Psicodiagnóstico Laboral: Evaluación de la Atención y su relación con Perfiles de Puestos Administrativos, Nivel de Instrucción, Rango Etario y Género

El presente trabajo, es un estudio de casos consistentes en la administración de la técnica Toulouse – Pieron en el ámbito laboral a 97 candidatos de entre 20 y 35 años que se presentaron para cubrir vacantes de puestos administrativos (auxiliares) en una importante compañía de seguros de la ciudad de Rosario. El objetivo general consistió en determinar la capacidad atentiva de los postulantes evaluados de acuerdo a perfiles de puesto, factores etarios, de género y de instrucción. También se avanzó en integrar los resultados obtenidos en la técnica Toulouse – Pieron con indicadores gráficos de la capacidad atentiva detectados en el Test de la Persona y Persona bajo la lluvia. Ello permitió la integración de estudios cuantitativos y cualitativos tendientes a evaluar la competencia Atención. A modo de conclusión, se pudieron confeccionar con la población evaluada de la ciudad de Rosario, baremos de atención y concentración para cada una de las variables estudiadas, y baremos generales que pudieron compararse con los baremos argentinos generales de la ciudad de Buenos Aires confeccionados por la Licenciada Graciela Adam (2008) presentes en el manual Toulouse - Pieron

Mapping Protein Structure Changes with Cysteine Labeling Kinetics by Mass Spectrometry

Currently we observe a gap between theory and practices of patient engagement. If both scholars and health practitioners do agree on the urgency to realize patient engagement, no shared guidelines exist so far to orient clinical practice. Despite a supportive policy context, progress to achieve greater patient engagement is patchy and slow and often concentrated at the level of policy regulation without dialoguing with practitioners from the clinical field as well as patients and families. Though individual clinicians, care teams and health organizations may be interested and deeply committed to engage patients and family members in the medical course, they may lack clarity about how to achieve this goal. This contributes to a wide "system" inertia-really difficult to be overcome-and put at risk any form of innovation in this filed. As a result, patient engagement risk today to be a buzz words, rather than a real guidance for practice. To make the field clearer, we promoted an Italian Consensus Conference on Patient Engagement (ICCPE) in order to set the ground for drafting recommendations for the provision of effective patient engagement interventions. The ICCPE will conclude in June 2017. This document reports on the preliminary phases of this process. In the paper, we advise the importance of "fertilizing a patient engagement ecosystem": an oversimplifying approach to patient engagement promotion appears the result of a common illusion. Patient "disengagement" is a symptom that needs a more holistic and complex approach to solve its underlined causes. Preliminary principles to promote a patient engagement ecosystem are provided in the paper

La renovación de la palabra en el bicentenario de la Argentina : los colores de la mirada lingüística

El libro reúne trabajos en los que se exponen resultados de investigaciones presentadas por investigadores de Argentina, Chile, Brasil, España, Italia y Alemania en el XII Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística (SAL), Bicentenario: la renovación de la palabra, realizado en Mendoza, Argentina, entre el 6 y el 9 de abril de 2010. Las temáticas abordadas en los 167 capítulos muestran las grandes líneas de investigación que se desarrollan fundamentalmente en nuestro país, pero también en los otros países mencionados arriba, y señalan además las áreas que recién se inician, con poca tradición en nuestro país y que deberían fomentarse. Los trabajos aquí publicados se enmarcan dentro de las siguientes disciplinas y/o campos de investigación: Fonología, Sintaxis, Semántica y Pragmática, Lingüística Cognitiva, Análisis del Discurso, Psicolingüística, Adquisición de la Lengua, Sociolingüística y Dialectología, Didáctica de la lengua, Lingüística Aplicada, Lingüística Computacional, Historia de la Lengua y la Lingüística, Lenguas Aborígenes, Filosofía del Lenguaje, Lexicología y Terminología

Research in therapeutic patient education: current challenges

Therapeutic patient education started being recognized in the early 1970s, after the demonstration of the monetary savings associated with the reduction in hospitalizations due to the acute complications of diabetes. Since then it has steadily increased in number, for many chronic diseases, progressively focusing on relevant targets such as quality of life and healthy behaviours. The quality of published papers has progressively improved, with a steady increase of RCTs, but quantitative research has been and still is largely prevalent, with qualitative and mixed-methods research still representing only 3% and 0.8% respectively of total TPE research, despite the recognition that “RCTs in this area of research are not always feasible or even desirable”. Within the framework of narrative medicine, we have integrated the autobiographical approach in our TPE activity and have shown by qualitative methods that it can be appreciated and effective with adolescents with type-1 diabetes, allowing to propose it as a proper way to patient centred care for other chronic diseases

Antimicrobial Activity and Chromatographic Analysis of Extracts from Tropaeolum pentaphyllum Lam. Tubers

Background: Tropaeolum pentaphyllum Lam. tubers (Tropaeolaceae) are known and used as a condiment and for the treatment of skin infections in Southern Brazil. However, its activity and composition has not yet been investigated. Thus, different extracts and the essential oil from the tubers were tested against a range of microorganisms. The most active extracts were submitted to chromatographic analysis. Methods: Hydroalcoholic extract (70%), fractions of it, and the essential oil from the tubers were tested against several bacteria, yeasts and molds, furnishing the corresponding inhibitory, bactericidal and fungicidal minimal concentration values. The most active extracts were submitted to GC-MS investigation. Results: The strongest effects against different strains of microorganisms, such as Gram-positive and negative bacteria, Candida spp. and dermatophytes were observed for the essential oil and the chloroform fraction, with minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) well below 200 µg/mL. GC-MS analysis revealed that the major essential oil constituent is benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC), while the chloroform fraction is constituted of BITC, amides, sulfur, fatty acids and its esters, all compounds that may be related to the demonstrated activity. Conclusions: Overall, the results support the popular use of the plant for the treatment of skin infections, and revealed the main active compounds

Mutual interactions between depression/quality of life and adherence to a multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention in obesity

Context. There is scarce knowledge of the interaction between depression/health related quality of life (HRQOL) and lifestyle intervention in obesity. Objective. To establish whether baseline mood status or HRQOL affect attendance to educational or exercise sessions and whether attendance to these two components of the intervention affects mood and/or HRQOL in obesity. Design. 282 overweight/obese subjects (BMI 33.4±5.9, 103 males, 179 females, age 53.8±13.0, mean±SD) were consecutively enrolled in a multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention program. During the intensive phase of the intervention (3 months) patients were invited to attend 8 educational sessions and 26 exercise group sessions. Results. Poor adherence to exercise sessions is predicted by baseline depressive mood (p=0.006) and by low levels of HRQOL (domains of Vitality, Physical Role Functioning, Social Functioning, Mental Composite, Physical Composite Scores) (p<0.05). Attendance to the educational sessions is associated with beneficial effects of the lifestyle intervention on depressive symptoms (p<0.013) and on several mental domains of HRQOL (p<0.041); attendance to the exercise sessions predicted the beneficial effects on perceived general health (p<0.021) and BMI (p<0.011). Attendance to both educational and exercise components is associated (p<0.05) with the reductions in waist circumference, fat mass and blood pressure observed after the intensive phase of the intervention. Conclusions. Measurement of depressive mood and HRQOL before lifestyle intervention allows identification of patients at increased risk of attrition with exercise and educational sessions. Both the exercise and the educational sessions are essential for gaining the full spectrum of psychological and clinical benefits from multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention in obesity

Multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention in the obese: its impact on patients perception of the disease, food and physical exercise

Background and aims: To be successful, lifestyle intervention in obesity must take into account patients' views. The aim of the present study, conducted using a narrative-autobiographical approach, was to report on the perception of disease, food and physical exercise in a group of 80 obese patients during a structured multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention. Methods and Results: Patients underwent lifestyle intervention, of three months' duration, structured in the following steps: 1) an initial medical examination; 2) an interview by a psychologist; 3) an assessment by a dietician, 4) a physical examination by a specialist in sports medicine; 5) an individualized program consisting of 24 sessions (two per week) of structured indoor exercise 6) eight sessions of group therapeutic education; 7) Nordic walking activity combined with walking excursions during weekends. All the narrative autobiographic texts obtained during the lifestyle intervention were submitted for content analysis; data were analysed according to the ''grounded theory'' method. According to patients' descriptions at the end of the intervention, lifestyle intervention resulted in enhanced self-efficacy and a reduction in their dependency on food and people; their fear of change was also diminished because, by undergoing intervention, they had experienced change. Conclusion: The findings made in the present qualitative analysis suggest that whenever multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention is planned for patients with obesity, it is of the utmost importance to tailor the approach while taking the following key aspects into account: motivation, barriers and/or facilitators in lifestyle change, patients' perceptions of obesity and relationship with food, diet and exercise. © 2011 Elsevier B.V