CTS991: SOCIAL AND CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

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University
Faculty/school/department
FACULTY OF NURSING AND PHYSIOTHERAPY/ BIOMEDICINE, BIOTECHNOLOGY/ PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Size of the team
number of researchers number of supporting staff number of PhD students
7
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Composition of Joint Unit of Research, if relevant

It is a multidisciplinary group composed of 2 doctors (doctors) specialists in preventive medicine and public health, 2 mathematicians (doctors) masters in biostatistics, 1 sociologist and 2 psychologists (one of them doctor). Since 2013, when the group was created essentially with the idea of working on different projects related to the clinical and social epidemiology of chronic diseases, especially those that cause chronic pain, and quality of life, different achievements have been achieved, such as they are the publication of more than 40 publications in journals included in the Journal Citation Report, of which 20 are in the first quartile of their category. In this period, the group has received public financing for 2 national projects, 1 autonomous, and participation in the Children's Pain Network and has obtained private financing of 526,000 euros for the last 8 years.
The team members have been involved in the direction of 6 doctoral theses, of which 2 of them are in an international format, with the obtaining of the extraordinary doctorate award. Among the strengths of the group we highlight: multidisciplinarity, motivation, experience in complex statistical methods, young researchers, the ability to attract private funding, the mobility of researchers and the good national positioning and visibility of the group.

PI
PI name
Inmaculada Failde Martinez
PI bio

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6603-3054

Degree in Medicine from the University of Cádiz in 1981 and Doctor from the same University in 1991. Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Puerta del Mar University Hospital. Cádiz. Master in Public Health from the University of Puerto Rico. USA. Diploma in Public Health. Faculté de Medicine Broussais-Hôtel Dieu. Paris V. University
Associate Prof. ; Prof. Assistant; Prof.  linked to Service M. Preventiva H.U: Puerta del Mar de Cádiz and since October 2017 is Full Professor at Cádiz University. He has made several international stays at the Endocrine and Metabolism Service at the Pitié-Salpetrier Hospital in Paris (3 months); Central Epidemiology Service. Assistance Publish Hôpitaux de Paris (3 months). Unité de Recherche Clinique et Epidemiologie (INSER-U21). Paris (3 months). She has been IP of national and regional projects financed by public organizations and has participated in other national and regional projects as a collaborating researcher. She is IP of the Research Group CTS-991 of Social and Clinical Epidemiology, Andalusian Research Plan of the Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment and Principal Investigator of the consolidated group (IN-CO-13) of the Institute of Research and Innovation of Cadiz (INIBiCA). She is a researcher in the Spanish Network of Child Pain of the Ministry of Economy and for 10 years she has directed the Pain Observatory created by a collaboration agreement between the University of Cádiz, The Spanish Pain Foundation and the Grünenthal Foundation with a recruitment of more than 300,000 euros in the last 5 years. He has directed 5 research fellows during this period and has participated in different groups and experts related to the epidemiology of pain. She is the author of 87 publications, 63 published articles indexed in JCR, of which 23 correspond to the period 2015-2019. Of the articles published in these 5 years, in 16 of them she is the main author (first, last or corresponding author) and 12 are in the first quartile of their category. she has an h index of 18. she has obtained 4 six-year period of research recognized by the CNEAI and 6 teaching five-year periods, University of Cádiz. She is a regular evaluator for ANEP, FIS, Nethelands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMW). Women's Institute of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, Progreso y Salud Foundation and AVAP and regular reviewer of articles for journal included in JCR in the first quartiles of their category. She has directed 7 Doctoral Theses, (3 extraordinary doctorate award and 2 with international mention), 1 Bachelor Thesis; DEA 5; 21 TFM and 14 TFG. She has also had under his supervision 2 technicians from the youth guarantee training plan and more than 18 students in business practices. Currently she is also directing a predoctoral researcher (FPU) funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and Universities through her 2018 call.

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Contact person
Inmaculada Failde Martinez
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Short description of research profile

Epidemiology of Pain
Population Studies.
Scale Validation and Health Related Quality of Life
Application of complex data analysis techniques to clinical studies.

Publications

Representative publications

1. The evolution of opioid-related mortality and potential years of life lost in Spain from 2008 to 2017: differences between Spain and the United States. Salazar A, Moreno S, De Sola H, Moral-Munoz JA, Dueñas M, Failde I Current Medical  Research &  Opinion   (2020) Vol: 36(2). Pgs: 285-291
2. A nationwide study of chronic pain prevalence in the general spanish population: identifying clinical subgroups through cluster analysis. Dueñas M, Salazar A, Ojeda B, Fernández-Palacín F, Micó JA, Torres LM, Failde I. Pain Med. 2015 Apr;16(4):811-22.
3. Assessing the Construct Validity and Internal Reliability of the Screening Tool Test Your Memory in Patients with Chronic Pain. Ojeda B, Salazar A, Dueñas M, Torres LM, Mico JA, Failde I. PLoS One. 2016 Apr 27;11(4):e0154240. 10.1371/journal.pone.0154240
5. Measuring the Quality of Mobile Apps for the Management of Pain: Systematic Search and Evaluation Using the Mobile App Rating Scale. Salazar A, de Sola H, Failde I, Moral-Munoz JA JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2018 Oct 25;6(10):e10718

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Technology Expertise

Application of complex techniques in the analysis of clinical data. models of generalized equations. structural equation models.
The group includes 2 mathematicians who have been applying this type of techniques in data analysis for 10 years. One of the members of the group (AS) carried out his Doctoral Thesis applying the GEE models in the analysis of the evolution of the Quality of Life Related to Health in patients with Coronary Heart Disease where this type of techniques is necessary given the number of missing values. AS is also IP of a research project funded by the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Health to apply structural equation models in the analysis of comorbidity associated with chronic neuropathic pain in diabetic patients.
The team has experience in the design of population studies applied to the knowledge of chronic pain where sampling techniques and the collection of information are complex.