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Resumen: La habilidad para hablar en público es una competencia genérica destacada en el ámbito universitario, tanto el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje como su evaluación presentan una elevada complejidad. En este artículo se muestra una herramienta para evaluar de forma práctica y sistemática el componente no verbal del discurso realizado por el alumnado. Se trata de una escala de observación compuesta por 5 categorías, cuya consistencia interna y fi abilidad ha sido analizada en un grupo de 60 sujetos. Los resultados revelan que se trata de un instrumento prometedor para evaluar la dimensión no verbal de competencia oral en el contexto educativo.Palabras clave: competencia comunicativa; comunicación no verbal; escala de observación; fi abilidad inter-observadores.Abstract: Public speaking is a generic competence highlighted at College, both teaching-learning process and their assessments have high complexity. This paper shows an instrument to assess in a practical and systematical way the nonverbal component of public discourse delivered by students. It is an observational scale made of 5 categories which internal consistency and reliability have been studied in a group of 60 subjects. Analyses reveal that this is a promising tool to evaluate nonverbal dimension of oral competence in the educational context.

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Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a highly-curable malignancy mostly affecting young people. As far as we know, there is no published study that has analyzed personality profiles in HL nor their potential role in lymphomagenesis, natural history, or response to treatment. We aim to explore the personality traits of HL patients, as well as the prevalence of mental disorders and suicide ideas. We retrospectively identified all alive HL patients from three centers (Son Espases and Son Llatzer University Hospitals and Hospital del Mar of Barcelona) for using NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Brief Form. Patients with HL showed significantly higher neuroticism scores and lower conscientiousness, extraversion, and openness. Considering maladaptive personality traits, HL patients showed higher levels of detachment and psychoticism. All of these translated into the fact that HL patients showed more than double the prevalence of mental illnesses (41%) and more than triple the prevalence of suicidal ideation or attempts than the general population (15 and 6%, respectively). An exploratory analysis of biomarkers associated with HL personality traits showed that higher scores of neuroticism correlated with more elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and red cell distribution width (RDW), suggesting a potential link between neuroticism and proinflammatory activity in HL.