VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) HAS EMERGED AS AN INNOVATIVE TOOL IN THE FIELD OF PHYSICAL REHABILITATION (PR), OFFERING AN IMMERSIVE APPROACH TO IMPROVE MOTOR FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS. HOWEVER, THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VR COMPARED TO OTHER REHABILITATION METHODS REMAINS UNDER STUDY. THE PRESENT STUDY AIMS TO ANALYZE THE USES OF VR IN PR THROUGH A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE AVAILABLE LITERATURE, ASSESSING ITS IMPACT ON PHYSICAL FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS. A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WAS CONDUCTED FOLLOWING PRISMA GUIDELINES. 21 STUDIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 2014 AND 2024 WERE SELECTED, OBTAINED FROM DATABASES SUCH AS SCOPUS, SCIENCEDIRECT, AND EBSCO. THE STUDIES INCLUDED DIVERSE POPULATIONS REQUIRING PR USING IMMERSIVE AND NON-IMMERSIVE VR TECHNOLOGIES. THE STUDIES SHOWED THAT IMMERSIVE VR PROVIDED GREATER IMPROVEMENTS IN BALANCE AND GAIT, ESPECIALLY IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S, COMPAR...

THIS STUDY AIMED TO ESTABLISH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MINDFULNESS AND SLEEP QUALITY IN STUDENTS FROM A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY IN LIMA, PERU. A QUANTITATIVE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH WAS USED WITH A NON-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND A CORRELATIONAL LEVEL. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 133 STUDENTS FROM SIXTH TO EIGHTH CYCLE OF THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEGREE. SLEEP QUALITY WAS ASSESSED USING THE PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX, AND MINDFULNESS WAS MEASURED WITH THE FIVE FACET MINDFULNESS QUESTIONNAIRE. THE RESULTS REVEALED A NEGATIVE, SIGNIFICANT AND MODERATE CORRELATION BETWEEN SLEEP QUALITY AND MINDFULNESS, SUGGESTING THAT A HIGHER LEVEL OF MINDFULNESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH BETTER SLEEP QUALITY. SPECIFICALLY, THE DIMENSIONS "ACTING WITH AWARENESS", "ABSENCE OF JUDGMENT"AND "DESCRIPTION"WERE FOUND TO SHOW SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS WITH SLEEP QUALITY. THESE FINDINGS INDICATE THAT STUDENTS WITH HIGHER SC...

INTRODUCTION: IN THE CURRENT ERA MARKED BY RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES, THE INTEGRATION OF WEARABLE DEVICES INTO EVERYDAY LIFE HAS BEEN A REMARKABLE PHENOMENON. THESE DEVICES, RANGING FROM SMART WATCHES TO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MONITORS, HAVE GAINED POPULARITY AND HAVE BECOME UBIQUITOUS TOOLS THAT TRACK VARIOUS ASPECTS OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS. OBJECTIVE: TO CHARACTERIZE THE USE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH PROMOTION IN HUMAN MEDICINE STUDENTS. METHODS: THE RESEARCH IS CHARACTERIZED BY ITS CROSS-SECTIONAL AND QUANTITATIVE NATURE, WITH A BASIC AND DESCRIPTIVE NON-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN. THE STUDY POPULATION CONSISTED OF 128 STUDENTS OF HUMAN MEDICINE AT A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY LOCATED IN AREQUIPA, PERU. DATA COLLECTION WAS CARRIED OUT THROUGH THE USE OF SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES. RESULTS: REGARDING THE ADOPTION AND USE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES, 35.94% (46) REPORTED A MODERATE LEVEL, 32.81% (4...

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ASSOCIATED LOCKDOWN MEASURES HAVE HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON ADOLESCENT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (PA). THIS STUDY AIMED TO EVALUATE THE LEVEL OF PA OF ADOLESCENTS IN PRIVATE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE CITY OF LIMA AFTER THE PERIOD OF CONFINEMENT DUE TO COVID-19. A CROSS-SECTIONAL DESCRIPTIVE STUDY WAS CARRIED OUT WITH A SAMPLE OF 380 STUDENTS (202 MEN AND 178 WOMEN) AGED 14 TO 16, USING THE "PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ADOLESCENTS" (PAQ-A) TO MEASURE PA. THE RESULTS INDICATED THAT POST-CONFINEMENT PA LEVELS ARE BELOW THE WHO RECOMMENDATIONS, WITH THE OVERALL AVERAGE OF THE PAQ-A SCORES FALLING WITHIN THE RANGES OF PHYSICAL INACTIVITY. SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC ANALYZES REVEALED SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BY GENDER AND AGE, WITH MALE ADOLESCENTS REPORTING HIGHER LEVELS OF PA THAN FEMALE ADOLESCENTS, AND 14-YEAR-OLDS BEING MORE ACTIVE THAN 16-YEAR-OLDS. FUR...