Introducción: El hostigamiento sexual en el ámbito laboral es de conocimiento y objeto de denuncia por sus víctimas; sin embargo, son escasas las evidencias científicas en el ámbito universitario. Objetivos: Desarrollar un cuestionario que proporcione datos confiables y válidos sobre la percepción de hostigamiento sexual en estudiantes universitarios. Diseño: Evaluación psicométrica de pruebas empíricas. Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. Participantes: Estudiantes matriculados. Intervenciones: Cuestionario de 31 ítems a 189 estudiantes matriculados. Principales medidas de resultados: La confiabilidad global del instrumento fue de 0,924. El análisis factorial exploratorio con rotación varimax dio un valor de convergencia general que explica el 64,75% de la varianza total. La estructura factorial permitió identificar cinco factores: el prim...

Objective: 1º) To evaluate San Marcos University School of Medicine Faculty professors’ knowledge on ethics, deontology and clinical bioethics; 2º) To identify the most frequent ethical problems in both professor-student relationship and teaching hospitals; 3º) With the results obtained to construct a workshop which, after being validated, could be offered to the whole faculty as a basic course; 4º) To contribute to the institutional moralization by reinforcing the institutional ethos. Setting: School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima, Peru. Methods: For objectives first and second, transversal and descriptive design, with qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Following a pre selected criteria 26 professors and 2 Faculty authorities were selected to be interviewed in depth. Upon the qualitative results a specific question...

Objective: To determine the iron nutrition status in 4 to 14 yearold children. Design: Descriptive, observational, transversal and prospective study. Setting: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Participants: Four to fourteen year-old children. Interventions: We studied 349 children 4 to 14 year-old, 170 males and 179 females, at San Genaro Health Center, Chorrillos, from September 2001 through August 2002. Main outcome measures: Iron nutritional status. Results: From these children, 68,8% (240) did not present alteration in iron nutrition status (INS), compared with 31,2% who presented this alteration. From the 109 children with iron nutrition status alteration, 68,8% (75) were stage I or latent depletion (ferritine <20 ng/mL); 22,9% (25) were stage II or iron deficient (serum iron <60 ug/dL and iron total capacity of fixation >400 ug/dL), and 8,3% (9...

Objective: To determine the presence of metabolic syndrome in overweight and obese adolescent population. Design: Clinical study. Setting: Endocrinology service. Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo. Participants: Adolescents. Interventions: We studied 195 adolescents between 10 to 19 year-old. Inclusion criteria was that they should be overweight or obese. We used the reference population of Must et al. with the following diagnosis criteria: 85 to 95 percentile, overweight; higher than 95 percentile, obese. Weight, height and waist circumference (WC) were taken following international recommendations. Metabolic syndrome determination followed Cook recommendations (TG > 110, cholesterol HDL < 40 mg/dL, glycemia > 110 mg/dL y WC > 90 percentile), the presence of three or more of these criteria indicated metabolic syndrome. Main outcome measures: Setabolic syndrome, overweight, obesit...

Objectives: The study aims to estimate the prevalence and associated factors of depression in the peruvian older adults using the results of the Demographic and Family Health Survey 2014-2015 (ENDES). Design: The study was observational, transversal and analytic. Institution: UNMSM. Participants: Olders adults. Interventions: Probabilistic sample of 11411 older adults who participated in the ENDES 2014-2015. Main Outcomes: Prevalence estimates, means, standard deviations and OR with 95% confidence probability and p-values. Results: Depression prevalence was estimated as 14%. Identified risk factors for depression were being female [OR 1.92 (1.72 – 2.15)]; being ≥ 75 years old (OR 1.56 (1.40 – 1.74)]; lack of education (OR 2.63 (2.35 – 2.95)]; living without a couple [OR 1.32 (1.19 – 1.45)]; living in rural areas [OR 2.12 (1.90 – 2.36)]; being poor [OR 2.30 (2.06 – 2.56)] an...