Exploring resources for teaching entrepreneurship during COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic brought changes to entrepreneurship education. This new reality brings a big challenge for entrepreneurship professors. This study explores the use of resources by professors during the COVID-19 pandemic to determine changes, support, and success factors to teach entrepreneurship. Also, we explore the resources that professors perceived that they would need postpandemic. We performed 13 qualitative interviews with entrepreneurship professors in Mexico. We identified institutional and emotional support and a network of support as essential elements for professors. Flexibility is a recurrent theme. Results from this research may be helpful for those in charge of educational institutions who need to adapt workplace policies and make sure to fulfill the needs of professors in times of crisis. © 2022 International Council for Small Business.

Physical activity and nutritional status in rheumatic patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Introduction: The control of rheumatic diseases constitutes a challenge for health professionals. There are multiple factors that can influence its control, nutritional status and systematic physical activity are some of them. Objective: To evaluate the behavior of the nutritional status and the practice of physical activities in patients with rheumatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: basic, non-experimental, descriptive and cross-sectional research that included as a study population a cohort of 63 patients diagnosed with rheumatic diseases according to the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology. The general characteristics of the patients, the rheumatic diseases included in the research, the main digestive manifestations identified, and the Sperman correlation test was used to identify the possible relationship between the study variables. Result: mean age of 53.36 years, with a predominance of female patients (82.54 %), with rheumatoid arthritis (53.97 %) and pharmacological adherents (96.82 %). After the confinement was over, there was an increase in overweight (41.27 %) and obese (9.52 %) patients. A decrease in the frequency of physical activities was found with a predominance of patients who perform physical activities less than 3 times a week;14.28% report that they never exercise. Conclusions: It was identified that during the period of confinement by COVID-19 there were negative variations in the nutritional status and frequency of physical activities of patients with RD that could be related to the clinical activity of this type of disease.

REVISITING POVERTY and ENTREPRENEURSHIP in DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Currently, the economic effect of entrepreneurship research has been highly associated with opportunity entrepreneurship, while necessity entrepreneurship has a lower effect. This manuscript revisits the relationship between poverty and entrepreneurial activity, mainly necessity-driven, analyzed by Amorós and Cristi (2011). We hypothesize that countries with a high pursuit of entrepreneurial activities reduce poverty, even if necessity-motivated entrepreneurship is developed. We test our hypothesis using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data and the UN-UNDP, Human Development Index from 2010-2019. Our results reconfirm that total and necessity-motivated early-stage entrepreneurship both, have a positive effect on countries' poverty reduction trends, especially in developing countries. We discuss the relevance of entrepreneurship activities on development beyond pure economic effects and highlight the importance of entrepreneurship in the pandemic situation caused by COVID-19, which is pushing more people into poverty situations. © 2021 World Scientific Publishing Company.