Browsing by Subject "Unified Protocol"

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    Application of the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in post-bariatric surgery patients: an effectiveness and feasibility study in group format
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Ferreres Galán, Vanesa; Quilez Orden, Alba B.; Osma, Jorge
    Obesity is a serious health problem with global implications. Bariatric surgery (BS) is the most used and effective treatment, but there are patients who do not lose a substantial amount of weight, a fact that has been related with the presence of emotional eating, anxiety and depression symptoms. The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness and feasi-bility of an emotion regulation-based intervention called Unified Protocol (UP), applied in group format to 6 post-BS patients presenting emotional disorders/symptoms. Results at post-treatment shown high attendance rates and satisfaction with the UP scores and significant improvements on neuroticism, eating disorders symptoms and emotional eating. At 6-month follow-up we found significant reductions on anxiety symptoms, neuroti-cism, maladjustment and dysregulation (d = 0.83-1.46) and the body mass index remained stable over time. These preliminary results are encouraging about the effectiveness and feasibility of the UP to treat emotional dysreg-ulation in patients after BS.
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    Prevention of Emotional Disorders and Symptoms Under Health Conditions: A Pilot Study using the Unified Protocol in a Fertility Unit
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Martínez Borba, Verónica; Osma, Jorge; Crespo Delgado, Elena; Andreu Pejó, Laura; Monferrer Serrano, Alba
    Los trastornos emocionales (TE) son frecuentes durante los tratamientos de fertilidad. El Protocolo Unificado (PU) es una intervención transdiagnóstica que ha demostrado su eficacia en la prevención de TE en condiciones médicas. El objetivo de este estudio piloto es: 1) mejorar la disregulación emocional para prevenir síntomas ansiosos y depresivos en mujeres en tratamiento de inseminación artificial (IA); 2) evaluar la acepta-bilidad (satisfacción y adherencia). Método: 5 mujeres en tratamiento de IA, sin diagnóstico clínico, respondieron a medidas de estado de ánimo (ansiedad y depresión), afecto, calidad de vida y regulación emocional en el pre- y post-evaluación, y en los seguimientos a los 1, 3 y 6 meses. La adap-tación preventiva del PU se basó en la aplicación de 6 sesiones presenciales grupales de 2 horas de duración. La situación generada por la COVID-19 provocó el cambio al formato online para finalizar el programa. Resultados: las mujeres no desarrollaron TE, no se encontraron diferencias pre-post y pre-seguimientos estadísticamente significativas en ansiedad, depresión, ca-lidad de vida y disregulación emocional (p > .050). Se observa una tenden-cia a la mejoría en la evaluación post-programa. Conclusiones: Parece que programas como el PU, centrado en factores terapéuticos compartidos, ha tenido un efecto emocional preventivo durante IA.
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    Study on the use, acceptability and implementation of the Unified Protocol in general health psychologists in Spain
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Peris Baquero, Óscar; Osma, Jorge; Martínez Segura, Violeta
    The dissemination of evidence-based psychological treatments (EBPT) is a pending task for Clinical Psychology. Through an online sur-vey and following the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability, we ana-lyzed the opinions about use, acceptability and intention to use in the fu-ture of the Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders (UP) in a sample of 153 professionals of General Health Psy-chology (GHPs). All participants took a training course in the UP and were grouped depending on their previous experience in the UP application. The results showed high scores in acceptability and intention to use in the future in GHPs regardless of the group. Finally, statistically significant cor-relations were found between intention to use in the future and affective attitude, consistency of the intervention and perceived efficacy (in both groups) and self-efficacy (in the group of GHPs without experience in the use of UP). The UP is an EBPT that presents high levels of acceptance and intention to use by the GHPs who received training in this interven-tion, this will facilitate its dissemination and implementation and will allow a greater number of people to benefit from this treatment.