Objectives: Exploration and eventual establishment of an association between school bullying and risky eating behaviors (REB) in adolescents from Lima Metropolitan Area and Callao. Materials and methods: Observational, cross-sectional, and analytical study, based on data from the Epidemiological Study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health in 2012. The sample included 1,490 adolescents aged 12 to 17. Scores from the bullying scale and the REB Questionnaire, along with sociodemographic variables, were used. Bivariate analyses were conducted to evaluate the association between bullying, REB, and sociodemographic variables. A binary logistic regression model was proposed to explain REB, supplemented by Odds Ratios (OR) and prevalence data. Results: The observed annual prevalence rates were 43.8% for bullying and 23.5% for REB. Bullying showed a significant association with pov...

Mental disorders have a high prevalence among people who seek care in health facilities for physical ailments without being properly identified and treated. The Self Report Questionnaire (SRQ) has been designed to detect possible cases and is widely used in the primary care field. Objective: To establish the predictive power of items of the SRQ-27 in the identification of depressive and anxiety disorders in users of health establishments in Lima. Method: The study utilized data of the sample of 10 885 people from the Epidemiological Study of Mental Health in health establishments of Metropolitan Lima 2015. The responses to the SRQ-27 and its relationship with the presence of anxiety and depression, established by the Mini Neuropsychiatric Interview, were analyzed using descriptive statistics, association tests, and AUC-ROC analysis of each item. Results: Two items referring to “fe...

Self-efficacy is a mediatting variable of behavior change in psychosocial interventions for managing health problems. Objective: To establish the level of self-efficacy in the population treated in general hospitals and health centers in Metropolitan Lima and its relationship with common mental problems and prevalent clinical diagnoses. Materials and methods. Study of secondary data from the Epidemiological Study of Mental Health in General Hospitals and Health Centers in Lima-2015. The Schwarzer and Jerusalem General Self-efficacy Scale (GSE) was analyzed in relation to sociodemographic variables, medical specialties, frequent clinical diagnoses, and anxiety, depression, and alcohol abuse/dependence. The data were analyzed with descriptive methods and with inferential methods using tests of independence of means and correlation. Results. The average score of the GSE was 30.89+6.29 and l...