Objective. To determine the association between daytime sleepiness and sleep quality with school performance in adolescents of the Institution Educative “Emblemática” Ventura Ccalamaqui, Barranca, 2018. Methods: Non-experimental and cross-sectional study. The sample included 217 adolescents of third and fourth year of secondary school. The Epworth Sleepiness Scale and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were applied. School performance was determined by the grade in communication and mathematics (subjects used by the international community) and was classified according to the National Curriculum (AD, A, B, C). Results. The average age of the adolescents was 15.9 ± 0.6 years, where 51.2% were female, 51.6% consumed coffee, tea and / or soft drinks less than once a week. It was observed that 49.7% suffered from daytime sleepiness, 84.8% had sleep problems and 52.1% presented an expec...

Determina las características de la intoxicación ocupacional por plaguicidas en trabajadores agrícolas atendidos en el Hospital Barranca Cajatambo 2008-2017. El estudio es de tipo observacional, diseño descriptivo, retrospectivo y transversal. La muestra fue 295 historias clínicas de pacientes con edad mayor a 14 años, que sufrieron intoxicación por plaguicidas. Las características sociodemográficas más resaltantes; intervalo de edades con mayor frecuencia 15 a 25 años (47.5%); predominó el sexo masculino (98.0%); mayoría solteros (53.6%); instrucción secundaria (68.1%); y puesto laboral como aplicador de plaguicidas (67.5%). Las características epidemiológicas la mayoría sin comorbilidades (97.6%) e índice de masa corporal (IMC) normal (56.9%). Las principales características del plaguicida; según clase fungicidas (39.7%) y herbicidas (37.6%); organofosforados (98.0%...

Objective: To determine the characteristics of occupational pesticide poisoning in agricultural workers treated at the Hospital Barranca Cajatambo during 2008-2017. Materials and methods: A descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study conducted in a population of 295 agricultural workers poisoned by occupational pesticide exposure and treated at the Hospital Barranca Cajatambo from 2008 to 2017. Every male or female agricultural worker aged over 14 with a complete medical record of pesticide poisoning was included in the study. The variables were the sociodemographic and epidemiological characteristics of the pesticide and intoxication. Absolute frequencies (n) were used for the qualitative variables and relative frequencies (%) for the relative variables. Measures of central tendency (average) and dispersion tendency (standard deviation) were used for the quantitative variables....