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Andrés Losada is affiliated with King Juan Carlos University in Spain and focuses their research primarily on psychology and medicine. Their work is notably concentrated in psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, social psychology, and related subfields, with an emphasis on the mental and emotional aspects of aging and caregiving.

The main topics explored in Losada's research include dementia and cognitive impairment, health disparities and outcomes, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, aging and gerontology, family caregiving in mental illness, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

Losada has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "We Are Staying at Home." Association of Self-perceptions of Aging, Personal and Family Resources, and Loneliness With Psychological Distress During the Lock-Down Period of COVID-19, 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Diferencias en función de la edad y la autopercepción del envejecimiento en ansiedad, tristeza, soledad y sintomatología comórbida ansioso-depresiva durante el confinamiento por la COVID-19, 2020, Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología
  • Longitudinal Correlates of Loneliness and Psychological Distress During the Lockdown Situation due to COVID-19. Effects of Age and Self-Perceptions of Aging, 2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Frequent co-authors in Losada's research include:

  • María Márquez-González
  • Isabel Cabrera
  • Lucía Jiménez-Gonzalo
  • María del Sequeros Pedroso-Chaparro
  • Laura Gallego-Alberto

Losada's research has been published in a variety of venues, with prominent publications in:

  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • Aging & Mental Health
  • Clinical Gerontologist
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología

Best Publications

  • The effectiveness of nonpharmacological interventions for informal dementia caregivers: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Sheung-Tak Cheng;Kin-Kit Li;Andrés Losada;Fan Zhang

  • Psychological Interventions for Dementia Caregivers: What We Have Achieved, What We Have Learned

    Sheung-Tak Cheng;Alma Au;Andrés Losada;Larry W. Thompson

  • Psychosocial factors and caregivers' distress: effects of familism and dysfunctional thoughts.

    Andres Losada;Maria Marquez-Gonzalez;Bob G Knight;Javier Yanguas

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) versus acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for dementia family caregivers with significant depressive symptoms: Results of a randomized clinical trial.

    Andrés Losada;María Márquez-González;Rosa Romero-Moreno;Brent T. Mausbach

  • Cross-cultural study comparing the association of familism with burden and depressive symptoms in two samples of Hispanic dementia caregivers.

    A Losada;G Robinson Shurgot;B G Knight;M Márquez

  • International Perspectives on Nonpharmacological Best Practices for Dementia Family Caregivers: A Review

    Dolores Gallagher-Thompson;Yuan Marian Tzuang;Alma Au;Henry Brodaty

  • Mechanisms of action of a psychological intervention for dementia caregivers: effects of behavioral activation and modification of dysfunctional thoughts.

    Andrés Losada;María Márquez-González;Rosa Romero-Moreno

  • Development and validation of the Caregiver Guilt Questionnaire

    Andrés Losada;María Márquez-González;Cecilia Peñacoba;Rosa Romero-Moreno

  • Modification of dysfunctional thoughts about caregiving in dementia family caregivers: description and outcomes of an intervention programme.

    M Márquez-González;A Losada;M Izal;G Pérez-Rojo

  • Leisure and distress in caregivers for elderly patients

    Andrés Losada;Aníbal Pérez-Peñaranda;Emiliano Rodriguez-Sanchez;Manuel Angel Gomez-Marcos

  • Loneliness and Mental Health in a Representative Sample of Community-Dwelling Spanish Older Adults

    Andrés Losada;María Márquez-González;Luis García-Ortiz;Manuel Angel Gómez-Marcos

  • Cognitive fusion in dementia caregiving: Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the "Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire"

    Rosa Romero-Moreno;Maria Marquez-Gonzalez;Andres Losada;David Gillanders

  • Analysis of the moderating effect of self-efficacy domains in different points of the dementia caregiving process.

    R. Romero-Moreno;A. Losada;B.T. Mausbach;M. Márquez-González

  • Leisure, Gender, and Kinship in Dementia Caregiving: Psychological Vulnerability of Caregiving Daughters With Feelings of Guilt

    Rosa Romero-Moreno;Andrés Losada;María Marquez;Kenneth Laidlaw

  • Development and validation of the Experiential Avoidance in Caregiving Questionnaire (EACQ)

    Andrés Losada;María Márquez-González;Rosa Romero-Moreno;Javier López

  • Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory.

    María Márquez-González;Andrés Losada;Virginia Fernández-Fernández;Nancy A. Pachana

  • Characterization of worry according to severity of anxiety in elderly living in the community.

    I Montorio;R Nuevo;M Márquez;M Izal

  • Motives for caring: relationship to stress and coping dimensions

    R. Romero-Moreno;M. Márquez-González;A. Losada;J. López

  • Variables modulating depression in dementia caregivers: a longitudinal study.

    R. Romero-Moreno;M. Márquez-González;B. T. Mausbach;A. Losada

  • Spirituality and self-efficacy in dementia family caregiving: trust in God and in yourself.

    J. Lopez;R. Romero-Moreno;M. Marquez-González;A. Losada

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Selective Optimization with Compensation for Institutionalized Older People with Chronic Pain

    Miriam Alonso-Fernández;Almudena López-López;Andres Losada;José Luis González

Frequent Co-Authors

Bob G. Knight
Bob G. Knight University of Southern Queensland
Brent T. Mausbach
Brent T. Mausbach University of California, San Diego
Nancy A. Pachana
Nancy A. Pachana University of Queensland
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson Stanford University School of Medicine
Sheung-Tak Cheng
Sheung-Tak Cheng Education University of Hong Kong
Alma Au
Alma Au Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Karl Pillemer
Karl Pillemer Cornell University
Larry W. Thompson
Larry W. Thompson Stanford University
Julie Loebach Wetherell
Julie Loebach Wetherell University of California, San Diego
Gerard J. Byrne
Gerard J. Byrne University of Queensland

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