Psicología: Investigación y Metodología

Health professionals are expected to actively participate in projects promoting health and well-being, especially in prevention, education, research, and information exchange.

Professionals should prioritize societal benefit and patient well-being in their work.

Professionals must respect patients' choices and give enough information for them to participate in decisions.

Healthcare providers need to give quality care using current knowledge and standards.

Professionals should avoid overusing or underusing resources; consider costs.

Protecting patient dignity, intimacy, and autonomy is vital.

Professionals must abide by ethical rules and laws for their profession.

The relationship between patients and healthcare workers is guided by principles of patient well-being, appropriate professional conduct and respect.

Medical records containing information about healthcare professionals, including name, qualifications, specialty, practice location, and other publicly available data in compliance with data privacy regulations.

Additional records, besides main professional ones, that are kept in healthcare facilities and insurance companies for specific purposes, following regulations.

Healthcare approach that involves multiple specialists working together seamlessly to provide comprehensive care and avoid overlapping services.

Healthcare organizations structurize their teams for effective service provision, either as single or multiprofessional, and interdisciplinary.

When a team provides healthcare, it works either hierarchically (with a clear leader) or collegially (with shared decision-making), based on expertise and skills.

Healthcare teams' structure considers professional knowledge and skills to appropriately assign tasks.

Healthcare teams focus on easy access to care and maintaining continuity of care for the patient.

Comprehensive healthcare incorporating multidisciplinary collaboration, seamless processes, and continuity of care to avoid fragmented or redundant services for patients.

Ancient Greeks focused on health and illness, proposing that illness wasn't a divine punishment but an imbalance of four bodily fluids (humors).

Ancient Greek theory of four bodily fluids (yellow bile, black bile, blood, phlegm) influencing health and personality.

Ancient Greek physician considered the "father of medicine", who challenged the idea that illness was a divine punishment.

Roman physician who built on Hippocrates' work, emphasizing that all illnesses (physical and mental) have a physiological basis.

Ancient practice of creating holes in the skull to release evil spirits thought to cause illness.

Ancient Hebrew texts viewed illness as a punishment from the gods.

Ancient Greek idea that the balance and proportion of body humors influenced personal characteristics, health, and illness.

Middle Ages saw a shift back to spiritual explanations, attributing health problems to divine anger or demonic forces.

Health in the Middle Ages was strongly influenced by religion. Treatments often involved prayer, self-punishment, and abstinence from certain things, rather than scientific methods.

A famous Islamic physician (Ibn Sina) who wrote "The Canon of Medicine" influencing European medicine for centuries.

Islamic philosopher (Ibn Rushd) who followed Galen's and Hippocrates' theories, studying anatomy and disease.

A shift in thinking about health towards scientific explanations, looking at body parts and functions.

Descartes separated the mind and body as separate entities that interact, influencing how medicine viewed diseases.

The body is viewed as a complex machine. Anatomy and physiology studies fueled scientific medicine.

The body is seen as a machine, composed of interacting parts.

Methods for health conditions in the Middle Ages included self-punishment, prayer, and abstinence from certain things.

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A research method where the researcher manipulates one variable to observe its effect on another, with control over other factors.

The variable that the researcher changes or manipulates in an experiment.

Variables in an experiment that are kept constant to isolate the effect of the independent variable.

An in-depth investigation of a single person, group, or phenomenon.

Comparing different groups of participants to see how they respond to different conditions.

Comparing the same group of participants in different conditions.

Research that directly examines and measures aspects of the world through observations and experimentation (and data analysis).

A phenomenon that can be measured and repeated; an event that can be studied multiple times, crucial for hypothesis testing.

A testable statement (conjecture) made by a researcher; crucial component of scientific research.

A set of rules and procedures for conducting empirical research aimed at solving problems, making conclusions about phenomena, and creating scientific theories.

Starts with observations and data; develops theories and hypotheses from specific instances or findings.

Starts with general theories or principles to derive specific predictions or hypotheses; tests these against observations.

Starts with an incomplete set of observations and seeks the most plausible explanation; a form of reasoning that involves proposing explanations considering observations.

The planned method used to gather data for testing hypotheses; detailed steps to collect data accurately.

Aspects of a phenomenon that can be measured, controlled, or altered to understand a research topic.