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