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Clinical empathy and physicians’ compassion satisfaction: Analysis of potential...

Background: Clinical empathy is an intrinsic attribute of the medical profession and is associated with greater physicians’ compassion satisfaction levels. However, little is known about the potentially modifiable mechanisms underlying this relationship. Aim: This study aimed to analyze the direct and indirect effects of clinical empathy on physicians’ compassion satisfaction via the quality of therapeutic rela...

The COVID-19 outbreak centrality and trauma symptoms in nurses: The mediating r...

Abstract: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with negative psychological consequences, particularly amongst frontline workers, such as nurses; however, little is known about modifiable mechanisms underlying the development of such outcomes. Objectives: This study aimed to examine the mediating role of psychological inflexibility in the relationship between the centrality of the emergence of t...

Development and preliminary validation studies of the Mindfulness Skills in Tea...

This study presents the development and first validation studies of the Mindfulness Skills inTeaching Questionnaire (MSTQ), a self-report tool assessing teachers’ perceived mindfulnessduring instruction. In the first study, exploratory factor analysis (N=126) supported a two-factor structure: Teacher Intrapersonal Mindfulness and Teacher Interpersonal Mindfulness.In the second study, confirmatory factor analysi...

A mental health clinician’s primer on statistical mediation and moderation

Statistical literacy is vital to the effective delivery of evidence-based mental healthcare. In this context, mediation and moderation models of mental processes have become increasingly popular, because of their potential to reveal possible causal mechanisms between variables or specific conditions for a given effect to occur. This brief article aims to introduce practicing mental health clinicians to statisti...

Clinical empathy, barriers to compassion and flourishing in physicians: Differe...

The present study aimed to analyse the direct and indirect effects, via barriers to compassion, of clinical empathy on flourishing in physicians. A sample of 102 Portuguese physicians completed an online survey, which included self-report instruments assessing clinical empathy, barriers to compassion, and flourishing. Direct and indirect effects were analyzed using PROCESS statistical tool. Moderate to large di...

The Psychosocial Impact of the Decision to Undergo Risk-Reducing Salpingo-Oopho...

Risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) is an effective prophylactic surgery provided to premenopausal women carrying BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations and presenting an increased risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer. This procedure is related to physiological, sexual, and psychosocial distress, which altogether increase uncertainty and complexity in the clinical decision-making process and post-surg...

The Efficacy of Be a Mom, a Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Postpartum Depres...

Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is treatable and preventable, but most women do not seek professional help for their perinatal depressive symptoms. One increasingly popular approach of improving access to care is the use of web-based intervention programs. Objective: The objective of this study was 2-fold: first, to assess the efficacy of Be a Mom, a brief web-based selective or indicated preventive int...

Cognitive–behavioural therapy as a comprehensive treatment for personality diso...

For Whom and For How Long Does the “Be a Mom” Intervention Work? A Secondary An...

This study explored clinical and sociodemographic moderators of treatment response to “Be a Mom”, an internetbased cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) intervention, from baseline to postintervention, in women at high risk for postpartum depression (PPD). The study also assessed the stability of women’s treatment gains from baseline to 4-months postintervention (follow-up). This open-label randomized controlled ...

A Self-Paced BCI With a Collaborative Controller for Highly Reliable Wheelchair...

Brain-controlled wheelchairs (BCWs) are a promising solution for people with severe motor disabilities, who cannot use conventional interfaces. However, the low reliability of electroencephalographic signal decoding and the high user’s workload imposed by continuous control of a wheelchair requires effective approaches. In this article, we propose a self-paced P300-based brain–computer interface (BCI) combined ...