Publications by authors named "Neus Crespo-Puig"
Widespread population vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a matter of great interest to public health as it is the main pharmacological measure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Hesitancy/reluctance to vaccination has become a main barrier to containing the pandemic. Young adults are the age group with the greatest resistance to vaccination, even in countries with the highest vaccination rates during this pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The restriction measures put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic posed notable challenges for formal teaching-learning processes because they had to be adapted to ensure health security. An active learning programme applied to three environments (indoors, outdoors, and online) was tested with 273 undergraduate university students in a within-subjects experimental study. Each student was assigned to two indoor and two outdoor seminars, with a subsample ( = 30) also participating in online seminars implemented in response to the university's lockdown protocols.
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- A study was conducted to analyze the mental health impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the Colombian population, focusing on personal and social factors that contribute to this impact.
- Over 18,000 individuals participated in an anonymous online survey, revealing that 35% were at risk for depression, 29% for anxiety, and 31% for somatization disorders.
- The research identified low-income individuals, students, and young adults (especially low-income young females) as the most vulnerable groups affected by these lockdown measures.