Anxiety, Health Self-Perception, and Worry About the Resurgence of COVID-19 Predict Fear Reactions Among Genders in the Cuban Population.

The resurgence of COVID-19 could deepen the psychological impacts of the pandemic which poses new challenges for mental health professionals. Among the actions that should be prioritized is the monitoring of the groups that have shown greater psychological vulnerability during the first stage of the pandemic. The first aim of our study is to explore the fear reactions to COVID-19 between genders during the second wave of the outbreak in Cuba.

The Risk Perception COVID-19 Scale (RP-COVID19-S): Initial Validation and Its Relationship with Gender and Age in a Cuban Population Sample.

Background: Risk perception about COVID-19 constitutes an important variable contributing to promotion of personal protection practices. The aims of this study were to exploring the factorial structure of the risk perception COVID-19 scale (RP-COVID19-S) in a sample of Cuban adults and to identify its relationship with variables such as gender and age.

Methods: A cross-sectional web-based survey design was conducted.

Subjective Well-being during the Pandemic: A Pilot Study in the Cuban Population.

Background: The study of aspects related to positive mental health and well-being in the general population with a gender approach is a necessity in the current context imposed by COVID-19.

Objective: To explore gender as a predictor of subjective well-being during COVID-19 in a sample of the Cuban population.

Design: A cross-sectional web-based survey design was adopted.

Adaptation of the Cuban version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale.

This study explores the psychometric properties of the Cuban version of Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS). The sample comprised 376 Cuban participants. Concurrent validity and reliability were examined.

Effects of a Gamified Educational Program in the Nutrition of Children with Obesity.

Obesity is considered a global epidemic of the twenty-first century by the World Health Organization (WHO). Specifically, the Canary Islands has the highest level of this disease in Europe and 40% of children in Spain are overweight or obese. This increase is a direct result of changes in the lifestyles of the population and its nutrition.

[Fingolimod: effectiveness and safety in routine clinical practice. An observational, retrospective, multi-centre study in the province of Alicante].

Introduction: Post-authorisation studies are important to confirm whether the outcomes of clinical trials are reproduced in usual clinical practice.

Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of fingolimod in clinical practice in the province of Alicante.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective multi-centre study was conducted with remitting multiple sclerosis patients treated with fingolimod.

Factors influencing dry mouth in patients with primary Sjögren syndrome: usefulness of the ESSPRI index.

Objective: To evaluate health-related quality of life in a large series of primary SS patients using the recently-proposed ESSPRI questionnaire and to evaluate the relationship between the intensity of oral dryness and other signs and symptoms frequently found in these patients.

Methods: We evaluated 90 primary SS patients seen consecutively; all fulfilled the current classification criteria. All patients completed the ESSPRI questionnaire.

Specificity and sensitivity of objective tests to detect possible malingering in fibromyalgia: a case-control study in 211 Spanish patients.

Objectives: To characterise patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia (FM) who present a clinical profile suggestive of simulation.

Methods: Observational case-control study of 218 patients who met the classification criteria for FM. The profile supporting simulation was based on the proposed criteria for evaluating disability related to the simulation of pain.

[Key informers. When and How?].

Introduction: When information obtained through duly designed and developed studies is not available, the solution to certain problems that affect the population or that respond to certain questions may be approached by using the information and experience provided by the so-called key informer.

Development: The key informer is defined as a person who is in contact with the community or with the problem to be studied, who is considered to have good knowledge of the situation and therefore who is considered an expert. The search for consensus is the basis to obtain information through the key informers.

[Neuropsychological assessment of memory in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: the role of executive functions].

Introduction: There is an important agreement on the consideration of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a condition characterized by neurodevelopmental dysfunction of fronto-striatal dopaminergic and noradrenergic circuits with resultant executive deficits in cognitive functioning.

Aim: To assess the existence of memory deficits in children with ADHD associated with a poor performance executive.

Subjects And Methods: We assess 14 children diagnosed with ADHD combined type and 14 controls matched on intellectual coefficient, age and level of schooling, in a neuropsychological evaluation protocol designed to assess executive functions and memory skills using Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Memory for Stories Test -Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL)-, Complex Figure Text, Visual Selective Reminding Test (TOMAL), Tower of Hanoi, Memory Phrases Test (Siegel and Ryan), Digit Span (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised) and Tapping Test (Wechsler Memory Scale III).

[Neuropsychological assessment of the effectiveness of OROS-methylphenidate in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder].

Introduction: There is wide evidence about dopaminergic and noradrenergic mechanisms in fronto-striatal circuits which are thought to be related with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) neurobiology. That dysfunction may explain core symptoms and part of executive deficits in cognitive functioning. Methylphenidate is effective in alleviating core symptoms, enhancing dopaminergic and noradrenergic biodisponibility.

[The neurologist when faced with stroke].

The role of the neurologist during the entire care process involving patients who suffer a stroke is stressed. His/her intervention in this process is of fundamental importance given the existence of widely verified scientific evidence that this significantly improves the survival expectancies and the independence of these patients and that it is profitable for the health care system. An improvement in the quality of life of both the patients and their family is obtained from this intervention.

[Evaluation of autonomic cardiovascular functioning in patients with syncope].

Introduction: According to the current literature on the subject, patients with syncope suffer a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Yet few studies offer a clear explanation of this dysfunction. Moreover, the evaluation of cardiovascular reflexes is a simple, useful method of studying the functional status of the ANS.

[Neurologist regarding the dependence law].

Introduction: The approval of the "project of promotion of personal autonomy and care to people on dependence" situation law now opens the parliamentary process to the approval of the mentioned law around October- November 2006. Should the neurologist know its content and express his/her opinion about it?

Development: We analyze the role of neurological disorders as a cause of dependence, the law principles, the involvement of the neurologist in the social-health care coordination, the health administrations involved in the law development and the role of Spanish Neurological Society and regional societies as mediators with the different health administration, the involvement of the neurologist in accreditation, education, research and development, independence promotion, and dependence evaluation.

Conclusion: Given that the project will be modified in the course of its parliamentary process, and the relevance of its reglamentary development, the door has been left open for the role of the neurologist to be accepted at the moment when the law is developed and applied.

[Evaluation of the quality of inter-clinic documents. Does their proper filling out by the family doctor affect the reply obtained from the specialist?].

Objective: To analyse the filling out of the inter-clinic form (IF) at a centre with special fields of care (CS) and to assess whether its proper filling out in primary care (PC) affects the reply from specialist care.

Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study.

Setting: Primary health care area in the Community of Valencia.

[Hyperuricemia as a risk factor for cerebrovascular accident: a case-control study].

Introduction: Although several collateral studies have been made of the relationship between hyperuricemia and cerebral vascular accidents (CVA), no definite conclusion has been reached.

Objective: To analyze the possible relationship between hyperuricemia and CVA.

Patients And Methods: We studied the cases and controls paired for age, sex and hospital.

[Life events, quality of life and social support prior to acute cerebral vascular disease, as predictive factors of the quality of life and functional state following stroke].

Introduction: The repercussion of stroke on quality of life has been evaluated but not the possible relation between the quality of life before and months after an acute stroke.

Objective: To study the possible relation between quality of life, social support, stressful life events prior to the stroke and quality of life, social support and functional state months after.

Patients And Methods: A prospective study was made of 34 patients (71.

[Vertebrobasilar ischemia of thrombotic and embolic origin].

Objective: To analyze the mechanisms involved in the appearance of ischemia in vertebro-basilar territory, especially those of embolic or thrombotic characteristics.

Development: The mechanism of vertebro-basilar ischemia had not been adequately studied until a few years ago. This had led to the belief that most were due to a haemodynamic mechanism.

[Stressful life events as risk factors in acute cerebrovascular disease].

Introduction: The influence of psychosocial stress on the origin of acute cerebral vascular disease (CVD) has received very little attention. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the role of psychosocial stress due to events occurring in daily life as a risk factor (RF) in acute CVD.

Material And Methods: A case-control study was done of a total of 151 patients who were admitted to two hospitals with acute CVD and 151 persons, who where not hospitalized and acted as the control group, paired (one to one) for age, sex and hospital.

[Quality and life style as risk factors in acute cerebrovascular disease].

Introduction: In some series of patients with acute cerebral vascular disease (CVD) it has been seen that, prior to the episode of CVD, the patients already had a poorer quality of life than other people of their age. The object of this study is to evaluate their previous life style and quality of life as risk factors (RF) in acute CVD.

Material And Methods: A case-control study was done of a total of 151 patients admitted to two hospitals with acute CVD and 151 persons, who were not hospitalized and acted as the control group, paired (one to one) for age, sex and hospital.

[Neurology in Internet].

Objective: The quantity and complexity of the information to be found on the Internet makes anyone who has dared to navigate on the Net feel perplexed. To access the Net without a predetermined route to follow may prove to be a waste of time and very exasperating, as a tremendous amount of completely irrelevant information is discovered. The objective of this article is to give the reader of the REVISTA DE NEUROLOGIA an informative guide to help find useful information on the Net, and a classified list of potentially useful Internet addresses.