Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia
Department of Nursing

Lines of Research

The Advanced Nursing Research Group (CARING) carries out research in different fields and mainly develops the following lines of research: 

1. ETHICS, BIOETHICS AND ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE

This line includes research into the development of expanded professional practice, competencies, and skills in any field, in order to respond to new challenges and health outcomes, based on innovation and research in advanced nursing clinical practice. Ethics and bioethics become essential to guide and ensure an advanced nursing clinical practice aligned with professional values and principles.

Aims of the research line:

Enhance nursing research from any perspective within the fields of biomedicine, epidemiology, and advanced clinical practice, incorporating ethics and bioethics at its core.

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2. GLOBAL HEALTH AND CARE IN TRANSITION CONTEXTS

This research line is situated within the field of global health and the analysis of public policies, with a focus on equity, collective health, and the study of the organisation of care systems. It adopts a social, critical and interdisciplinary perspective that understands health as a socially produced and unequally distributed process, particularly in contexts of epidemiological, demographic, environmental and political transition.

The programme integrates approaches from critical public health and social epidemiology, combining qualitative methodologies with quantitative approaches. It develops a comparative, intersectoral and multilevel framework (global, national, territorial and community levels), with particular attention to gender and social inequalities in health and to the impact of public policies on living conditions and care arrangements.

Aims of the research line:

To develop basic and applied research in the field of global health and public policy. The programme is oriented towards the critical analysis of gender and social inequalities in health, as well as social, environmental and political determinants and care systems. Research conducted within this programme seeks to generate socially relevant knowledge that contributes to the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies.

Main axes: social justice, collective health and the analysis of care systems across different levels of governance (global, national, territorial and community).

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3. MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, EMOTIONAL WELL‑BEING AND ADDICTIONS

This line includes research into psychosocial nursing care from a positive perspective, incorporating concepts such as emotional well-being, positive mental health, health literacy, and the gender perspective. It addresses mental health across the life cycle, integrating quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies, clinical trials, and action‑research projects. It includes the improvement of support, care, and the therapeutic relationship, promoting reflective practices, care that is sensitive to stigma dynamics, the development of measurement instruments, and collaboration with other disciplines and institutions, both national and international.

Aims of the research line:

To strengthen nursing research in the field of psychosocial care from a positive perspective, focusing on the concepts of emotional well‑being, positive mental health, health literacy, and the gender perspective across different contexts and populations.

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