Publications by authors named "Gladys Eugenia Canaval Erazo"
Background: Health professionals in Colombian and many parts of the world, in some cases, work in precarious conditions and intend to migrate to other countries in search of better living conditions for themselves and their families, which results in inadequate distribution worldwide and in the quality of care throughout the health system, which can ultimately influence the quality of life of patients in their health-disease processes.
Purpose: Describe in depth what quality of life at work is like for the health workforce in adult critical care (ACC).
Methods: This is an investigation of convergent parallel mixed methods approach that are integrated by means of a matrix in terms of convergence, divergence, and complementarity.
Aim And Background: Satisfaction with the quality of work life reflects the inadequate distribution of the workforce in critical care units and is not enough; on many occasions, they work in precarious conditions and with high levels of physical, emotional, spiritual, and social demands, impacting the quality of care.
Aim: To identify predictors of the quality of work life of healthcare workers in adult critical care units (ACCU).
Materials And Methods: Quantitative study, cross-sectional analytical design with stratified two-stage sampling; three instruments were applied to 209 healthcare professionals in adult critical care units in different sites in a region of Colombia, concerning Quality of Life at Work-GOHISALO, Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire-COPSOQ and Professional Quality of Life-ProQoL V.
Objectives: This work sought to understand sexual debut as a transitional process in the lives of a group of young adults and to interpret the meaning of this transition for them.
Methodology: This was a qualitative research with 18 life stories of students from different socio-economic backgrounds and with diverse sexual orientations.
Results: According to the middle-range theory of transitions, sexual debut can be considered a developmental transition.