Publications by authors named "P Norambuena"
Background: Policy changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted on alcohol control. This study describes the development and application of a classification scheme to map alcohol policy changes during the first three-months of the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries and/or subnational jurisdictions.
Method: A pre-registered systematic review of policy decisions from March to May 2020, in Australia/New South Wales, Canada/Ontario, Chile, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Factorial Structure and Diagnostic Accuracy of a Digital Version of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (d-AUDIT) to Detect Hazardous and Problematic Drinking in Primary Care.
J Stud Alcohol Drugs
May 2023
Article Synopsis
- - The study evaluated the digital version of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (d-AUDIT) for effectively screening excessive alcohol consumption in primary care settings in Santiago, Chile, using a sample of 330 adults who had consumed alcohol frequently over the past year.
- - The analysis revealed a reliable two-factor model for the d-AUDIT, with strong validity and a high correlation (0.74) between factors, indicating that it effectively measures different aspects of alcohol use disorders.
- - The d-AUDIT and Fast Alcohol Screening Test (FAST) showed excellent diagnostic accuracy in identifying problematic drinking, with AUC values of 0.94 and 0.92, respectively, and the FAST was able to distinguish between hazardous and problematic
This paper reviews the mental health policies that have been implemented in Chile in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the international context of countries' responses. Even before the start of the pandemic, there were significant barriers to access mental health services in Chile, coupled with a scenario of nationwide social unrest and protests that questioned the legitimacy of public institutions; now the rapidly worsening outbreaks of COVID-19 are exacerbating the pre-existing mental health crisis. We conducted a bibliometric and content analysis of the Chilean mental health public policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic and then compared these policies with international experiences and emerging scientific evidence on the mental health impact of pandemics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To comprehensively review enacted and proposed alcohol laws and existing impact evaluations of national alcohol policies in Chile.
Methods: We searched enacted laws in the Chilean National Library of Congress, proposed laws in the websites of the House of Deputies and Senate and impact evaluations in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Scielo, JSTOR, Epistemonikos and OpenGrey from inception to February 2019. Eligibility criteria included enacted laws and proposed laws on national alcohol policies and research studies evaluating the impact of national alcohol policies.
Background: The genetic background of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) treated with alcohol septal ablation (ASA) and its relationship to the outcomes are not known. We aimed to investigate whether the outcome of genotype positive (G+) patients differs from genotype negative (G-) patients treated with ASA.
Methods: We included 129 HCM patients (mean age 54±13 years) treated with ASA in a tertiary cardiovascular center and performed next generation sequencing (NGS) based genomic testing.