Projects

PROJECTS

Actyren-HD

The main objective of Actyren-HD is to evaluate the effectiveness of an exercise program on improving the physical capacity of chronic kidney disease patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment. Additionally, its effect on quality of life, function during activities of daily living, strength and symptoms of anxiety and depression will be investigated.

Central sensitization in subjects with chronic postsurgical pain after a knee arthroplasty

The present study compares patients with and without chronic postsurgical pain after knee arthroplasty using different experimental pain techniques to assess their local and widespread sensitization and conditioned pain modulation

ESTIGMA Project

A group of professors at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Welfare and Osonament Foundation have started the ESTIGMA project aiming at identifying the perceptions of health sciences students toward mental health disorders.

RECETAS Project

The aim of this project is to test actions for Social Prescribing in Natural spaces and assess their impact in terms of reducing feelings of loneliness and improving quality of life in urban contexts.

CRONISOL

The aim of this project is to reduce loneliness in people suffering from cronicity within the “Friendship in Nature” intervention, which test the effectiveness of group activities with people suffering the same situation to lessen the feelings of loneliness and increase the knowledge and use of the community resources.

JOIN4JOY

This project aims to implement tailored community and long-term care programs for older adults, fostering Enjoyment, Social Interactions, and improved quality of life with Physical Activity. The project emphasizes equity in health through inclusive and accessible initiatives.

Physical EDUCATION of elders

This project concerns innovation and dynamic learning for caregivers, social workers and trainers specialized in physical education of elders, through cross-sectoral approach of both continuous vocational training (CVT) fields under the Erasmus+ programme.

Lung function in nursing homes

The main objective is to determine the predictive factors of impaired lung function in a sample of nursing home residents, previously infected by COVID-19.

The Jue-go! Project

The aim of this project is to inform and accompany the children during their vaccination process so that they may overlap their fears with the idea that the medicine can actually be fun.

GraMI protocol in phantom limb pain

This project is part of the doctoral thesis of professor Sandra Rierola Fochs. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the effects of graded motor imagery on phantom limb pain in the amputated patient.

ProEduTR-Cat

The aim of the project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an eight-week telematic educational program, in hemodialysis patients who are on a waiting list for their first Kidney Donor Transplant (TR) from a cadaver donor

TEMPS

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the choice of socio-health and biomedical university degrees: a mixed observational study in Spain

OsoNaH Project

Renewing Ergonomic Education for Health Care Students in European HEIs (RENE) Project is set to improve an unify the patient handling education in health care sector.

Co-Care Project

“Co-created ITC solutions for Alzheimer’s Informal Caregiving” aims to develop ICT enhancements designed to make day-to-day care for caregivers of Alzheimer’s easier.

EDUVAC Project

“Co-created ITC solutions for Alzheimer’s Informal Caregiving” aims to develop ICT enhancements designed to make day-to-day care for caregivers of Alzheimer’s easier.

Big Five project

The project focuses on academic burnout and psychological distress in 1st year students of university health related degrees, as well as their proficiency profile and personality.

Psychosocial Predictors for KA

The objective is to investigate the predictive value of postoperative psychosocial factors such as pain catastrophizing, pain-related fear of movement, anxiety, depression and pain attitudes on mid-term postoperative outcomes of physical performance, health functioning, quality of life and pain intensity.

Dual-task project

This project will study the effectiveness of a dual-task exercise program in improving the balance and walking speed of the elderly.

Multimodal PT for KA

The aim of the study is to investigate if subjects with high pain catastrophizing scheduled for TKA, who participate in a preoperative multimodal physiotherapy intervention designed to lower such levels, have better postoperative outcomes after the TKA.

RENE

RENE Project is set to improve and unify the patient handling education in health care sector

Pain-ON

The main topic is knowing the pain experienced by patients with cancer, treated in the daycare oncohematology hospital (HDOH) within the HUV (University Hospital of Vic).

Collaborative projects

ResiCOVID19

The ResiCOVID19 project has two main objectives: to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the long term care system in Catalonia but also to their residents, families, and health care workers. The second objective is to develop proposals of improvement for the care model in Catalonia.

EHECADI

It is an international and an Erasmus + Project from the KA2 modality of Cooperation partnerships in higher education, to develop a digital platform (Knowledge Hub) to share tools for the development of Final Graduate Dissertations oriented to tackle society health challenges.

Persons with Refugee Experience Education Project - Interprofessional (PREP IP)

The Persons with Refugee Experience Education Project – Interprofessional (PREP IP) responds to the need for practising rehabilitation professionals to develop key competencies to meet refugees’ unique health needs better.

Industrial Doctorates

The Effectiveness of the Validation Method training in work satisfaction and motivation of nursing home care professionals

It is a quasi-experimental pilot study of the doctoral thesis of Iván Sánchez-Martínez.

Dietment

This project is part of Mireia Vilamala‘s doctoral thesis, linked to the Industrial Doctorate program between Osonament and UVic, directed by Dra. Cristina Vaqué and Dr. Ruben del Rio.

Zyrcular Foods

The project will be performed by the Zyrcular Foods group in collaboration with the UVIC-UCC. This consists of an industrial PhD carried out by Gil Vila Clarà and supervised by Anna Vila-Martí and Míriam Torres-Torres.