Publications and Doctoral dissertations supervised

Crespo I, Monforte-Royo C, Balaguer A, Cruz-Sequeiro C, Luque-Blanco A, Porta-Sales J. Screening for the Wish to Hasten Death in the First Palliative Care Encounter: A proof-of-concept study. J Palliat Med. 2020; DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0276  

Link PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32945714/
 

Pergolizzi D, Monforte-Royo C, Balaguer A, Porta-Sales J, Rodríguez-Prat A, Crespo I. Older age: A protective factor against perceived dignity related distress in patients with advanced cancer? J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020; accepted.

IF= 3.077; (22/102 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES; 40/165 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL)

 

Labori Trias M, Hernández-Ribas R, Porta-Sales J. Uso inadecuado de opioides en pacientes con dolor oncológico: revisión sistemática integradora de la literatura. RESED. 2020; doi:10.20986/resed.2020.3801/2020.

Pergolizzi D, Crespo I. Recognition of cognitive complaints for patients with advanced cancer. Support Care Cancer. DOI: 10.1007/s00520-020-05678-5

IF= 2.635; (12/68 REHABILITATION; 37/102 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES). ISSN: 0941-4355 

https://www.resed.es/uso-inadecuado-de-opioides-en-pacientes-con-dolor-o...

 

Crespo I, Monforte-Royo C, Balaguer A, Pergolizzi D, Cruz-Sequeiro C, Luque-Blanco A, Porta-Sales J. Screening for the Wish to Hasten Death in the First Palliative Care Encounter: A proof-of-concept study. J Palliat Med. 2020; DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0276  

IF= 2.085; (52/102 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES). ISSN: 1096-6218

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32945714/

 

Rodríguez-Prat A. Experiencing the sublime in a palliative care unit. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020. Accepted. 

IF= 3.077; (22/102 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES; 40/165 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL)

 

Crespo I, Rodríguez-Prat A, Porta-Sales J, Wilson K, Balaguer A, Monforte-Royo C. Health-related quality of life in patients with advanced cancer who express a wish to hasten death: A comparative study. Palliat Med. 2020  Feb 27:269216320904607; doi: 10.1177/0269216320904607

IF= 3.739; (15/102 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES; & SERVICES; 33/193 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; 31/165 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL). ISSN: 0269-2163.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32103705/

 

Pergolizzi D, Crespo I, Balaguer A, Monforte-Royo C, Alonso A; Arantzamendi M; Belar A; Centeno C; Goñi-Fuste B, Julià J; Martínez M; Mateo-Ortega D; May L; Moreno-Alonso D; Nabal M; Noguera A; Pascual A; Pérez-Bret E; Rocafort J, Rodríguez D; Rodriguez-Prat A, Sala C; Serna J; Porta-Sales J. The proactive and systematic multidimensional needs assessment in patients with advanced cancer approaching Palliative care: A Study Protocol. BMJ Open. 2020; 10(2):e034413. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034413

IF= 2.496; 52/165 (MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL). ISSN: 2044-6055.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/2/e034413

 

Rodríguez-Prat A, Monforte-Royo C, Balaguer A. Response to: “Patients’Autonomy at the End of Life: A Critical Review. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2019 Apr15. pii: S0885-3924(19)30172-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.03.022.  

 
Quiñoa C, Edo-Gual M,Monforte-Royo C, Porta-Sales J. The experiences and needs of primary familycaregivers of patients with multiple myeloma. Palliat Med. 2019; 33(5):500-9.doi: 10.1177/0269216319830017

 

Porta-Sales J, Crespo I, Monforte-Royo C, Martí M, Abenia-Chavarría S, Balaguer A. The clinical evaluation ofthe wish to hasten death is not upsetting for advanced cancer patients. A cross-sectional study. Palliat Med. 2019; 33(6):570-577. doi: 10.1177/0269216318824526

 

Porta-Sales J, Noble S. Haematology and palliative care: the needs are out there. Palliative Medicine. 2019; 33(5):481-2. DOI: 10.1177/0269216319840604

Rodríguez-Prat A, Balaguer A, Crespo I, Monforte-Royo C.  Feeling like a burden to others and the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced illness: a systematic review. Bioethics. 2019; 1-10.  DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12562 

Monforte-Royo C, Crespo I, Rodríguez-Prat A, Marimon F, Porta-Sales J, Balaguer A. The role of perceived dignity and control in the wish to hasten death among advanced cancer patients: A mediation model. Psychooncology. 2018 Sep 24. doi: 10.1002/pon.4900

Rodríguez A, Monforte-Royo C, Balaguer A. Ethical challenges for an understanding of suffering: Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking and the wish to hasten death in advanced patients. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2018;9:294. DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2018.00294.

Bellido-Pérez M, Crespo I, Balaguer A, Wilson K, Porta-Sales J, Monforte-Royo C.  Assessment of the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced cancer: a comparison of two different approaches. Psychooncology. 2018; DOI: 10.1002/pon.4689

Guerrero-Torrelles M, Monforte-Royo C, Rodríguez A, Porta-Sales J, Balaguer A. Understanding meaning in life interventions in patients with advanced cancer: A realist systematic review. Palliat Med. 2017; 31(9):798-813. doi: 10.1177/0269216316685235.

Bellido-Pérez M*, Monforte-Royo C*, Tomás-Sábado J, Porta-Sales J, Balaguer A. Assessment of the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced disease: a systematic review of measurement instruments. Palliat Med. 2017; 31(6):510-525. DOI: 10.1177/0269216316669867 * Both authors contributed equally to this work. 

Moreno-Alonso D, Monforte-Royo C, Sureda-Balarí A, Fernández de Sevilla-Ribosa A, Porta-Sales J. Palliative care in patients with haematological neoplasms: an integrative systematic review. Palliat Med. 2017 Oct 1:269216317735246. DOI: 10.1177/0269216317735246.  

Guerrero-Torrelles M*, Monforte-Royo C*, Tomás-Sábado J, Marimon F, Porta-Sales J, Balaguer A. Meaning in life as a mediator between physical impairment and the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced cancer. J Pain Symptom Manage 2017; pii: S0885-3924(17)30349-4. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.04.018.

Rodríguez-Prat A, Escribano X. A philosophical view on the experience of dignity and autonomy through the phenomenology of illness. J Med Philos. 2017.

Porta-Sales J, Guerrero-Torrelles M, Moreno-Alonso D, Sarra-Escarre J, Clapés-Puig V, Trelis-Navarro J, Sureda-Balarí A, Fernández De Sevilla-Ribosa A. Is Early Palliative Care Feasible in Patients with Multiple Myeloma? J Pain Symptom Manage. 2017; pii: S0885-3924(17)30338-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.04.012.

Rodríguez A, van Leeuwen E. Assumptions and moral understanding of the wish to hasten death: a philosophical review of qualitative studies. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-017-9785-y.

Rodríguez-Prat A, Balaguer A, Booth A, Monforte-Royo C. Understanding patients’ experiences of the wish to hasten death: an updated and expanded systematic review and meta-ethnography. BMJ Open. 2017; 7:e016659.  doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016659.

Rodríguez-Prat A, Monforte-Royo C. 25 years after Intoxicated by My Illness. Challenges for Medical Humanities. Lancet. 2017; 389(10066):249-50. DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30085-5.  

Edo-Gual M, Tomás-Sábado J, Gómez-Benito J, Monforte-Royo C, Aradilla-Herrero A. Spanish adaptation of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) in nursing undergraduates. Omega-J Death Dying. 2017; doi: 10.1177/0030222816688294.

Monforte-Royo C, Porta-Sales J, Balaguer A. El deseo de adelantar la muerte: una visión ética desde la clínica. Health, Aging and End of Life. 2016; 1:33-49. ISSN: 2462-5175.

Monforte-Royo C, González-de Paz L, Tomás-Sábado J, Rosenfeld B, Strupp J, Voltz R, Balaguer A. Short form of the Spanish schedule attitudes toward hastened death in palliative care cancer population. Qual Life Res. DOI: 10.1007/s1113601614090.

Rodríguez-Prat A, Monforte-Royo C, Escribano X, Porta J, Balaguer A. Dignity, autonomy and control at the end-of-life: A meta-ethnography. PLoS one 2016; 11(3):e0151435.

Balaguer A, Monforte-Royo C, Porta-Sales J, Alonso-Babarro A, Altisent R, Aradilla-Herrero A, Bellido-Pérez M, Breitbart W, Centeno C, Cuervo MA, Deliens L, Frerich G, Gastmans C, Lichtenfeld S, Limonero JT, Maier MA, Materstvedt LJ, Nabal M, Rodin G, Rosenfeld B,  Schroepfer T, Tomás-Sábado J, Trelis J, Villavicencio-Chávez C, Voltz R. An international consensus definition of the wish to hasten death and its related factors.PLoS one. 2016; 11(1):e0146184.

Tomás-Sábado J, Villavicencio-Chávez C, Monforte-Royo C, Guerrero M, Fegg M, Balaguer A. What gives meaning in life in palliative care patients? A comparison between Spanish, German and Swiss populations.  J Pain Symptom Manage.2015; 50(6):861-6.

Monforte-Royo C, Porta J, Balaguer A. The wish to hasten death: The wish to hasten death: What do clinical experience and the literature tell us? Nursing Ethics. 2015. Pii:0969733015576359.

Martín-Ancel A, Balaguer A, García-Alix A. [Duration of resuscitation in neonates with Apgar scores at 10 minutes of less than 3 in the hypothermia era]. An Pediatr (Barc). 2015 Mar;82(3):129-30.

Edo-Gual M, Monforte-Royo C, Tomás-Sábado J. Afrontar el sufrimiento y la muerte: desafíos para el cuidado en el siglo XXI.  Enfermería Clínica. 2015; 25(1):42-3.

Villavicencio Chávez C, Monforte-Royo C, Tomás-Sábado J, Porta Sales J, Maier M, Balaguer A. Physical and psychological factors and the wish to hasten death in advanced cancer patients. Psychooncology. 2014;23(10):1125-32.

Garcia-Alix A, Arnaez J, Cortes V, Girabent-Farres M, Arca G, Balaguer A. Neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy: most deaths followed end-of-life decisions within three days of birth.  Acta Paediatr.2013 Dec;102(12):1137-43.

Edo-Gual M, Monforte-Royo C, Aradilla-Herrero A, Tomás-Sábado J. Death attitudes and  positive coping  in Spanish nursing undergraduates: A cross-sectional and correlational study. J Clin Nurs. 2015; 24(17-18):2429-38.

Edo-Gual M, Tomás-Sábado J, Bardallo-Porras L, Monforte-Royo C. The impact of death and dying on nursing students: An explanatory model. J Clin Nurs. 2014; 23(23-24):3501-12.

Monforte-Royo C, Villavicencio Chávez C, Tomás-Sábado J, Mahtani V, Balaguer A. What lies behind the wish to hasten death? A Systematic review and meta-ethnography from the perspective of the patients. PLoS one. 2012; 7(5):e37117.

Monforte-Royo C, Tomás-Sábado J, Villavicencio Chávez C, Balaguer A. Psychometric properties of the Spanish form of the schedule for meaning in life evaluation. Qual Life Res. 2011; 20:759-62.

Monforte-Royo C, Villavicencio Chávez C, Tomás-Sábado J, Balaguer A. The wish to hasten death: A review of clinical studies. Psychooncology. 2011; 20: 795–804

Balaguer A, Martin-Ancel A, Ortigoza-Escobar D, Escribano J, Argemi J. The model of palliative care in the perinatal setting: a review of the literature. BMC Pediatr. 2012 Mar 12;12(1):25.

Porta-Sales J,&na hrbsp;Noble S. Haematology and palliative care: the needs are out there. Palliative Medicine. 2019; 33(5):481-2. DOI: 10.1177/0269216319840604

Book Chapters

Balaguer A, Monforte-Royo C, Tomás-Sábado J.

Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation. Spanish version. In: Michalos AC. Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. Hardcover: Springer; 2013. pp. ISBN 978-94-007-0752-8

Monforte-Royo C, Balaguer A, Villavicencio-Chávez, C.

What does the wish to hasten death mean for the palliative patient? Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Heike Gudat, Kathrin Ohnsorge. The Patients’ Wish to Die: Research, Ethics and Palliative Care. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015; pp. 231-241. ISBN 978–0–19–871398–2.  Library of Congress Control Number: 2015930595.

Balaguer A.

Cuidados paliativos. Tratado de Pediatría Cruz. In: AEP Asociación Española de Pediatría. Ed. Panamericana. 2014 (In press).

Title: "Atención paliativa en pacientes con neoplasias hematológicas: un nuevo modelo de atención basado en la evaluación precoz de necesidades".

Supervisors: Dr. Josep Porta Sales, Dr. Alberto Fernández de Sevilla Ribosa

PhD candidate: Deborah Moreno Alonso, MD. 

Date of defense: 2018

 

Title:  "Conceptualización y evaluación del deseo de adelantar la muerte en pacientes con enfermedad avanzada".
Supervisors: Dr. Albert Balaguer and Dr. Cristina Monforte 
PhD candidate: Mercedes Bellido Pérez, RN, MSN.
Date of defense: 2017

Title: "El sentido de la vida y el deseo de adelantar la muerte en pacientes con procesos avanzados de enfermedad".
Supervisors: Dr. Albert Balaguer and Dr. Cristina Monforte
PhD candidate: Mariona Guerrero Torrelles, RN, MSN.
Date of defense: 2017 

Title: "Experiencia de los cuidadores principales de pacientes con mieloma múltiple sobre las necesidades surgidas durante el proceso de enfermedad: Estudio cualitativo".
Supervisors: Dr. Josep Porta Sales and Dr. Montse Edo Gual
PhD candidate: Carmen Quiñoa Salanova, RN, MSN.
Date of defense: 2017 

Title: "Dos miradas sobre el deseo de adelantar la muerte, la dignidad y la autonomía en pacientes al final de la vida. De la investigación empírica, a la reflexión filosófica".
Supervisors: Dr. Cristina Monforte Royo and Dr. Xavier Escribano.
Co-supervisor: Evert van Leeuwen 
PhD candidate: Andrea Rodríguez Prat, degree in Humanisties.
Date of defense: 2017 

Title: "El deseo de adelantar la muerte en pacientes con cáncer avanzado".
Supervisors: Dr. Albert Balaguer and Dr. Josep Porta-Sales.
PhD candidate: Christian Villavicencio Chávez 
Date of defense: 2016 

Title: "Actitudes ante la muerte y factores relacionados de los estudiantes de enfermería en la comunidad autónoma de Catalunya".  
Supervisors: Dr. Joaquín Tomás Sábado and Dr. Cristina Monforte Royo
PhD candidate: Montse Edo Gual
Date of defense: 2015 

Title: "Inteligencia emocional y variables relacionadas en enfermería". 
Supervisors: Dr. Joaquín Tomás-Sábado and Dr. Juana Gómez
PhD candidate: Amor Aradilla Herrero.
Date of defense: 2013 

Title: "El deseo de adelantar la muerte en pacientes con procesos avanzados de enfermedad". 
Supervisors: Dr. Albert Balaguer and Dr. Joaquín Tomás-Sábado
PhD candidate: Cristina Monforte Royo.
Date of defense:  2011.