Sistematización de experiencias en un proyecto comunitario psicosocial en Quito-Ecuador

El objetivo general de este estudio es desarrollar una guía de investigación de proyectos de vinculación comunitaria, basados en la sistematización de experiencias, partiendo de la adaptación de la metodología en el proyecto de vinculación de Nono. El proceso de adaptación de la sistematización de experiencias se realizó por medio de un análisis crítico de las guías de sistematización de referencia como Cepep (2010), Carlos Eizaguirre y Marlén Urrutia (2004), María Mercedes Bernechea, Estela González y María de la Luz Morgan (1994) y Marfil Francke y María de la Luz Morgan (1995) y la participación en talleres, en los cuáles se definió un modelo de cómo esta metodología se puede utilizar para generar conocimiento a través de proyectos de vinculación.Community psychology as a discipline operates from a basic recognition of the social realities of the community in order to respond to its needs. In Ecuador, the practice of this discipline has resulted in the development and implementation of what is known as Community Engagement Projects (CEP), which are psychosocial interventions undertaken by college students to effect change in specific communities. These projects have limited visibility in traditional venues of scientific production and diffusion. In order to gain recognition in this arena, CEP may benefit from the use of Experience Systematization (ES), a methodological design often used in the evaluation of social programs undertaken by governmental and non-profit entities. The objective of this paper is to describe how this methodology was adapted and applied to a CEP conducted by students of Universidad de Las Americas, aimed at improving psychosocial and educational well being in a rural community in the region.Mesa de trabajos libres: Psicología ComunitariaFacultad de Psicologí

Estudio de datos normativos para pruebas neuropsicológicas pediátricas en Ecuador

Este estudio se enmarca en una investigación multicéntrica asociada a otros países de Latinoamérica (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Paraguay, Perú y Puerto Rico), puntualizando que, en Ecuador, sería el primer proyecto de baremación de pruebas neuropsicológicas pediátricas a gran escala. Sobre la base de este antecedente, surge la necesidad de disponer de datos normativos de la población con la que se va a trabajar. Así, se justifica el objetivo general de la investigación, que sería estandarizar test neuropsicológicos de bajo costo y rápida aplicación, con el fin de apoyar el desarrollo de la evaluación neuropsicológica en el país. Para ello es necesario calcular la fiabilidad de las pruebas, determinar la validez de constructo y la validez convergente, determinar las variables de corrección sobre el rendimiento en cada una de las pruebas y generar tablas de datos normativos para la población infantil ecuatoriana.The practice of pediatric neuropsychology in Ecuador is significantly hindered by a lack of normative data for children in the region, which potentially limits the validity of the evaluation process, resulting in diminished diagnostic accuracy and ineffective clinical interventions. The objective of this study was to create normative data for ten Spanishlanguage commonly administered neuropsychological tests. The sample consisted of 384 healthy individuals between the ages of six and seventeen recruited in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Data analysis involved test score normalization using a regression-based analysis accounting for sex, age, and education effects on performance. This procedure resulted in sex, age, and education based norms for the tests administered. Availability and use of these norms is likely to improve evaluation accuracy and clinical practice.Mesa de trabajos libres: Evaluación PsicológicaFacultad de Psicologí

Sistematización de experiencias en un proyecto comunitario psicosocial en Quito-Ecuador

El objetivo general de este estudio es desarrollar una guía de investigación de proyectos de vinculación comunitaria, basados en la sistematización de experiencias, partiendo de la adaptación de la metodología en el proyecto de vinculación de Nono. El proceso de adaptación de la sistematización de experiencias se realizó por medio de un análisis crítico de las guías de sistematización de referencia como Cepep (2010), Carlos Eizaguirre y Marlén Urrutia (2004), María Mercedes Bernechea, Estela González y María de la Luz Morgan (1994) y Marfil Francke y María de la Luz Morgan (1995) y la participación en talleres, en los cuáles se definió un modelo de cómo esta metodología se puede utilizar para generar conocimiento a través de proyectos de vinculación.Community psychology as a discipline operates from a basic recognition of the social realities of the community in order to respond to its needs. In Ecuador, the practice of this discipline has resulted in the development and implementation of what is known as Community Engagement Projects (CEP), which are psychosocial interventions undertaken by college students to effect change in specific communities. These projects have limited visibility in traditional venues of scientific production and diffusion. In order to gain recognition in this arena, CEP may benefit from the use of Experience Systematization (ES), a methodological design often used in the evaluation of social programs undertaken by governmental and non-profit entities. The objective of this paper is to describe how this methodology was adapted and applied to a CEP conducted by students of Universidad de Las Americas, aimed at improving psychosocial and educational well being in a rural community in the region.Mesa de trabajos libres: Psicología ComunitariaFacultad de Psicologí

Estudio de datos normativos para pruebas neuropsicológicas pediátricas en Ecuador

Este estudio se enmarca en una investigación multicéntrica asociada a otros países de Latinoamérica (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Paraguay, Perú y Puerto Rico), puntualizando que, en Ecuador, sería el primer proyecto de baremación de pruebas neuropsicológicas pediátricas a gran escala. Sobre la base de este antecedente, surge la necesidad de disponer de datos normativos de la población con la que se va a trabajar. Así, se justifica el objetivo general de la investigación, que sería estandarizar test neuropsicológicos de bajo costo y rápida aplicación, con el fin de apoyar el desarrollo de la evaluación neuropsicológica en el país. Para ello es necesario calcular la fiabilidad de las pruebas, determinar la validez de constructo y la validez convergente, determinar las variables de corrección sobre el rendimiento en cada una de las pruebas y generar tablas de datos normativos para la población infantil ecuatoriana.The practice of pediatric neuropsychology in Ecuador is significantly hindered by a lack of normative data for children in the region, which potentially limits the validity of the evaluation process, resulting in diminished diagnostic accuracy and ineffective clinical interventions. The objective of this study was to create normative data for ten Spanishlanguage commonly administered neuropsychological tests. The sample consisted of 384 healthy individuals between the ages of six and seventeen recruited in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Data analysis involved test score normalization using a regression-based analysis accounting for sex, age, and education effects on performance. This procedure resulted in sex, age, and education based norms for the tests administered. Availability and use of these norms is likely to improve evaluation accuracy and clinical practice.Mesa de trabajos libres: Evaluación PsicológicaFacultad de Psicologí

Sistematización de experiencias en un proyecto comunitario psicosocial en Quito-Ecuador

El objetivo general de este estudio es desarrollar una guía de investigación de proyectos de vinculación comunitaria, basados en la sistematización de experiencias, partiendo de la adaptación de la metodología en el proyecto de vinculación de Nono. El proceso de adaptación de la sistematización de experiencias se realizó por medio de un análisis crítico de las guías de sistematización de referencia como Cepep (2010), Carlos Eizaguirre y Marlén Urrutia (2004), María Mercedes Bernechea, Estela González y María de la Luz Morgan (1994) y Marfil Francke y María de la Luz Morgan (1995) y la participación en talleres, en los cuáles se definió un modelo de cómo esta metodología se puede utilizar para generar conocimiento a través de proyectos de vinculación.Community psychology as a discipline operates from a basic recognition of the social realities of the community in order to respond to its needs. In Ecuador, the practice of this discipline has resulted in the development and implementation of what is known as Community Engagement Projects (CEP), which are psychosocial interventions undertaken by college students to effect change in specific communities. These projects have limited visibility in traditional venues of scientific production and diffusion. In order to gain recognition in this arena, CEP may benefit from the use of Experience Systematization (ES), a methodological design often used in the evaluation of social programs undertaken by governmental and non-profit entities. The objective of this paper is to describe how this methodology was adapted and applied to a CEP conducted by students of Universidad de Las Americas, aimed at improving psychosocial and educational well being in a rural community in the region.Mesa de trabajos libres: Psicología ComunitariaFacultad de Psicologí

Estudio de datos normativos para pruebas neuropsicológicas pediátricas en Ecuador

Este estudio se enmarca en una investigación multicéntrica asociada a otros países de Latinoamérica (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Paraguay, Perú y Puerto Rico), puntualizando que, en Ecuador, sería el primer proyecto de baremación de pruebas neuropsicológicas pediátricas a gran escala. Sobre la base de este antecedente, surge la necesidad de disponer de datos normativos de la población con la que se va a trabajar. Así, se justifica el objetivo general de la investigación, que sería estandarizar test neuropsicológicos de bajo costo y rápida aplicación, con el fin de apoyar el desarrollo de la evaluación neuropsicológica en el país. Para ello es necesario calcular la fiabilidad de las pruebas, determinar la validez de constructo y la validez convergente, determinar las variables de corrección sobre el rendimiento en cada una de las pruebas y generar tablas de datos normativos para la población infantil ecuatoriana.The practice of pediatric neuropsychology in Ecuador is significantly hindered by a lack of normative data for children in the region, which potentially limits the validity of the evaluation process, resulting in diminished diagnostic accuracy and ineffective clinical interventions. The objective of this study was to create normative data for ten Spanishlanguage commonly administered neuropsychological tests. The sample consisted of 384 healthy individuals between the ages of six and seventeen recruited in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Data analysis involved test score normalization using a regression-based analysis accounting for sex, age, and education effects on performance. This procedure resulted in sex, age, and education based norms for the tests administered. Availability and use of these norms is likely to improve evaluation accuracy and clinical practice.Mesa de trabajos libres: Evaluación PsicológicaFacultad de Psicologí

Event-related potentials associated to N-back test performance in schizophrenia

Producción CientíficaMapping of Event-Related Potentials (ERP) associated with auditory and visual odd-ball paradigms has shown consistent differences between healthy controls and schizophrenia patients. It may be hypothesized that higher task attentional/cognitive demand will result in larger differences in these paradigms, which may help understanding the substrates of cognitive deficits in this syndrome. To this aim, we performed an EEG study comparing the effects of increasing the attentional/cognitive load of an auditory N-back task on the Event-Related Potential in 50 subjects with schizophrenia (11 first episodes) and 35 healthy controls. We considered a post-target window of 1000 ms to explore possible between groups differences in N100, P300, and Late Slow Wave (LSW), and compared these components between 0-back (‘lower attentional/cognitive load) and 1-back (‘higher attentional/cognitive load’) conditions. Our results showed that N100 and LSW amplitude increase from 0- to 1-back condition was significantly larger in healthy controls compared to schizophrenia patients. Furthermore, LSW amplitude difference between 0- and 1-back conditions positively correlated with performance in the behavioral cognitive assessment. Taken together, these results support that higher task attentional/cognitive load (0-back vs. 1-back condition) increase N100 amplitude differences and reveal new findings related to the LSW component in schizophrenia.Junta de Castilla y León (project VA057P17)Instituto de Salud Carlos III (project PI18/00178

Analysis of the functional EEG network in an Ecuadorian schizophrenia sample

Background and objectives Higher mental functions depend on global functional coordination of the brain. Our aim was to study the baseline condition and modulation of functional networks in a previously unevaluated clinical population, compare the results with a population from another country, and analyze their relationship with cognitive functioning. Methods We evaluated the functioning of brain networks by EEG in 24 patients with schizophrenia and 32 healthy Ecuadorian controls. EEG recordings were made at rest and while performing a P300 task. Small world (SW), Path Length (PL), clustering coefficient (CLC) and connective strength (CS) values were calculated in both conditions. The values obtained were compared between groups, with the results of Spanish patients, and the relationship between the connective parameters and the cognitive performance of the participants was analyzed. Results Higher PL, CLC and CS values were identified in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia compared to controls (in basal condition) and lower SW values in this same condition. Ecuadorian patients obtained higher values than Spanish patients in the PL and CLC parameters and lower values for the SW parameter, despite these differences, the pattern of alteration in both samples followed the same trend. Finally, the alteration of CS, SW, CLC and PL parameters at baseline was related to cognitive performance. Conclusion The connective alterations identified in Ecuadorian schizophrenic patients are consistent with those found in another sample with different genetic, environmental and cultural conditions. In addition, these alterations were associated with worse performance in different cognitive domains