The Professor of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA) and main responsible for these three projects for the promotion of emotional well-being in young people attended the kick off meeting held at the headquarters of IBIMA.
01/02/2023.- Luis Joaquín García, Professor of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA), presented the initiatives for the promotion of health and emotional well-being in young people, DAREMOS, PROCARE and PROADEMO, at the kick-off meeting of the Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Health Promotion (RICAPPS), held last Friday, January 27.
Luis Joaquín García, who has joined RICAPPS through the research group in Mental Health, Services and Primary Care of Malaga (SAMSERAP), was invited to the kick off meeting by Juan Ángel Bellón, researcher in charge of this group integrated in the Institute of Biomedical Research of Malaga (IBIMA).
In this way, Luis Joaquín García presented the results obtained with the implementation of DAREMOS and PROCARE (PID2019-111138RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), projects that have helped around 2,000 adolescents at risk of suffering emotional problems throughout Spain, through selective and indicated prevention. He also presented the objectives of PROADEMO (PDC2022-133401-I00/AEI/10. 13039/501100011033), a project financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the State Research Agency and the European Union through the “Next Generation EU” funds within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which aims to design and develop an emotional support toolkit for young people, especially focused on adolescents and produced in collaboration with them, in order to provide them with information and strategies to promote resilience and protect their emotional health and well-being, as well as to increase emotional literacy.
Together with researchers from Malaga, Granada and Seville, Luis Joaquín García met other projects of the SAMRESAP group that are part of RICAPPS and during the working day they studied the implementation of different strategies for the transfer of knowledge and the generation of synergies and ways of collaboration between the different projects.
RICAPPS, which is funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, aims to promote research in a national network oriented towards health outcomes in primary care, chronicity and health promotion. It has 26 research groups and 9 associated clinical care groups, located in 12 autonomous communities and the participation of specialists in primary care, prevention, public health, epidemiology, mathematics, statistics, economic evaluation, pharmacology, psychology, sociology, anthropology and other specialties.
