GRCS

Research Group in Nursing Care

Health care has a transversal aspect within health attention, as it occurs in different care areas and can be offered by different professional profiles, although they are the central axis of the nursing discipline. The group arises from the initiative of PC (Primary Care) nurses from Barcelona who want to value the work of health care. It is constituted mainly by nurses, both from the PC and the Hospital de la Santa Creu and Sant Pau and from the Nursing Department of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. In addition, it has the participation of two family doctors (GPs) and an epidemiologist to ensure a comprehensive look and methodological quality of the group's projects. 

The lines of work intend to deepen the results of health care, both at the group level and individually, as well as identify strategies that facilitate the transfer of results to clinical practice. Currently, the active lines are the promotion of health and the management of patients with chronic diseases. The group is interested in the aspects related to the development of the nursing discipline and in collaborating with other research groups contributing the specificity of health care.

Group projects

• Sobrecarga en cuidadores/as informales de personas atendidas en el domicilio por Atención Primaria durante la pandemia por covid 19: estudio de metodología mixta. 2022-2025. IP: Carolina Lapena Estella.

• Pipa 2024: Programa Integrat De Promoció De La Vacunació Antigripal Al Cap Sanllehy (2024). ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. 2024-2025. IP: Carolina Lapena Estella.

• Intervenció preventiva infermera sobre els efectes de l'onada de calor en la població adulta fràgil de Barcelona: retrospectiu 2019-2024. 2025-2028. IP: Toni López Ruiz.

• Diferencias de género en las conductas de autocuidado en pacientes con hipertensión arterial: evaluación de las necesidades. 2023-2025. IP: Daria Nesterovich Grushina.

• Características metabólicas, funcionales y cognitivas de las personas con Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 de 85 años o más en Cataluña. Estudio Dicat85. ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. 2024-2025. IP: Elena Mañes Lopez.

Group publications

• Watson CE, Leyva Moral JM, Granel N, Garro M, Navarrete Reyes L, Gómez Ibáñez R. Understanding Value-Based Healthcare: Qualitative Insights From Nurses and Nursing Managers in Hospital Settings. J. Nurs. Manag. 2025;2025(1):9365941-9365941. PMID:41180586.

• Santesmases Masana R, Hernández Esparza E, Campillo Zaragoza B, Lapena Estella C, Mañes López E, Checa C et al. Translation and psychometric evaluation of the Spanish version of the Heart Failure-Specific Health Literacy. Patient Educ. Couns. 2025;135108732-108732. PMID:40081156.

• Capitán Fernández AM, Gutiérrez Vallés V, Luis Pérez C, Cerrillo Borja M, Rodríguez Morales N, Tejedor Bartolomé R et al. Sobrecarga en cuidadores familiares de personas atendidas en el domicilio por Atención Primaria durante la pandemia covid-19: estudio exploratorio. Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 2025;60(5):101656-101656. PMID:40233608.