Roberto Secades‐villa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4621016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberto Secades‐villa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Secades‐villa |
| SIGNATURE | VILLA R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Oviedo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8106-6594 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Validity evidence of the Esquizo-Q-A for measuring schizotypy in young substance-using populations
Background: Schizotypy is a key risk factor for psychosis-like experiences and for identifying those at high risk for schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, there is little research on schizotypy measures among people who use substances. This study examined the validity of the Oviedo Schizotypy Assessment Questionnaire-Abbreviated (ESQUIZO-Q-A) in adolescents and young adults who use substances. Methods: A total of 4,360 participants who repo…
Behavioural Economic Demand for Medicinal and Recreational Cannabis Among People Who Use Over‐The‐Counter CBD Products, THC Only and CBD + THC
Academic Narcissism
This article examines the emergence of academic narcissism as a specific manifestation of cultural narcissism within the contemporary university context. Drawing on the concept of normative narcissism, we explore how the logic of visibility, self-exposure, and the pursuit of recognition has been integrated into teaching and research practices, transforming professional identity and modes of knowledge production. The culture of metrics, impact ind…
Perceived Risks and Benefits Associated With Cannabidiol-Containing Products Among Young People
Impulsivity traits moderate the longitudinal association between mental health and hazardous cannabis use in emerging adults
A Cross-Sectional Study on Youth and Over-the-Counter CBD Products
Background This cross-sectional study characterized the socio-demographic characteristics, substance use patterns, and mental health of young users of past-year over-the-counter CBD products and CBD + smoked cannabis (THC), relative to past-year users of THC-only and those who have never used these substances. Method 6,365 (55.8% female) participants aged 16–30 were assessed from September 2023-April 2024. Results CBD and CBD + THC use was associ…
Presentation of the Monographic Issue
The Contextual-Molar Perspective in the Analysis of Addictive Behaviors
The approach of behavioral economics (BE) provides an alternative to the disease model that has guided public policies, research, and clinical practice in recent decades. BE defines addictive behaviors as a disorder of choice and proposes an analysis of these behaviors from a molar perspective, as it emphasizes behavior patterns and contextual variables that go beyond the discriminative stimuli present at the time of consumption. It includes prio…
Psychological Treatment of Addictive Behaviors
Addictive behaviors, both substance and non-substance-related, share many clinical characteristics, including etiology, course, and relapse determinants. This co-occurrence suggests that they are, in fact, different expressions of the same underlying disorder. This paper presents a transdiagnostic proposal for classifying the maintenance variables and the possible specific change mechanisms or processes that operate in psychological treatments fo…
A Latent Class Analysis of Age at Substance Use Initiation in Young Adults and its Association with Mental Health
This study aims to identify empirically-driven classes of age-of-onset across multiple substances (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis) and to characterize the different classes in relation to mental health and substance use severity. The sample comprised 1,051 young adults (aged 18–25; 61.9% women), recruited from universities and vocational schools in Spain, who reported lifetime alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use. Participants were asked to complete que…
Episodic future thinking for the prevention and treatment of health risk behaviors
Non-communicable diseases (i.e., cardiovascular, oncological, respiratory, and endocrine diseases) represent the main cause of death and morbidity in the world, with tobacco and alcohol use, an unhealthy diet, and a sedentary lifestyle being the main risk factors. From reinforcer pathology theory, based on behavioral economics (BE), these health risk behaviors are understood as choice disorders, characterized by an excessive valuation of the rein…
Validation of the Food Purchase Task (FPT) in a clinical sample of smokers with overweight and obesity
Obesity is a major health problem associated with disease burden and mortality. In this context, analyzing food as a powerful reinforcer from a behavioral economics framework could be relevant for the treatment and prevention of obesity. The purposes of this study were to validate a food purchase task (FPT) in a clinical sample of Spanish smokers with overweight and obesity and to assess the internal structure of the FPT. We also analyzed the cli…
Effects of Risk Perception and Accessibility on Cannabis Use among Young Population in Spain
BackgroundCannabis use in the young population has undergone a significant increase in Europe. Empirical assessments of individual and contextual mediating variables in relation to cannabis use are informative for prevention actions and have yet to be conducted in Spain. Objectives: This study used the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use in Secondary Education in Spain (ESTUDES) to inform on potentially relevant cannabis prevention targets. We exami…
Aportaciones De La Economía Conductual a La Evaluación, La Prevención Y El Tratamiento Psicológico en Adicciones
Behavioral economics is a discipline that can be useful for studying the aspects involved in the genesis and maintenance of addictive behaviors through the application of the principles of economics and psychology. In the addictions field, this discipline has been beneficial not only in explaining and predicting the severity of addictions, but also in designing universal and selective prevention strategies, as well as treatments. However, the des…
Effects of combining contingency management with behavioral activation for smokers with depression
Background: Few studies on Behavioral Activation (BA) have been conducted among smokers with depression and very scarce evidence on Contingency Management (CM) in this population exists. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) plus BA and the same treatment alongside CM on smoking abstinence and depression at the end of treatment.Method: A sample of 74 treatment-seeking smokers (78.4% female) were ran…
Parenting styles and alcohol use among adolescents
Parenting style has been identified as one of the most important risk and protective factors for substance use in adolescents. Evidence suggests that the influence of each parenting style on adolescent’s substance use varies across countries. Research studies with Spanish population have been mostly restricted to cross-sectional designs, limiting the interpretation of directionality in the relationship between parenting styles and adolescent subs…
Probability and predictors of the cannabis gateway effect
Urine Testing During Treatntent Predicts Cocaine Abstinence
The objective of this study was to analyze the influence of the variables that predict cocaine abstinence on an outpatient program for the treatment of addiction to this substance. Participants were 80 patients (85% men and 15% women) selected at random from those receiving treatment at a Spanish health service outpatient unit. For detecting the predictor variables the authors carried out a chi-square automatic interaction detection (CHAID) analy…
Effectiveness and efficiency of methodology for recruiting participants in natural recovery from alcohol and drug addiction
The goal of this descriptive study is to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency in economic and temporal terms of different strategies for the recruitment of participants who have recovered without help from problems with alcohol and other drugs. Diverse recruitment strategies were implemented (press advertisements, publicizing through the media, posters, snowball technique and request for help from healthcare professionals) over a two-year per…
Effectiveness of Three Intensities of Smoking Cessation Treatment in Primary Care
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of three smoking cessation programs of varying intensity applied in a primary care setting. Participants were 89 individuals randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: brief counseling plus information pamphlet, self-help program with telephone follow-up, and intensive behavioral treatment. At the 12-mo. follow-up, intensive behavioral treatment (42.8% abstinence) was more effect…
Calidad asistencial y satisfacción de las mujeres en tratamiento por drogodependencia en Asturias
En los últimos años se ha enfatizado la importancia de la valoración de la calidad de los servicios de salud por parte de los propios pacientes. Esta valoración es útil para orientar a los responsables de las instituciones de cara a mejorar los recursos asistenciales. El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar el grado de satisfacción de las mujeres con los tratamientos de drogodependencias en el Principado de Asturias. La investigación se llevó a ca…
Application of a Mixed Model Approach for Assessment of Interventions and Evaluation of Programs
Many social programs and programs for prevention of drug use are designed to affect a wide variety of targets, including individuals, families and neighborhoods, and organizations such as schools, companies, or hospitals. The nature of the intervention and the design of the particular study determine the choice of the appropriate unit of analysis in assessments of outcome. When the units of assignment and units of observation differ from one anot…
The Contextual-Molar Perspective in the Analysis of Addictive Behaviors
The approach of behavioral economics (BE) provides an alternative to the disease model that has guided public policies, research, and clinical practice in recent decades. BE defines addictive behaviors as a disorder of choice and proposes an analysis of these behaviors from a molar perspective, as it emphasizes behavior patterns and contextual variables that go beyond the discriminative stimuli present at the time of consumption. It includes prio…
Psychological Treatment of Addictive Behaviors
Addictive behaviors, both substance and non-substance-related, share many clinical characteristics, including etiology, course, and relapse determinants. This co-occurrence suggests that they are, in fact, different expressions of the same underlying disorder. This paper presents a transdiagnostic proposal for classifying the maintenance variables and the possible specific change mechanisms or processes that operate in psychological treatments fo…
Validation of the Food Purchase Task (FPT) in a clinical sample of smokers with overweight and obesity
Obesity is a major health problem associated with disease burden and mortality. In this context, analyzing food as a powerful reinforcer from a behavioral economics framework could be relevant for the treatment and prevention of obesity. The purposes of this study were to validate a food purchase task (FPT) in a clinical sample of Spanish smokers with overweight and obesity and to assess the internal structure of the FPT. We also analyzed the cli…
Calidad asistencial y satisfacción de las mujeres en tratamiento por drogodependencia en Asturias
En los últimos años se ha enfatizado la importancia de la valoración de la calidad de los servicios de salud por parte de los propios pacientes. Esta valoración es útil para orientar a los responsables de las instituciones de cara a mejorar los recursos asistenciales. El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar el grado de satisfacción de las mujeres con los tratamientos de drogodependencias en el Principado de Asturias. La investigación se llevó a ca…
Application of a Mixed Model Approach for Assessment of Interventions and Evaluation of Programs
Many social programs and programs for prevention of drug use are designed to affect a wide variety of targets, including individuals, families and neighborhoods, and organizations such as schools, companies, or hospitals. The nature of the intervention and the design of the particular study determine the choice of the appropriate unit of analysis in assessments of outcome. When the units of assignment and units of observation differ from one anot…
Effectiveness and efficiency of methodology for recruiting participants in natural recovery from alcohol and drug addiction
The goal of this descriptive study is to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency in economic and temporal terms of different strategies for the recruitment of participants who have recovered without help from problems with alcohol and other drugs. Diverse recruitment strategies were implemented (press advertisements, publicizing through the media, posters, snowball technique and request for help from healthcare professionals) over a two-year per…
Effectiveness of Three Intensities of Smoking Cessation Treatment in Primary Care
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of three smoking cessation programs of varying intensity applied in a primary care setting. Participants were 89 individuals randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: brief counseling plus information pamphlet, self-help program with telephone follow-up, and intensive behavioral treatment. At the 12-mo. follow-up, intensive behavioral treatment (42.8% abstinence) was more effect…
Urine Testing During Treatntent Predicts Cocaine Abstinence
The objective of this study was to analyze the influence of the variables that predict cocaine abstinence on an outpatient program for the treatment of addiction to this substance. Participants were 80 patients (85% men and 15% women) selected at random from those receiving treatment at a Spanish health service outpatient unit. For detecting the predictor variables the authors carried out a chi-square automatic interaction detection (CHAID) analy…
Parenting styles and alcohol use among adolescents
Parenting style has been identified as one of the most important risk and protective factors for substance use in adolescents. Evidence suggests that the influence of each parenting style on adolescent’s substance use varies across countries. Research studies with Spanish population have been mostly restricted to cross-sectional designs, limiting the interpretation of directionality in the relationship between parenting styles and adolescent subs…
Probability and predictors of the cannabis gateway effect
Effects of combining contingency management with behavioral activation for smokers with depression
Background: Few studies on Behavioral Activation (BA) have been conducted among smokers with depression and very scarce evidence on Contingency Management (CM) in this population exists. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) plus BA and the same treatment alongside CM on smoking abstinence and depression at the end of treatment.Method: A sample of 74 treatment-seeking smokers (78.4% female) were ran…
Aportaciones De La Economía Conductual a La Evaluación, La Prevención Y El Tratamiento Psicológico en Adicciones
Behavioral economics is a discipline that can be useful for studying the aspects involved in the genesis and maintenance of addictive behaviors through the application of the principles of economics and psychology. In the addictions field, this discipline has been beneficial not only in explaining and predicting the severity of addictions, but also in designing universal and selective prevention strategies, as well as treatments. However, the des…
Effects of Risk Perception and Accessibility on Cannabis Use among Young Population in Spain
BackgroundCannabis use in the young population has undergone a significant increase in Europe. Empirical assessments of individual and contextual mediating variables in relation to cannabis use are informative for prevention actions and have yet to be conducted in Spain. Objectives: This study used the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use in Secondary Education in Spain (ESTUDES) to inform on potentially relevant cannabis prevention targets. We exami…
Episodic future thinking for the prevention and treatment of health risk behaviors
Non-communicable diseases (i.e., cardiovascular, oncological, respiratory, and endocrine diseases) represent the main cause of death and morbidity in the world, with tobacco and alcohol use, an unhealthy diet, and a sedentary lifestyle being the main risk factors. From reinforcer pathology theory, based on behavioral economics (BE), these health risk behaviors are understood as choice disorders, characterized by an excessive valuation of the rein…
Validation of the Food Purchase Task (FPT) in a clinical sample of smokers with overweight and obesity
Obesity is a major health problem associated with disease burden and mortality. In this context, analyzing food as a powerful reinforcer from a behavioral economics framework could be relevant for the treatment and prevention of obesity. The purposes of this study were to validate a food purchase task (FPT) in a clinical sample of Spanish smokers with overweight and obesity and to assess the internal structure of the FPT. We also analyzed the cli…
A Latent Class Analysis of Age at Substance Use Initiation in Young Adults and its Association with Mental Health
This study aims to identify empirically-driven classes of age-of-onset across multiple substances (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis) and to characterize the different classes in relation to mental health and substance use severity. The sample comprised 1,051 young adults (aged 18–25; 61.9% women), recruited from universities and vocational schools in Spain, who reported lifetime alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use. Participants were asked to complete que…
Impulsivity traits moderate the longitudinal association between mental health and hazardous cannabis use in emerging adults
A Cross-Sectional Study on Youth and Over-the-Counter CBD Products
Background This cross-sectional study characterized the socio-demographic characteristics, substance use patterns, and mental health of young users of past-year over-the-counter CBD products and CBD + smoked cannabis (THC), relative to past-year users of THC-only and those who have never used these substances. Method 6,365 (55.8% female) participants aged 16–30 were assessed from September 2023-April 2024. Results CBD and CBD + THC use was associ…
Presentation of the Monographic Issue
The Contextual-Molar Perspective in the Analysis of Addictive Behaviors
The approach of behavioral economics (BE) provides an alternative to the disease model that has guided public policies, research, and clinical practice in recent decades. BE defines addictive behaviors as a disorder of choice and proposes an analysis of these behaviors from a molar perspective, as it emphasizes behavior patterns and contextual variables that go beyond the discriminative stimuli present at the time of consumption. It includes prio…
Psychological Treatment of Addictive Behaviors
Addictive behaviors, both substance and non-substance-related, share many clinical characteristics, including etiology, course, and relapse determinants. This co-occurrence suggests that they are, in fact, different expressions of the same underlying disorder. This paper presents a transdiagnostic proposal for classifying the maintenance variables and the possible specific change mechanisms or processes that operate in psychological treatments fo…
Validity evidence of the Esquizo-Q-A for measuring schizotypy in young substance-using populations
Background: Schizotypy is a key risk factor for psychosis-like experiences and for identifying those at high risk for schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, there is little research on schizotypy measures among people who use substances. This study examined the validity of the Oviedo Schizotypy Assessment Questionnaire-Abbreviated (ESQUIZO-Q-A) in adolescents and young adults who use substances. Methods: A total of 4,360 participants who repo…
Behavioural Economic Demand for Medicinal and Recreational Cannabis Among People Who Use Over‐The‐Counter CBD Products, THC Only and CBD + THC
Academic Narcissism
This article examines the emergence of academic narcissism as a specific manifestation of cultural narcissism within the contemporary university context. Drawing on the concept of normative narcissism, we explore how the logic of visibility, self-exposure, and the pursuit of recognition has been integrated into teaching and research practices, transforming professional identity and modes of knowledge production. The culture of metrics, impact ind…
Perceived Risks and Benefits Associated With Cannabidiol-Containing Products Among Young People
Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (10 works) · Addiction (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Cannabis (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works)