Virgilio E. Failoc-Rojas

Participación en sociedades científicas estudiantiles y en cursos extracurriculares de investigación, asociados a la producción científica de estudiantes de medicina humana: estudio preliminar

espanolIntroduccion. La promocion de la investigacion cientifica durante el pregrado representa una pieza fundamental para garantizar una educacion medica continua y una formacion integral del estudiante, debiendo ser una prioridad en todas las universidades. Objetivo. Identificar los factores que podrian estar asociados con la produccion cientifica del estudiante de medicina humana de una region del Peru. Sujetos y metodos. Estudio analitico transversal. Los alumnos respondieron una encuesta autoadministrada, donde se les pidio informacion sobre su produccion cientifica, asistencia a cursos extracurriculares de investigacion, experiencia y motivos para hacer investigacion. Se cruzaron las variables: pertenecer a una sociedad cientifica, realizar cursos extracurriculares de metodologia, bioestadistica, lectura critica y busqueda bibliografica, con el hecho de tener dos o mas trabajos y dos o mas publicaciones. Para el analisis inferencial se uso razon de prevalencias y la prueba de Fisher con un intervalo de confianza del 95%. Se consideraron como significativos los valores de p Resultados. De los 50 alumnos encuestados, el 44% pertenecia a una sociedad cientifica, el 60% habia asistido al menos a un curso extracurricular y solo el 20% tenia alguna publicacion cientifica. Hubo asociacion entre la pertenencia a una sociedad y la asistencia a un curso extracurricular con haber realizado dos o mas trabajos y publicaciones. Conclusion. Son pocos los alumnos con algun trabajo de investigacion o alguna publicacion. Pertenecer a sociedades cientificas y participar en cursos extracurriculares de investigacion aumenta la probabilidad de tener una mayor produccion cientifica. EnglishIntroduction. The promotion of scientific research within the undergraduate represents a fundamental to ensure continuous medical education and comprehensive training of the student, and should be a priority for all universities. Aim. To identify factors that might be associated with the scientific production of medical student from a region of Peru. Subjects and methods. An analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted. The students answered a self-administered survey where they were asked about their scientific production, their attending to extracurricular courses, their research experience and the reasons for doing research. Crossed variables: belong to a scientific society, attending to extracurricular courses in methodology, biostatistics, critical reading and literature search, with having two or more researches and two or more publications. For the inferential analysis we used the prevalence ratio and Fisher test used with a 95% confidence interval. We considered as a significant value p Results. Of the 50 students surveyed, 44% belonged to a scientific society, 60% had attended to at least one extracurricular course and only 20% had any scientific publication. There was association between belonging to a scientific society and have attended to an extracurricular course with having two or more researches and a publications. Conclusion. There were few students with a research or a publication. Membership in scientific societies and participation in extracurricular research courses increases the probability of having a higher scientific production.

Malaria in South America: The Target is Close

Dear Sir: The article published by Quispe and others1 outlines Perus three strategic plans to eliminate malaria in the Peruvian Amazon region. It is a significant achievement for Peru to implement a plan to eradicate malaria in the Amazon region, where the greater percentages of cases of malaria in Peru are concentrated.2 Malaria has devastating effects on the health and way of life of the people all over the world; however, it can be prevented and treated. In America, cases of malaria have been reduced by 58%, and malaria deaths have decreased by 70% since 2000.3 These figures are very encouraging and represent a starting point from which to propose new long-term goals for the eradication of malaria. To analyze the current situation in Peru compared with the rest of South America, we created a chart using World Health Organization data on cases of malaria and the total population, analyzing the incidences by year (Figure 1 ). In South America (excluding Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana), three countries (Argentina, Ecuador, and Paraguay) have achieved the preelimination phase. Peru appears to be the only country that has not been able to significantly reduce its cases of malaria, with 249.57 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2000 compared with 220.58 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 2015, which indicates that Peru has neither kept up with nor applied the strategies used by its neighboring countries. Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil have gradually reduced their incidences of malaria during this period of time. Figure 1. Incidence of malaria in Latin America 2000–2014. Multidisciplinary strategies4 for the control of malaria must be continued, from hygiene education for the community and better access to medication, to the creation of vaccines to interrupt the spread of malaria and the strengthening of the economic political strategies of malaria-endemic countries such as Peru.

Características clínicas y epidemiológicas de la estrongiloidiasis en un hospital del Norte del Perú

Introduccion: La infeccion por Strongyloides stercoralis constituye una de las enfermedades tropicales desatendidas en areas endemicas como Peru, con una frecuencia global de 6,6%. Se puede diferenciar cuatro sindromes clinicos: agudo (SA), cronico (SC), hiperinfeccion (SH) y estrongiloidiasis diseminada (ED). Objetivo: Describir las caracteristicas clinicas y epidemiologicas de los pacientes con diagnostico de estrongiloidiasis. Material y metodos: Se estudio en forma retrospectiva 27 casos de pacientes con estrongioloidiasis atendidos en los meses de julio del 2014 a agosto del 2015 en el Hospital Regional Lambayeque, Peru. Resultados: Los pacientes tuvieron una mediana de edad de 41 anos (rango intercuartilico: 2 a 84) y 74% (20/27) fueron varones. Se encontraron 10 casos (37,04%) de SC y 10 casos (37,04%) de SH. Del total, 63% presentaron eosinofilia, 85,2% anemia y 85,1% diarrea; 59,3% tuvo algun tipo de inmunocompromiso y 18,5% fallecieron. Conclusiones: La mayoria de pacientes con estrongiloidiasis de este estudio presentaron SC y SH, eosinofilia, anemia y algun tipo de inmunocompromiso. Asimismo, la alta frecuencia de estrongiloidiasis severa en pacientes con inmunocompromiso revela la necesidad de un tamizaje coproparasitologico con metodos especificos (Baerman y cultivo en agar) con el fin de detectar y tratar a tiempo la infeccion cronica previa.

Physical activity and its association with chronic diseases in the elderly in 11 cities of Peru

To determine the frequency of physical activity and its association with chronic diseases in the elderly in eleven cities of Peru.A cross-sectional study of secondary data was conducted; the dependent variable was not the realization of physical activity, chronic disease and other physio-anthropometric variables were independent variables. For bivariate and multivariate analysis generalized linear models were used. A confidence level of 95% and p < 0.05 as statistically significant was considered.Of the 1030 elderly 68% (698) did not perform physical activity. When performing the multivariate model was obtained for every year of age increased by 1.5% frequency do physical activity (RPA: 1.015, 95% CI 1.006-1.024, p = 0.001) for each additional centimeter waist decreased 0.6% performing physical activity (RPA: 0.994, 95% CI: 0.992-0.997, p < 0.001) and those suffering from other chronic heart disease (RPA: 1.15, 95% CI: 1.02-1.30. p = 0.019) had higher frequencies of no physical activity, adjusted for sex and city of residence.No physical activity was associated with suffering from some heart disease, older age and waist circumference. We need to consider these results from the study to promote physical activity in this population.

Salud mental y calidad de sueño en estudiantes de ocho facultades de medicina humana del Perú

Introduction: The quality of sleep refers to the fact that we sleep well at night and daytime functioning. Thus, influences health and quality of life. Sleep...