Covid-19 in Peru: From supervised walks for children to the first case of Kawasaki-like syndrome

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Anxiety, distress, and turnover intention of healthcare workers in Peru by their distance to the epicenter during the COVID-19 crisis

We conducted a cross-sectional survey to assess the anxiety, distress, and turnover intention (likelihood to leave their current job) of healthcare workers in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results reported that 21.7% healthcare workers in Peru experienced severe anxiety, whereas 26.1% of them experienced severe mental distress. A higher level of education related with a lower level of anxiety. Younger workers had a higher level of turnover intention than their older colleagues did. Healthcare workers in the private sector had a higher turnover intention than those in the public sector. Most importantly, people who were geographically far from Lima, the epicenter in Peru, during the outbreak experienced less anxiety and mental distress, corroborating the ripple effect and disconfirming the typhoon eye theory. However, the direction of these relationships can change depending on the type of institutions (public versus private) and the type of employees' contract (full time versus part time). Our research helps provide insights for clinical professionals in identifying the vulnerable groups to mental disorders in Peru. This is the first study to assess anxiety, mental distress, and turnover intention in healthcare workers in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. Copyrigh

Influence of technostress on academic performance of university medicine students in peru during the covid-19 pandemic

The current study aims to validate and apply an instrument to assess the relationship between communication overload, social overload, technostress, exhaustion and academic performance. We performed a cross-sectional, analytical study of 2286 university medical students to assess the influence of technostress as a mediator of social media overload, communication overload and mental exhaustion and its detrimental effect on the academic performance of university students in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research model was validated using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to establish the influence of variables on the model. Communication and social overload were found to positively influence technostress by correlations of 0.284 and 0.557, respectively. Technostress positively influenced exhaustion by 0.898, while exhaustion negatively influenced academic performance by-0.439. Bootstrapping demonstrated that the path coefficients of the research model were statistically significant. The research outcomes may help university managers understand students’ technostress and develop strategies to improve the balanced use of technology for their daily academic activities.Revisión por pare

COVID-19, mental health and its relationship with workplace accidents

The general objective of this article is to show the relationship that exists in the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health of people and the propensity for work-related accidents in companies. Various results are shown that detail how COVID-19 has generated and is generating mental alterations in people such as post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD for its acronym in English. Likewise, data are presented that report the influence of mental health as a precursor to workplace accidents in different industries, with which it can be concluded that COVID-19 needs a comprehensive approach in companies to prevent it from negatively impacting workers and they end up accident during their daily work. Some concrete actions are proposed to promote and avoid in companies so that workers can be better managed in times of a COVID-19 pandemic.Campus Lima Centr

Augmented reality for innovation: Education and analysis of the glacial retreat of the Peruvian Andean snow-capped mountains

Mountain glaciers are considered great reservoirs of water, and their importance lies in the fact that many of our ecosystems and numerous communities depend on them; Peru has one of the largest extensions of Andean snow-capped mountains, which have been affected by the decline in their glacier coverage and that is warned, will disappear due to environmental conditions and alterations in the current global temperature. This problem has increased due to ignorance, misinformation, indifference, and lack of solidarity on the part of the population who favors this discouraging situation. Taking advantage of the current technological immersion, in which we live, the development of a mobile application was proposed as a pedagogical resource to raise awareness among educational institutions about the glacial retreat of the Peruvian Andean snow-capped mountains, showing the current situation of some of the snow-capped mountains of the Andes that have suffered a greater impact, implementing augmented reality technology to obtain an interactive link. To provide greater detail of the situation, previous studies were carried out on glacial retreats in two Peruvian snow-capped mountains over the last 40 years, where it was found that, of the snow-capped mountains considered, Chicon had a decrease of 32.5% of its glacier cover, and Pumahuanca had a decrease of 56.9%. Such results are exposed within the application to provide realistic data on the glacial conditions of both Peruvian snow-capped mountains, as well as the consequences and conservation techniques to mitigate and cope with deglaciation. Taking into consideration that environmental education from an early age turns out to be key to forming an informed and participatory society about climate change

"The Public Health Contribution of Sentiment Analysis of Monkeypox Tweets to Detect Polarities Using the CNN-LSTM Model"

"Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by the monkeypox virus. This disease was considered eradicated in 1980 and was believed to affect rodents and not humans. However, recent years have seen a massive outbreak of monkeypox in humans, setting off worldwide alerts from health agencies. As of September 2022, the number of confirmed cases in Peru had reached 1964. Although most monkeypox patients have been discharged, we cannot neglect the monitoring of the population with respect to the monkeypox virus. Lately, the population has started to express their feelings and opinions through social media, specifically Twitter, as it is the most used social medium and is an ideal space to gather what people think about the monkeypox virus. The information imparted through this medium can be in different formats, such as text, videos, images, audio, etc. The objective of this work is to analyze the positive, negative, and neutral feelings of people who publish their opinions on Twitter with the hashtag #Monkeypox. To find out what people think about this disease, a hybrid-based model architecture built on CNN and LSTM was used to determine the prediction accuracy. The prediction result obtained from the total monkeypox data was 83% accurate. Other performance metrics were also used to evaluate the model, such as specificity, recall level, and F1 score, representing 99%, 85%, and 88%, respectively. The results also showed the polarity of feelings through the CNN-LSTM confusion matrix, where 45.42% of people expressed neither positive nor negative opinions, while 19.45% expressed negative and fearful feelings about this infectious disease. The results of this work contribute to raising public awareness about the monkeypox virus.

Green entrepreneurial intentions among university students in Chile: use of PLS-SEM

The current study evaluated factors that explain green entrepreneurship intention (GEI) among 407 university students in Chile, who were presented with an online questionnaire. Thirty-nine questions evaluated their GEI, and the data was analysed using multivariate techniques. Results showed thatconcept development support (CDS), business development support (BDS) and academic training support (ATS) had a positive effect on institutional support (IS). Country support (CS) had a positive effect on self-efficacy (SE). IS did not have a positive effect on SE. Finally, SE had a positive effect on GEI. The model explained 25.3% of GEI. Bootstrapping led support to these results. The effects of CDS, BDS, ATS, CS and SE were positive and significant. Recognizing which factors have a significant effect can be useful to devise university programs aiming to enhance GEI among university students. The results of this paper may provide useful indications about future entrepreneurship and possibly suggest ways in which students’ participation in private companies may create successful green products and services.Revisión por paresODS 4: Educación de calidadODS 8: Trabajo decente y crecimiento económicoODS 12: Producción y consumo responsable

Impacto de la Atención Farmacéutica en la adherencia de los pacientes con VIH en el Hospital San Pablo de Coquimbo, Chile.

Introducción: Garantizar la sostenibilidad de un sistema de salud requiere que los esfuerzos multidisciplinarios estén enfocados en contribuir con el éxito de los tratamientos farmacológicos, siendo la falta de adherencia a los tratamientos un problema a nivel mundial. La Atención Farmacéutica está enfocada en optimizar la adherencia a la farmacoterapia. Objetivos: Determinar el impacto de la Atención Farmacéutica en la adherencia de los pacientes con VIH en el Hospital San Pablo de Coquimbo de Chile. Método: Estudio epidemiológico, sin grupo control, prospectivo y longitudinal. Medición de las variables antes y después en un periodo de 6 meses. Se evalúa el impacto de la Atención Farmacéutica en la adherencia al tratamiento farmacológico, carga viral, CD4 y grado de conocimiento de los medicamentos y enfermedad por parte de los pacientes. Los resultados obtenidos se procesaron en el programa estadístico SPSS V.21. Resultados: El 45,46% de los Resultados Negativos asociados a la Medicación (RNM) encontrados estuvieron relacionados a la efectividad. Se consiguió un incremento de 13% en el puntaje de la encuesta de adherencia CEAT-VIH. Se logró un aumento del promedio de CDL desde 210.3 a 249.3 y una disminución de la carga viral promedio de 60660 a 291.2. Los pacientes con > 50 de carga viral pasaron de 11 a 3 mientras que los pacientes con < 50 de carga viral pasaron de 7 a 14. Finalmente, hubo un aumento del 60% en los valores del cuestionario de conocimientos. Conclusión: La Atención Farmacéutica en pacientes con VIH es efectiva en la mejora de la adherencia al tratamiento farmacológico, en mejores resultados de CD4 y carga viral así como el conocimiento de la enfermedad y los medicamentos

Barreras para la provisión de Atención Farmacéutica en farmacias de Tainan, Taiwán

Introducción: Los diferentes sistemas de salud necesitan ser eficientes, es decir, lograr los objetivos económicos, sociales y principalmente clínicos, por lo cual necesitan que se optimicen sus procesos, siendo el proceso de uso de medicamentos crucial para la recuperación y mantenimiento de la salud de los pacientes. La Atención Farmacéutica dirigida a los pacientes es una práctica profesional que contribuye a la optimización del uso de medicamentos y al logro de resultados clínicos; sin embargo, la provisión de la Atención Farmacéutica en farmacias presenta distintas barreras que requieren conocerse en cada realidad para poder formular estrategias que permitan superarlas. Objetivos: Determinar las barreras para la provisión de Atención Farmacéutica en farmacias de la provincia de Tainan, Taiwán. Material y métodos: Estudio observacional, descriptivo y transversal, realizado mediante una encuesta dirigida a 141 farmacéuticos que trabajan en la provincia de Tainan en Taiwán. Se elaboró una ficha de recolección de datos (cuestionario en escala Likert) basada en la información disponible de la literatura. Los resultados obtenidos se procesaron en el programa estadístico SPSS V.24. Resultados: Las barreras muy importantes para la provisión de Atención Farmacéutica son la falta de formación del público hacia los servicios farmacéuticos (95,7%), la falta de pago por el servicio (84,4%), la falta de tiempo (80,9%) y las barreras legales (74,5%); asimismo, las barreras no importantes fueron la actitud inadecuada del dueño de la farmacia hacia la atención farmacéutica (14,8%) y actitud inadecuada de los farmacéuticos (10,6%). Conclusión: Los barreras determinadas en el presente estudio requieren intervenciones desde el Estado, las universidades, los colegios profesionales de farmacéuticos así como de los pacientes. Las barreras encontradas son distintas a las descritas en estudios previos