Measuring Youth Perceptions of Being Known and Loved and Positive Youth Development: Cross-National Findings from Rwanda and El Salvador.

Background: Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of development emphasize that developmentally-nurturant youth-adult relationships elicit in youth perceptions of being known and loved. Although such perceptions are foundations of positive youth development (PYD), such measures do not exist. Objective: We sought to create a theoretically-predicated measure of youth perceptions of being known and loved by capitalizing on data sets in two countries (Rwanda and El Salvador) wherein a multi-national study of PYD was being conducted by Compassion International (CI). Method: With Rwanda data (n = 1,204, M age = 11.84, 50% CI-supported), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses enabled refining the measure for robustness and parsimony. Measures of intentional self-regulation, hopeful future expectations, transcendence, and contribution were used for validation of the known and loved measure within the nomological net of constructs proposed in the Lerner and Lerner PYD model. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the use of the model within the El Salvador data set (n = 1,205, M age = 13.03, 51% CI-supported). Results: Robust psychometric properties were established in both national settings. Measurement invariance was found across age, gender, urban-rural location, CI-enrollment status, and nations, and involved both mean differences and correlations among latent factors. Conclusions: The results provide evidence for a theory-predicated measure of youth perceptions of being known and loved and that scores for this construct covary within a nomological net specified in the Lerner and Lerner model of PYD. These findings serve international development organizations seeking theory-predicated measures for use in evaluating PYD programs in low- and middle-income countries. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10566-022-09725-6.

Tratamientos de dosis única de tioconazol ungüento 300 mg en vulvovaginitis por candida / Single dose treatment with 300 mg tioconazole ointment in Candida vulvovaginitis

Se comprobó el hallazgo microscópico por cultivo, aislando en 25 pacientes (54.3%) Candida Sp y en 21 pacientes (54.7%) Cándida albicans. Durante la primera visita de control, se encontró que 91.3% de las pacientes experimentaron curación y mejoría clínica, únicamente 8.7% fueron consideradas fallas clínicas, tanto para la paciente como para el médico tratante. En segundo control post-tratamiento, 87.0% tuvieron curación y mejoría clínica y 13% falla clínica. El estudio micológico resultó negativo en el 82.6% y el 17.4% tuvieron cultivo positivo. El porcentaje menor de curación clínica encontrado en el segundo control se debió a que probablemente dos pacientes presentaron reinfección