Sandra Saldivia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1653097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Saldivia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Saldivia |
| SIGNATURE | SALDIVIA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Concepción |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7594-7069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Examining undergraduate students’ mental health after the Covid-19 pandemic: A focus on historical, cultural and psychosocial factors
In recent years, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health of undergraduate students has become a major concern due to the high levels of psychological distress observed globally. This paper examines mental health within the university environment. Instead of previous work highlighting individual factors, our approach emphasizes how historical, psychosocial, and sociocultural factors converge to shape the student experi…
A social determination framework for mental health
BACKGROUND: Mainstream global mental health continues to privilege individual-level risk factors and biomedical approaches and treatments while sidelining the structural forces that shape mental distress. Despite calls for more socially embedded and decolonial approaches, policy and research too often neglect how structural phenomena such as globalization, colonialism, and neoliberal reforms directly drive mental health inequities. MAIN BODY: Dra…
Inteligencia y Conductas Delictuales en Adolescentes Chilenos
Este estudio compara el rendimiento intelectual de 100 jóvenes varones (12-17 años) que han infringido la ley, con el de 100 jóvenes no infractores. Los resultados indican que los jóvenes infractores de ley presentan una mayor proporción de CIs totales inferiores al promedio en comparación con los jóvenes no infractores. Al descontar el efecto de la escolarización y NSE, las diferencias de CI entre ambos grupos siguen siendo significativas, aunqu…
Psychometric properties of the attitudes scale of health care professionals’ toward people with a diagnosis of mental illness (Eaps-TM)
Measurement invariance between online and paper-and-pencil formats of the Launay-Slade Hallucinations scale-extended (LSHS-E) in the Chilean population: Invariance between LSHS-E formats
Life satisfaction, positive affect, depression and anxiety symptoms, and their relationship with sociodemographic, psychosocial, and clinical variables in a general elderly population sample from Chil…
Background This study aims to describe the relationship between life satisfaction, positive affect, depression and anxiety symptoms with sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical variables, and to identify the relative importance of these predictor groups. Methods We evaluated life satisfaction (SWLS), positive affect (PANAS), depressive (PHQ-9), and anxiety (GAI) symptoms and their association with sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical v…
Interventions to reduce the stigma of mental health at work: A narrative review
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on perinatal mental health (Riseup-PPD-Covid-19): Protocol for an international prospective cohort study
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04595123
Psychometric Properties of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 in Elderly Chilean Primary Care Users
Background: This study aimed to assess the measurement properties (reliability, factor structure, and criterion validity) of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) as an instrument for screening major depressive disorder (MDD) in elderly primary care users in Chile. Method: About 582 participants aged between 65 and 80 years were enrolled from primary care centers. They completed the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), a survey…
An Integrative Program to Reduce Stigma in Primary Healthcare Workers Toward People With Diagnosis of Severe Mental Disorders: A Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Background: People with severe mental disorders (SMDs) have higher disease and death rates than the general population. Stigma (negative attitudes and perceptions) contributes to limited access to health services and a lower quality of medical assistance in this population, and it is manifested as negative attitudes, social distance, and discrimination toward this social group. For these reasons, healthcare workers are a priority group for anti-s…
Integrated mapping of local mental health systems in Central Chile
This survey of local MH service provision in small catchment areas using the DESDE-LTC tool provided MH service provision data that complemented information collected in other studies conducted at the national/regional level using the WHO-AIMS tool. The bottom-up approach applied in this study would also be useful for the assessment of equity and accessibility and local planning
Mental health in the Americas: An overview of the treatment gap
The treatment gap for mental health remains a public health concern. A high proportion of adults, children, and indigenous individuals with serious mental illness remains untreated. The result is an elevated prevalence of mental disorders and global burden of disease
Psychometric Properties of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire Adapted to Families of Chilean Preschoolers: APQ Psychometric Properties in Chilean Preschoolers
The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a well-known tool to assess empirically identified aspects of positive and negative parenting practices. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the APQ for its use with parents of children between 2 and 6 years of age in Chile. The participants were 557 parents of children aged 2 to 6 years. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that the best fit was obtained by a fou…
Standardization of the MaristÁN scale to measure needs in people with schizophrenia and related psychoses
OBJECTIVE: Existing measures of needs in severe mental illness have been developed mainly from professionals' viewpoints and are Eurocentric. Our aim was to standardize a measure of the needs of people with schizophrenia across several cultures and based on users' own viewpoints. METHOD: An instrument to measure needs, based on qualitative data on users', carers' and professionals' views, was tested in 164 people with schizophrenia or related psy…
Associations between unemployment and major depressive disorder: Evidence from an international, prospective study (the predict cohort)
Comparative study of mental health services availability and use in Chile and Spain
There is an enormous interest about improving international comparisons to provide relevant information for policy and planning in mental health. Most of the available information is provided at the macro-level (countries or regions). However, information gathered at the meso-level may diverge from data aggregated at higher territorial levels
Prediction of depression in European general practice attendees: The PREDICT study
Response rate to follow-up in all countries was uniformly high, which suggests that prediction will be based on almost a full cohort. The results of our reliability analysis are encouraging and suggest that data collected during the course of PREDICT will have a satisfactory level of stability. The development of a multi-factor risk score for depression will lay the foundation for future research on risk reduction in primary care. Our data will a…
Psychiatric Disorders among the Mapuche in Chile
Background: The Mapuche are the largest indigenous group in Chile; yet almost all data on the mental health of indigenous populations are from North America. Aim: The study examines the differential DSM-III-R prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders and service utilization among indigenous and non-indigenous community residence. Methods: The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was administered to a stratified random sample of 75 …
Patrones de uso de servicios entre adultos con problemas de salud mental, en Chile
Our results confirm the existence of a wide gap between the need for care and the treatment that is actually received. The informal and folkloric alternative resources (priests, family members, healers, herbalists, etc.) were used less frequently than is generally believed to be true. The indirect barriers of access to services--linked to a lack of knowledge and to stigma--were more frequent than were the direct barriers. A sizable number of peop…
Associations between unemployment and major depressive disorder: Evidence from an international, prospective study (the predict cohort)
Psychometric Properties of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire Adapted to Families of Chilean Preschoolers: APQ Psychometric Properties in Chilean Preschoolers
The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a well-known tool to assess empirically identified aspects of positive and negative parenting practices. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the APQ for its use with parents of children between 2 and 6 years of age in Chile. The participants were 557 parents of children aged 2 to 6 years. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that the best fit was obtained by a fou…
Psychiatric Disorders among the Mapuche in Chile
Background: The Mapuche are the largest indigenous group in Chile; yet almost all data on the mental health of indigenous populations are from North America. Aim: The study examines the differential DSM-III-R prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders and service utilization among indigenous and non-indigenous community residence. Methods: The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was administered to a stratified random sample of 75 …
Patrones de uso de servicios entre adultos con problemas de salud mental, en Chile
Our results confirm the existence of a wide gap between the need for care and the treatment that is actually received. The informal and folkloric alternative resources (priests, family members, healers, herbalists, etc.) were used less frequently than is generally believed to be true. The indirect barriers of access to services--linked to a lack of knowledge and to stigma--were more frequent than were the direct barriers. A sizable number of peop…
Prediction of depression in European general practice attendees: The PREDICT study
Response rate to follow-up in all countries was uniformly high, which suggests that prediction will be based on almost a full cohort. The results of our reliability analysis are encouraging and suggest that data collected during the course of PREDICT will have a satisfactory level of stability. The development of a multi-factor risk score for depression will lay the foundation for future research on risk reduction in primary care. Our data will a…
Comparative study of mental health services availability and use in Chile and Spain
There is an enormous interest about improving international comparisons to provide relevant information for policy and planning in mental health. Most of the available information is provided at the macro-level (countries or regions). However, information gathered at the meso-level may diverge from data aggregated at higher territorial levels
Associations between unemployment and major depressive disorder: Evidence from an international, prospective study (the predict cohort)
Standardization of the MaristÁN scale to measure needs in people with schizophrenia and related psychoses
OBJECTIVE: Existing measures of needs in severe mental illness have been developed mainly from professionals' viewpoints and are Eurocentric. Our aim was to standardize a measure of the needs of people with schizophrenia across several cultures and based on users' own viewpoints. METHOD: An instrument to measure needs, based on qualitative data on users', carers' and professionals' views, was tested in 164 people with schizophrenia or related psy…
Psychometric Properties of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire Adapted to Families of Chilean Preschoolers: APQ Psychometric Properties in Chilean Preschoolers
The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a well-known tool to assess empirically identified aspects of positive and negative parenting practices. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the APQ for its use with parents of children between 2 and 6 years of age in Chile. The participants were 557 parents of children aged 2 to 6 years. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that the best fit was obtained by a fou…
Integrated mapping of local mental health systems in Central Chile
This survey of local MH service provision in small catchment areas using the DESDE-LTC tool provided MH service provision data that complemented information collected in other studies conducted at the national/regional level using the WHO-AIMS tool. The bottom-up approach applied in this study would also be useful for the assessment of equity and accessibility and local planning
Mental health in the Americas: An overview of the treatment gap
The treatment gap for mental health remains a public health concern. A high proportion of adults, children, and indigenous individuals with serious mental illness remains untreated. The result is an elevated prevalence of mental disorders and global burden of disease
An Integrative Program to Reduce Stigma in Primary Healthcare Workers Toward People With Diagnosis of Severe Mental Disorders: A Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Background: People with severe mental disorders (SMDs) have higher disease and death rates than the general population. Stigma (negative attitudes and perceptions) contributes to limited access to health services and a lower quality of medical assistance in this population, and it is manifested as negative attitudes, social distance, and discrimination toward this social group. For these reasons, healthcare workers are a priority group for anti-s…
Psychometric Properties of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 in Elderly Chilean Primary Care Users
Background: This study aimed to assess the measurement properties (reliability, factor structure, and criterion validity) of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) as an instrument for screening major depressive disorder (MDD) in elderly primary care users in Chile. Method: About 582 participants aged between 65 and 80 years were enrolled from primary care centers. They completed the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), a survey…
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on perinatal mental health (Riseup-PPD-Covid-19): Protocol for an international prospective cohort study
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04595123
Psychometric properties of the attitudes scale of health care professionals’ toward people with a diagnosis of mental illness (Eaps-TM)
Measurement invariance between online and paper-and-pencil formats of the Launay-Slade Hallucinations scale-extended (LSHS-E) in the Chilean population: Invariance between LSHS-E formats
Life satisfaction, positive affect, depression and anxiety symptoms, and their relationship with sociodemographic, psychosocial, and clinical variables in a general elderly population sample from Chil…
Background This study aims to describe the relationship between life satisfaction, positive affect, depression and anxiety symptoms with sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical variables, and to identify the relative importance of these predictor groups. Methods We evaluated life satisfaction (SWLS), positive affect (PANAS), depressive (PHQ-9), and anxiety (GAI) symptoms and their association with sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical v…
Interventions to reduce the stigma of mental health at work: A narrative review
Inteligencia y Conductas Delictuales en Adolescentes Chilenos
Este estudio compara el rendimiento intelectual de 100 jóvenes varones (12-17 años) que han infringido la ley, con el de 100 jóvenes no infractores. Los resultados indican que los jóvenes infractores de ley presentan una mayor proporción de CIs totales inferiores al promedio en comparación con los jóvenes no infractores. Al descontar el efecto de la escolarización y NSE, las diferencias de CI entre ambos grupos siguen siendo significativas, aunqu…
Examining undergraduate students’ mental health after the Covid-19 pandemic: A focus on historical, cultural and psychosocial factors
In recent years, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health of undergraduate students has become a major concern due to the high levels of psychological distress observed globally. This paper examines mental health within the university environment. Instead of previous work highlighting individual factors, our approach emphasizes how historical, psychosocial, and sociocultural factors converge to shape the student experi…
A social determination framework for mental health
BACKGROUND: Mainstream global mental health continues to privilege individual-level risk factors and biomedical approaches and treatments while sidelining the structural forces that shape mental distress. Despite calls for more socially embedded and decolonial approaches, policy and research too often neglect how structural phenomena such as globalization, colonialism, and neoliberal reforms directly drive mental health inequities. MAIN BODY: Dra…
Mental health (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Demography (5 works)