Cultural Beliefs About the Etiology of Schizophrenia and Expressed Emotion in Mexican Families.

Introduction: Schizophrenia is a severe and persistent mental disorder that affects around 21 million people worldwide. The etiology of schizophrenia is currently understood as heterogeneous and multifactorial. Genetic and environmental factors are the most common explanations for the onset of schizophrenia, but along with these, hybridized cultural ideas coexist between medical, superstitious, and religious paradigms.

Prevalence of Burnout Syndrome and Associated Variables in Mexican Medical Specialists.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of burnout syndrome and the associated variables in medical specialists in Mexico.

Methods: Observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study, by means of a census of 540 medical specialists from three Regional Hospitals. Using their identification card and self-administered Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services questionnaire, descriptive statistics and inferential analysis were performed using SPSS 15.

[Prevalence of professional burnout syndrome in medical specialists and risk factors].

Background: One of the most important psychosocial factors to which doctors are exposed is the burnout syndrome, whose origin is possibly the chronic stress experienced during the development of their professional practice.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of burnout syndrome in medical specialists and risk factors.

Material And Methods: Observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study, census of medical specialists physicians in a regional hospital, with the participation of 196 of them, identification card and self-administered Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey participated.

[Considerations concerning medical knowledge inherited in Mexico from 19th century: the diabetes mellitus case].

In Mexico, as in the entire Western world, during the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century, medical knowledge developed in a remarkable way and the case of diabetes mellitus was not the exception. This situation, which arose on the basis of the antique paradigm, and which in turn was overthrown by the positivism as the emergent paradigm (with its clinical and anatomical, as well as physiopathological and etiopathological viewpoints), was reflected during the 19th the century through its actors and the communications that opened the access of Mexican medicine to the modernity.

Descriptive, Longitudinal Study Results Applied to Statistical Models to Assess the Impact of Early Microbiological Cultures on the Economic Burden of Treatment for Infected Diabetic Foot Ulcers at a Mexican Public Health Facility.

Infection plays a critical role in health care and impacts the cost of the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFU). To examine the cost reduction associated with the multidisciplinary treatment of infected DFU (IDFU) by obtaining early (ie, within 48 hours of admission) microbiological culture results, a descriptive, longitudinal study was conducted. Data were collected prospectively from patient medical charts of a cohort of 67 patients (mean age, 56.

[Analgesic efficacy of the incisional infiltration of ropivacaine vs ropivacaine with dexamethasone in the elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy].

Background: Incisional pain is the main obstacle for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy as an outpatient. We evaluated the analgesic efficacy of local infiltration of ropivacaine with dexamethasone (Rop/Dx), compared with ropivacaine (Rop) alone, during the first 24 hours postoperative of this surgery. Our hypothesis is that incisional pain intensity will be lower in patients of the group Rop/Dx.

[Adiposity percentage relationship with hormone receptors immunoreactive score in breast cancer mexican women].

Introduction: Adipose tissue is an important estrogen resource and they are involved in breast cancer development.

Objective: To establish the relationship between adiposity percentage and the estrogen and progesterone receptors immunoreactive score in Mexican women with breast cancer.

Methods: This is a transversal and analytical study.

[Cognitive anthropology applied to the study of the causes of arterial hypertension in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México].

Background: In medical anthropology, culture is shared knowledge and it can be used to study cultural consensus for development of preventive and control actions in chronic diseases such as high blood pressure. The aim of this study was to characterize the semantic structure and level of cultural consensus regarding the causes of arterial hypertension in persons >15 years of age belonging to families of laborers from "Colonia Fabrica de Atemajac."

Methods: Using a propositive sample of 36 persons >15 year of age of both genders and divided into three age groups, we conducted an anthropological study.

Simultaneous blood pressure measurement in both arms in hypertensive and nonhypertensive adult patients.

Background: When blood pressure (BP) is taken for the first time, it should be measured in both arms; follow-up measurements should be taken in the arm with the highest BP. However, in clinical practice, this recommendation is rarely followed.

Objective: Identify the degree of differences in BP between the right and the left arm in individuals with normal and high BP.

[Eradication of Helicobacter pylori: triple treatment scheme plus Lactobacillus vs. triple treatment alone].

Background: We undertook this study to determine the effectiveness of triple treatment associated with Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota against Helicobacter pylori, in comparison with triple conventional treatment without Lactobacillus.

Methods: We designed a clinical comparative randomized study that included patients of both sexes infected by Helicobacter pylori. Patients were studied with endoscopy, biopsy and serology.