Publications by authors named "Claudia Fouilloux-Morales"

Article Synopsis
  • High levels of stress are common among college students, and inadequate sleep can increase their stress vulnerability; this study investigates how self-control and resilience impact this relationship.
  • A survey and wristband tracking were used to analyze the sleep quality and duration of 32 first-year students, revealing significant correlations between perceived stress and factors like resilience, self-control, and sleep duration.
  • The results indicate that resilience mediates the relationship between sleep and perceived stress, while self-control directly influences resilience, highlighting the importance of good sleep for enhancing stress resilience in students.*
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Background: Resilience is the ability to emerge strengthened in an adverse scenario. One population that suffer constant stress are doctors and medical students, which is why it is necessary to have validated instruments to assess resilience.

Objective: To evaluate the validity and reliability parameters of the 10-item resilience scale, Connor-Davidson (CD-RISC-10), in a Mexican university sample.

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Introduction: Current education is focused in intellectual, affective, and ethical aspects, thus acknowledging their significance in students´ metacognition. Nowadays, it is known that an adequate and motivating environment together with a positive attitude towards studies is fundamental to induce learning. Medical students are under multiple stressful, academic, personal, and vocational situations.

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Background: In countries such as United States and European Nations changes have been proposed regarding to duty and academic structure of specialists in training, this implies adjustments in the norms concerning the number of hours a week that residents work. The main argument which has underpinned such transformations is based on the assumption that excessive working hours (more than 16 hours uninterrupted) cause cognitive and psychomotor disorders in residents.

Objective: To evaluate the association between sleep deprivation and cognitive and psychomotor skills of a sample of residents of different specialties of Medicine.

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