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Publicado 2023
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Objective: Describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of children and adolescents with coronavirus disease in Tacna.Material and methods: Observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study. All children and adolescents under 20 years of age with coronavirus infection in the Tacna Region, with a positive rapid and/or molecular test, were included during the period from May 1 to December 31, 2020. The data comes from the database from data from the Epidemiology Office of the Tacna Health Region. Descriptive analysis was performed using absolute and relative frequencies of categorical variables, using Microsoft Excel software.Results: In this period, 23,124 cases of positive COVID-19 were reported in the Tacna region, of which 2,377 were in children under 20 years of age, with an incidence of 10,3 %, of which 61,7 % were in adolescents of 10 years of age at 19 years old, ma...
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Publicado 2022
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Objective: To know the perception of university students of health sciences about virtual education. Material and methods: Descriptive study in 293 students of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Jorge Basadre Grohmann National University in Tacna, Peru, during the second semester of the year 2020. A virtual questionnaire with prior informed consent with 26 closed questions was applied. Descriptive statistics were used and data were analyzed with STATA version 16. Results: In the development of virtual classes, students use more cell frequency (65 %) and laptops (62.4 %), with wireless internet (59.3 %). 87.7 % felt that their teaching and training has been affected and is insufficient, due to the lack of adaptation of the teacher to this modality and the lack of audiovisual resources for clinical practice (73.4 %); consider it very important that the practical classes are face-to face...