sesión de retroalimentación. En ésta se comentaban todas las preguntas y se hacía hincapié en los conceptos que no habían sido asimilados de forma correcta. Se hace una valoración muy positiva de la experiencia tanto por la alta satisfacción mostrada por los estudiantes como por el éxito académico final de éstos

A Double-Track Pathway to Fast Strategy in Humans and Its Personality Correlates

The fast-slow paradigm of life history (LH) focuses on how individuals grow, mate, and reproduce at different paces. This paradigm can contribute substantially to the field of personality and individual differences provided that it is more strictly based on evolutionary biology than it has been so far. Our study tested the existence of a fast-slow continuum underlying indicators of reproductive effort¿offspring output, age at first reproduction, number, and stability of sexual partners¿in 1,043 outpatients with healthy to severely disordered personalities. Two axes emerged reflecting a double-track pathway to fast strategy, based on restricted and unrestricted sociosexual strategies. When rotated, the fast-slow and sociosexuality axes turned out to be independent. Contrary to expectations, neither somatic effort¿investment in status, material resources, social capital, and maintenance/survival¿was aligned with reproductive effort, nor a clear tradeoff between current and future reproduction was evident. Finally, we examined the association of LH axes with seven high-order personality pathology traits: negative emotionality, impulsivity, antagonism, persistence-compulsivity, subordination, and psychoticism. Persistent and disinhibited subjects appeared as fast-restricted and fast-unrestricted strategists, respectively, whereas asocial subjects were slow strategists. Associations of LH traits with each other and with personality are far more complex than usually assumed in evolutionary psychology

Poor sleep quality may trigger cognitive deficits after recovery from COVID-19

ObjectiveIn the present study, we aimed to assess the cognition of post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) participants in relation to their subjective sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI) and to analyse possible moderators of this effect, such as quality of life (European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions, EQ-5D), fatigue (Chadler Fatigue Questionnaire, CFQ), cognitive reserve (Cognitive Reserve Questionnaire, CRC), and subjective cognitive complaints (Memory Failures of Everyday Questionnaire, MFE-30).MethodsWe included 373 individuals with PCC and 126 healthy controls (HCs) from the NAUTILUS Project (NCT05307549 and NCT05307575) who were assessed with a comprehensive neuropsychological battery and various questionnaires.ResultsWe found that PCC participants with poor sleep quality had a 4.3% greater risk of immediate verbal memory deficits than those with good sleep quality, as indicated by the greater odds ratio (OR) of 1.043 and confidence interval (CI) of 1.023–1.063. Additionally, their risk of immediate verbal memory disorders was multiplied by 2.4 when their EQ-5D score was low (OR 0.33; CI 0.145–0.748), and they had a lower risk of delayed visual memory deficits with a greater CRC (OR 0.963; CI 0.929–0.999). With respect to processing speed, PCC participants with poor sleep quality had a 6.7% greater risk of deficits as the MFE increased (OR 1.059; CI 1.024–1.096), and the risk of slowed processing speed tripled with a lower EQ-5D (OR 0.021; CI 0.003–0.141).ConclusionThese results indicate that poor subjective sleep quality is a potential trigger for cognitive deficits. Therapeutic strategies to maximize sleep quality could include reducing sleep disturbances and perhaps cognitive impairment in PCC individuals

Cognition and objective sleep quality in post-COVID-19 patients

In the current study, we aimed (i) to evaluate sleep quality via wrist actigraphy monitoring of nonhospitalized and hospitalized post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) participants; (ii) to correlate actigraphy measures with subjective measures of sleep quality, such as the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); and (iii) to investigate whether total sleep time or sleep efficiency could affect PCC cognitive performance. We included 49 individuals with PCC from the NAUTILUS Project (NCT05307549 and NCT05307575) who were monitored for 1 week via actigraphy and who were also assessed with a comprehensive neuropsychological battery and the PSQI. We found that there were significant differences between nonhospitalized PCCs and hospitalized PCCs in the number of awakenings. We also found a correlation between the total sleep time of both measures (actigraphy and PSQI), but we did not observe correlations between objective and subjective parameters of latency and sleep efficiency. Regarding cognition and actigraphy measures, there was a trend of statistical significance in the performance of immediate visual memory, attention span and social cognition according to sleep efficiency. In conclusion, results indicate that although the PSQI provides clinically relevant indicators of sleep, there are divergent results between self-reported and objective sleep measures (actigraphy). Furthermore, we found a tendency toward statistical significance in cognitive performance in PCC participants according to their sleep efficiency which could indicate that is more important for cognitive function of post-COVID-19 patients than total sleep time

Estudi longitudinal de l'estrès acadèmic i el malestar psicològic associat al llarg dels cinc cursos de Biologia de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra

L'objectiu de la investigació va ser estudiar l'estrès acadèmic, les seves fonts, i les conseqüències que podien tenir en la salut dels estudiants de biologia de la UPF al llarg dels anys de la carrera, recollint dades d'una mostra representativa d'alumnes. Per avaluar les fonts d'estrès es va utilitzar el Qüestionari d'Estrès Acadèmic (QEA). Per mesurar les conseqüències de l'estrès vam usar el "Cuestionario de Salud General" (G.H.Q-28) i el "Qüestionari d'Ansietat Estat-Tret" (STAI-E/R). Els nostres resultats coincideixen amb els obtinguts en estudis anteriors en quant a les principals fonts d'estrès acadèmic: la falta de temps per estudiar, l'excessiva quantitat de matèria per a l'estudi i la realització d'exàmens. A més aquestes es mantenien pràcticament estables al llarg dels estudis. Els nivells d'estrès acadèmic també es mantenien estables al llarg del temps amb puntuacions intermitges sense mostrar diferències significatives entre ells. Les puntuacions d'estrès acadèmic actual en els diferents cursos també mostraven certa estabilitat excepte per aquells cursos en els que hi va haver alguna disfunció en l'organització de la docència. En canvi, hi havia una disminució del malestar psicològic, observant-se que amb el pas del temps hi havia una adaptació a l'estrès acadèmic que produïa que la major part dels estudiants mostressin menys símptomes de malestar psicològic. Pel que fa a les diferències de gènere, les dones presentaven més estrès acadèmic en termes generals. En canvi, no hi ha diferències significatives entre gèneres en la majoria de les variables vinculades a repercussions en la salut. Pensem que les dades que s'aporten són d'extrema utilitat a l'hora de prevenir i planificar diferents dispositius d'atenció als estudiants.The aim of our investigation was to study the academic stress and its sources, along with the consequences that the academic stress could convey for the health of the Biology students of the UPF throughout the five years of their Biology studies by means of data collected from a representative sample of students. In order to evaluate the sources of stress, the "Qüestionari d'Estrès Acadèmic" (QEA) was applied. The consequences of the stress were measured with the "General Health Questionnaire" (GHQ-28) and the State/Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S/T). Our results agree with those obtained in previous studies with respect to the main sources of academic stress: lack of time to study, excessive amount of academic subjects, and examinations themselves. Moreover, these stress sources were maintained essentially stable throughout the years. On the other hand, the levels of academic stress also maintained longitudinally stable, with intermediate scores and also were maintained stables. The scores of current academia stress obtained in every course also showed stable except for those courses where some organizational dysfunctions were observed. However, a reduction of distress between consecutive courses was found, showing a progressive adaptation to the academic stress and thus producing a lesser level of distress symptoms in the majority of students. With respect to gender differences, female students showed more academic stress. However, non-significant differences were observed in most of the variables related to therepercussions on health. We believe that the results of our research could aid the prevention of health problems in university students and could help designing the different levels of professional attention to their health

Estudi longitudinal de l'estrès acadèmic i el malestar psicològic associat al llarg dels cinc cursos de Biologia de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra

L'objectiu de la investigació va ser estudiar l'estrès acadèmic, les seves fonts, i les conseqüències que podien tenir en la salut dels estudiants de biologia de la UPF al llarg dels anys de la carrera, recollint dades d'una mostra representativa d'alumnes. Per avaluar les fonts d'estrès es va utilitzar el Qüestionari d'Estrès Acadèmic (QEA). Per mesurar les conseqüències de l'estrès vam usar el "Cuestionario de Salud General" (G.H.Q-28) i el "Qüestionari d'Ansietat Estat-Tret" (STAI-E/R). Els nostres resultats coincideixen amb els obtinguts en estudis anteriors en quant a les principals fonts d'estrès acadèmic: la falta de temps per estudiar, l'excessiva quantitat de matèria per a l'estudi i la realització d'exàmens. A més aquestes es mantenien pràcticament estables al llarg dels estudis. Els nivells d'estrès acadèmic també es mantenien estables al llarg del temps amb puntuacions intermitges sense mostrar diferències significatives entre ells. Les puntuacions d'estrès acadèmic actual en els diferents cursos també mostraven certa estabilitat excepte per aquells cursos en els que hi va haver alguna disfunció en l'organització de la docència. En canvi, hi havia una disminució del malestar psicològic, observant-se que amb el pas del temps hi havia una adaptació a l'estrès acadèmic que produïa que la major part dels estudiants mostressin menys símptomes de malestar psicològic. Pel que fa a les diferències de gènere, les dones presentaven més estrès acadèmic en termes generals. En canvi, no hi ha diferències significatives entre gèneres en la majoria de les variables vinculades a repercussions en la salut. Pensem que les dades que s'aporten són d'extrema utilitat a l'hora de prevenir i planificar diferents dispositius d'atenció als estudiants.The aim of our investigation was to study the academic stress and its sources, along with the consequences that the academic stress could convey for the health of the Biology students of the UPF throughout the five years of their Biology studies by means of data collected from a representative sample of students. In order to evaluate the sources of stress, the "Qüestionari d'Estrès Acadèmic" (QEA) was applied. The consequences of the stress were measured with the "General Health Questionnaire" (GHQ-28) and the State/Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S/T). Our results agree with those obtained in previous studies with respect to the main sources of academic stress: lack of time to study, excessive amount of academic subjects, and examinations themselves. Moreover, these stress sources were maintained essentially stable throughout the years. On the other hand, the levels of academic stress also maintained longitudinally stable, with intermediate scores and also were maintained stables. The scores of current academia stress obtained in every course also showed stable except for those courses where some organizational dysfunctions were observed. However, a reduction of distress between consecutive courses was found, showing a progressive adaptation to the academic stress and thus producing a lesser level of distress symptoms in the majority of students. With respect to gender differences, female students showed more academic stress. However, non-significant differences were observed in most of the variables related to therepercussions on health. We believe that the results of our research could aid the prevention of health problems in university students and could help designing the different levels of professional attention to their health.Programa de doctorat en Biomedicin

Cinema to Carry Out Formative Examinations of Psychology in Three Different Degrees of the Pompeu Fabra University

The use of commercial cinema to carry out formative examinations of Psychology in three different degrees of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF): Criminology, Human Biology and Medicine is narrated. Results in the three grades are compared. The students of Criminology obtained lower results than those of Human Biology and Medicine.Se narra el uso del cine comercial para realizar evaluaciones formativas de Psicología en tres grados diferentes de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF): Criminología, Biología Humana y Medicina. Se comparan los resultados en los tres grados. Los estudiantes de Criminología obtuvieron resultados inferiores a los de Biología Humana y de Medicina

Uso del cine comercial en la enseñanza de Psicología para estudiantes de Medicina y de Biología

En este escrito se narra una experiencia de uso de tres películas comerciales para llevar a cabo evaluaciones formativas en Psicología con estudiantes de Medicina y de Biología. En ambos casos, los alumnos visionaban las películas en horas de clase y posteriormente realizaban el examen formativo. Unos días después, se entregaban a los estudiantes los exámenes corregidos para realizar una sesión de retroalimentación. En ésta se comentaban todas las preguntas y se hacía hincapié en los conceptos que no habían sido asimilados de forma correcta. Se hace una valoración muy positiva de la experiencia tanto por la alta satisfacción mostrada por los estudiantes como por el éxito académico final de éstos.</jats:p