An organized method does not exist. The quality of handovers could be enhanced by improvements in communication and standardizing the process.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.

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Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Advance care planning (ACP) in mental health is a useful tool to avoid human rights violations in mental health settings. However, ACP is not yet a reality in the Spanish context. The advance healthcare directive (AHD) is a document reflecting healthcare preferences, drafted within the framework of the ACP process, to be applied in situations in which an individual's legal capacity may be questionable. No study has explored the viewpoint of Spanish mental healthcare professionals towards AHDs in the mental health field. Considering their extensive use, further study of providers’ knowledge and attitudes is warranted. What does the paper add to existing knowledge? The study adds knowledge about the viewpoint of Spanish mental healthcare professionals towards the implementation of AHDs in their clinical practices. This study illuminates the prevailing paternalistic provider–user relationship as the main barrier surrounding AHD management in terms of decision‐making. Our findings support the need for broader awareness, staff training regarding the documentation, the conversation process and communication skills, and personalized assistance in the mental health services to implement AHDs in everyday practice. What are the implications for practice? Advance healthcare directives are a recovery tool that offers major information regarding mental health user preferences. Although they pose challenges for clinical practice, AHDs should be incorporated into interventional mental health care. Obtaining up‐to‐date perspectives held by mental healthcare professionals regarding AHDs allows the administration to determine the aspects requiring reinforcement. The implementation of AHDs in the Spanish mental health system requires macro‐ and micro‐changes, both ethically and structurally, so that mental healthcare professionals relinquish their paternalistic approach and embrace new ways of relating to users. AbstractIntroductionAn advance healthcare directive (AHD) is a written document that contains a patient‐in‐care's will and preferences concerning the treatment options available to them, should they lack decision‐making capacity. AHDs are completed within a broader framework known as advance care planning. No study has explored the viewpoint of Spanish mental healthcare professionals towards AHDs.AimTo explore the viewpoint of mental health professionals towards the implementation of AHDs in mental health.MethodA qualitative study was conducted using semi‐structured interviews that were thematically analysed.FindingsThree main themes were identified: care planning culture; barriers for the practical management of AHDs; and reasons to not honour patient‐in‐care AHDs.DiscussionProfessionals find it pragmatically difficult to stop applying traditional paternalistic practices. To implement AHDs, improving the knowledge and awareness of AHDs and management of non‐technical skills through training is required. Such training should include users and families and allow fo...

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Background: Standardised patient simulations seem to be useful for improving the communication skills of health sciences students. However, it is important to define the effectiveness of these types of interventions in complex scenarios linked to disease chronicity and end-of-life contexts. Methods: A quasi-experimental study with pre- and post-intervention measures was carried out in a single group. A total of 161 nursing students completed different assessment instruments to measure their attitudes towards communication (Attitude Toward Communication Scale), self-efficacy (Self-Efficacy of Communication Skills, SE-12), and communication skills (Health Professionals Communication Skills Scale, EHC-PS) before and after simulation training with standardised patients. The objective of the program was to train students in non-technical skills for complex situations involving chronicity and end-of-life care. It comprised eight sessions lasting 2.5 h each. Results: The results showed notable baseline gender differences in attitudes towards communication and in the informative communication dimension, with women obtaining higher scores. The participants’ self-efficacy and communication skills significantly improved after completing the intervention, with no significant differences being found for the attitudes towards communication variable. Conclusion: The standardised patient simulation programme for complex scenarios related to chronicity and end-of-life contexts improved communication self-efficacy and communication skills in these nursing students. In future work it will be important to analyse the influence of gender and attitudes towards communication as variables in the learning of communication skills in nursing students.

Background Summary health measures as the global activity limitation indicator (GALI) or self-rated health (SRH) allow to quantify and monitor the health of the population. The GALI is widely used in the European Union; however, evidence of its construct validity is still limited. We examine whether the GALI reflects disability in specific living contexts such as self-care, domestic life and work activity, whether it does so consistently across gender and age and its added value concerning SRH. Methods We used the subsample of adults aged 16–64 years (N = 15 934) from the 2009 European Health Interview Survey in Spain and analyzed the data with logistic regression models using the GALI and SRH as response variables. Results The GALI was strongly and significantly associated with the three measures of disability: self-care (OR = 22.8, 95% CI: 15.9–32.7), domestic life (OR = 16.3, 95% CI: 13.6–19.5) and work activity (e.g. impossibility to work: OR = 41.9, 95% CI: 30.3–57.8; prolonged sick leave: OR = 10.7, 95% CI: 9–12.7). There were significant interactions with age on all three disability measures and with the gender on one (domestic life), although they were small. SRH was also strongly associated with all three disability measures, but to a lesser extent than the GALI. Conclusions The GALI reflects well and better than SRH, disability in self-care, domestic life and work activity. It is unknown whether the GALI performs equally in other living contexts such as social relations and community life.

Postnatal sense of security is a relevant construct related to several variables of motherhood. However, it has not yet been studied in the Spanish context. The aims were: (a) To analyze the psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the Mothers' Postnatal Sense of Security Scale (PPSS-S); (b) analyze the factors related to mothers' sense of security during the first 2 weeks following childbirth (sociodemographic variables and factors related to maternity); and (c) examine the predictive utility that mothers' sense of security has on symptoms of postpartum depression 6-11 months after childbirth. This was a prospective longitudinal study performed in the first 6-11 months post-partum in four regions of Spain. A total of 928 mothers whose mean age was 33.67 years (standard deviation = 4.54) partici

La transición legislativa e ideológica producida en los últimos años en España ha favorecido el desarrollo del modelo comunitario de atención a la salud mental. No obstante, aún persiste una fuerte resistencia a la inclusión de abordajes comunitarios en la atención de las personas con problemas de salud mental y a la implementación de una atención y unos cuidados integrados de enfoque salutogénico. El propósito del siguiente artículo es describir la evolución del modelo comunitario de atención a la salud mental en el sistema nacional de salud español y evaluar su estado actual. Inicialmente se realizó una revisión de los planes y estrategias de salud mental nacional publicados y luego se evaluaron tomando como referencia el Documento de consenso sobre los principios fundamentales y elementos clave de la salud mental comunitaria, que establece los criterios de valoración de la calidad de la atención comunitaria. Ante la falta de planes o estrategias actualizados, se incluyeron informes y recomendaciones internacionales. Los resultados se agruparon en: 1) perspectiva social, en la que se evidencia la controversia sobre la capacidad de las personas usuarias para tomar decisiones a pesar del reconocimiento de sus derechos como agentes morales autónomos; 2) perspectiva de la centralidad de las personas usuarias de los servicios de atención a la salud mental, en la que se plasma la resistencia a la implementación de una atención y unos cuidados comunitarios integrados; y 3) perspectiva profesional en relación con la efectividad de las intervenciones y la red comunitaria de principios de atención, que señala la necesidad de transformar las instituciones para realizar intervenciones comunitarias en salud mental basadas en la evidencia y de manera intersectorial, integral, integrada e integradora.