Papers by Felipe Soto-Pérez
The Social Science Journal
Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin
Having prior contact with people with mental illness in the workplace can lead to an improvement ... more Having prior contact with people with mental illness in the workplace can lead to an improvement in employers’ attitudes toward this group. However, there is currently a lack of instruments to measure attitudes toward the employability of people with mental illness. The overall aim of this study was to develop a Spanish scale of attitudes toward the employability of people with mental illness (CEPEM) and obtain preliminary data regarding its psychometric properties. Ninety-four items from three content domains were selected (attitudes, employability, and impact) and revised in an inter-rater agreement procedure in order to produce an initial scale. The scale was tested by employers and workers from the field of mental health. A reduced set of items was selected according to variability and homogeneity indexes. Additional analyses were conducted to explore the validity of the scale. Internal consistency was estimated for the full 33-item scale. Scale scores partially captured attitud...
Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología
Los desarrollos tecnológicos pueden ser uncomplemento a la atención tradicional, porello primero ... more Los desarrollos tecnológicos pueden ser uncomplemento a la atención tradicional, porello primero se revisa el impacto que tiene latecnología en la alianza de trabajo terapéutico.A continuación se señalan algunos recursostecnológicos disponibles para la actividadpsicológica, así como una clasificación delas tecnologías. Finalmente se revisan lasposibles ventajas y riesgos en la aplicaciónde tratamiento mediados por tecnologías, asícomo los resultados en cuanto a efectividad
Aging & mental health, Jan 22, 2018
This study aimed to carry out a pilot validation of Affect-GRADIOR, a computer-based emotion reco... more This study aimed to carry out a pilot validation of Affect-GRADIOR, a computer-based emotion recognition test, with older adults. The study evaluated its usability, reliability and validity for the screening of people with Alzheimer´s disease (AD) and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). The test was administered to 212 participants (76.37 ± 6.20 years) classified into three groups (healthy controls, n = 69; AD, n = 84; and aMCI, n = 59) on the basis of detailed neurological, neuropsychological, laboratory and neuro-imaging evidence. Data on usability were collected by means of a questionnaire and automated evaluation. The validated test comprised 53 stimuli and 7 practice items (one per emotion). Participants reported that Affect-GRADIOR was accessible and user-friendly. It had high internal consistency (ordinal Cronbach's α = 0.96). Test-retest reliability correlations were significant and robust (r = 0.840, p < 0.001). Exploratory factor analysis supported a seven-fa...
Actas espanolas de psiquiatria, 2017
The elderly population is growing driven by the increase in life expectancy, which in turn entail... more The elderly population is growing driven by the increase in life expectancy, which in turn entails an increase in the number of people with chronic diseases such as dementia. The vast majority of people suffering from this illness is assisted by informal caregivers, who play a key role in fulfilling the patients’ needs, promoting the possibility for people with dementia to live in their home environment. The Internet as a support tool in psychoeducational programs can significantly improve accessibility of them, becoming a currently consolidated interactive resource for the training of patients with acute and chronic diseases, and their caregivers. A literature search of the Pubmed, PsyINFO, Scopus, SciELO and Psicodoc databases was performed to systematically review those studies related to web-based interventions for informal caregivers of people with dementia or cognitive impairment. On balance, the studies show a significant improvement after the psychoeducational interven...
Journal of medical systems, 2017
Usability is one of the most prominent criteria that must be fulfilled by a software product. Thi... more Usability is one of the most prominent criteria that must be fulfilled by a software product. This study aims to evaluate the usability of SocialNet, a private social network for monitoring the daily progress of patients by their relatives, using a mixed usability approach: heuristic evaluation conducted by experts and user testing. A double heuristic evaluation with one expert evaluator identified the issues related to consistency, design, and privacy. User testing was conducted on 20 users and one evaluator using observation techniques and questionnaires. The main usability problems were found to be related to the structure of SocialNet, and the users presented some difficulties in locating the buttons or links. The results show a high level of usability and satisfaction with the product. This evaluation provides data on the usability of SocialNet based on the difficulties experienced by the users and the expert. The results help in redesigning the tool to resolve the identified p...
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2017
The ability to recognize emotional expression is essential for social interactions, adapting to t... more The ability to recognize emotional expression is essential for social interactions, adapting to the environment and quality of life. Emotion recognition is impaired in people with Alzheimer&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s disease (AD), thus rehabilitation of these skills has the potential to elicit significant benefits. This study sought to establish whether emotion recognition capacity could be rehabilitated in people with AD. Thirty-six participants with AD were assigned to one of three conditions: an experimental group (EG) that received 20 sessions of rehabilitation of emotion recognition and 20 sessions of cognitive stimulation therapy (CST), a control group (CG) that received 40 sessions of CST, and a treatment as usual group (TAU). A positive treatment effect favoring the EG was found; participants were better able to correctly identify emotions (p = 0.021), made fewer errors of commission (p = 0.002), had greater precision of processing (p = 0.021) and faster processing speed (p = 0.001). Specifically, the EG were better able to identify sadness (p = 0.016), disgust (p = 0.005) and the neutral expression (p = 0.014), with quicker processing speed for disgust (p = 0.002). These gains were maintained at one month follow-up with the exception of processing speed for surprise which improved. Capacity to recognize facial expressions of emotions can be improved through specific rehabilitation in people with AD and gains are still present at a one month follow up. These findings have implications for the design of rehabilitation techniques for people with AD that may lead to improved quality of life and social interactions for this population.
Martín, M. Á. (2016). Heuristic evaluation of SocialNet, the private social network for psychiatr... more Martín, M. Á. (2016). Heuristic evaluation of SocialNet, the private social network for psychiatric patients and their relatives. In F. ABSTRACT SocialNet, is a private social network for monitoring daily progress of patients by their relatives. The goal of this paper is evaluate the usability of SocialNet in order to improve it and provide users an effective, efficient interaction and satisfactory experience. This work presents the first phase where it was used a double heuristic evaluation with one expert evaluator. This technique has provided valuable data about the usability of SocialNet especially related to consistency, design and privacy. The tool has been redesigned in order to resolve the identified problems as part of an iterative process. The use of heuristic evaluation will be complemented by a user test to be carried out in a second phase of usability study, which will not be addressed in this paper.
Proceedings of the XVII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction - Interacción '16, 2016
The purpose of this paper is the usability evaluation of the SocialNet, a private social network ... more The purpose of this paper is the usability evaluation of the SocialNet, a private social network for monitoring daily progress of patients by their relatives. This work presents the first phase where it was used the double heuristic evaluation as a method of evaluating usability. It has proven to be a suitable method for finding usability problems associated with this type of social network where information privacy plays an important role. The evaluation has provided data about the origin of the usability problems of SocialNet, especially related to consistency, design and privacy. Findings have helped to redesign some aspects of SocialNet and to provide an effective, efficient interaction and satisfactory experience to the users. The use of heuristic evaluation will be complemented with a user test to be carried out in a second phase of the usability study, which is not addressed in this paper. CSS concepts • Information systems→ World Wide Web→ Web applications →Social Networks •Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI) → HCI design and evaluation methods → Heuristic evaluations
Revista De Psicologia, Dec 9, 2013
Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto
Revista De Psicopatologia Y Psicologia Clinica, 2010
Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...
Revista De Salud Publica, 2011
Tesis (Magíster en Psicología Social-Comunitaria)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004... more Tesis (Magíster en Psicología Social-Comunitaria)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004. Incluye bibliografía.
Cyber-therapies, being psychological interventions by means of the Internet, are transforming int... more Cyber-therapies, being psychological interventions by means of the Internet, are transforming into a complement for and an alternative to traditional attention, and are beginning to show effectiveness. Unfortunately there are few publications on the subject in the Spanish language. Thus this review proposes arguments justifying the use of cyber-therapies, and defi nes some terms needed to understand them. Subsequently we point out their advantages and disadvantages; the issues to be considered for their implementation, as well as the areas where they have been used. Along these lines, this review provides an ample, updated and introductory overview of the subject of e-therapy associated with clinical psychology.
The technologies, under the model of online treatments are beginning to be incorporated as an alt... more The technologies, under the model of online treatments are beginning to be incorporated as an alternative and complementary to mental health care. This article seeks to highlight the process of psychoeducational intervention in two ways, online v/s face to face comparing them with a control situation. Was used a quasi-experimental design with a mixed method qualitative/quantitative with pre and post measures developed in the area of mental health, province of Zamora (Spain). As results, no significant differences were identificated between the two psychoeducational models; and both treatments were statistically different with the control situation in terms of the knowledge that families reached about the disease. Qualitative results suggest that the online intervention is better than expected and more comfortable than the traditional. We conclude that online interventions are possible and as effective as traditional, which encourages its use to overcome gaps in access to psychoeduca...
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