Introduction: A sudden cancer diagnosis creates a psycho-emotional and social crisis, making it crucial to manage emotional coping strategies and assess comprehensive health care, addressing both behavioral and practical aspects of patients' daily lives. Although there are instruments that measure strategies for emotional coping, emotional adjustment or post-traumatic growth, we still do not have a questionnaire in Spanish that comprehensively evaluates health self-management.
Aim: This study aims to translate into Spanish and determine the validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the Smart Management Strategy for Health Assessment Tool (SAT-SF) evaluation questionnaire in Peruvian patients with cancer.
Introduction: Neonatal mortality remains a critical concern, particularly in developing countries. The advent of machine learning offers a promising avenue for predicting the survival of at-risk neonates. Further research is required to effectively deploy this approach within distinct clinical contexts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare the effects of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) on adults with overweight and obesity. Outcomes, including changes in insulin sensitivity, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and body fat, were analyzed.
Methods: A systematic literature review was conducted.
Introduction: SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare professionals represents a threat to the healthcare system.
Objectives: To identify factors associated with complications from COVID-19 in healthcare workers infected by SARS-CoV-2, in a specialized national hospital level III in Peru in 2020.
Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study.
Introduction: COVID-19 disease affects newborns, but its middle and long-term effects are still unclear.
Objective: To describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics and follow-up of newborns infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Methods: An observational and descriptive study.
The present study aimed to describe the perinatal outcomes of newborns of mothers with 2019 coronavirus infection identified before delivery in a level III hospital in Peru. Sociodemographic variables, obstetric complications, and neonatal morbidities were evaluated in the births that occurred between April 1 and June 30, 2020, at the National Maternal Perinatal Institute of Peru. 43 newborns were registered: 93% came from asymptomatic mothers, the most frequent obstetric complications were premature rupture of membranes (18.
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April 2021
Despite strategies to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), infected children continue to be born. The aim of this study was to describe the status of children infected with HIV due to mother-to-child transmission. Between 2012 and 2018, 84 children were born with HIV in hospitals in Lima and Callao.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: SARS-CoV-2 has spread rapidly throughout the world. However, its ability to cause severe disease is not homogeneous according to sex and the different age groups.
Objective: To determine perinatal characteristics, morbidity, mortality, and serological results in neonates from seropositive pregnant women to SARS-CoV-2.