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Laura Medina Perucha
Laura Medina Perucha (MSc, PhD) is a psychologist and researcher in social and health sciences. Her research focuses on health promotion, public health, and the development and improvement of health services, using qualitative and mixed methodologies. Her research areas include sexual, reproductive, and menstrual health; women's health; and social inequities in health, viewed through the lens of the socio-ecological framework, intersectionality theory, and from a gender and feminist perspective.
Dr. Medina Perucha's teaching experience includes health psychology, qualitative research, and research methodology at the University of Bath (2015-2019). She also developed and co-directed year-long social psychology courses at Villiers Park Educational Trust (2015-2020) for adolescents facing social exclusion. Since 2019, she has been a Master's thesis supervisor in the Master's Degree in Palliative Care for People with Advanced Illnesses at the University of Vic and the Catalan Institute of Oncology. In 2020, she began teaching qualitative research and supervising Master's theses in the Master's Degree in Public Health (Pompeu Fabra University). She has taught qualitative methodology at the University School of Nursing (Hospital de Sant Pau) (2021) and since 2021 has been a collaborating professor of social psychology at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Since 2019, she has collaborated with the Jordi Gol i Gurina University Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAPJGoL) as a social health researcher. She currently coordinates the study on Equity and Menstrual Health in Spain, funded by the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health. In addition, she collaborates as a researcher on other projects on the social impact of COVID-19, long COVID, participatory science, the appropriate use of antibiotics in Primary Care, among others.
Projects
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ATENCIÓN CENTRADA EN LA PERSONA Y CALIDAD DE VIDA EN MUJERES CON DISPAREUNIA
Principal Investigator: Rivero Santana, Amado Javier
Funding entity: (2023)
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Atención centrada en la persona y calidad de vida en mujeres con dispareunia
Principal Investigator: Rivero Santana, Amado Javier
Funding entity: (2023)
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Avaluació d'una intervenció educativa d'equitat menstrual a centres d'educació secundària a Catalunya: projecte de metodologia mixta
Principal Investigator: Laura Medina Perucha
Funding entity: (2022 - 2023)
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Avaluació i implementació d'una intervenció nutricional, cronobiològica i d'exercici físic per a la millora de la qualitat de vida, la fatiga, el dolor i l'insomni en persones amb Fibromiàlgia i Fatiga Crònica (projecte SINCRONITZA+)
Principal Investigator: PILAR MONTESO CURTO Montesó Curto
Funding entity: (2022)
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Efectividad de una herramienta informática para adecuar en tratamiento anticoagulante en fibrilación auricular no valvular (FANTAS-TIC)
Principal Investigator: Maria Rosa Dalmau Llorca
Funding entity: (2021 - 2025)
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El diagnóstico tardío de la endometriosis en Cataluña: un estudio participativo de metodología mixta
Principal Investigator: Medina Perucha, Laura
Funding entity: (2021 - 2022)
Recent publications
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Hüttel AB, Mahtani-Chugani V, Ulibarri-Ochoa A, López-Rey N, Company-Córdoba R, García-Egea A, Méndez-González A, Gamboa-Moreno E, Chacón-Docampo M, Rodríguez-Domínguez C, Álvarez-Mora B, González-Hernández CDP, Garaikoetxea-Iturriria A, Fernández-Domínguez MJ, Arcos-Romero AI, Jacques-Aviñó C, González-Luis MJ, Berridi-Agirre M, Perdiz-Álvarez C, Martínez-Bueno C, Marrero-Díaz MD, Apalategi-Gómez U, Verde-Diego C, Gómez-Gómez I, Fernández R, Domínguez-Salas S, Díaz C, Martínez-Romero MD, Valls-Llobet C, Pinzón-Sanabria D, Holst AS, Berenguera A, Medina-Perucha L. “Smile, even though it hurts”: A photovoice study exploring the practices, experiences and spaces for menstrual care in Spain. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. 2026 06;9:100771. doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2026.100771.
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García-Egea A, López-Jiménez T, Apalategi Gomez U, Chacón Docampo M, Rodríguez-Domínguez C, González Hernández CP, Berenguera A, Medina-Perucha L. Associations of depression and anxiety with menstrual health in Spain: a cross-sectional study. . 2025 10;35:. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckaf161.1947.
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García-Egea A, López-Jiménez T, Apalategi-Gómez U, Fernández-Domínguez MJ, Rodríguez-Domínguez C, Mahtani-Chugani V, , Berenguera A, Medina-Perucha L. Menstrual health outcomes and associations with depression and anxiety in Spain: a cross-sectional study.. Sex Reprod Health Matters. 2026 Jul;:1. doi:10.1080/26410397.2026.2702119. Epub 2026 Jul 31. PMID:42536707.
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García-Egea A, López-Jiménez T, Rodríguez-Domínguez C, Mahtani-Chugani V, Apalategi-Gómez U, Fernández-Domínguez MJ, Martínez-Bueno C, Domínguez-Salas S, González-Hernández CDP, Berridi-Agirre M, Chacón-Docampo M, Baroja-Benlliure J, Arcos-Romero AI, González-Luis MJ, Gamboa-Moreno E, López-Rey N, Valls-Llobet C, Gómez-Gómez I, Perdiz-Álvarez C, Vicente-Hernández MM, Armijo-Sánchez A, Ostos-Serna R, Motrico E, Berenguera A, Medina-Perucha L. Menstrual health and health-related quality of life in Spain: a multicenter cross-sectional study.. Reprod Health. 2026 Jul;:. doi:10.1186/s12978-026-02401-1. Epub 2026 Jul 06. PMID:42410478.
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Munné-Barellas B, García-Egea A, Morros R, Vedia C, Giner-Soriano M, Medina-Perucha L. Póster. Experiences prescribing medicines, alternative treatments and vaccines among health professionals in Catalonia (Spain): A qualitative study. XXXII Congreso Nacional Sociedad Española de Farmacología Clínica. 16/10/2024, Santiago de Compostela.
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Munné-Barellas B, García-Egea A, Morros R, Vedia C, Giner-Soriano M, Medina-Perucha L. Póster. Experiences prescribing medicines, alternative treatments and vaccines among health professionals in Catalonia (Spain): A qualitative study. XXXII Congreso Nacional Sociedad Española de Farmacología Clínica. 16/10/2024, Santiago de Compostela.
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