OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the knowledge about contraceptives, its uses, efficacy, and adverse effects in an adolescent’s population of a public high school. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study is descriptive and cross-sectional. A 13-question test was used, in which was evaluated knowledge about contraceptives and additional demographic information. In the data analysis, descriptive and exploratory techniques were applied with factorial analysis. 333 adolescents participated. The sample was non-probabilistic. RESULTS: The percentage of correct answers in adolescents was 60% with a standard deviation of 13.6%. Women had a higher percentage score than their male counterparts. (63% and 56.7%, p value <0.001, T de Student). There was no correlation between the scores obtained and the age. The level of knowledge was rated as medium with 73.6% and low with 21.6%. Condom was the contraceptive ...

Ponencia presentada en la XIII Conferencia Iberoamericana de Educación en Enfermería, organizado por la ALADEFE en Río de Janeiro Brasil del 4 al 8 de setiembre de 2015.

Presentado en el III Congreso Regional y I Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Enfermería, organizado por la Universidad Nacional del Callao y el Consejo Regional XXVII del Colegio de Enfermeros del Perú del 22 al 24 de octubre de 2014.

Introduction: The diagnosis of arterial hypertension in adults is based on figures above 140/90 mmHg, conventional values ​​of normality, universal, for any age or sex. There are a large number of comparative studies between chronic residents of high altitude and those at sea level, with significantly differentiable results, as a consequence of their successful adaptation to the chronic hypoxic-hypobaric environment at high altitude. For the correct diagnosis and treatment of their diseases, it is necessary to establish the ranges of normality that correspond to them. Objective: To determine the normal blood pressure pattern of these permanent inhabitants of high altitudes. Method: Cross-sectional, epidemiological cohort study, one cohort represented by the coastal population and another cohort represented by the Andean population. Results: Of the 12,448 persons selected on the coast...

Objective: To analyze the prevalence of falls and frailty syndrome and the association between these two syndromes in the elderly population. Method: Systematic review, without restriction of dates, in English, Portuguese and Spanish languages, in the databases PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS and in the SciElo virtual library. The association between both variables was extracted from the studies (Odds Ratio and 95% Confidence Intervals). Results: The review included 19 studies published between 2001 and 2015. The prevalence of falls in the frail elderly population was between 6.7% and 44%; in the pre-frail, between 10.0% and 52.0%, and in the non-frail, between 7.6% and 90.4%. The association between both variables presented a value of OR 1.80 (95% CI 1.51-2.13). Conclusion: There is evidence that falls are associated to the frailty in the elderly. Other factors may influence this association, su...