Objective: To determine the characteristics and frequency of patients aged over 18 years with tuberculosis (TB) before (2019) and during (2020) the COVID-19 pandemic in a healthcare center (CS) in Lima, Peru. Materials and methods: A descriptive retrospective study that included medical records of 100 patients aged > 18 years enrolled in the TB program at CS Los Libertadores (SMP-Lima, Peru) from 2019 to 2020. Sociodemographic (sex, origin, age), clinical (admission/discharge status, body mass index, comorbidities, TB infection site, type of resistance, treatment regimen) and laboratory (smear microscopy, culture, drug susceptibility testing) variables were analyzed. Patients who did not have all the variables were excluded. An Excel database was prepared and a descriptive statistical analysis of the qualitative variables, expressed in frequencies, and quantitative variables, expresse...

Objective: To determine the level of stress in parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) atInstituto para el Desarrollo Infantil (Institute for Child Development) - ARIE, San Juan de Lurigancho (SJL) branch, 2022. Materials and methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study at Instituto para el Desarrollo Infantil - ARIE, SJL branch. Lima Peru. All parents (n = 79) with children aged ≤ 8 years with ASD who were undergoing therapy in 2022 were included; therefore, sampling was not required. The PSI/SF (Parenting Stress Index, Short Form) was used to measure stress in parents. This instrument has been used in other research studies, validating it with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.93 to determine parental stress.The variables sex of the parent, sex of the child, age, level of education and type of family were analyzed with SPSS V.27 using descriptive stati...

Objective: To determine the clinical-epidemiological characteristics of newborns with early-onset neonatal sepsis in a public hospital in Lima, Peru, 2016-2017. Materials and methods: An observational, retrospective study of 303 newborns born in Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, diagnosed with early-onset neonatal sepsis (2016-2017) and with complete medical records. Maternal variables: age, education, marital status, prenatal care, PROM, type of delivery, UTI, chorioamnionitis, anemia; neonatal variables: sex, gestational age, weight, Apgar, clinical signs, hemoculture, isolated organism, treatment, antibiotic sensitivity. Data processed in Excel and analyzed in SPSS Statistics V25. The incidence of early-onset neonatal sepsis was determined. Results: Incidence of early-onset neonatal sepsis: 67.08/1,000 (2016) and 127.85/1,000 (2017) live births. Incidence of confirmed early-onset neonata...

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most frequent pathology in surgical emergency. The timeliness and effectiveness of the diagnosis is a parameter for evaluating the quality of care. Objective: To determine the concordance between clinical, surgical and pathological diagnoses in patients with acute appendicitis, “José Casimiro Ulloa” Emergency Hospital, Lima - Peru, 2018. Materials and methods: Observational, cross-sectional, retrospective, analytical study. Medical records of 222 patients diagnosed with acute appendicitis in 2018 were reviewed. Sample calculation with known population (1200), probability sampling. Patients> 18 years of age diagnosed with acute appendicitis, who had undergone surgery, had a pathological study, excluding pregnant women and patients with comorbidities. Data were processed and analyzed with SPSS v.25, descriptive statistics and kappa coefficien...

Materials and Methods: Quantitative, descriptive, transversal study. 276 postpartum first-time mothers of INMP were surveyed, with informed consent, using a validated questionnaire. Results: 80.4% of first-time mothers showed a regular level of knowledge while 8.3% showed a bad level of knowledge. The highest percentage of mothers with good level of knowledge were between 24 and 29 years old (38.71%); in contrast, mothers under or equal to 23 years old have the highest percentage of bad knowledge (47,82%). In addition, mothers from Province accounted the highest percentage of bad knowledge (73,91 %), more than double for those who are from Lima (26,1%). Also, we found that there is an association between the provenance and occupation of the mother with the level of knowledge. Conclusions: A regular level of knowle...

Objective: To determine the amount of tear flow in a population aged between 20 and 30 and correlate it with the relative humidity in Arequipa and Lima (2019). Materials and methods: A quantitative, observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study conducted from July toAugust 2019. The study population consisted of patients aged between 20 and 30 attending ophthalmology clinics in Lima (79 people) and Arequipa (44 people). The exclusion criteria were the following: postoperative patients who underwent an eye surgery, contact lens wearers, people who used a computer over six consecutive hours a day, or those who were awake for less than two hours on the day of the test. Age, sex, place of residence, occupation, time of computer use, marital status, relative humidity and tear flow were assessed. An Excel database was analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics statisticalsoftware with parametri...

Objective: To determine the level of knowledge of hypertension (HTN) among teachers of IEP No. 20799 Daniel AlcidesCarrión located in Chancayllo, Chancay-Huaral, Local Education Management Unit (UGEL) No. 10, 2021. Materials and methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study which included the entire population of teachers of IEP No. 20799 Daniel Alcides Carrión, totaling n = 60. The teachers who did not provide the informed consent were excluded, leaving a sample of n = 54. A previously validated questionnaire was used to analyze teachers’ age, sex, education level, grade level taught, place of residence, diagnosis of HTN, family history of HTN and level of knowledge of HTN. A databasewas created in Microsoft Excel and analyzed using descriptive statistics in IBM SPSS Statistics, thus determining thefrequency, proportion and mean.Results: The teachers' average age was 42.78 ± 8.4...

Materials and Methods: Quantitative, descriptive, transversal study. 276 postpartum first-time mothers of INMP were surveyed, with informed consent, using a validated questionnaire. Results: 80.4% of first-time mothers showed a regular level of knowledge while 8.3% showed a bad level of knowledge. The highest percentage of mothers with good level of knowledge were between 24 and 29 years old (38.71%); in contrast, mothers under or equal to 23 years old have the highest percentage of bad knowledge (47,82%). In addition, mothers from Province accounted the highest percentage of bad knowledge (73,91 %), more than double for those who are from Lima (26,1%). Also, we found that there is an association between the provenance and occupation of the mother with the level of knowledge. Conclusions: A regular level of knowle...