Publications by authors named "Teresa M Torres Lopez"
Background: Empathy is a fundamental element of the physician-patient relationship for treatment and therapeutic adherence that has had to face significant changes due to the migrations of the health system in Chile.
Aim: Characterize the empathetic physicians according to the perceptions of chronic patients during the encounter with national and foreign doctors in the public health system in the Maule Region.
Methods: Qualitative study of exploratory-descriptive type.
[Cultural dimensions concerning healthcare workers in México and Colombia having dengue].
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota)
December 2013
Objective: Understanding cultural dimensions concerning Mexican and Colombian healthcare workers suffering from dengue to produce information and elements for healthcare and prevention.
Method: This was a cognitive anthropological study. Purposive sampling was used to select 197 healthcare workers in Morelia, Mexico, and Santiago de Cali, Colombia; free associations lists and pile sorting were used.
Objective: To describe the cultural dimensions that might help or hinder dengue prevention in two Mexican localities having different experiences related to this disease.
Methods: A cognitive-cultural anthropological study was conducted involving the participation of 160 adults selected through purposeful sampling. The techniques of free lists and pile-sorting were used for investigating terms associated with the concept "dengue.
Objective: To understand the cultural dimensions of HIV/AIDS among adolescent students.
Methods: A cognitive anthropological study was undertaken in Cochabamba (Bolivia), Talca (Chile) and Guadalajara (Mexico), during 2007 and 2008. A total of 184 teenagers (from 14 to 19 years old) were selected by purposeful sampling at secondary schools in each country.
The consequences of work-related stress on health are worrisome, and by the same token, so is Burnout Syndrome. However, it has been shown that social support can prevent, reduce or even combat individuals' responses to stress. A descriptive, transverse study was carried out with the objective of determining the prevalence of both Burnout Syndrome and receiving social support for traffic police in Mexico.
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- The study focused on understanding how adults in Guadalajara, Mexico, view health and disease, while examining gender differences in these perspectives.
- The methodology involved structured focus groups, using associative methods to analyze responses from selected men and women, resulting in visual representations of their social understandings.
- Findings revealed that both men and women prioritize a holistic view of health, but differ in their emphasis—men focus on habits and economic aspects, while women highlight relationships and emotional care in the context of disease.
The objective of this study was to analyze social representations of diabetes mellitus by chronic patients in a neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico. The methodology was qualitative and ethnographic. Thirty patients were interviewed at four moments over the course of two years, and the interviews were transcribed and analyzed with a dialectic hermeneutic focus using the Ethnograph software.
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