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Objective: to analyze which technological variables, derived from the use of electronic devices, predict academic stress and its dimensions in Nursing students. Method: analytical cross-sectional study carried out with a total of 796 students from six universities in Peru. The SISCO scale was used and four logistic regression models were estimated for the analysis, with selection of variables in stages. Results: among the participants, 87.6% had a high level of academic stress;time using the electronic device, screen brightness, age and sex were associated with academic stress and its three dimensions;the position of using the electronic device was associated with the total scale and the stressors and reactions dimensions. Finally, the distance between the face and the electronic device was associated with the total scale and size of reactions. Conclusion: technological variables and sociodemographic characteristics predict academic stress in nursing students. It is suggested to optimize the time of use of computers, regulate the brightness of the screen, avoid sitting in inappropriate positions and pay attention to the distance, in order to reduce academic stress during distance learning.
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In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The funding statement was missing. The correct Funding statement appears below. Copyright © 2023 Auerbach, Muñoz, Affiah, Barrera de la Torre, Börner, Cho, Cofield, DiEnno, Graddy-Lovelace, Klassen, Limeberry, Morse, Natarajan and Walsh.
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The objective of the research was to analyze lifestyles and their relationship with environmental attitudes in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quantitative approach, relational, prospective and cross-sectional design. The sample consisted of 231 students from six professional careers, using the SMILE-C online survey and a questionnaire. For the statistical analysis, Pearson's Chi-square test and the Mann-Whitney U test were used. A relationship was found between sex with lifestyle (P=0.003), with the dimensions diet and nutrition (P=0.045), physical activity (P=0.015) and restful sleep (P=0.006);school type (P=0.045) and study cycle (P=0.042) with the restful sleep of university students. © 2023, Sociedad Europea De Medicina Naturista Clasica. Seccion Espanola. All rights reserved.
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COVID-19 Pandemic has had a huge impact on mental health in population, becoming a public health problem. Our country has been affected in social, political and economical fields, causing a great impact on physical and mental health, and also with worldwide numerous human losses. Children and adolescents are a particularly vulnerable population, due to the risks that the pandemic has entailed, for their psychological development, social interaction, the influence of stress on neuroendocrine responses and also as neuropsychiatric manifestations with increased reports by researchers, without certainty of possible future damage. The objective of this paper is to review the possible causes and impact on psychosocial development and neuropsychiatric disorders in children and adolescents, and the individual and family factors that predispose to emotional, cognitive and behavioral reactions in pediatric population, searching to give a comprehensive view of the mental health problems in the pediatric population caused by the pandemic. © 2022 Instituto Nacional de Pediatria. All rights reserved.
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Although we believe academic researchers have a critical role to play in transformative systems change for social and ecological justice, we also argue that academic institutions have been (and continue to be) complicit in colonialism and in racialized, patriarchal capitalism. In this essay, we argue that if academia is to play a constructive role in supporting social and ecological resilience in the late stage Capitalocene epoch, we must move beyond mere critique to enact reimagined and decolonized forms of knowledge production, sovereignty, and structures for academic integrity. We use the pandemic as a moment of crisis to rethink what we are doing as PAR scholars and reflect on our experiences conducting PAR during the pandemic. A framework is presented for the reimaging of institutional support for the embedding of scholars in local social systems. We propose an academy with greater flexibility and consideration for PAR, one with increased funding support for community projects and community engagement offices, and a system that puts local communities first. This reimagining is followed by a set of our accounts of conducting PAR during the pandemic. Each account begins with an author's reflection on their experiences conducting PAR during the pandemic, focusing on how the current university system magnified the impacts of the pandemic. The author's reflection is then followed with a "what if” scenario were the university system changed in such a way that it mitigated or lessened the impacts of the pandemic on conducting PAR. Although this framework for a reimagined university is not a panacea, the reliance on strong in-place local teams, mutually benefiting research processes, and resources for community organizations putting in the time to collaborate with scholars can overcome many of the challenges presented by the pandemic and future crises. Copyright © 2022 Auerbach, Muñoz, Walsh, Affiah, Barrera de la Torre, Börner, Cho, Cofield, DiEnno, Graddy-Lovelace, Klassen, Limeberry, Morse and Natarajan.
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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic not only caused physical health problems, but also emotional alterations in people who contracted this disease. Objective: To describe the emotional state of post-COVID-19 patients in a district of the Amazon Region of Peru. Methods: Descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study, carried out in the district of Copallín, Amazonas Region, Peru, during July-November 2021. The population consisted of 245 post-COVID-19 patients, the sample was 235 patients selected by non-probabilistic convenience sampling. The DASS-21 Questionnaire (Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21) and the standardized Spanish version of Antúnez & Vinet, 2012 were applied. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25 was used to process the information, and descriptive statistics and Pearson's Chi-square test were used. Results: 54.47% were between 18 and 29 years of age;51.91% were women;63.83% were single. 55.32% present depression, 56.60 % have anxiety at different levels and 68.09 % do not present stress. In addition, correlational analysis reported that depression is related to hospitalization (p = 0.001) and sequelae of COVID-19 (p < 0.001);anxiety with educational level (p = 0.015), hospitalization (p < 0.001) and sequelae (p < 0.001);stress with educational level (p = 0.003) and sequelae (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Most post-COVID-19 patients presented different levels of depression and anxiety, thus requiring effective interventions to avoid mental health consequences. © 2022, Editorial Ciencias Medicas. All rights reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a pedagogical vacuum in dental education, which, due to the clinical, practical and laboratory nature of the subjects, forced teachers to incorporate innovative digital teaching resources in which learning environments are simulated that help promote the development of skills and knowledge in search of continuous improvement. However, students have also seen the need to resort to virtual platforms that allow them to better adapt to this complex hybrid blended learning system. The findings of this review are the product of an exploratory study whose purpose was to identify the main Information and Communication Technologies and organize them according to interpretation tools, dynamic modeling;communication, collaboration and organization. In this way, we provide the academic community with a vision of their impact on the learning and self-learning process, their experiences of use and the perception of the benefits and limitations of these new technologies in a current context in Dentistry students. In the first part we address the state of the art on the pedagogical components of ICT, the role they play in higher education, the characteristics and standards they must meet to become cognitive tools allied to formal education, so that Allow the interaction and knowledge management of the students. Next, we share the results of an open survey of undergraduate students of a Peruvian School of Dentistry that was carried out as a preliminary diagnostic phase that became the starting point for the validation of instruments of a research work on experiences of the use of the ICT as digital and cognitive tools for teaching and learning in online dental education that has study code No. 0209 of the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos;The responses obtained show the resources at the service of their formal and scientific skills related to users' own skills called "digital natives" motivating them to be the protagonists of their learning and development of skills for adequate professional performance. Copyright © Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Facultad de Estomatologia. All rights reserved.
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The main objective of this study was to analyze the state of mind and the level of dependence on physical exercise of university students in the confinement stage, and their interrelationship between them, based on sex, whether they currently practice federated sports and the level of concern towards the problems created by COVID-19 worldwide. The study included 177 university students (133 men and 44 women) of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences from the Pontifical University of Salamanca with a mean age of 20.85 (+or- 2.83) years and a decrease in physical activity practice 73.5% in the first two weeks of confinement. The instruments used to assess these constructs were the Exercise Dependence Scale-Revised (EDS-R) and the short version of the Profile Mood States (POMS). The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between the level of dependence on physical exercise and Tension, Anger, Fatigue and Depressed State and a negative correlation with Vigor and Friendship. In conclusion, the importance of practicing physical activity for improving the mental health of university students is highlighted.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the introduction of teaching through different virtual methodologies in universities, specifically in undergraduate students. However, the global context has also led to different negative outcomes for students, affecting their perception of learning satisfaction. In this research, we focus on undergraduate students, exploring how the academic self-efficacy and perception of team competence are related to student burnout and, subsequently, to learning satisfaction. We collect data from 145 students of industrial engineering in a Chilean university. Using structural equation models, our results shows that academic self-efficacy is negatively related to the perception of academic burnout and this relationship is stronger when students perceive more levels of team-competence, subsequently, perception of academic burnout is negatively related to perceived learning quality. Our results can help universities to deal with the negative effects of virtual education by understanding students' characteristics and team perceptions.
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Introduction: COVID-19 affected many nursing professionals who provide care to hospitalized patients, where they experience various feelings that impact their professional work. Objective: Describe the feelings of nursing professionals facing the COVID-19 pandemi c in the Amazon Region, in the year 2020. Methods: Qualitative study of phenomenological methodological approach;carried out in October 2020. The population was 35 nursing professionals who work in the COVID area in the hospitals of the Amazon Region-Peru, the sample consisted of fifteen nurses, selected by saturation of the data. The data collection technique was the phenomenologi cal interview, the instrument was an interview guide and the collection was carried out with prior informed consent through video calls on WhatsApp and Google Meet. It was used to analyze the data: the description, reduction and phenomenological interpretation. Results: Three categories were revealed: "Fear of contagion and suffering from death at the beginning of the pandemic", "Changes experienced in the work, family and social environment due to COVID-19 due to biosecurity measures", "Joy at discharge of patients and satisfaction due to professional recognition during the pandemic”. Conclusions: Nursing professionals who work in the COVID-19 area of hospitals have feelings of fear due to the risk of being infected and infecting thei r families, in addition to suffering from the loss of patients, they assume their work with responsibility, which generates them satisfaction for what they do and for being nursing professionals. © 2022, Editorial Ciencias Medicas. All rights reserved.
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Background: The Araucania region in Chile had the greatest COVID-19 incidence and lethality in Chile Aim: To describe the clinical characteristics and evolution of patients admitted for COVID-19 in a high complexity Hospital in the region of La Araucania-Chile. Material and Methods: Review of medical records of the first 169 patients aged 55 +/- 17 years (50% women) admitted for COVID-19 between march and may, 2020 at a regional hospital in Temuco Chile. Results: The most common comorbidities of these patients were hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. The symptom triad of cough, dyspnea and fever was present in 85%. Less frequent symptoms were diarrhea and vomiting. Biomarkers at admission such as ferritin, D-dimer, among others, were significantly higher among patients who required admission to the Intensive Care Unit. The presence of cough, dyspnea and fever were significantly associated with longer hospitalization time and requirement for mechanical ventilation. Hypertension and obesity were significantly associated with longer hospitalization stay. Eight percent of patients died. Conclusions: Symptoms such as cough, dyspnea and fever and specific biomarkers on admission were associated with a worse evolution of adult inpatients with COVID-19.
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Background: The Araucania region in Chile had the greatest COVID-19 incidence and lethality in Chile Aim: To describe the clinical characteristics and evolution of patients admitted for COVID-19 in a high complexity Hospital in the region of La Araucan..a-Chile. Material and Methods: Review of medical records of the first 169 patients aged 55 .. 17 years (50% women) admitted for COVID-19 between march and may, 2020 at a regional hospital in Temuco Chile.
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The impact of COVID-19 on conducting research is far-reaching, especially for those scholars working for or alongside communities. As the pandemic continues to create and exacerbate many of the issues that communities at the margins faced pre-pandemic, such as health disparities and access to resources, it also creates particular difficulties in collaborative, co-developed participatory research and scholar-activism. These forms of community engagement require the commitment of researchers to look beyond the purview of the racialized capitalist and neoliberal structures and institutions that tend to limit the scope of our research and engagement. Both the presence of the researcher within the community as well as deep community trust in the researcher is required in order to identify and prioritize local, often counter-hegemonic forms of knowledge production, resources, and support networks. The pandemic and similar conditions of crises has likely limited opportunities for building long-term, productive relationships of mutual trust and reciprocity needed for PAR while communities refocus on meeting basic needs. The pandemic has now not only exacerbated existing disparities and made the need for engaged, critical and co-creative partnerships even greater, it has also abruptly halted opportunities for partnerships to occur, and further constrained funds to support communities partnering with researchers. In this paper we highlight accomplishments and discuss the many challenges that arise as participatory action researchers are displaced from the field and classroom, such as funding obstacles and working remotely. An analysis of experiences of the displacement of the scholar exposes the conflicts of conducting PAR during crises within a state of academic capitalism. These experiences are drawn from our work conducting PAR during COVID-19 around the globe, both in urban and rural settings, and during different stages of engagement. From these findings the case is made for mutual learning from peer-experiences and institutional support for PAR. As future crises are expected, increased digital resources and infrastructure, academic flexibility and greater consideration of PAR, increased funding for PAR, and dedicated institutional support programs for PAR are needed. Copyright © 2022 Auerbach, Muñoz, Affiah, Barrera de la Torre, Börner, Cho, Cofield, DiEnno, Graddy-Lovelace, Klassen, Limeberry, Morse, Natarajan and Walsh.
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Objective: To determine the relationship of Computer Visual Syndrome with academic stress in nursing students during confinement by COVID-19. Methods: descriptive, relational, cross-sectional study;whose non-probabilistic sample was 119 nursing students from Amazonas, Peru;The survey technique was used and two instruments were applied through the Google form, the 16-item Computer Vision Syndrome Questionnaire (CVS-Q), (sensitivity and specificity is greater than 70%) and the SISCO SV academic stress questionnaire of 47 items (Aiken V concordance coefficient greater than 0.75), during the months of November to December 2020. The data were processed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program version 25, from which the descriptive statistics were obtained and the nonparametric Chi Square statistical test. Conclusions: Visual Computer Syndrome is not significantly related to academic stress in nursing students during confinement by COVID-19. However, it is necessary to implement improvement measures in the teaching-learning process by increasing asynchronous hours.
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COVID-19 has caused people worldwide to adopt different measures to avoid infection;In Peru, one of its main measures to prevent coronavirus infections was lockdown. The research aimed to describe the lifestyles of civil engineering students during lockdown by COVID-19. For this purpose, the study was quantitative, not experimental, with a correlational design, having a population of 329 students and a sample of 166, the SMILE-C online questionnaire prepared by Balanza, et al. (2020). Among the results, 83.1% had a healthier style and 16.9% unhealthy;82.5% are male;lifestyle is related to sex (p = 0.090). It is concluded that the lifestyles during lockdown by COVID-19 have led many of the university students to a favorable change for their health and personal well-being. However, we must not set aside some aspects that are still in process and at risk in order to be able to face this great challenge profitably.
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The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between accessibility to hand hygiene products, use of antibacterial gel and satisfaction among adults from the Human Settlement 16 de Octubre in the city of Chachapoyas (Peru). The study was quantitative, with a relational, prospective, cross-sectional and analytical design, whose sample was represented by 46 adults, chosen by non-probability purposive sampling. It was found that 54.3% of adults consider hand hygiene products to be expensive, 67.4% spend between 5 and 10 soles per week, 69.6 % have access to water in their homes;however, 60.9% have only non-potable water. Regarding hand washing, 54.3% do it in the spout and sink and the rest use a bucket or jug. Likewise, 45% never used antibacterial gel, 30.4% always and 23.9% sometimes. Regarding satisfaction with the use of antibacterial gel, 43.5% are not very satisfied, 29% are satisfied, 15.2% are very satisfied, and 2.2% are not at all satisfied. It is concluded that there is a highly significant relationship between the use of antibacterial gel and the satisfaction of older adults (p = 0.000).
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Displacement is detrimental not only to displaced individuals and families but also to the communities left behind and their ability to collectively resist and mobilize against global processes that negatively affect their ability to engage in practices of resilience and regeneration that support well-rooted communities. Critical approaches to the study of displacement should not only focus on mapping vulnerability factors and analyzing dominant power structures driving racial, social, and environmental injustice but should also include the collective resilience, everyday vitality, and community knowledge that characterize rooted urban neighborhoods and build immunity to serial forced displacement. Building on theoretical and methodological foundations in critical, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous geographies;Black feminist theory;and environmental justice, we argue that for mapping to have a positive change outside the already academic understanding of displacement and inequity, we need a methodology to (1) identify intersectional oppressions and name them as such, (2) center community knowledge and strengths enabling resilience, and (3) advance community activism. This methodology requires trust and community engagement but is vulnerable to systems that interrupt the embeddedness of researchers. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic is one such system;not only has the pandemic exacerbated displacement crises, making the need for engaged, critical, and cocreative partnerships even greater, it has abruptly halted opportunities for these community partnerships and regenerative work to happen. Drawing on our experiences attempting these approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic, we discuss challenges that arise when researchers are displaced from field sites, best practices, and implications for future research.