Giving Voice to Women: Social Representations and Experiences of Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is a central issue in research from a gender perspective. We consider breastfeeding as a biopsychosocial, diverse and plural process, which generates ambivalent experiences in mothers. Our research was aimed to increase the understanding of thoughts and experiences of mothers. Ten women, primiparous and non-primiparous mother, were interviewed at two moments in time. The results showed that the breastfeeding period was shorter than the time recommended by health organizations, the reasons to breastfeed were related to the well-being of their children and women´s social support came from their partners.Breastfeeding is a central issue in research from a gender perspective. We consider breastfeeding as a biopsychosocial, diverse and plural process, which generates ambivalent experiences in mothers. Our research was aimed to increase the understanding of thoughts and experiences of mothers. Ten women, primiparous and non-primiparous mother, were interviewed at two moments in time. The results showed that the breastfeeding period was shorter than the time recommended by health organizations, the reasons to breastfeed were related to the well-being of their children and women´s social support came from their partners

Prevalencia de Ametropías en niños de 5to y 6to Grado de la Escuela Veracruz-Masatepe I Semestre, 2017

El presente estudio “Prevalencia de Ametropías en niños de 5to y 6to grado de la Escuela Veracruz-Masatepe I semestre, 2017”. Es de tipo Descriptivo, prospectivo y transversal, constituyéndose por una población de 77 niños, utilizando el muestreo probabilístico aleatorio simple, de los cuales, 43 fueron participes por cumplir con los criterios de inclusión establecidos por el tipo de estudio. Entre los resultados más importantes podemos destacar: el grupo etario con mayor afectación fue de 11-12 años, siendo predominante el sexo femenino, con un 58% en relación al sexo femenino con un 42%. Por otra parte el estudio revelo, que hay altos porcentajes de ametropías; siendo predominante hipermetropía, astigmatismo, astigmatismo hipermetrópico, y miopía con más del 21%. Esto demuestra que existe una demanda visual existente para la población a estudi

Measuring online teaching service quality in higher education in the COVID-19 environment

The use of the Internet to develop new technologies has generated a considerable change in teaching and student learning in higher education. The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has forced universities to switch from face-to-face to online instruction. Furthermore, this transfer process was planned and executed quickly, with urgent redesigns of courses originally conceived for live teaching. The aim of this work is to measure the service quality of online teaching delivered during the COVID- 19 period. The methodology was based on an importance-performance analysis using a structural equations model. The data were obtained from a sample of 467 students attending a university in southern Spain. The results reveal five priority attributes of online teaching that need to be improved in order to enhance the service quality of the virtual instruction provided to students. Universities need to redefine their online format by integrating methodological and technological decisions and involving collaboration between teachers, students and administration staff and services. The results do not apply to educational institutions that exclusively teach courses online, but to those institutions that had to rapidly adapt, and shift course material originally designed for face-to-face training