Implementation of guidelines to integrate the caregiver as a coassistant of health-care personnel during the hospital stay of COVID-19 pediatric patients: adaptation in a Mexican public pediatric hospital.

This paper describes the experience in a public pediatric hospital when implementing the Mexican Health Ministry's recommendations on the inclusion and importance of a chosen caregiver during the hospitalization of a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pediatric patient. The implementation includes the adjustments, observations, and limitations made in real practice and process. In conclusion, the value and benefits of the accompaniment of hospitalized children with COVID-19 by a primary or chosen caregiver are evidenced and supported by family-centered care.

Validation of the Comic Strip Test to evaluate empathy in a Mexican population sample.

Introduction: Empathy is the ability of an individual to understand it from another cognitive and emotional point of view. Empathy is a complex that represents a retouch in its evaluation, so, it is necessary to have instruments validated in the Mexican population.

Objective: Validation of the Comic Strip Test to evaluate empathy.

[Validación de la prueba de Tiras cómicas para evaluar la empatía en una muestra de población mexicana].

Introduction: Empathy is the ability of an individual to understand it from another cognitive and emotional point of view. Empathy is a complex that represents a retouch in its evaluation, so, it is necessary to have instruments validated in the Mexican population.

Objective: Validation of the Comic Strip Test to evaluate empathy.

[Menstrual cycle perception and psychological distress in a sample of Mexican women].

Objective: To evaluate the association between psychological distress and menstrual bleeding perception, in order to design a psychological intervention for women in reproductive age.

Material And Methods: Ex post facto and retrospective study in a random sample of women living in Mexico City with ages between 15 to 35 years. The following instruments were administered after reading the informed consent form: demographic and social questionnaire, gyneco-obstetric clinical history, menstrual bleeding diagnostic scale, menstrual bleeding analogical scale and the Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire.

[Brief version (15 items) of the General Health Questionnaire for opportune detection of psychological uneasiness in women].

Objective: To propose a short version of the Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire that can be applied as a screening test in non-specialized in mental health public institutions.

Patients And Methods: Women older than 18 years from Instituto Nacional de Perinatología consult. General Health Questionnaire application (30 items), during nine consecutive months.

[Delivery or cesarean section and women's emotional condition].

Background: Interest to know and study women's point of view over delivery type and its late effect in emotional state has increased recently.

Objective: To determine if there is any relation between the type of delivery and emotional state in woman after the delivery or cesarean section. In addition, to know whether this resolution modifies in any way her emotional state during the puerperium.

[Self-concept during high-risk pregnancy and recurrent gestational loss].

Background: Within medical environment, emotional aspect of therapy strategy is frequently ignored or confused with different psychological aspects. There are scarce reports of high-risk pregnancies or recurrent gestational loss, most of them focused on an isolated event or factor related with self-concept.

Objective: To get self-concept profiles in two important reproductive different moments (high-risk pregnancy and recurrent gestational loss) and better focus therapy strategies.

[An explanation of depression and anxiety symptoms in sterile women].

Objective: To discriminate variables that could account for depression and anxiety in women with infertility. The independent variables were gender role, assertive behavior and self-esteem; the dependent variables were depression and anxiety.

Patients And Methods: The sample consisted of 240 women selected through a special program intended to choose patients based on infertility medical criteria.

[A descriptive study of psychiatric population at Instituto Nacional de Perinatología].

Objective: To establish a description of the psychiatric population of the Instituto Nacional de Perinatología (INPer), as well as of the exposed newborns to psychopharmacological treatment during the gestation.

Material And Method: One hundred forty-six women were gathered, by means of serial files; 85 of them had an obstetric episode of high risk and 61 were assisted in the institution due to gynecological alterations. A clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist carried out, each one, an interview and the clinical history of all the women.