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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a forced transition to the virtuality of face-to-face training proposals from universities. But what happened in those higher education careers that already had a distance modality? What lessons learned does the pandemic leave in the subjects that have already been developed online, mediated by digital technologies? In search of answers to these questions, a paradigmatic case study was completed: a distance career with a helping profile, accredited by a private Argentine university2. The research covered two phases: exploration and description, arriving at a categorization that dialogues with con-cepts of the theoretical framework. The data obtained reveals the installation of videoconference as a common practice in traditionally asynchronous spaces. The conclusions highlight the relationship of the categories: social presence and per-sonalization, with the situation of synchrony associated with presence. Everything seems to indicate that the return to normality does not constitute a return to the previous situation, but rather an opening to a transformative process that conso-lidates synchrony as a common practice in distance learning modality, and that causes -in terms of De Alba (2021)- a structural dislocation whose derivations must be mapped to broaden the understanding of the phenomenon.
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Introducción La población anciana es la más amenazada por COVID-19, con mayores tasas de mortalidad. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la letalidad en una cohorte de pacientes de COVID-19 con demencia degenerativa. Métodos Hicimos un estudio descriptivo de casos-control de una muestra de pacientes diagnosticados con demencias neurodegenerativas primarias. Resultados De los 88 pacientes incluidos en el estudio, 24 pacientes con COVID-19 fallecieron: 10/23 (43,4%) eran pacientes con diagnóstico de demencia y 14/65 (21,5%) pacientes del grupo control, una diferencia estadísticamente significativa. Discusión La letalidad por COVID-19 entre los pacientes con demencia degenerativa primaria es significativamente mayor en comparación con otros pacientes con edades medias y comorbilidades similares, según nuestro estudio.
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Background and objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic situation has led to severe restrictions, including mandatory home confinement. Sport as a means to reduce stress and psychological discomfort results in the following research that aims to compare the state of psychological discomfort and stress during this period of confinement, of a group of people, based on their level of sporting activity and sex. Material and Method: we use a descriptive, cross-sectional design;A relational study is developed to analyze the degree of dependence between the variables sex and level of sports practice with stress and psychological discomfort, for this we have used the scale of perceived stress and that of psychological discomfort of Kessler, with a sample composed of a total of 660 participants (301 women [45.6%] and 359 men [54.4%]). Results: Significant differences were found in the study groups according to the level of sports practice, as well as their sex, referring to psychological discomfort and stress levels. Conclusions: It is concluded that confinement during the pandemic is associated with significantly high levels of psychological distress and stress that can reach the threshold of clinical relevance. Lower scores at higher athletic level.
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INTRODUCTION The elderly population is the group most threatened by COVID-19, with the highest mortality rates. This study aims to analyse the case fatality of COVID-19 in a cohort of patients with degenerative dementia. METHODS We conducted a descriptive case-control study of a sample of patients diagnosed with primary neurodegenerative dementia. RESULTS Twenty-four of the 88 patients with COVID-19 included in the study died: 10/23 (43.4%) patients diagnosed with dementia and 14/65 (21.5%) controls;this difference was statistically significant. DISCUSSION Our results suggest that case fatality of COVID-19 is significantly higher among patients with primary degenerative dementia than in other patients with similar mean ages and comorbidities. Resumen INTRODUCCIÓN La población anciana es la más amenazada por COVID-19, con mayores tasas de mortalidad. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la letalidad en una cohorte de pacientes de COVID-19 con demencia degenerativa. MÉTODOS Hicimos un estudio descriptivo de casos-control de una muestra de pacientes diagnosticados con demencias neurodegenerativas primarias. RESULTADOS De los 88 pacientes incluidos en el estudio, 24 pacientes con COVID-19 fallecieron: 10/23 (43,4%) eran pacientes con diagnóstico de demencia y 14/65 (21,5%) pacientes del grupo control, una diferencia estadísticamente significativa. DISCUSIÓN La letalidad entre los pacientes con demencia degenerativa primaria por COVID-19 es significativamente mayor en comparación con otros pacientes con edades medias y comorbilidades similares, según nuestro estudio.
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INTRODUCTION: The elderly population is the group most threatened by COVID-19, with the highest mortality rates. This study aims to analyse the case fatality of COVID-19 in a cohort of patients with degenerative dementia. METHODS: We conducted a descriptive case-control study of a sample of patients diagnosed with primary neurodegenerative dementia. RESULTS: Twenty-four of the 88 patients with COVID-19 included in the study died: 10/23 (43.4%) patients diagnosed with dementia and 14/65 (21.5%) controls; this difference was statistically significant. DISCUSSION: Our results suggest that case fatality of COVID-19 is significantly higher among patients with primary degenerative dementia than in other patients with similar mean ages and comorbidities.