Perseverative Cognition as a Mediator Between Personality Traits and Blood Pressure.

Purpose: Several authors link hypertension with psychological dispositions such as stress, personality, and anxiety, some propose that stress is not enough to explain arterial hypertension and others propose the perseverative cognition model to explain. The aim of this study was to relate personality traits and blood pressure profile of a group of workers, examining the results of perseverative cognition as a possible mediating variable concerning blood pressure.

Patients And Methods: Cross-sectional design study, with a sample of 76 employees of a Colombian university.

HPV-Vaccine Hesitancy in Colombia: A Mixed-Methods Study.

In Colombia, the uptake rate of the HPV vaccine dropped from 96.7% after its introduction in 2013 to 9% in 2020. To identify the behavioural components of HPV-vaccine hesitancy in females aged 15 and under and their families, we conducted a convergent mixed-methods study in which 196 parents/caregivers responded to an online questionnaire and 10 focus groups were held with 13 of these parents/caregivers, and 50 age-eligible girls.

Health-related quality of life of women after HPV testing as triage strategy for an abnormal Pap smear: a nested randomized pragmatic trial in a middle-income country.

Background: Information obtained in studies on the impact of human papilloma virus (HPV) testing on health-related quality of life is contradictory.

Objective: To assess the impact on health-related quality of life of the HPV test, colposcopy, and cytology as triage strategies after a cytology with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) in Medellín, Colombia.

Methods: We carried out a nested analysis on the randomized pragmatic trial (ASCUS-COL).

Psychosocial impact of inclusion of HPV test on the management of women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance: a study within a randomised pragmatic trial in a middle-income country.

To assess the psychosocial impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, colposcopy, and Pap-smear, as triage strategies after a Pap-smear with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS). We also sought to evaluate the psychosocial impact based on the results of the strategies. Nested within a randomised pragmatic trial, which compared an immediate colposcopy, repeat Pap-smear, and high risk HPV test, we enrolled 675 women between 2012 and 2014.

Perception about barriers and facilitators of the school-based HPV vaccine program of Manizales, Colombia: A qualitative study in school-enrolled girls and their parents.

In 2012, Colombia implemented a school-based HPV vaccination program of a 3-dose series for nine year old girls. Following a mass psychogenic response after vaccination in a Colombian town, vaccination rates dropped from 80% in 2012-2013 to 5% in 2016. The study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators of HPV vaccine uptake among girls eligible for vaccination in the initial years of vaccine implementation from 2012 to 2014, and their parents.