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The RICAPPS Cycle of Scientific Sessions is intended to facilitate interaction among RICAPPS researchers, encourage the exchange of knowledge and promote the development of collaborative outputs that will make it possible to achieve RICAPPS’ objectives.

It is scheduled on a monthly basis, with the first Thursday of each month being proposed, from 9:15 to 10:00, in order to facilitate the organisation and work-life balance of the participants.

2026

MoCA in Spain: evidence regarding its measurement properties

/Speaker: David Arjol Echeverría /02/07/2026
The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is one of the most widely used cognitive screening tools for detecting cognitive impairment. However, the accumulated evidence shows considerable variability in its measurement properties across different populations, languages and cultural contexts, making it necessary to evaluate it specifically in each setting.

Advances in the use of machine learning to predict suicidal behaviour: methods, challenges and opportunities

/Speaker: Itxaso Alayo Bueno/05/06/2026
Objective: To develop and validate machine learning-based predictive models to identify individuals at high risk of suicidal thoughts and self-harming behaviours, prioritising interpretability and generalisation.

SerenApp: co-creation of a digital psychological intervention for women with breast cancer. Preliminary results

/Speaker: Esperanza Varela Moreno/07/05/2026
Women with breast cancer experience a high prevalence of symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression throughout their cancer journey and during the survival phase, many of whom do not receive specialist psychological care.

2025

Tendencias temporales e inequidades sociales en la salud mental de adolescentes y jóvenes en Cataluña: un estudio de cohorte de atención primaria 2008-2022.

/Speaker: Ana Lozano/06/11/2025
La prevalencia de trastornos de salud mental en adolescentes y jóvenes está aumentando a un ritmo alarmante.

Influencia de los determinantes sociales en pacientes con multimorbilidad desde un punto de vista interseccional

/Speaker: Aida Moreno Juste/02/10/2025
Los determinantes sociales de la salud, definidos como las circunstancias sociales en las que cada persona nace, crece, vive, trabaja y envejece, influyen en la distribución de las desigualdades de salud y en el desarrollo de la multimorbilidad

2024

Key points and advice when applying for an ERC Starting Grant: e-Perinatal Project

/Speaker: Emma Motrico/13/06/2024
Key points and tips for applying for an ERC Starting Grant: e-Perinatal project.

OECD PaRIS Project: International Survey of People Living with Chronic Conditions: Patient Reported Indicator Surveys (PREMs & PROMs)

/Speaker: Marta Ballester y Pilar Illarramendi/09/05/2024
The Avedis Donabedian University Institute (FAD) will present the PARIS-SUR project (https://paris-sur.org/), which supports the development and implementation of the international survey of patient-reported indicators (PaRIS) on the outcomes and experiences of people living with chronic diseases

2023

Effectiveness of medication self-management, self-monitoring of blood pressure, diet and physical exercise in reducing blood pressure in patients with uncontrolled blood pressure in primary care

/Speaker: Fabian Unda/14/12/2023
Effectiveness of self-management of medication, self-monitoring of blood pressure, diet and physical exercise in reducing blood pressure in patients with uncontrolled blood pressure in primary care

Anatomy and physiology of network meta-analysis

/Speaker: Sergio Núñez de Arenas Arroyo/02/11/2023
In the last decade, network meta-analysis has become a “hot” research topic increasingly adopted by researchers in the biomedical field.

Multimorbidity, social determinants and intersectionality. Results from the EpiChron Cohort

/Speaker: Aida Moreno/05/10/2023
Multimorbidity is strongly influenced by social determinants, at the aetiological, diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic levels

2022

Federated Data Analysis Infrastructures / ZENODO: Sharing research in Europe for Open Science

/Speaker: Francisco Estupiñán-Romero/01/12/2022
The seminar aims to introduce the ZENODO platform as a knowledge repository for the publication of open-access research.

RAICES Project (Association Rules in Research on Diseases of Special Interest)

/Speaker: Ricardo Sánchez de Madariaga/03/11/2022
The RAICES project seeks to acquire new medical knowledge on HIV through a new semi-supervised learning algorithm for medical association rules on a dataset from the CoRIS cohort of the AIDS Research Network.

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