He is from the UN, in collaboration with experts from other centers in Spain, Chile and Colombia, and is looking for volunteers
PAMPLONA, Apr 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A research project from the University of Navarra will analyze what role self-care has in the confinement situation caused by the coronavirus, and what possible effects it causes on people’s psychological well-being.
This research will be carried out in five universities in Ibero-American countries: the University of Navarra, the University of the Basque Country, the University of Development (Chile) and the University of San Buenaventura (Colombia). For this, they are looking for volunteers, of legal age, who want to participate in the study, and request that they complete this short form: bit.ly/AutocuídaESP.
“The objective is, on the one hand, to analyze how those people who practice self-care behaviors experience a greater sense of control over the situation. On the other hand, to establish how these behaviors influence the psychological well-being of the population”, explain Elkin Luis and Elena Bermejo, principal investigators of the project.
According to these researchers, self-care is a set of strategies to face the situation that can be established to prevent deficits or strengthen people’s well-being on a physical, psychological, emotional or spiritual level. “For example, self-care can be an increase in the individual’s hygiene (washing hands more frequently) or performing meditation exercises,” they explain.
The research arises due to the possible influence of the measures implemented by the governments to avoid contagion and the collapse of the health institutions in the incorporation and modification of the health habits of the population; which, in turn, may be influencing different dimensions of their own well-being, the UN has reported in a note.
INFLUENCE BETWEEN COUNTRIES AND OVER-INFORMATION
In addition, experts seek to determine how committed people are to their self-care, according to the confinement measures that each study country has and according to the overinformation to which these people have been exposed about the number of infections and deaths caused by the virus. .
The researchers participating in the project are: Elkin Luis, Luis Eudave and Marín Martínez, professors from the Faculty of Education and Psychology, and Elena Bermejo Martins, professor from the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Navarra. In addition, Ainize Sarrionandia, from the University of the Basque Country, Pablo Fernández Berrocal from the University of Málaga; Edwin Oliveros from the University of San Buenaventura, Francisco Ceric and Cristian Cortes from the University of Development. It also has the collaboration of the Colombian College of Psychologists.
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