Objective: To determine the ability of two self-report questionnaires to detect depressive symptoms in the same pregnant women population. Design: Analytic, observational, cross sectional study. Setting: Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal de Lima, Peru. Participants: Three hundred and seven pregnant women with no psychiatric history diagnosis attended during May-June 2008. Instruments: Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS) and Beck depression inventory (BDI-II). Results: Both scales had high average: 11,36 for EPDS (range: 0-26) and 15,96 for BDI-II (range 0-47). Internal consistencies were high (Cronbach’s alpha for EPDS was 0,826 and 0,815 for BDI-II). The Pearson correlation coefficient between both questionnaires was 0,541 (p<0,001). Conclusions: The study shows that both Edinburgh postnatal depression scale and beck depression inventory present high internal consistency...

Objetive: To determine the relationship between the self-perception of the SNAPPS method and the level of satisfaction of the medical student of a public university in Trujillo 2020 - 2021. Methods: the cross-sectional, retrospective correlational descriptive work evaluated 190 students enrolled in the years 2020 and 2021 in the 5th year of medicine at the National University of Trujillo through a virtual form. Results: The average age was 24.42 years (21-42 years). 59.5% were male, and the majority were men with 59.5%. The dimension of the highest level in the self-perception of the SNAPPS method was in skills, collaboration and virtual support and resources. Regarding the dimension of student satisfaction, it was average in teaching, student expectations and quality of the institution. When relating both variables, we found a strong association between them. Conclusion: There is a stro...

Background: Preeclampsia is a multi-organ disease that causes maternal and perinatalmorbidity and mortality, with an unclear pathophysiology and without specificprevention methods and/or treatments. Objective: To establish the associationbetween variants -75 G/A in the ApoA1 gene, 2488 C/T in the ApoB100 gene, serumlevels of ApoA1 and ApoB100 and severe preeclampsia in Peruvian pregnantwomen. Methods: Blood samples from pregnant women with severe preeclampsiaand healthy women (controls) were processed for DNA extraction and genotypingwith the PCR-RFLP technique. In addition, serum was analyzed to quantify ApoA1 andApoB100. Genotypes and alleles were compared between cases and controls, as wellas serum ApoA1 and ApoB100 levels considering genotypes. Results: No significantdifferences were found between the genotypic and allele frequencies of the -75 G/Avariant in the ApoA1 gene and 2488 C...