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The TWENTY-first century has given rise to considerable technological advances within educational levels, political and economic, however, with the arrival of the pandemic COVID-19, these features have shown a facet of compulsory developthe human. One of the relevant aspects found in the condition of omnicanalidad that has emerged as an instrument of great importance in these times. Therefore, the research has been proposed as the aim of clarifying the influence that has tenidor new strategies in the support institutional in their work with students and teachers in the midst of the pandemic COVID-19 through a model omnicanal The work was addressed from the qualitative approach, we used the method etnometodologico, and the tool of the in-depth interview, which prompted respondents to reflect on events that occurred due to the pandemic COVID-19. The findings showed the development of the category University omnicanal: New strategies to improve the technical support institutional. The document shows us that these strategies are accurate
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Background: There are enough documented records worldwide to date on the number ofinfections and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is foreseeable that there will be a worsening of psychological health in the entire population, however, there are few studies that have addressed the emotional and psychological effects that preventive isolation has caused in Colombia in early childhood so the objective of this study was to know these effects through a survey carried out with caregivers of children in Colombia from different social strata. M ethod: Cross-sectional, descriptive, and quantitative study that included 1 006 surveys conducted in the last quarter of 2020. Results: The study mainly showed three psychological dimensions that impacted early childhood in Colombia during social isolation due to COVID-19: changes in an emotional state, behavior problems, and results of difficulties associated with sleep. Conclusions: Our results shed light on the specific groups with a higher risk of emotional and psychological difficulties due to a state of preventive confinement. These results suggest the strengthening of affective relationships at home and psychosocial support by qualified personnel for the good integral development of early childhood. © 2022 Academia Nacional de Medicina. All rights reserved.
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The world has been hit by a pandemic that has resulted in a global crisis in health, education, and finance. The tourism industry was one of the most affected by not having anyone to offer its product to. During confinement, people had to remain isolated in their homes and many businesses were paralyzed. Being at home resulted in the vast majority being connected to the internet browsing social networks, and it is precisely this that prompted many owners of tourist venues to emphasize social networks as their work tool to promote themselves. The objective of the study is to analyze the level of use that was given to digital marketing in the face of the COVID-19 health emergency by the different tourism servers as a tool to reactivate their businesses. To obtain data, and the development of the analysis, this research applies a survey for a quantitative measurement and interviews for a qualitative measurement, in order to deepen the subject. Therefore, the expec¬ted results are based on analyzing how viable it was for tourism service providers to make use of digital marketing during the pandemic, in addition to identifying the social networks or online platforms that they use the most when promoting themselves, and the investment made to obtain interaction with consumers. Times change, and with it everything around you changes. The internet is here to stay and continue to evolve so that tourism entrepreneurs have to cling to new technologies to fight in a wide market such as tourism. © 2022, University of Cienfuegos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. All rights reserved.
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Objectives. The objective of this study was to determine the coping strategies and job satisfaction among rehabilitation medical and paramedical staff deployed to different areas at the University of the Philippines Manila-Philippine General Hospital, a designated COVID-19 referral center. Method. This was a cross-sectional study that utilized total population sampling of the medical and paramedical staff of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine deployed to other areas in PGH and who carried out non-rehabilitation-related clinical work responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Electronic informed consent was obtained from each participant. Two sets of validated and reliable self-administered online questionnaires, namely, the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (COPE) Inventory Tool and Satisfaction of Employee in Health Care (SEHC) Survey, were used to determine coping strategies and work satisfaction, respectively. Descriptive statistics (such as frequencies, percentages, ranges, means) were used to present the data. Results. A total of 50 medical and paramedical staff participated in the study. The participants’ age ranged from 22 to 60 years (mean: 30.2 ± 8.7). The majority were single (84%), women (64%), and with a Bachelor of Science degree. Most of the participants were assigned in the orange zone, which included the COVID ward nurses’ station and donning/doffing areas;with 30% who rotated in the COVID wards. There were three types of coping strategies utilized by the department staff: (1) emotion-focused coping, (2) problem-focused coping, and (3) dysfunctional coping. Problem-focused coping was the most common general strategy (mean COPE score for all problem-focused strategies, 3.1 ± 0.9). Acceptance was the most common specific coping strategy, followed by active coping and a tie among positive reframing, planning, and self-distraction. The work satisfaction rate was at 76.9% ± 13.2. Three out of 4 participants would recommend their workplace to other healthcare workers. Conclusion. The medical and paramedical staff of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in a COVID referral center had relatively high job satisfaction despite their health risks and changes in responsibilities among others. The majority utilized functional coping strategies to help them adapt to the work demands. The sources of motivation and values of the staff are areas for future research to help explain their positive outlook about their jobs and generally high recommendation about their workplace in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis. © 2022 University of the Philippines Manila. All rights reserved.
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Objective. This study described levels of fear, anxiety, depression, and contributing factors among health providers and administrative staff of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Philippine General Hospital (PGH-DRM) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. The cross-sectional study was conducted from August to November 2020. We recruited 71 participants who were working in the premises of the hospital and those who were working from home by purposive sampling. The fear numerical rating scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were used to determine the presence of fear, anxiety, and depression. The 36-Item Short Form Survey (SF-36) was used to determine the baseline level of physical and mental wellness among participants. Results. Seventy-three percent of the full-time, permanent employees of the PGH-DRM unit joined the study. Majority of the respondents were health providers (86%) but only one hospital staff had high-risk contact with patients with COVID-19. Most participants (63%) did a combination of on-site work and home-based work and three (4%) worked entirely from home. Moderate to severe levels of fear was reported by 54% of the participants. Fear levels were highest among those who worked on-site. Anxiety was borderline in 32%, and abnormal in 30%, while depression was borderline in 21%, and abnormally high in 34% of the participating employees. Feelings of anxiety were higher among those who worked on-site and who worked both on-site and from home, while depression was highest among those who worked from home. The SF-36 Physical Health Summary score (x̄ = 72.49) was higher than the Mental Health Summary score (x̄ = 55.45). Employees who worked from home had the highest SF-36 summary scores for both mental and physical health. Conclusion. The employees of the DRM had low-risk contact work assignments when the PGH transitioned to a tertiary level COVID-19 referral hospital. Half of the employees experienced fear, anxiety, and depression and had low SF-36 summary scores in mental health. Further studies are needed to determine the key factors that affect their mental health and well-being during the pandemic. A relevant mental health and wellness program is strongly recommended. © 2022 University of the Philippines Manila. All rights reserved.
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Since the pandemic presented in the year 2020 in the country, biosecurity protocols developed by the Ministry of Tourism were implemented in tourist establishments in the province of Tungurahua, where the difficulties in the process of implementing protocols for the prevention of Covid-19 infection in the facilities involved in the tourist activity were analyzed in order to safeguard the health and self-care of the different tourists or visitors. The type of research used was descriptive transversal and had a qualitative-quantitative approach with research techniques such as: bibliographic review, survey and interview. Information was gathered from the results of the observation cards (check list) applied by the Ministry of Tourism to tourist establishments and from the online questionnaire consisting of five questions where it was possible to know the percentage of application in the establishments of lodging, operation, food and beverages, tourist complexes, events and receptions, handicrafts and agrotourism;of which 69% consider the implementation of biosecurity protocols very effective;while 24% have not applied, in relation to the biosecurity measures the most difficult at the time of implementation was: counter with transparent acrylic, plastic or glass partition, adaptation of digital media. dressing area, temperature control devices and marked floor marking the distance. With these results, the importance of training the representatives of the establishments for the implementation of biosafety protocols is identified.
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Centennial teenagers have complex multimodal literacy practices that need to be examined for incorporation and assessment in higher education. This article explores how students in a distance written communication course at a Peruvian university use multimodal literacy practices to express the complexity of their thematic interests: gender violence, technology and video games, and the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, we highlight how students use various semiotic resources in order to represent their critical perspective on their thematic choices and the challenges posed by digital writing in the construction of their identity. © 2021 IEEE.
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Since COVID-19 appeared in 2019, detection methods based on medical images depend on the criteria of the specialist. This paper shows the optimization process of an autonomous image-based learning system. To improve the classification of positive images for COVID-19, obtained from a simple chest tomography, expert judgment and singular value decomposition are used. A computed tomography scan generates images in dicom format that must be converted to jpg or bmp format, so it is necessary to determine which format has better resolution. With the new processed images, matrix of size 145 × 145, a dataset is formed to train the neural network. When obtaining the neural network model, a reduction in training times between processed and unprocessed images is observed. Likewise, the predictions of the neural network, developed in python, for the detection of COVID-19 with processed images indicate results over 98%. Another important result is that singular value decomposition can be used to determine that images in bmp format provide more detail than images in jpg format, working with 90% of the original information in the image. Finally, the image classification is improved and the neural network is optimized. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Background and purpose: Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City (NYC) vowed to “keep the subways running” despite the lack of plans in place for protecting the health and well-being of transit workers. This study was designed to assess the impact of employment during the early phase of the pandemic on this essential frontline workforce. Methods, settings, and study participants: A convenience sample of members (stratified by job title) of the NYC Transport Workers Union, Local 100, was recruited in August 2020 to participate in an anonymous, cross-sectional, internet-based survey. Results: The demographics of the sample participants (N = 645) reflected union membership, ie, 82 percent male, 29 percent Black;27 percent Hispanic, and 59 percent ≥age 50 years. At the time of the “NYC Pause” (March 22, 2020) when mandatory stay-at-home orders were issued, transit workers had limited worksite protections. Many reported a lack of such basics as face masks (43 percent), hand sanitizer (40 percent), and disposable gloves (34 percent). A high proportion (87 percent) were concerned about getting infected at work. Lack of certain protections was significantly associated with both fear of contagion at work and mental health symptoms. Nearly 24 percent of participants reported a history of COVID-19 infection. Self-reported infection was significantly correlated with lack of certain protections, including respiratory masks (p < 0.001), disposable gloves (p < 0.001), and hand sanitizer (p < 0.001). Infection was also significantly associated with mental health symptoms (p < 0.001). By August 2020, despite participants reporting that many worksite protections were then in place, 72 percent of workers were still fearful for their safety at work, eg, because of potential exposure due to passengers not wearing masks, and risk of verbal abuse and physical assault by passengers angered when asked to wear face masks. Workers who were fearful for their safety at work were more than six times more likely to report mental health symptoms (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Lack of worksite protections before “NYC Pause” (March 22, 2020) was significantly associated with self-reported infection, fear, and mental health symptoms in TWU, Local 100 members. To reduce the risk of adverse impacts associated with bioevents in all essential work groups, and across all essential occupational settings, infection control preparedness, early recognition of risk, and implementation of tailored risk reduction strategies are imperative. Pandemic preparedness is fundamental to protecting the health and well-being of essential workers and crucial in controlling the spread of disease in the community. Bioevent preparedness for all essential frontline workgroups will also help reduce occupational health inequities. Workers at risk, regardless of setting, deserve and have the right to equal protections under federal and state law. © 2021 Weston Medical Publishing. All rights reserved.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives can help mitigate the human and economic problems caused by the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. Based on a content analysis of text news articles ordered chronologically from the beginning of the pandemic, this research aims to analyze the evolution of companies’ CSR initiatives during the first six months of the pandemic in Mexico. Enterprises have shown an evolution in the types of initiatives they have undertaken, starting from helping the population in need to satisfy their immediate necessities to helping others resume economic activity in the “new normal”. However, with hundreds of thousands of businesses closing and millions of people unemployed and in poverty, Mexico is facing its worst economic crisis in history. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Students' and university professors' challenges due to the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic have been enormous. Without prior notice, they had to switch from traditional education to virtual teaching. This study's objective was to identify the perception of students and professors of the Bachelor in the English Language from the University of Chihuahua, Mexico, during the transition to virtual classes due to the pandemic. Researchers applied a survey of 28 items with a Likert scale to 152 students during the spring semester 2020 and the second instrument of 51 items to 26 professors. The students reported having complications in connectivity (21%) and difficulties interacting with professors and classmates (34%). Many students reported experiencing anxiety (69.1%) and feeling isolated (62.5%). Most agree that they learn better in face-to-face classes (85%). In turn, the professors agree that the students had a lower performance than in a face-to-face semester (69.3%). Despite this, the professors affirm that they followed the program to the letter (92.3%) and completed the programmed contents (84.6%). Besides, 92.3% of the academics are confident to face a new semester in virtual modality, if necessary. Although we can say that the transition from face-to-face to virtual classes in the institution was successful, students and professors encountered difficulties and disadvantages in the use of platforms for online classes. The benefit of this research's findings is understanding the University must have all the necessary elements in place for online teaching. It must establish a formal regulation of virtual programs that includes professor's and student's profile, as well as the strategies to be followed. The students' and professors' perceptions highlight the crucial elements that professors need to consider to teach virtual classes and take advantage of these lessons to face the future better. © 2021 The authors and IJLTER.ORG. All rights reserved.
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PURPOSE: Our aim was to study the association between abnormal findings on chest and brain imaging in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and neurologic symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this retrospective, international multicenter study, we reviewed the electronic medical records and imaging of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 from March 3, 2020, to June 25, 2020. Our inclusion criteria were patients diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection with acute neurologic manifestations and available chest CT and brain imaging. The 5 lobes of the lungs were individually scored on a scale of 0-5 (0 corresponded to no involvement and 5 corresponded to >75% involvement). A CT lung severity score was determined as the sum of lung involvement, ranging from 0 (no involvement) to 25 (maximum involvement). RESULTS: A total of 135 patients met the inclusion criteria with 132 brain CT, 36 brain MR imaging, 7 MRA of the head and neck, and 135 chest CT studies. Compared with 86 (64%) patients without acute abnormal findings on neuroimaging, 49 (36%) patients with these findings had a significantly higher mean CT lung severity score (9.9 versus 5.8, P < .001). These patients were more likely to present with ischemic stroke (40 [82%] versus 11 [13%], P < .0001) and were more likely to have either ground-glass opacities or consolidation (46 [94%] versus 73 [84%], P = .01) in the lungs. A threshold of the CT lung severity score of >8 was found to be 74% sensitive and 65% specific for acute abnormal findings on neuroimaging. The neuroimaging hallmarks of these patients were acute ischemic infarct (28%), intracranial hemorrhage (10%) including microhemorrhages (19%), and leukoencephalopathy with and/or without restricted diffusion (11%). The predominant CT chest findings were peripheral ground-glass opacities with or without consolidation. CONCLUSIONS: The CT lung disease severity score may be predictive of acute abnormalities on neuroimaging in patients with COVID-19 with neurologic manifestations. This can be used as a predictive tool in patient management to improve clinical outcome.