Introduction: Teenage pregnancy is a public health problem that places the status of a teenager in biomedical and social vulnerability, the stigmatization of a pregnant adolescent. Objective: To evaluate psychometrically an instrument to measure stigmatization of pregnant adolescents. Design: Cross-sectional study. Location: National Maternal Perinatal Institute, Lima, Peru. Participants: Adolescent puerperae. Interventions: To 292 postpartum adolescents attended from January through May 2010 an Adolescent Pregnant Stigma Scale (APSS) consisting in 7 items was applied. For the theoretical construction of the scale, two promoter entities of social stigma were assumed: family and social environment. To assess the predictability of APSS the following hypothesis was considered: the higher levels of stigma are associated with a lower self-concept of the adolescent mother. Main outcome measure...

Introducción: El embarazo adolescente es un problema de salud pública que representa una situación que posiciona la vida de la adolescente en una condición de particular vulnerabilidad no solo biomédica, sino también social, siendo particularmente importante la estigmatización hacia la adolescente embarazada. Objetivo: Evaluar psicométricamente un instrumento destinado a cuantificar la estigmatización de la adolescente embarazada. Diseño: Estudio transversal. Lugar: Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal, Lima, Perú. Participantes: Adolescente puérperas. Intervenciones: Se estudió 292 adolescente puérperas atendidas durante los meses de enero a mayo del 2010.Se usó la Escala de Estigmatización de la Adolescente Embarazada (EEAA), la cual está compuesta de 7 ítems. Para la construcción teórica de la escala, se asumió dos entidades sociales promotoras de la estigmatizaci...

“Objectives: To measure Peruvian scientific production on public health in Scopus database. Methods: Bibliometric study using advanced Scopus web search engine (https://www.scopus.com/search/ form.uri?display=advanced). The inclusion criteria were the publications of articles related to public health between 1973 and 2020. The equation was used as a strategy: TITLE-ABS-CLAVE (“public health”) AND AFFILCOUNTRY (Peru) AND (EXCLUDE (PUBYEAR, 2021) OR EXCLUDE (PUBYEAR, 2020)). SCImago journal & country rank was used to determine the impact factor (h-index) and the quartile of the journals identified. The analysis included in SPSS v24.0 included years of publication, institutions, h-index, list of authors with the most publications, publication types, and journals. Results: 903 articles published by 7.5±12.5 authors were included, showing that 74.5% were original articles written mainl...

Objective. The aim of the study is to characterize the national scientific production in preeclampsia during the period 1985-2013. Marerials and Methods. Bibliometric analysis of scienfic articles about preeclampsia in Peru. A search of journals indexed on PubMed, SciELO and LILACS from 1985 until July 2013. Original articles and those which have been done entirely in Peru were selected.

Objectives: To measure Peruvian scientific production on public health in Scopus database. Methods: Bibliometric study using advanced Scopus web search engine (https://www.scopus.com/search/ form.uri?display=advanced). The inclusion criteria were the publications of articles related to public health between 1973 and 2020. The equation was used as a strategy: TITLE-ABS-CLAVE (“public health”) AND AFFILCOUNTRY (Peru) AND (EXCLUDE (PUBYEAR, 2021) OR EXCLUDE (PUBYEAR, 2020)). SCImago journal & country rank was used to determine the impact factor (h-index) and the quartile of the journals identified. The analysis included in SPSS v24.0 included years of publication, institutions, h-index, list of authors with the most publications, publication types, and journals. Results: 903 articles published by 7.5±12.5 authors were included, showing that 74.5% were original articles written mainly i...

Objective. The aim of the study is to characterize the national scientific production in preeclampsia during the period 1985-2013. Marerials and Methods. Bibliometric analysis of scienfic articles about preeclampsia in Peru. A search of journals indexed on PubMed, SciELO and LILACS from 1985 until July 2013. Original articles and those which have been done entirely in Peru were selected.

Objetivo: Evaluar la felicidad y los factores asociados en mujeres puérperas de Lima Metropolitana y Callao, Perú. Métodos: Estudio multicéntrico, analítico, y de corte transversal realizado en los cinco hospitales más representativos de atención pública del Ministerio de Salud en Lima Metropolitana y Callao: Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal, Hospital Nacional Docente Madre Niño San Bartolomé, Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Hospital Nacional 2 de Mayo y Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión. La información fue obtenida mediante revisión de historias clínicas, cuestionarios de auto reporte y entrevista personal. La investigación fue aprobada por los Comités de Investigación y Ética de los hospitales en cuestión. Resultados: Se tomó una muestra total de 772 puérperas. La edad promedio fue de 26.7±5.9 años, 63.2% era conviviente, 79.8% estaba desempleada, ...