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      Adolescents’ Perceptions of Sexuality: A Qualitative Study (2024) 

      Ventura-Miranda, María Isabel; Alcaraz-Córdoba, Andrea; Alcaraz-Córdoba, Tania; Molina-Torres, Guadalupe; Fernandez-Medina, Isabel María; Ruíz-Fernández, María Dolores (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023)
      Adolescents have a greater risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which is a serious public health problem. Education is an effective strategy to improve adolescent sexual health outcomes. However, Spanish ...
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      Attention Given to Victims of Gender Violence from the Perspective of Nurses: A Qualitative Study (2024) 

      Ruiz-Fernández, María Dolores; Ortiz-Amo, Rocío; Alcaraz-Córdoba, Andrea; Rodríguez-Bonilla, Héctor Alejandro; Hernández-Padilla, José Manuel; Fernández-Medina, Isabel María; Ventura-Miranda, María Isabel (MDPI, 2022)
      Women victims of gender violence consider the health system an appropriate place to seek help. Aims and Objectives: to describe and understand how nurses perceive gender-based violence in health care for women victims of ...
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      Compassion in health professionals: Development and validation of the Capacity for Compassion Scale (2024) 

      Ruiz-Fernández, María Dolores; Alcaraz-Córdoba, Andrea; Hernández-Padilla, José Manuel; Ibáñez-Masero, Olivia; García-Navarro, Esperanza Begoña; Ortega-Galán, Ángela María (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)
      Background: Health professionals witness pain and suffering when they care for sick people and their families. Compassion is a necessary quality in their work as it combines the will to help, alleviate suffering and promote ...
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      Nursing students' perceptions of euthanasia legislation: A qualitative study (2024) 

      Ortega-Galán, Ángela María; Ruiz-Fernández, María Dolores; Alcaraz-Córdoba, Andrea; Gómez-Beltrán, Piedras Albas; Díaz-Morales, David; Ortiz-Amo, Rocío (Churchill Livingstone, 2022)
      Background: Spain passed a law to legalise euthanasia in March 2021. This law introduces a new right that is incorporated into the portfolio of services provided by the Spanish public health system, meaning that nurses and ...
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      The efficacy of compassion training programmes for healthcare professionals: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2024) 

      Alcaraz-Córdoba, Andrea; Ruiz-Fernández, María Dolores; Ibáñez-Masero, Olivia; Miranda, María Isabel Ventura; García-Navarro, Esperanza Begoña; Ortega-Galán, Ángela María (Springer, 2024)
      Continuous exposure to the suffering and death of patients produces certain syndromes such as compassion fatigue in health professionals. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect and the effectiveness of ...