Efficacy of a Hospital Discharge Transition Plan in the care competence of patients with chronic conditions and their family caregivers: a clinical trial.

Objective: to assess the efficacy of a Hospital Discharge Transition Plan in the care competence and in adherence to the therapy of dyads comprised by patients with non-communicable chronic diseases and their caregivers.

Method: a controlled and randomized clinical trial; the sample was comprised by 80 dyads of patients with chronic conditions and their caregivers, randomly allocated as follows: 40 to the control group and another 40 to the intervention group. The instruments to characterize the patient-caregiver dyad, the patients' and caregivers' care competence and the patients' adherence to the treatment scale were applied.

Factors related to healthcare costs of road traffic accidents in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Objective: To determine the factors related to overall healthcare costs of road traffic accidents in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted through the analysis of road traffic accident records that took place in 2019 in Bucaramanga, Colombia. Cost quartiles in dollars were compared using Pearson's chi-squared and Fisher's exact tests.

Multicomponent nursing program to prevent delirium in critically ill patients: a randomized clinical trial.

Objectives: To determine the efficacy of a multicomponent nursing program to prevent delirium in critically ill patients.

Methods: Parallel controlled randomized clinical trial to prevent delirium in 81 critically ill patients: 41 in the control group and 40 in the intervention group (intervention: spatial and temporal guidance, visual stimulus, auditive stimulus, and family support). Participants were recruited from September 2017 to March 2018 in the university hospital Los Comuneros, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Nursing intervention to prevent delirium in critically ill adults.

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a nursing intervention for delirium prevention in critically ill patients.

Method: A quasi-experimental study was conducted with a non-equivalent control group and with evaluation before and after the intervention. 157 Patients were part of the intervention group and 134 of the control group.

Bullying in adolescents: role, type of violence and determinants.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of bullying and its determinants among adolescents attending school.

Method: An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of adolescents, who were selected using a multistage probability sampling, from 20 public educational institutions in a Colombian city, in which a simple and multivariate binomial regression was carried out.

Results: A total of 500 adolescents participated from which 50.