Francisco Jose Eiroa-Orosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 2625847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Jose Eiroa-Orosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco Jose |
| FAMILY NAME | Eiroa-Orosa |
| SIGNATURE | EIROA-OROSA F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4163-6545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Interview Study with Professionals on Shared Decision-Making in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Shared Decision-Making (SDM) is a paradigm that involves collaboration between healthcare professionals and service users to reach decisions jointly. This approach is based on the exchange of information, identification of service users’ values and preferences, analysis of treatment options, and consensus on an action plan. The present study aims to explore the beliefs and attitudes of mental health professionals regarding this model, in a contex…
Associations between the recovery process and caregiver burden in severe mental disorders
The recovery model emphasises service users’ rights, well-being, and life goals, and may also infl uence family dynamics and caregiver burden. However, the association between recovery stage and caregiver burden in severe mental disorders has received little empirical attention. This exploratory cross-sectional study examined this relationship in 223 families participating in the Activa’t Pilot Programme in Catalonia, Spain. Standardized measures…
A randomized controlled implementation trial of a multicomponent integrated care program to empower mental health service users and their relatives throughout the recovery process
This study assessed the effectiveness of a psychosocial multicomponent program designed to empower individuals experiencing severe mental distress and their relatives throughout the recovery process. The program consisted of four consecutive interventions, including orientation, psychoeducation, empowerment, and mutual help. A randomized controlled implementation trial was conducted to investigate the program's impact on the recovery of individua…
A Qualitative Analysis of Trialogues Between People with Lived Experience, Their Relatives, and Mental Health Professionals
Trialogue meetings, aligned with the Recovery model in mental healthcare, foster the development of a shared language and mutual understanding among persons with lived experience, their relatives, and professionals. This study analysed the first mental health trialogue experience in Barcelona, involving six meetings with thirteen voluntary participants over three months. Using qualitative methods for data collection and reflexive thematic analysi…
Activisme contra l'estigma
L'estigma que pateixen les persones amb diagnòstics de salut mental és quelcom freqüent dins l'àmbit sanitari. Entitats i campanyes de lluita contra l'estigma han centrat els seus esforços en la disminució de la discriminació en aquest àmbit. La figura de l'activista és fonamental per tal de que les pròpies persones que han experimentat aquest estigma siguin protagonistes d'aquest canvi. El nostre objectiu en aquest estudi ha estat aprofundir en …
Cross-Cultural Validation of the Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale
The concept of acculturative stress has been the subject of debate, resulting in contradictory arguments regarding its measurement. Many of the existing acculturative stress instruments have been developed for use with specific migrant groups. The objective of the current study is to revisit the psychometric properties of the Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale, an instrument aimed at measuring stress levels associated with the migration trajector…
Interaction between the Participation in and the Impact on Mental Health Service Users and Their Relatives of a Multicomponent Empowerment-Based Psychosocial Intervention
Relatives play an important role in the recovery journey of mental health service users. Interventions directed either at service users or their relatives may influence the other person as well. The project 'Activa't per la salut mental' (Get active for mental health) consisted of a series of four interventions addressed at people diagnosed with mental disorders and their relatives to help them in their recovery process, increasing their agency a…
Efficacy of an Intervention to Reduce Stigma Beliefs and Attitudes among Primary Care and Mental Health Professionals
Although it may seem paradoxical, primary care and mental health professionals develop prejudices and discriminatory attitudes towards people with mental health problems in a very similar way to the rest of the population. The main objective of this project was to design, implement and evaluate two awareness-raising interventions respectively tailored to reduce stigmatising beliefs and attitudes towards persons with a mental health diagnosis amon…
Barriers to accessing psychosocial support for humanitarian aid workers
International and national humanitarian aid workers were recruited for this study via purposive sampling techniques using social media. Eight interviews and one focus group discussion were carried out (n=13), and a survey disseminated (n=62), to garner a broad range of perspectives on barriers to aid workers seeking out and accessing psychosocial support. A thematic analysis was performed on the transcriptions of the interviews and focus group di…
An Instrument to Measure Mental Health Professionals’ Beliefs and Attitudes towards Service Users’ Rights
We aimed at developing and validating a scale on the beliefs and attitudes of mental health professionals towards services users' rights in order to provide a valid evaluation instrument for training activities with heterogeneous mental health professional groups. Items were extracted from a review of previous instruments, as well as from several focus groups which have been conducted with different mental health stakeholders, including mental he…
Get active for mental health
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Love your enemy? An aesthetic discourse analysis of self-transcendence in values-motivated altruism
Inter-disciplinary academic enquiry shares the challenge to explore the social and ethical applications of research into today's globalised but increasingly complex world. Positive psychology examines how life can be well in this broader enquiry of the social and moral contexts of ‘individual’ happiness. In this it begins to embrace innovative, qualitative research methods alongside its earlier positivistic, scientific approach, in the social tra…
In it together
Despite some evidence that being an activist, particularly during adolescence, can positively affect well‐being, activism has been relatively neglected in both psychology and youth civic engagement research. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring how being an activist as a teenager can positively affect personal development and well‐being. Seven focus groups comprising adolescent human rights activists were conducted in classrooms thro…
Training mental health activists increases the well-being of participants with high baseline levels of self-stigma
There is a strong interest in improving the quality of anti-stigma contact-based interventions. Hence, some mental health anti-stigma campaigns offer prior training to their activists with lived experience of mental disorders. Additionally, collective mobilization seems to impact the identity and well-being of its participants. The main objective of this work was to understand the impact that activism training activities have on the internalized/…
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Positive Psychology
Routledge International Handbook of Critical Positive Psychology
Substance use and psychological distress is related with accommodation status among homeless immigrants
Immigrant homelessness constitutes a cruel expression of social exclusion. We analyzed the relation of sociodemographic characteristics with stressful life events, substance use and psychological distress, giving a special importance to the influence of the time spent on the streets and the accommodation status of 107 homeless immigrants. To this end, both quantitative and qualitative methodologies were combined. Discussion groups with care resou…
An exploratory study comparing psychological profiles and its congruence with clinical performance among patients with functional or motility digestive disorders
Functional gastrointestinal disorders have been related with different psychological conditions. On the contrary, the role of psychological factors within gastrointestinal motor disorders remains unclear. The objective of this study was to explore the differences and congruence with clinical performance of the psychological profile and subjective functionality among patients diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders and gastrointestina…
Intermediated communication by interpreters in psychotherapy with traumatized refugees
Immigrants in need of psychotherapy are often confronted with the fact that there is no psychotherapist available with whom they can proceed in a common language understood well by both. In some cases psychotherapy with communication intermediated by interpreters is offered. This study compares the outcome of 190 individual psychotherapies with refugees with post-traumatic disorders, half of them with the help of interpreters, the other half with…
Intermediated communication by interpreters in psychotherapy with traumatized refugees
Immigrants in need of psychotherapy are often confronted with the fact that there is no psychotherapist available with whom they can proceed in a common language understood well by both. In some cases psychotherapy with communication intermediated by interpreters is offered. This study compares the outcome of 190 individual psychotherapies with refugees with post-traumatic disorders, half of them with the help of interpreters, the other half with…
Love your enemy? An aesthetic discourse analysis of self-transcendence in values-motivated altruism
Inter-disciplinary academic enquiry shares the challenge to explore the social and ethical applications of research into today's globalised but increasingly complex world. Positive psychology examines how life can be well in this broader enquiry of the social and moral contexts of ‘individual’ happiness. In this it begins to embrace innovative, qualitative research methods alongside its earlier positivistic, scientific approach, in the social tra…
In it together
Despite some evidence that being an activist, particularly during adolescence, can positively affect well‐being, activism has been relatively neglected in both psychology and youth civic engagement research. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring how being an activist as a teenager can positively affect personal development and well‐being. Seven focus groups comprising adolescent human rights activists were conducted in classrooms thro…
Intermediated communication by interpreters in psychotherapy with traumatized refugees
Immigrants in need of psychotherapy are often confronted with the fact that there is no psychotherapist available with whom they can proceed in a common language understood well by both. In some cases psychotherapy with communication intermediated by interpreters is offered. This study compares the outcome of 190 individual psychotherapies with refugees with post-traumatic disorders, half of them with the help of interpreters, the other half with…
An exploratory study comparing psychological profiles and its congruence with clinical performance among patients with functional or motility digestive disorders
Functional gastrointestinal disorders have been related with different psychological conditions. On the contrary, the role of psychological factors within gastrointestinal motor disorders remains unclear. The objective of this study was to explore the differences and congruence with clinical performance of the psychological profile and subjective functionality among patients diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders and gastrointestina…
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Positive Psychology
Routledge International Handbook of Critical Positive Psychology
Substance use and psychological distress is related with accommodation status among homeless immigrants
Immigrant homelessness constitutes a cruel expression of social exclusion. We analyzed the relation of sociodemographic characteristics with stressful life events, substance use and psychological distress, giving a special importance to the influence of the time spent on the streets and the accommodation status of 107 homeless immigrants. To this end, both quantitative and qualitative methodologies were combined. Discussion groups with care resou…
Love your enemy? An aesthetic discourse analysis of self-transcendence in values-motivated altruism
Inter-disciplinary academic enquiry shares the challenge to explore the social and ethical applications of research into today's globalised but increasingly complex world. Positive psychology examines how life can be well in this broader enquiry of the social and moral contexts of ‘individual’ happiness. In this it begins to embrace innovative, qualitative research methods alongside its earlier positivistic, scientific approach, in the social tra…
In it together
Despite some evidence that being an activist, particularly during adolescence, can positively affect well‐being, activism has been relatively neglected in both psychology and youth civic engagement research. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring how being an activist as a teenager can positively affect personal development and well‐being. Seven focus groups comprising adolescent human rights activists were conducted in classrooms thro…
Training mental health activists increases the well-being of participants with high baseline levels of self-stigma
There is a strong interest in improving the quality of anti-stigma contact-based interventions. Hence, some mental health anti-stigma campaigns offer prior training to their activists with lived experience of mental disorders. Additionally, collective mobilization seems to impact the identity and well-being of its participants. The main objective of this work was to understand the impact that activism training activities have on the internalized/…
An Instrument to Measure Mental Health Professionals’ Beliefs and Attitudes towards Service Users’ Rights
We aimed at developing and validating a scale on the beliefs and attitudes of mental health professionals towards services users' rights in order to provide a valid evaluation instrument for training activities with heterogeneous mental health professional groups. Items were extracted from a review of previous instruments, as well as from several focus groups which have been conducted with different mental health stakeholders, including mental he…
Get active for mental health
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Efficacy of an Intervention to Reduce Stigma Beliefs and Attitudes among Primary Care and Mental Health Professionals
Although it may seem paradoxical, primary care and mental health professionals develop prejudices and discriminatory attitudes towards people with mental health problems in a very similar way to the rest of the population. The main objective of this project was to design, implement and evaluate two awareness-raising interventions respectively tailored to reduce stigmatising beliefs and attitudes towards persons with a mental health diagnosis amon…
Barriers to accessing psychosocial support for humanitarian aid workers
International and national humanitarian aid workers were recruited for this study via purposive sampling techniques using social media. Eight interviews and one focus group discussion were carried out (n=13), and a survey disseminated (n=62), to garner a broad range of perspectives on barriers to aid workers seeking out and accessing psychosocial support. A thematic analysis was performed on the transcriptions of the interviews and focus group di…
Interaction between the Participation in and the Impact on Mental Health Service Users and Their Relatives of a Multicomponent Empowerment-Based Psychosocial Intervention
Relatives play an important role in the recovery journey of mental health service users. Interventions directed either at service users or their relatives may influence the other person as well. The project 'Activa't per la salut mental' (Get active for mental health) consisted of a series of four interventions addressed at people diagnosed with mental disorders and their relatives to help them in their recovery process, increasing their agency a…
Cross-Cultural Validation of the Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale
The concept of acculturative stress has been the subject of debate, resulting in contradictory arguments regarding its measurement. Many of the existing acculturative stress instruments have been developed for use with specific migrant groups. The objective of the current study is to revisit the psychometric properties of the Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale, an instrument aimed at measuring stress levels associated with the migration trajector…
A randomized controlled implementation trial of a multicomponent integrated care program to empower mental health service users and their relatives throughout the recovery process
This study assessed the effectiveness of a psychosocial multicomponent program designed to empower individuals experiencing severe mental distress and their relatives throughout the recovery process. The program consisted of four consecutive interventions, including orientation, psychoeducation, empowerment, and mutual help. A randomized controlled implementation trial was conducted to investigate the program's impact on the recovery of individua…
A Qualitative Analysis of Trialogues Between People with Lived Experience, Their Relatives, and Mental Health Professionals
Trialogue meetings, aligned with the Recovery model in mental healthcare, foster the development of a shared language and mutual understanding among persons with lived experience, their relatives, and professionals. This study analysed the first mental health trialogue experience in Barcelona, involving six meetings with thirteen voluntary participants over three months. Using qualitative methods for data collection and reflexive thematic analysi…
Activisme contra l'estigma
L'estigma que pateixen les persones amb diagnòstics de salut mental és quelcom freqüent dins l'àmbit sanitari. Entitats i campanyes de lluita contra l'estigma han centrat els seus esforços en la disminució de la discriminació en aquest àmbit. La figura de l'activista és fonamental per tal de que les pròpies persones que han experimentat aquest estigma siguin protagonistes d'aquest canvi. El nostre objectiu en aquest estudi ha estat aprofundir en …
An Interview Study with Professionals on Shared Decision-Making in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Shared Decision-Making (SDM) is a paradigm that involves collaboration between healthcare professionals and service users to reach decisions jointly. This approach is based on the exchange of information, identification of service users’ values and preferences, analysis of treatment options, and consensus on an action plan. The present study aims to explore the beliefs and attitudes of mental health professionals regarding this model, in a contex…
Associations between the recovery process and caregiver burden in severe mental disorders
The recovery model emphasises service users’ rights, well-being, and life goals, and may also infl uence family dynamics and caregiver burden. However, the association between recovery stage and caregiver burden in severe mental disorders has received little empirical attention. This exploratory cross-sectional study examined this relationship in 223 families participating in the Activa’t Pilot Programme in Catalonia, Spain. Standardized measures…
Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Mental health (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)