Yolanda Quiles Marcos

Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche | UMH

Eating disorders have serious physical, mental and social consequences that can affect the quality of life of the sufferer. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between the severity of ED-related psychopathology and clinical impairment in adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN) as well as their perception of health-related quality of life....

Background The Eating Disorders Quality of Life instrument (EDQOL) is a disease-specific health related quality of life self-report questionnaire designed for disordered eating patients. Although the EDQOL is one of the most suitable and widely used questionnaires in many countries, no prior research has addressed the psychometric properties of the...

Effectiveness of the application of the Echomantra in an adolescent girl with anorexia nervosa and her caregiver: A case study. The aim of the ECHOMANTRA program is to facilitate the transition from hospital back into the community. ECHOMANTRA is based on interventions for carers (Experienced Carers Helping Others, ECHO; Treasure et al. 2016) and p...

Chronic pain has a high comorbidity with borderline personality disorder. The aim of this study was to apply and evaluate the effectiveness of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program in a group of patients with both diagnoses. Twenty-four patients participated, with a mean age of 41.83 years (SD= 10.35), and a majority women (91.7%)....

El dolor crónico presenta una elevada comorbilidad con el trastorno límite de la personalidad. El objetivo de este trabajo fue aplicar y evaluar la eficacia del programa “Reducción del estrés basado en atención plena” (REBAP) en un grupo de pacientes con ambos diagnósticos. Participaron 24 pacientes, con una edad media de 41,83 años (DT= 10,35), si...

Different psychosocial variables are related to disordered eating attitudes in adolescents, especially in girls. But some studies show that the variables involved in eating disorders may be different in boys and girls. The aim of this study was to analyse the psychosocial profile related to disordered eating attitudes in adolescents of both sexes,...

Introduction: One of the major problems with inpatient treatment of adolescent girls with an eating disorder (ED) is that the strategies learned during their hospital stay are not easily applied or maintained in their daily lives, and this has been related to high rates of relapse and readmission. The ECHOMANTRA programme was developed to optimize...

Introducción: El objetivo de este estudio fue examinar la prevalencia de la ON, y analizar su relación con la imagen corporal y conductas características de los Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria (TCA), en estudiantes universitarios. Método. Estudio transversal en el que participaron 534 estudiantes universitarios españoles, 422 mujeres y 112 ho...

Introducción. A las personas con un trastorno de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) les resulta complicado sentir o reconocer señales corporales, ya que presentan un bloqueo emocional acompañado de pensamientos obsesivos entorno al peso, comida y cuerpo. Objetivo. Describir en un grupo de mujeres con un TCA las variables conciencia y disociación corpora...

The literature points to the importance of distinguishing between positive and negative emotional eating in relation to overeating and binge eating. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Spanish version of the Positive-Negative Emotional Eating Scale (PNEES) in a Spanish community sample. The sample consisted of 628 participants. The mean age w...

Background: The empirical evidence accumulated on the efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency of psychotherapeutic treatments in children and adolescents calls for an update. The main goal of this paper objective was to carry out a selective review of empirically supported psychological treatments for a variety of common psychological disorders and...

Objective This study aimed to conduct a systematic review of research that has evaluated the outcomes of exercise‐based interventions in anorexia nervosa (AN) patients. Method We searched for studies in the MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, PsycInfo, Scopus and SPORTDiscus databases. We followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and...

People’s beliefs about their illness have been shown to affect their adjustment. The aim of this study was to describe illness perception in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and assess its relationship with socio-emotional and academic adjustment following Leventhal’s Self-Regulation Model. Thirty-four female AN patients, with a mean...

La literatura señala que las creencias de enfermedad que tengan los familiares influyen en las creencias que tiene el propio paciente, determinan la reacción y actitud que tengan los familiares hacia él, e influye en las estrategias de afrontamiento que éste utilice, así como en su evolución. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir las creencias...

La literatura ha manifestado que la actividad física puede actuar como un factor de riesgo y/o un factor mantenedor en los trastornos alimentario (TA). El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la relación entre la práctica de actividad física con el riesgo de desarrollar un TA, analizando la frecuencia, intensidad y duración, el tipo de actividad y...

Background: The aim of this research was to conduct a pilot study to measure the effectiveness of the Collaborative Care Skills Training Workshops (CCSTW) on the outcomes of Spanish carers and to analyse the impact of this programme on the patient's wellbeing. We used psychoeducation as a comparison intervention in the study. Method: The study c...

La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT) se ha desarrollado como una alternativa conceptual conductista a los modelos cognitivo-conductuales y recientemente, se ha empezado a aplicar a los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA). El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido desarrollar, aplicar y evaluar un programa de intervención basado en la ACT...

La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT) se ha desarrollado como una alternativa conceptual conductista a los modelos cognitivo-conductuales y recientemente, se ha empezado a aplicar a los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA). El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido desarrollar, aplicar y evaluar un programa de intervención basado en la ACT e...

Objetivos: El presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo describir la representación de la enfermedad en pacientes con un trastorno de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) y evaluar su relación con el ajuste psicosocial y el malestar psicológico, siguiendo el Modelo de Auto-Regulación de Leventhal. Método: Participaron 56 pacientes diagnosticados de un TCA, que...

Los trastornos alimentarios no solo afectan a la persona que los sufre sino también a sus familiares. La literatura señala que es frecuente que los familiares de estas pacientes presenten una elevada percepción de carga, malestar emocional y acomodación al síntoma. Estas variables se han relacionado con el pronóstico y evolución de estas pacientes....

Introduction: In addition to coping strategies, social comparison may play a role in illness adjustment. However, little is known about the role of contrast and identification in social comparison in adaptation to fibromyalgia. Aim: To evaluate through a path analysis in a sample of fibromyalgia patients, the association between identification and...

Recent studies have shown that patients with an eating disorder have deficits in neuropsychological functioning. Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) was developed to improve these cognitive deficits. The objective of this study was to apply a CRT to a group of adolescents with an eating disorder (n= 11), whose age ranged between 13 and 19 (M= 16.18...

Literature suggests that families may accommodate patients' symptoms in attempts to alleviate family conflict and stress. These accommodating and enabling behaviours may have a negative impact on carers and those they care for. There are no self-report questionnaires validated in Spanish to measure accommodation among relatives of patients with an...

Unlabelled: This work was undertaken to analyze general levels of anger in patients with eating disorders (ED) compared to a normative group, diagnosis-dependent differences in expressing anger, and the relation between anger dimensions and specific items of the Eating Disorder Inventory, third revision (EDI-3) (emotional dysregulation, interperso...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar las dimensiones del perfeccionismo que estaban relacionadas con conductas alimentarias de riesgo en adolescentes españoles de ambos géneros, así como analizar si existían diferencias significativas en estas dimensiones entre los adolescentes con mayor y menor riesgo de desarrollar un trastorno de la conducta...

This study examined the Social Comparison Scale in Spanish chronic illness context and analyzed its psychometric properties. The article presented the results of two studies. The first explored the test's dimensional structure in a sample of 202 patients in a range of several chronic illnesses. The second study examined the instrument's structure i...

El objetivo principal del presente estudio fue evaluar el nivel de emoción expresada y de malestar psicológico en cuidadores de pacientes con un trastorno de la conducta alimentaria, considerando las diferencias en función de las características sociodemográficas y clínicas. Participaron 53 cuidadores de pacientes con un trastorno de la conducta al...

This study examined the Dieting Peer Competitiveness Scale; it is an instrument for evaluating this social comparison in young people. This instrumental study has two aims: The objective of the first aim was to present preliminary psychometric data from the Spanish version of the Dieting Peer Competitiveness Scale, including statistical item analys...

Objective: The aim of the present study was to undertake a systematic review using meta-analysis procedures to assess the relationships between eating disorders and peer and family influence and to evaluate whether gender plays a moderator role in that relationship. Method: PsycINFO, Medline, Web of Science, EPSCO and Embase databases from 1980...

The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is one of the main theoretical models in the study of the different variables, which influence in the practise of physical activity. The aim in this study was to develop a questionnaire based on TPB in physical activity context providing evidence for the validity of the obtained measures. The instrumental projec...

The first aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between coping styles and strategies in Spanish adolescents of both genders, with high and low eating disorder risk. Secondly, this study aims to examine the relation of coping styles and coping strategies with eating disorder risk. The sample comprised 2142 adolescents (1.130 girls and 1....

Este trabajo tuvo un doble objetivo, en primer lugar, la adaptación a población adolescente española de la Social Support Scale for Chidren (SSSC) de Harter (1985), y el estudio de sus propiedades psicométricas. Y en segundo lugar, estudiar el apoyo social percibido de los adolescentes, analizando las diferencias en función de la edad y el género....

El objetivo del presente trabajo fue analizar las diferencias en el estilo y estrategias de afrontamiento, en los adolescentes españoles de ambos géneros, con mayor y menor riesgo de desarrollar un Trastorno de la Conducta Alimentaria (TCA). Y en segundo lugar, estudiar la relación entre los diferentes estilos y estrategias de afrontamiento con el...

Objective: This study examines the eating habits and overweight, and its differences by gender and age of a representative sample of adolescents in the province of Alicante. Methods: An on-stage cluster sampling was use in order to obtain a sample of 2142 from 12 to 18 years in the province of Alicante representative of their general population. Th...

The purpose of the present paper is twofold: first, to adapt to the Spanish adolescent population the Social Support Scale for Children (SSSC: Harter. 1985) and to evaluate its psychometric properties; second. to study adolescents' perceived social support, analysing age and gender differences. The scale was administered to a representative sample...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences between adolescents with a high or low risk of developing an eating disorder (ED) in different health behaviors (eating habits, physical activity and the consumption of substances) per gender. The EAT-40 and the Inventory of Behavioral Health in Scholars were applied to 2142 middle school studen...

Background and objectivesThe aim of this study was to estimate the percentage of adolescents with risk eating behaviours for developing an eating disorder (ED), analyzing the differences in gender, age and body mass index (BMI).

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to explore the relationships proposed in the Common Sense Model (CSM) in eating disorder (ED) patients. Method: 98 female (ED) patients completed measures of illness representation and psychosocial adjustment. Results: The confirmatory structural equation analysis revealed that illness representation dimen...

The aim of this study was to estimate the percentage of adolescents with risk eating behaviours for developing an eating disorder (ED), analyzing the differences in gender, age and body mass index (BMI). We used a representative sample of 2,142 adolescents (47.2% boys, 52.8% girls) from different schools in Alicante. The screening procedure was per...

The aim of this study is to assess social support dimensions (providers, satisfaction and different support actions) in patients with eating disorders (ED), looking at diagnosis, socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, and self-concept. A total of 98 female ED patients were recruited. The ages of participants ranged from 12 to 34 (Mean = 20...

This study aims to examine the relation between the degree of dissimilarity in patients' and relatives' perception of eating disorders (ED) and patient adjustment. Sixty ED patients and their relatives were interviewed. They completed the Spanish version for ED of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R). Patients who agreed with their...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyse cormobidity between personality disorders and eating disorders, and the realtion with sociodemographic and clinical variables. Method: A total of 98 female ED outpatients under treatment in Eating Disorders Unit of San Juan Hospital (Alicante) were recruited. They completed the Spanish version of M...

Introduction: Using Leventhal’s Common Sense Model, this paper describes the representation of illness in patients with eating disorders (ED), along with its relationship with coping and adjustment Method: Participants were 98 female eating disorder patients. Mean age was 20.8 (SD=5.61). In order to measure illness representation, the subjects comp...

Introduction: Using Leventhal’s Common Sense Model, this paper describes the representation of illness in patients with eating disorders (ED), along with its relationship with coping and adjustment Method: Participants were 98 female eating disorder patients. Mean age was 20.8 (SD=5.61). In order to measure illness representation, the subjects comp...

We reviewed the role of coping in eating disorders, and the relation of this concept with otherm psychosocial variables. We reviewed the empirical studies published in the last 20 years about coping and psychosocial and clinical variables in eating disorders using Psyclit, Medline, Psicodoc, IME and ISOC. The results suggest that eating disorders p...

Se describen las estrategias de afrontamiento que utilizan las pacientes con TCA, y su relación con otras variables psicosociales, valorando sus efectos sobre la salud. Se revisaron los estudios empíricos sobre afrontamiento y variables psicosociales y clínicas en los TCA en los últimos 20 años, utilizando las bases de datos: Psyclit, Medline, Psic...

The current study is based on the framework of the Self-Regulatory Model of Illness (SRM). The aim of this work was to examine perception of illness in eating disorder (ED) patients and investigate whether illness perception is related to psychosocial adaptation in these patients. A total of 98 female ED patients completed the specific eating disor...

El acceso a la universidad supone uno de los cambios más importantes que los estudiantes experimentan a lo largo de su formación, por lo que cualquier iniciativa encaminada a disminuir sus efectos indeseables es bien acogida. De cara a mejorar la cantidad y calidad de la información que durante este período los estudiantes reciben, el presente estu...

Pain, as a subjective experience, is only accessible for the person who feel it. In children is more complicated assess it because it depends on patient's ability communication, therefore on their language domain. The anxiety is a factor which can alter pain perception. It potencies pain perception, converting in fearful every stimulus that provoca...

En este trabajo se plantean dos objetivos: el primero de ellos, revisar el papel del apoyo social en los trastornos de la alimentación, especificando las dimensiones de apoyo que han sido consideradas y los instrumentos empleados; en el segundo, conocer la relación existente entre este constructo y otras variables psicosociales relevantes en estos...

Resumo: Neste trabalho prosseguem-se dois objectivos: o primeiro deles consiste em rever o papel do suporte social nas perturbações alimentares, especificando as dimensões de apoio que têm sido consideradas e os instrumentos empregues; o segundo consiste em conhecer a relação existente entre este construto e outras variáveis psicossociais relevante...

The access to university is a very important change that students suffer in their formation. In this way, any initiative in order to reduce the undesired effects is welcome. The aim of this study was to detect the needs presented by university students in order to improve the quality and quantity of the information that they receive. Therefore, a q...

We reviewed the role of coping in eating disorders, and the relation of this concept with other psychosocial variables. We reviewed the empirical studies published in the last 20 years about coping and psychosocial and clinical variables in eating disorders using Psyclit, Medline, Psicodoc, IME and ISOC. The results suggest that eating disorders pa...