Impact of perinatal factors on breast milk composition and volume in preterm infants.

Maternal age, type of delivery, and newborn sex can influence the volume and composition of human milk (HM) expressed by mothers of premature infants. Initiating and maintaining breastfeeding in these mothers is a significant challenge, and records of milk volume expressed during the first few days are crucial for sustaining adequate production. To assess HM production in mothers of preterm infants during the first 15 days of life, examining the relationship between production, type of delivery, and maternal age.

Minors and drug-facilitated sexual assaults: Between submission and chemical vulnerability.

Drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) is a topic of growing social concern in recent years. Despite this, few empirical studies carried out in Spain have analysed the phenomenon from a preventive approach. The aim of this study, in addition to providing new evidence on DFSA, specifically in minors, was to identify possible associated variables, thus contributing to a better understanding of the problem and to the design of more effective prevention policies.

Adaptation and Validation of the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC) with Spanish Adolescents.

Introduction: The expansion of new tobacco consumption formats and electronic vapor products threatens to reverse the trend of declining smoking rates that had been observed among younger people in recent decades. Early detection in the health sector requires screening tools that have been adapted and validated in our context. This study aims to translate, culturally adapt, pilot and empirically validate the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC) with Spanish adolescents.

Waterpipe use among adolescents. Possible implications and related variables.

Substance use in waterpipe (generally tobacco or cannabis) constitutes an increasingly popular practice. It has become an emerging public health problem, with serious consequences at both pulmonary and addiction levels. Despite the growing concern it raises, few studies have been carried out in Spain to analyze this new practice from an early age.

Psychometric properties of CAST for early detection of problematic cannabis use in Spanish adolescents.

The high prevalence rates of cannabis use in adolescents and its early onset constitutes a major public health problem, raising the need for its early detection. The availability of validated tools to analyze early cannabis use is essential to detect problematic use at an early age. The Cannabis Abuse Screening Test (CAST) (Legleye et al.

[SBIRT model as a prevention strategy against addiction with and without substance in teenagers.].

A high prevalence of adolescent substance use, risky consumption patterns and the decrease in the age of initiation, together with the growth of non-substance addictions, represent a huge challenge for Public Health. This suggests the need for a change of focus in the work of the primary care settings, which must be more proactive in the early detection and intervention. Although there are some previous experiences in Spain, we do not have a duly standardised system, based on clinical practice and validated in consulting rooms, which could be used in a general, simple, and guaranteed manner.

[The botellón phenomenon. Descriptive analysis and possible implications from a sample of galician teenagers.].

Objective: Botellón has established itself as a recreational ritual of great importance in the leisure of young people and it has contributed to the expansion of a worrying pattern of alcohol and other substances consumption. However, there are few papers that take an integrated approach to this issue. The aim of this work was to have new data to characterize this practice, while providing evidence of its consequences and identifying relevant prognostic factors for prevention.

Prolonged stay predictors in patients admitted with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease acute exacerbation.

Objectives: The study aimed to identify the factors related to prolonged stay in those patients admitted with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) to our hospital.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study by reviewing the medical records of all patients admitted with AECOPD to the University Hospital Complex of Santiago de Compostela in 2007 and 2008. To identify variables independently associated with length of stay, we conducted a logistic regression including those variables which proved to be significant in the univariate analysis.

Asthma exacerbations: factors related to longer hospital stay.

Background: Hospital admissions account for a significant part of asthma cost, but with significant differences between geographic areas.

Aims: The aim of our study is to analyse hospital admissions due to asthma, as well as the factors associated with longer hospital stays.

Methods: A review was retrospectively carried out on all admissions of patients over 18 years old due to exacerbation of asthma occurring in our hospital between the years 2000 and 2010.

Characteristics and prognosis of near-fatal asthma exacerbations.

Background: Asthma remains a major public health concern because of its high prevalence and the costs it generates. Near-fatal asthma (NFA) episodes represent the most severe forms of the disease after fatal asthma with significant variations in their incidence between different populations.

Objective: To analyze the episodes of NFA over a period of 11 years in the hospital.