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Social isolation and generalized confinement in many countries has caused a decrease in physical activity (PA) and an increase in levels of stress, anxiety and depression. Purpose in life is part of people's psychological well-being, and having a clear purpose allows them to face adversities. In this sense, the influence of PA on psychological well-being in situations of confinement makes it necessary for educational and governmental entities to study and promote it. The objective of this work has been to evaluate the incidence with a PA intervention program (Move yourself at home) on the purpose in life during a period of mandatory confinement due to COVID-19. 360 university students participated divided into three groups, control (Sedentary, Sed), and experimental (group with low physical activity, BAct, and physically active, Act). The experimental groups were conducted on a PA intervention program for 11 weeks, from the beginning to the end of the mandatory confinement. A weekly online questionnaire was collected, recording the level of PA (min / week) and the results of the PIL test (purpose in life). The level of PA decreased significantly at the beginning of the confinement and increased significantly in the flexibilization phases. The intervention program was able to help maintain the PA level in participants. PA has a positive effect on the purpose in life and practicing some physical exercise on a regular basis could be a crucial tool to face a state of mandatory confinement. ©Copyright: Federación Española de Asociaciones de Docentes de Educación Física.
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Antecedentes y objetivos: El desarrollo de lesión renal aguda (FRA) durante la hospitalización por SARS-Cov2 se ha asociado a elevada morbi-mortalidad. El Registro FRA-COVID 19 SEN ha recogido datos de pacientes con este perfil durante los meses de la pandemia. El objetivo de este trabajo fue caracterizar la población española ingresada por COVID-19 que desarrolló FRA, con/ sin necesidades de tratamiento renal sustitutivo (TRS), modalidades terapéuticas utilizadas y resultados en términos de mortalidad Material y método: Estudio retrospectivo de datos procedentes de 30 hospitales españoles, recopilados en el Registro Español FRA COVID-19 desde mayo de 2020 hasta noviembre 2021. Se registraron variables clínicas y demográficas, datos relacionados con la gravedad de la COVID-19, con el FRA y de supervivencia. Mediante estudio de regresión multivariante se analizan los factores relacionados con la necesidad de TRS y con mortalidad. Resultados: Se registraron datos de 730 pacientes. El 71,9% eran hombres, con edad media 70 años (60-78). El 70,1% eran hipertensos, 32,9% diabéticos, 33,3% con enfermedad cardiovascular y 23,9% presentaban algún grado de enfermedad renal crónica. Desarrollaron neumonía el 94,6%, con necesidad de soporte ventilatorio en el 54,2% e ingreso en UCI en un 44,1% de los casos.La mediana de tiempo desde el inicio de síntomas COVID hasta la aparición de FRA fue de 6 días (4-10). En cuanto a la gravedad: 37,1% KDIGO I, 18,3% KDIGO II, 44,6% KDIGO III;requirieron TRS 235 pacientes (33,9%). Las técnicas continuas (TCRR) fueron las más empleadas (155 pac), seguidas de hemodiálisis (HD) intermitente (89 pac), HD diaria (36 pacientes), hemodiafiltración (HDF) 17 pac., y HD expandida (HDexp) en 24 casos. El hábito tabáquico (OR 3,41), la necesidad de soporte ventilatorio (OR 20,2), la cifra de creatinina máxima (OR 2,41) y el tiempo transcurrido desde el inicio de los síntomas hasta la aparición del FRA (OR 1,13) se identificaron como predictores de la necesidad de TRS en nuestra cohorte, mientras la edad se comporta como protector (OR: 0,95). El grupo que no requirió TRS se caracterizó por presentar mayor edad, menor gravedad de FRA y un tiempo de aparición y recuperación de la lesión renal más corto (p<0,05).El 38,6% de la cohorte falleció durante la hospitalización. La gravedad del FRA y la necesidad de TRS fue más frecuente en el grupo de fallecidos. En el análisis multivariante, edad (OR 1.03), enfermedad renal crónica previa (OR 2,21), desarrollo de neumonía (OR 2,89), soporte ventilatorio (OR 3,34) y TRS (OR: 2,28) se comportaron como factores predictores mientras que el tratamiento crónico con ARAII se comportó como factor protector (OR 0,55). Conclusiones: Del análisis del Registro FRA-COVID 19 SEN se deduce que los pacientes que presentaron FRA durante la hospitalización por COVID-19 tenían una edad media elevada, mayores comorbilidades y presentaron un cuadro de infección grave. Definimos dos patrones clínicos diferentes: un FRA de aparición precoz, en pacientes más ancianos que se resuelve en pocos días sin necesidad de TRS;y otro patrón más grave, con mayor requerimiento de TRS, y aparición tardía en el curso de la enfermedad, que se relacionó con mayor gravedad de la misma. La gravedad de la infección, la edad y la presencia de ERC previa al ingreso fueron factores determinantes en la mortalidad de estos pacientes, identificando el tratamiento crónico con ARA II como un factor protector de mortalidad.
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Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health of students was affected due to social isolation and the repercussions of this context. In this sense, it becomes important to analyze and reflect on the current situation of academic engagement, a determining factor of their academic performance. Objective: Analyze the academic engagement of Peruvian Nursing students upon their return to face-to-face classes. Methods: The approach was quantitative, a non-experimental design, and the type, descriptive, and transectional. The academic engagement of 200 students in the Nursing career was evaluated through the application of the UWES-S Scale, an instrument with adequate levels of validity based on the content and reliability. Results: It was found that the academic engagement of 57 % of the students was high, 34.5 % was moderate and 8.5 % was low. Likewise, the dimensions that had a better assessment were dedication and absorption, which were located at the high level, while the vigor dimension had a lower assessment, since the moderate level predominated. On the other hand, it was determined that the academic engagement of the students was significantly associated with some sociodemographic variables such as gender and age group to which they belonged (p<0.05). Conclusion: The students of the Nursing career were characterized by presenting high levels of academic engagement upon return to faceto-face classes, for which universities must encourage the promotion of cognitive, affective, and attitudinal dimensions of students to strengthen said commitment. © 2023 Academia Nacional de Medicina. All rights reserved.
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Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced higher education institutions to implement the virtual teaching-learning modality in order not to interrupt the educational service, comply with the provisions of social distancing and thus avoid increasing the rate of infections. However, this disruption brought with it some unforeseen problems and limitations during its implementation. Therefore, the objective of this research was to analyze the perception of university students in the Madre de Dios region about virtual education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach was quantitative, the design was non-experimental, and the type was cross-sectional descriptive. The sample was made up of 302 students to whom the PAVDO-C Questionnaire was applied, an instrument with adequate levels of validity based on content and reliability. According to the results, the perception of 41.4% of the students about the virtual education that was being implemented was partially favorable, 33.4% was favorable and 25.2% was unfavorable. Likewise, it was determined that some sociodemographic and academic variables such as gender, university of origin, employment status, and area of residence were significantly associated with said perception. Finally, it was concluded that the students were characterized by having a partially favorable perception of virtual education, for which universities needed to continue developing the digital and didactic skills of teachers so that they can improve their virtual pedagogical practice and thus teaching. be more suitable. © 2023, University of Cienfuegos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. All rights reserved.
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The objective of this research was to analyze the computer visual syndrome (CVS) in Peruvian basic education teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach was quantitative, the non-experimental design and the transectional descriptive type. The sample was made up of 238 teachers from the initial, primary and secondary levels who worked in the city of Cusco to whom the Computer Visual Syndrome Questionnaire (CVS-Q) was applied, an instrument with adequate levels of reliability and validity. The results indicate that teachers are characterized by high levels of CVS, mainly characterized by burning eyes, tearing, itching, eye redness and heaviness in the eyelids. On the other hand, it was determined that the CVS levels were significantly associated with the age group, the time connected to the devices, as well as the development of preventive strategies by teachers. Therefore, it is imperative that preventive strategies are applied, such as the 20-20-20 rule, and ergonomic conditions are improved, such as the use of adequate seats, anti-glare screens and the brightness adjustment of the same. © 2023, University of Cienfuegos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. All rights reserved.
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One of the measures of the Ministry of Education of Peru in the face of the global health emergency COVID 19;was to immediately decree the continuity of the service in the distance education modality;generating a crisis of the process of adaptation and transition to a new way of teaching. The objective was: To determine the level of perception of basic education teachers, regarding their pedagogical work in this modality. Obtaining, among other results, a regular perception (56.8%) in the dimension: necessary skills for the management of virtual tools essential to perform in this new modality. © GKAEdiciones, authors.
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As a result of the global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for applications that allow for remote patient monitoring has increased. In this chapter, we propose and discuss the development of an IoT-based web application for arrhythmia detection. The application is implemented on the Xiaomi™ MiBand5 band to monitor patient heart rate and other biomedical signals. The data is stored in the Google Fit™ platform and analyzed using a set of rules to detect possible arrhythmia. The application is able to detect arrhythmia thanks to: (a) its synchronization with the wearable device (i.e. smart band) and (b) real-time patient monitoring. Also, the application provides follow-up to patients through a series of alerts and recommendations. We conducted a case study to describe the main functionalities and components of the application. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The present research aimed to describe the satisfaction of university students with virtual classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study corresponds to a quantitative approach, a non-experimental design and a comparative descriptive type. The sample was made up of 445 students from two Peruvian universities (public and private) to whom the Satisfaction Scale with Virtual Classes was applied, an instrument with adequate levels of reliability and validity. The results indicate that 51.9% of the students were partially satisfied with the virtual classes, 42% were satisfied and 6.1% were dissatisfied with this teaching modality. Among the positive aspects of the virtual classes are the evaluation system, the level of difficulty of the academic activities, the variety of additional resources used by the teachers and the organization of the courses. Likewise, it was found that there was a more favorable perception of virtual classes in students of a private university than in a public university. It was concluded that it is necessary to develop the didactic and technological competences of teachers so that they can optimize their pedagogical practice and thus improve the perception that students have towards virtual classes. © 2022, University of Cienfuegos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. All rights reserved.
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Social isolation and widespread confinement in many countries has caused a decrease in physical activity (PA) and an increase in levels of stress, anxiety and depression. The purpose in life is part of the psychological well-being of people, and having a clear purpose allows them to face adversity. In this sense, the influence of PA on psychological well-being in confinement situations makes it necessary to study and promote it by educational and government entities. The objective of this work was to evaluate the incidence of an intervention program with PA (Move at home) on the purpose in life during a period of mandatory confinement due to COVID-19.360 university students divided into three groups participated: control (Sedentary, Thirst), and experimental (group with low physical activity, BAct, and physically active, Act). The experimental groups underwent a PA intervention program for 11 weeks, from the beginning to the end of the mandatory confinement. A weekly online questionnaire was collected, recording the PA level (min/week) and the results of the PIL test (purpose in life). The PA level decreased significantly at the beginning of the confinement and increased significantly in the easing phases. The intervention program was able to contribute to maintaining the PA level in the participants. Physical activity has a positive effect on purpose in life and the practice of some physical exercise on a regular basis could be a crucial tool to face a state of mandatory confinement.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were great changes in basic education, one of them being the migration of the teaching process to virtuality, which caused a lot of uncertainty and effort for teachers, since many of them were not prepared nor did they have the digital and didactic skills to provide education under this modality. By virtue of the foregoing, the present research aimed to assess the psychosomatic symptoms related to stress in Peruvian teachers of regular basic education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research approach was quantitative, the design was not experimental, and the type was descriptive-transectional. The sample was made up of 292 teachers to whom the Psychosomatic Problems Questionnaire was applied, an instrument with adequate levels of reliability and validity. According to the findings, teachers were characterized by presenting a moderate level of assessment of psychosomatic symptoms related to stress, the main ones being feelings of extreme exhaustion, the desire not to want to get up in the morning, and some nervousness tics or blinking and headaches. Finally, it was found that the assessment of stress-related symptoms was significantly associated with gender, age group, and teachers' employment status. It was concluded that the decentralized bod-ies of the Ministry of Education must identify and provide continuous socio-emotional support to teachers who require it to promote their emotional well-being and quality of life, thus reducing the prevalence of psychosomatic symptoms associated with stress and improving the condition. work in which they develop. Copyright © 2022, Venezuelan Society of Pharmacology and Clinical and Therapeutic Pharmacology. All rights reserved.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, countries implemented social distancing measures as a strategy to reduce the rate of contagion. In the educational field, it highlights the migration from face-to-face classes to virtual classes, which brings with its difficulties and challenges for teachers, as well as a series of requirements, thus increasing the possibility of suffering from the Burnout Syndrome. Therefore, the objective of this research was to analyze the Burnout Syndrome in Peruvian teachers of regular basic education in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research approach was quantitative, non-ex-perimental design and the type of descriptive transectional design. The sample consisted of 209 teachers to whom the Maslach Burnout Inventory was applied, an instrument with adequate levels of reliability and validity. According to the re-sults, the teachers were characterized by presenting a high level of burnout syndrome and emotional exhaustion and a moderate level of depersonalization and professional fulfill-ment. Likewise, it was found that some sociodemographic variables such as sex, age, and employment status are significantly associated with burnout syndrome. Finally, it was concluded that the decentralized instances of the Ministry of Education must identify and provide continuous socio-emotional support to teachers who require it to promote their well-being and improve the working conditions in which they operate. Likewise, educational institutions must develop intervention programs with the presence of psychologists to reduce the prevalence of burnout syndrome and the affectation that it could cause. Copyright © 2022, Venezuelan Society of Pharmacology and Clinical and Therapeutic Pharmacology. All rights reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the migration from the face-to-face or blended teaching-learning modality to virtual-ity, which has forced students to adapt to this new scenario, however, despite the fact that this modality has favorable aspects, it has also had implications in the socio-emotional aspect. In this sense, the objective of this research was to determine the relationship between academic burnout and psychological well-being in students of a pedagogical higher education institute in Peru during the context of the CO-VID-19 pandemic. The research approach was quantitative, the design was non-experimental, and the type was descrip-tive, correlational, and cross-sectional. The sample consisted of 150 students to whom the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS) and the Psychological Well-being Scale were applied, instruments with the required levels of validity and reliability. The main findings indicate that the students were characterized by moderate levels of academic burnout as well as psychological well-being and it was deter-mined that there is an inverse and significant relationship between both variables (rho=-0.601;p<0.05). It was concluded that it is necessary to implement intervention programs that allow the development of protective factors and coping strate-gies in students so that they can cope adequately in stressful situations and thus improve their psychological well-being. Copyright © 2022, Venezuelan Society of Pharmacology and Clinical and Therapeutic Pharmacology. All rights reserved.
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As a result of the global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for applications that allow for remote patient monitoring has increased. In this chapter, we propose and discuss the development of an IoT-based web application for arrhythmia detection. The application is implemented on the Xiaomi™ MiBand5 band to monitor patient heart rate and other biomedical signals. The data is stored in the Google Fit™ platform and analyzed using a set of rules to detect possible arrhythmia. The application is able to detect arrhythmia thanks to: (a) its synchronization with the wearable device (i.e. smart band) and (b) real-time patient monitoring. Also, the application provides follow-up to patients through a series of alerts and recommendations. We conducted a case study to describe the main functionalities and components of the application. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Objective: Describe the prevalence of technostress in Peruvian basic education teachers during the COVID-19 pan-demic. Materials and methods: The research had a quantitative approach, the design was non-experimental and the type, descriptive, cross-sectional. The sample consisted of 197 teachers from the city of Cusco to whom a Sociodemo-graphic and Labor Data Questionnaire and the Technostress Questionnaire were applied, an instrument with acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Subsequently, the responses were systematized and analyzed using the SPSS® version 22 program. Results: The 57.9% of the teachers presented high levels of technostress and it was determined that this variable is significantly associated with sex, age group, employment status and marital status (p<0.05). Conclusions: It is necessary that the educational authori-ties regulate the hours of attention that teachers have for students and parents to avoid overexposure to ICT. In the same way, teachers who have the symptoms or are at risk of suffering from it should be identified in order to carry out a timely intervention and reduce the impact on their physical and emotional well-being.
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Introduction: In recent years, the use of computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones has experienced a constant in-crease, and even more so, the health emergency caused by COVID-19 has caused a significant increase in the amount of connection time to said devices. because the teaching mo-dality changed from face-to-face to virtual. Objective: To determine the prevalence and sociodemo-graphic variables associated with computer visual syndrome (VIS) in Peruvian university students during the COVID-19 health emergency. Materials and methods: The research had a quantitative approach;the design was non-experimental and the tran-sectional descriptive type. The sample was made up of 215 students from the professional career of Education to whom the Computer Syndrome Questionnaire (SVI-Q) was applied, an instrument with acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Subsequently, the responses were systematized and ana-lyzed using the SPSS® software. Results: It was determined that there is a high prevalence of SVI and that some sociodemographic variables such as gender, age group, time of exposure to digital devices, as well as having a pre-existing eye disease were significantly associated with said prevalence (p<0.05). Conclusions: It is necessary to promote the application of preventive strategies, such as the 20-20-20 rule, and to im-prove ergonomic conditions, such as the use of adequate seats, anti-glare screens and brightness adjustment to re-duce the prevalence. and symptoms associated with IVS.
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The three European countries included in the northwest littoral of the Mediterranean region - Italy, France and Spain - reported their first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus early in 2020. The subsequent epidemic strongly impacted these countries, challenging the healthcare systems efficiency, and the capacity and transparency of their public statistics structures. Because public statistics were not fully adapted to such a new health situation, the available official data could not wholly describe the epidemic correctly. This paper developed an indicator derived from the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 aiming to describe the time and spatial dynamics of the epidemic. Although the analysis was not applied to France due to the lack of data available, the comparative analysis among Spain and Italy highlighted some similarities and certain divergences, partially attributable to the features of each country`s national demographic patterns and the peculiarities of applied health protocols. Finally, mortality during the first wave of the epidemic has been analysed for the three countries, demonstrating higher mortality index in Spain, although the reported number of SARS-CoV-2 declared deaths does not explain a portion of this mortality excess.
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The present research aimed to describe the emotional exhaustion of Peruvian university students from the professional career of Education in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The approach was quantitative, the design was non-experimental, and the type was descriptive, cross-sectional. The sample consisted of 232 students, to whom the Emotional Tiredness Scale (2007) was applied, an instrument with adequate levels of reliability and validity. According to the results, the majority of students presented high levels of emotional fatigue and it was determined that the prevalence of this variable was significantly associated with the sex and age group of the students (p <0.05). It was concluded that it is necessary for the Psychopedagogy area of the university to carry out the timely detection of students who suffer from emotional fatigue so that they recover their psychological wellbeing and apply preventive programs to reduce the prevalence of this phenomenon.
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The present research aimed to describe the technostress of the students of the Education career of a public university in the Peruvian Amazon during the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach was quantitative, the design non-experimental and the type of research, descriptive, cross-sectional. The sample consisted of 232 students to whom the Technostress Questionnaire was applied, an instrument with adequate levels of reliability and validity. The results indicate that the students were characterized by having moderate levels of technostress. Likewise, regarding its factors, it was found that there were low levels of technoanxiety and moderate levels of technoaddiction and technofatigue. On the other hand, it was determined that some sociodemographic variables such as sex, age group and the work condition of the students were significantly associated with levels of techno-stress. It was concluded that it is necessary for the university to take some preventive and corrective measures to reduce the prevalence of this condition in the students. Likewise, it would be important to promote digital disconnection so that they carry out physical activities, care for their families and socialization.
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University education is a period that involves many demands as well as academic, social, and personal demands for students. This context became more complex in the current pandemic era, as education went from being face-to-face to being virtual, which highlighted other limitations such as accessibility and connectivity problems and the new way of learning. Therefore, the objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of academic stress in students of the professional education career of a Peruvian university in times of the CO-VID-19 pandemic. The research approach was quantitative, non-experimental design, and correlational type. The sample was formed by 172 students to whom the SISCO Inventory of Academic Stress and a sociodemographic data sheet were applied. According to the findings, the students were characterized by high levels of academic stress and it was determined that this variable is significantly associated with sex, age, and year of studies. It was concluded that the application of psychoeducational strategies is necessary to reduce the prevalence of academic stress in students so that they can function properly and improve their quality of life.
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Background Worldwide there is an overwhelming amount of information about COVID-19 circulating online, also named infodemic. Misinformation (the unintentional) and disinformation (the intentional) spreading of false information have proven to be very dangerous to public health. Hence, more than ever, people need skills for searching, evaluating and integrating information related to health in daily life, i.e., health literacy. Until now, little is known about the digital health literacy of university students and their information-seeking behaviour. Hence, this study aimed to analyse the associations between university students' digital health literacy and online information queries during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (and infodemic) in Portugal. Methods A cross-sectional study of 3.084 Portuguese university students (75.7% females), with an average age of 24.2 (SD = 7.5), was conducted using an online survey. We used sociodemographic data (sex, age, subjective social status) and the digital health literacy questionnaire adapted to the specific COVID-19 context. Online information queries included the topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 searched by students. Logistic regression models were performed. Results Online information queries (e.g., individual measures to protect against infection, current spread of the virus, current situation assessments and recommendations) were associated with an increased odds of achieving sufficient digital health literacy. Conclusions Online information queries related to epidemiological and public health topics are significantly associated with digital health literacy in times of COVID-19. Further studies are needed, including programs that improve digital health literacy among university students and increase the availability of high-quality content information.