European Journal of Health Research

Anxiety: emotional disturbance in health students during pandemic restrictions

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction: COVID-19 was one of the greatest crises that the population has suffered, causing illness and death, forcing confinement to try to stop this virus. It produced serious effects on mental health, including the presence of anxious processes among university students. Objective: Identify the emotional disturbance of an anxious type in students in the health area during the restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021. Method: Descriptive, transversal. The sample was 350 university students. Administering a sociodemographic characterization sheet and the Manifest Anxiety Scale for University Students AMAS-C. Supported under the law regarding research in Mexican territory. Results: Female participation of 77.7%. Ages ranging between 18 and 38 years. 64.0% presented some type of emotional or physical affectation. 74.0% presented extreme global anxiety, where the distribution behaviors between men and women are similar. By dimensions, 94.4% presented significant restlessness and/or hypersensitivity, 78.3% extreme physiological anxiety, 33.4% significant exam anxiety and 24.3% expected levels of social concerns and/or stress. Conclusion: The confinement experienced by these students was identified as the main trigger for the presence of anxiety. It is important that educational, governmental and health authorities provide them with knowledge and tools to face serious situations that threaten their mental health.

Correlations between burnout and mental health in a sample of teachers

Marina del Rocío Ramírez Zhindón — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The burnout is a topic in the field of occupational health that has been worked during the last deans, which is a chronic wear, produced by stress, it is considered important to work in professionals of the educational field in virtue of the topic of pandemic and perception of some teachers has interpreted this transmission as an adverse load and stressful the topic of telework. The objective of the present investigation was to identify the existing relation between burnout and mental health in a sample of teachers. A cross-sectional methodology with a quantitative approach was used, with a correlational design, with a non-probabilistic sample of 178 teaching professionals, using Maslach and Jackson’s MBI Inventory and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale DASS-21. The results reveal that most of the teachers had an average of emotional exhaustion 15.69 and depersonalization 3.6, a mean of personal accomplishment 39.24. With respect to mental health, the highest mean was stress with 4.16, followed by anxiety 3.05 with a mean of and depression of 2.65. Among the most important correlations, it was possible to identify the relationship between anxiety, depression and stress with emotional fatigue, depression and depersonalization and personal fulfillment with each of the scales: anxiety, depression and stress. It is considered important to work in clinical practice based on these results to implement lines of action to reduce stress within educational organizations.

Biochemical parameters and dietary adherence in type 2 diabetics on hemodialysis

Patricio Salazar Luna, Hazel Anderson Vásquez — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction: Non-adherence to diet and fluid intake of the patient on hemodialysis can lead to the accumulation of toxic metabolites in the blood, resulting in increased morbidity and premature death. Objective: to determine biochemical parameters and diet adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes on hemodialysis attending the dialysis unit of the General Hospital IESS Riobamba. Methods: A quantitative correlational, prospective, quasi-experimental, longitudinal design study was carried out in 87 subjects with diabetic nephropathy of both sexes between 40 and 70 years of age, who were receiving dialysis treatment. Biochemical measurements were taken (hematological, metabolic and lipid profile, albumin and electrolytes) and the questionnaire of non-adherence to diet and fluids for hemodialysis (DDFQ) was applied. Results: Significant differences were found (p<0.05) in the male gender in the following parameters: hemoglobin, creatinine and albumin. While in women significant differences were found in uric acid concentration. In both sexes significant differences were observed in phosphorus and potassium concentrations (p<0.05). About 80% of the patients manifested a degree of deviation from 1 to 3 (between no deviation and moderate deviation) to diet and fluid restrictions. Conclusion: most of the patients showed a good adherence to diet and liquid restrictions, which was related to the main biochemical parameters studied

Systemic Intervention in Psychosocial Factors to Improve Organizational Health: A Case of Implementation in Ecuador

Virginia Marrero Laceria, Shirley Arias-Rivera — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Every labor organization or company is a dynamic and complex system that has a structure, is related to the socioeconomic and cultural context where it develops its activity and has its own purpose. When the working conditions and the individual characteristics of those who make up a company come into conflict, a state of discomfort can occur that negatively affects the relational process within the organization, but also become risk factors for the mental health of its workers. On this basis, an intervention program has been developed consisting of 21 workshops that address three areas related to psychosocial conditions at work: 1) holistic aspect (diagnosis in alienation and work stress; 2) focused on man-work relationships (job satisfaction and involvement) and 3) focused on interpersonal relationships (social support and social-psychological climate of the group). Among the main results in the companies where it has been carried out, the cohesion at group level, improvements in the levels of job satisfaction, increase in productivity and decrease in work burnout are mentioned. Among the main challenges is the program evaluation under the parameters of evidence-based programs.

Transient acute parkinsonism secondary to organophosphate poisoning:- Case report

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Although organophosphate poisoning presents a frequent clinical picture in different health services, the association with symptoms related to Parkinsonism is unusual, in initial stages they configure syndromic pictures such as acute cholinergic syndrome until its progression to more complex forms of polyneuropathies. We present the case of a 62-year-old male patient who, after ingesting organophosphates, developed a cholinergic syndrome until presenting transient manifestations of parkinsonism.