Self-care nursing assessment: cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Spanish version of the Self-care of chronic illness inventory by Noelia Durán-Gómez, Casimiro Fermín López-Jurado, Miguel Ángel Martín-Parrilla, Jesús Montanero-Fernández, Demetrio Pérez-Civantos, Macarena C. Cáceres

“…The purpose of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the SC-CII, test its psychometric properties and validate its use among Spanish people with chronic diseases. Methods A cross-cultural translation of the SC-CII was performed from English to Spanish. …”
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Are partner's features important to understand health at older ages? The Spanish case by Jordi Gumà, Jeroen Spijker

“…Conclusions: For both sexes a partner's health status is the variable that shows the largest effect on elderly partnered Spanish people's health but women's health appears to be more sensitive to their partner's educational attainment and the household's economic situation. …”
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<i>LAG3/CD4</i> Genes Variants and the Risk for Restless Legs Syndrome by Félix Javier Jiménez-Jiménez, Javier Gómez-Tabales, Hortensia Alonso-Navarro, Christopher Rodríguez, Laura Turpín-Fenoll, Jorge Millán-Pascual, Ignacio Álvarez, Pau Pastor, Marisol Calleja, Rafael García-Ruiz, Santiago Navarro-Muñoz, Marta Recio-Bermejo, José Francisco Plaza-Nieto, Esteban García-Albea, Elena García-Martín, José A. G. Agúndez

“…With the exception of this association, our findings suggest that common SNVs in the <i>CD4/LAG3</i> genes are not associated with the risk of developing idiopathic RLS in Caucasian Spanish people.…”
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An analysis of some aspects of social change and adaptation to tourism on Ibiza by Cooper, R J

“…For example, the distribution of the new wealth and incomes among native Ibizans, other Spanish people and foreigners is carefully analysed: it emerges that - as yet, at least - the major economic benefits accrue to the native islanders, and that they are quite widely distributed among them (partly because of features of the tourist boom itself, and partly because of the pre-existent relatively-narrow range of wealth among the Ibizans); but that extensive direct participation by outsiders in the island's economy is also an important (new) feature.…”

L’Espagne recherchée et ressentie de Bartolomé Bennassar by François Zumbiehl

“…The observation of the actual reality, the cultural anthropology, the well-reasoned contemplation of art works, including his fondness for bullfighting enriched his valuable contribution to the history of Spain and Spanish peoples. Nevertheless this country, this culture and its people’s lifestyle were not just for Bennassar an object of study exclusively turned to the past. …”
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