{"title":"Risk factors on incidence of tuberculosis in Tinambung, Indonesia","authors":"Basrun Anccunk","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"Tuberculosis increases as TB-HIV cases increase; it is caused by knowledge, unhealthy behavior, increasing poverty, TB drug resistance, and to sociodemographic and environmental problems. This study aimed to analyse individual and environmental risk factors for the incidence of tuberculosis. This type of research is an observational analysis of a population of the Tinambung community using a case-control study design carried out in the working area of the Tinambung Health Center. With a sample of 156 people (76 cases and 76 controls), the instruments used were questionnaires and lighting and humidity measurements. Cases are tuberculosis sufferers, and controls are non-tuberculosis sufferers.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46481715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumption of psychoactive substances, mental health and sexual behaviors as risk factors in the health of Colombian children and adolescents","authors":"Carmen Emilce Barrera-Mesa","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.2","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to provide precise data on risk behaviors and protective factors for the health of secondary and high school students at a Colombian educational institution. The study has a quantitative approach with a descriptive scope, a convenience sampling was carried out thattook as a sample of 656 students who received authorization from their parents and agreed to answer the voluntary, anonymous, and confidential survey. The 10 modules of the Global School Hkealth Survey (GSHS) were applied, and this article presents the results regarding the modules of tobacco use, drug use, sexual behaviors, and mental health.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43167296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trastorno por uso de videojuegos y comportamiento agresivo en adolescentes de educación secundaria: Un estudio transversal en Perú","authors":"E. G. Estrada-Araoz","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.16","url":null,"abstract":"Introducción: Los videojuegos son en la actualidad una de las formas de entretenimiento más populares, especialmente entre los adolescentes y jóvenes, sin embargo, su uso excesivo y compulsivo podría provocar una serie de problemas que afectarían su bienestar personal y calidad de vida. Objetivo: Determinar si el trastorno por uso de videojuegos se relaciona de manera significativa con el comportamiento agresivo de los adolescentes de educación secundaria de la Amazonía peruana.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42591970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perception of the benefits of companion animals during the time of quarantine by COVID-19 in a sample of inhabitants of the city of Medellín, Colombia","authors":"O. Klimenko","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.7","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aimed to identify the perception of the benefits derived from the company of pets during the quarantine by COVID-19 in a sample of the Medellín city population, Colombia. A quantitative, descriptive, ex post facto study was used, with the participation of 141 people, 73 % women (n=102) and 27 % men (n=39), with an average age of M=35.2 (SD =8.4). The variables of human-animal interaction, emotional closeness with the pet, physical and psychological benefits, and perceived cost were evaluated through an ad-hoc Likert-type questionnaire with Alpha Cronbach 9.79.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48678934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading comprehension and academic performance, an analysis in primary basic education students from Yopal – Casanare","authors":"Helena Báez Infante","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.11","url":null,"abstract":"Reading comprehension is a process through which the student shows his ability to analyze, interpret and argue about a topic that he has read and allows him to respond in fields of knowledge and solve problems. This study aimed to relate the evaluation of reading comprehension with the academic performance of primary school students from Yopal Casanare. A quantitative study was carried out, with a non-experimental design, of correlational scope and moment of a cross-sectional study.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46157056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Actitudes sobre las enfermedades infecciosas y contagiosas en población colombiana","authors":"Stefano Vinaccia Alpi","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.14","url":null,"abstract":"Antecedentes: Si bien se ubican investigaciones en el contexto internacional que relacionan y comparan las actitudes ante enfermedades infectocontagiosas, no existen estudios referidos al respecto en el caribe colombiano. Objetivo: Evaluar las diferencias entre las variables vulnerabilidad percibida a la enfermedad, locus de control de la salud y obsesión-compulsión por la contaminación según el sexo, la edad, el estado civil y el nivel educativo, e identificar posibles relaciones entre estas variables.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41314795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotions, anxiety, depression and the immune system: an integrative view of psychoneuroimmunology from a meta-analytic review of the narrative","authors":"Jorge Hernández-Flórez","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.20","url":null,"abstract":"The study focused on conducting a meta-analytic review of three variables psychoneuroimmunology, emotions, and the immune system, intending to find a relationship between them. The methodology was the PRISMA statement with inclusion criteria: production of the last five years, full text, exclusion criteria: book chapters, reviews, editorials, letters to the editorials, as well as systematic and meta-analytic reviews; a formula was created from the variables with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) in databases: Web of Science, PubMed and Elsevier. The first sweep denotes (n=2237) articles and after the application of the screening, the final sample was (n=26).","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43468109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lifestyle and mental health in conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of people from the city of Medellín, Colombia","authors":"Nubia Hernández-Flórez","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.10","url":null,"abstract":"It is important to analyze the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying factors that allowed the population to mitigate its negative effects on mental health. The present study was oriented to identify factors related to lifestyle and its relationship with mental health in a sample of adults in the city of Medellín, Colombia, during quarantine in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was quantitative, cross-sectional, non-experimental, and descriptive level. The Pender (1996) lifestyle profile questionnaire (PEPSI-I) and the Derogatis (1994) SCL-90-R symptom inventory were applied to the sample of 100 people, selected utilizing a call on social networks.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44057645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family functioning and self-harm behaviors in adolescents and young people in the municipality of Valledupar-Colombia","authors":"L. Cudris-Torres","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.13","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: There are risk factors associated with the life cycle of adolescence and early adulthood, such as depression and hopelessness, disappointment and guilt at the impossibility of meeting parental expectations, family problems, a history of suicide in relatives, friends, and/or colleagues, difficulties in communication, a tendency to isolation, few interpersonal relationships, abuse of psychoactive substances, cuts or blows to the body, ideas, fantasies or previous attempts, considering suicide as a heroic act. Suicidal ideation and behavior in adolescence and youth is a public health problem with emotional, family, economic, and social consequences.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47852871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obesity paradox and cardiovascular risk","authors":"Ana Daniela Torres Quezada","doi":"10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47307/gmc.2023.131.s3.19","url":null,"abstract":"Obesity, traditionally defined as excess body fat, is a non-communicable chronic inflammatory disease highly prevalent in both sexes, in all age groups, and in different regions globally, which is frequently associated with an increased risk of metabolic and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. During the last decades, evidence has been growing that suggests the existence of a phenomenon that is currently known as the “obesity paradox”, which exposes that individuals who are overweight or obese have a lower risk of mortality from all causes, an effect that extends to those patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), in whom mortality from CV causes is also decreased.","PeriodicalId":35684,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta Medica de Caracas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46741148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}