GREMSPI

Research Group on Measures Sensitive to Nursing Practice

The GREMSPI focuses on the study and development of measures that reflect the impact of the different dimensions (care, management, research, teaching and health policies) of the quality of nursing practice.

Its purpose is to improve the quality of nursing practice and its outcomes by identifying, creating, and implementing specific and sensitive measures.

The group is coordinated by a nurse doctor specializing in family and community nursing, IDIAP researcher Jordi Gol, with extensive experience in the study and development of measurements.

The group is inter-institutional (six institutions) and is made up of nurses with different profiles that include various areas and disciplines (specialties) of nursing practice.

This diversity favours a more complete and effective approach to the research and application of the results.

The main research objectives of the group are: 1. To identify, define and validate measures of structure, process and outcome that reflect the impact of nursing practice. 2. Identify, analyse or develop strategies and tools to integrate these measures into daily practice.

Different members of the GREMSPI lead and actively collaborate with other research groups and with organizations and institutions of the higher education system and the health system.

Group projects

• Multidimensional instruments with a comprehensive approach to identify frailty in people living in the community in the community: Systematic psychometric review. ICS - Catalan Institute of Health. 2022-2026. PI: Juan José Zamora Sánchez.

• The challenge of the multidimensional assessment of frailty in vulnerable elderly people: validation of the frailty index-VIG and identification of frailty profiles in residential care in the city of Barcelona. (24S05858-001). Municipal Institute of Finance BCN - BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL. 2024-2026. PI: Juan José Zamora Sánchez.

  Adaptation and validation of the "Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index" to the organizational context of the Primary Health Care and prison teams of the Catalan Institute of Health. 2022-2025. IP: Edurne Zabaleta del Olmo.

  Degree of agreement and predictive validity of the efragicap and fragile index-VIG instruments as a measure of frailty in elderly people treated in home care in Primary Health Care. ICS - Catalan Institute of Health. 2022-2025. PI: Juan José Zamora Sánchez.

  Study of the impact of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic on vaccination coverage in Catalonia. ICS - Catalan Institute of Health. 2022-2025. IP: Edurne Zabaleta del Olmo.

  Systematic Psychometric Review of the multidimensional instrument for the assessment of frailty "Tilburg Frailty Indicator". ICS - Catalan Institute of Health. 2022-2025. PI: Juan José Zamora Sánchez.

Group publications

• Zamora-Sánchez JJ, Zabaleta-Del-Olmo E, Pérez-Tortajada G, Amblàs-Novellas J. Convergent and discriminative validity of the Frail-VIG index with the Pfeiffer test in people cared for in home care. Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 2024 Sep-Oct; 59(5):101499. Spanish. doi: 10.1016/j.regg.2024.101499. PMID:38754273.

• Martínez-Marcos M, Reñé-Reñé A, Zabaleta-Del-Olmo E, Guiriguet C, Gómez-Durán EL, Cabezas-Peña C. Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination coverage: an ecological study of primary health care and socio-economic factors in Catalonia, Spain. J Public Health Policy. 2024 Jun;45(2):299-318. doi: 10.1057/s41271-024-00484-3. PMID:38664542.