The mission of the Grapp-CAIB is to generate valid knowledge of the efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of innovative interventions in prevention and health promotion and to transfer it to citizens and professionals, especially those in primary care, public health and health service managers.
The research conducted in cancer, cardiovascular risk factors, and other aspects of prevention and promotion is highly applied: the knowledge generated is transferred to public health or primary care clinics.
Main research lines
1. Determinants of health, healthy lifestyles and promotion of healthy habits.
Through this line of research we aim to study how interventions based on the promotion of healthy lifestyles can contribute to reversing, treating and preventing chronic diseases. This is a line in which a multidisciplinary group works that includes different health professionals and experts in areas such as nutrition, psychology and physical activity.
2. Health and patient safety services.
Health services research is a multidisciplinary scientific field that examines how the population gains access to health professionals and health care services, how much health services cost, and what happens to patients as a result of the provision of these services. Our group focuses specifically on the areas of healthcare quality, patient safety, patient-centered care, and the development and evaluation of digital health-based interventions for the prevention and management of chronic diseases.
3. Epidemiology for cardiovascular risk reduction.
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide. Our research group carries out projects aimed at obtaining greater knowledge about the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, as well as the various forms of cardiovascular disease in different countries and regions.
4. Cancer: epidemiology, prevention and treatment.
Through this line of research we study how primary care services aimed at cancer prevention, as well as its treatment, surveillance and palliative care, can be improved.
5. Clinical research in primary care.
The clinical research carried out by our group in the field of primary care aims to generate new knowledge that helps in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases in humans.
6. Nursing care.
The objective of this line is to develop and promote nursing actions for the promotion and coordination of multidisciplinary and translational research in care, fostering the link between practice and research, and enabling the implementation of safe and high-quality care that improves patient health. This line is part of the Spanish Center for Evidence-Based Health Care (CECBE), which is part of the Joanna Briggs International Collaboration of the research unit Investén-isciii of the Carlos III Health Institute.
7. Childhood and environment.
The objective of this line of research is to study the role of the most important environmental pollutants in air, water, and diet during pregnancy and early life, and their effects on child growth and development.
Projects led by GRAPP-caIB in the last 3 years.
Suicide prevention through innovative approaches in primary care: the PROMESA study.
PI: Mª Jesús Serrano Ripoll
Funding: 80.161,12 €
Duration: 2023-2026
Contract/Project File: PROSALUT2023-26
Collaborating researchers: Miquel Ginard Puigserver
Audit & Feedback intervention to reduce inappropriate medication prescribing in patients aged over 65 years in primary care. AIM Study: multicenter clinical trial.
PI: Alfonso Leiva Rus
Funding: 75.020,00 €
Duration: 2023-2025
Contract/Project File: PI22/01669
Collaborating researchers: Catalina Vicens Caldentey, Aina Maria Yañez Juan, Mónica Martínez Cengotitabengoa, Ermengol Sempere Verdú, Marta Llarena Fernández, Rita Sainz de Rozas Aparicio, Itxasne Lekue Alkorta, Alba Gallego Royo, Isabel Maria Socias Buades, Agustín González Vicens, Francesc Company Bezares, Maria Lluisa Sastre Martorell, Sebastián Jaume Gayà, Cruz Belén Bartolomé Moreno, Ferrán Bejarano Romero
Multimorbidity in the National Health System: population characterization and impact of its patterns and trajectories in older adults (MM‑SNS Project).
PI: Angélica Miguélez Chamorro
Funding: 33.880,00 €
Duration: 2023-2025
Contract/Project File: PI22/01684
Collaborating researchers: Bernardino Oliva Fanlo, Patricia Lorente Montalvo, Miguel Bennasar Veny, Joan Llobera Cànaves, Aina Maria Yañez Juan, Maria Antònia Fiol de Roque, Estefania Serratusell Sabater
Adaptive intervention to reduce antibiotic use in primary care using a SMART design: SMART AB.
PI: Laura Gallardo Alfaro, Alfonso Leiva Rus (Co-PI)
Funding agency: Health research projects. Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Funding: 51.250,00 €
Duration: 2026-2029
Contract/Project File: PI25/01744
Collaborating researchers: Rafael Torres García, Olatz Ibarra Barrueta, Isabel Rey Gómez-Serranillos, José Manuel Iglesias Moreno, Maria del Mar Bibiloni Esteva, Maria Homs Riba, Marta González Sáenz de Tejada, Lucía Ugarriza Hierro, Aina Soler Mieras, Aina Huguet Torres, Isabel Fontán Basáñez
Audit & Feedback Intervention to Reduce Antibiotic Prescription in Primary Care (AFA Study).
PI: Laura Gallardo Alfaro (PI), Aina Soler Mieras (Co-PI)
Funding agency: Health research projects. Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Funding: 38.720,00 €
Duration: 2023-2025
Contract/Project File: PI22/01742
Collaborating researchers: Rafael Torres García, Antònia Roca Casas, Isabel Maria Socias Buades, Kaoutar Ziani Akrirout, Sofía Mira Martínez, Francesc Company Bezares.
Evaluation of an early, adapted, multicomponent intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity in vulnerable families: a randomized controlled trial with a type 1 effectiveness–implementation hybrid design. BAMBÚ Project.
PI: Joana Ripoll Amengual
Duration: 2025-2027
Contract/Project File: PI24/01033
Public Health and Precision Preventive Medicine combining physical examination, lifestyle habits, and genomic information: monitoring the obesity pandemic through the extension of the IMPaCT Cohort (Obes-IMPaCT).
Funding entity: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Duration: 2024-2026
Contract/Project File: PMP22/00003
Collaborating researchers Balearic Islands: Joan Llobera Cànaves, José Ignacio Ramírez Manent, Catalina Villalonga Munar
IMPaCT Cohort. Predictive Medicine Program. Precision Medicine Infrastructure associated with Science and Technology (IMPaCT).
PI Balearic Islands: Joan Llobera Cànaves (IP), Xènia Chela Álvarez (technical coordinator)
Funding entity: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 233.909,94 €
Duration: 2021-2024
Contract/Project File: PMP22/00003
Collaborating researchers Balearic Islands: Antònia Salvà Fiol, Noemí Pérez García, Eugenia Carandell Jäger, Antònia Roca Casas, Joana Maria Taltavull Aparicio, Oana Bulilete, Joana Ripoll Amengual, Jerònia Miralles Xamena, Caterina Vicens Caldentey
Validation of lung ultrasound, performed by family doctors, as an initial imaging test to diagnose pneumonia in COVID-19 patients.
PI: José Ignacio Ramírez Manent
Funding agency: Health research projects. Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Funding: 37,510€
Duration: 2022-2024
Contract/project file: PI21/01521
Investigadores colaboradores: Antonia Roca Casas, Magdalena Esteva Cantó, Miguel Román Rodríguez, José Corcoll Reixach, Antonio Albaladejo Dávalos, Cristina Gadea Ruíz, Álvaro Moran Bayón.
ISCIII Platform for the Support of R&D&I in Biomedicine and Health Sciences – Support for Independent Clinical Research.
PI: Aina Soler Mieras
Funding entity: Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Duration: 2023-2026
Contract/Project File: PT23/00182
Clinical effectiveness and bacteriological eradication of 4 short antibiotic regimens in lower urinary tract infections in adult women (SCOUT Study).
PI: Alfonso Leiva Rus
Funding agency: Health research projects. Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Funding: 82,500€
Duration: 2 years (January 2021 – December 2022)
Contract/project file: ICI20/00128
Collaborating researchers: Antonia Roca Casas, José Ignacio Ramírez Manent , Joan Llobera Canaves, Antonio Ballester Camps, Catalina Vicens Caldentey, Aina MariaYañez Juan, Ignacio Ricci Cabello, Aina Soler Mieras, Eva Alcoceba Cruixent, Maria Consuelo Corrionero Soto, Joana Ripoll Amengual
