Perfil de estrés y estrés crónico en migrantes mexicanos en Canadá / Stress profile and chronic stress in Mexican immigrants in Canada

Objetivo Establecer la asociación existente entre el nivel alto de estrés crónico y las variables consideradas como negativas del perfil de estrés en los migrantes mexicanos radicados en Edmonton Canadá. Métodos La selección de la población fue por medio de la técnica aleatoria simple. El tamaño de la muestra fue: 58 migrantes, durante el año de 2010-20011, se aplicó el Inventario de Síntomas de Estrés y el Perfil de Nowack. Resultados Los niveles de estrés crónico fueron: 34 % alto, 45 % medios y 21 % bajo, El análisis de regresión estadístico se determinó que la situación de estrés y la minimización de la amenaza son predictoras para desarrollar niveles altos de estrés crónico. Conclusión La situación de estrés y la minimización de la amenaza son predictoras para desarrollar niveles altos de estrés crónico y las mujeres migrantes a diferencia del sexo masculino, tienden a no utilizar la minimización de la amenaza como afrontamiento al estrés.

Objective Establishing an association between high chronic stress levels and variables considered to be negative regarding the stress profile for Mexican migrants living in Edmonton, Canada. Methods A simple random technique was used for choosing the target population; the sample size involved 58 migrants. The Nowack Stress Profile and Maslach Burnout Inventory were used to identify immigrants' stress symptoms during 2010-2011. Results Chronic stress levels were classified as being 24 % high, 45 % medium and 21 % low. Statistical regression analysis determined that a stressful situation and threat minimisation were predictors for developing high levels of chronic stress. Conclusions Stress situation and threat minimisation were predictors for developing high levels of chronic stress; migrant women (unlike males) tended not to use threat minimisation to deal with stress.

Comparison of Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome Between Korean Emigrants and Host Country Residents in Japan and China-The Korean Emigrant Study / 한국역학회지

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to compare the prevalence of metabolic syndrome between Korean emigrants (KEs) and their host country residents in Japan and China. METHODS: The Korean Emigrant Study (KES) is a cohort study initiated in 2005 to elucidate the effect of genetic susceptibility and environmental change on hypertension, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Equal numbers of KEs and host country residents, aged 30 or over, were recruited from three regions; Kobe-Osaka in Japan (total number=965), Yanbian in China (n=1,019), and Changchun in China (n=949). RESULTS: The age-adjusted prevalences of metabolic syndrome among KEs in Kobe-Osaka were significantly higher than those among Japanese (in men 24.0% vs. 15.6%, p=0.04, in women 8.4% vs. 2.7%, p=0.01), while the age-adjusted prevalences among KEs in Changchun were similar to those among Chinese (in men 11.7% vs. 16.1%, p=0.37, in women 28.3% vs. 30.1%, p=0.91). The age-adjusted prevalences were generally higher in Yanbian than other regions, and KEs had higher prevalence than Chinese in men but not in women (in men 37.9% vs. 28.3%, p=0.03, women 46.0% vs. 50.6%, p=0.44). The components with significant ethnic differences in prevalence were high blood pressure and abdominal obesity in Japan, and triglyceride in China. The most influential component in diagnosing metabolic syndrome was abdominal obesity in men and triglyceride in women. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was higher in KEs than in host country residents in Japan but not in China. Abdominal obesity and triglyceride are both discriminating and influential components in metabolic syndrome.

La dinámica psicosocial de las comunidades migratorias / The psychosocial dynamics of migratory communities

Los estudios en torno a los emigrantes, sus grupos de referencia, sus comunidades y economías de origen, se han enfocado en los efectos de las oportunidades laborales en sus familias, la economía local o nacional. En un sentido diferente, la presente investigación analizó el impacto de las disminución del envío de remesas sobre la dinámica psicosocial (pertenencia, categorización, representación e identidad social) de las comunidades emigrantes.

The studies around the emigrants, their groups of reference, their communities and economies of origin, have focused in the effects of the labor opportunities at their families, the local or national economy. In a different sense, the present investigation analyzed the impact of the diminution of the shipment of remittances on the psychosociological dynamics (property, categorisation, representation and social identity) of the communities emigrants, through a psychosociological analysis of interviews semistructured to its relatives and their friendships, interpreted the passed, present and prospective situations like dimensions of communitarian self-preservation emigrant