Objectives: To determine the frequency and risk of complications in women 35 years or older with first pregnancy. Design: Analytical study of cases and controls. Setting: Huacho Regional Hospital and Universidad Nacional Jose Faustino Sanchez Carrion, Huacho, Peru. Participants: Women 35 years or older and 20 to 34 year-old with first pregnancies. Interventions: Review of the Perinatal Information System and related medical records from 2002 through 2006 of 72 women 35 years or older (cases) and 20 to 34 yearold (controls) carrying their first pregnancies. Population reference was 13 384 deliveries in those years. Frequency of complications, odds ratio and corresponding confidence intervals and chi square non parametric tests were determined. Main outcome measures: Frequency of complications. Results: Older primigravidae had more pregnancy-induced hypertension (OR=2.67, p=0.033), first t...

Objectives: To determine the frequency and risk of complications in women 35 years or older with first pregnancy. Design: Analytical study of cases and controls. Setting: Huacho Regional Hospital and Universidad Nacional Jose Faustino Sanchez Carrion, Huacho, Peru. Participants: Women 35 years or older and 20 to 34 year-old with first pregnancies. Interventions: Review of the Perinatal Information System and related medical records from 2002 through 2006 of 72 women 35 years or older (cases) and 20 to 34 yearold (controls) carrying their first pregnancies. Population reference was 13 384 deliveries in those years. Frequency of complications, odds ratio and corresponding confidence intervals and chi square non parametric tests were determined. Main outcome measures: Frequency of complications. Results: Older primigravidae had more pregnancy-induced hypertension (OR=2.67, p=0.033), first t...

En la creciente ola de violencia contra las mujeres y particularmente contra las que se encuentran gestando, se realizó el presente estudio: “Epidemiología y factores asociados de la violencia conyugal contra la gestante en la Provincia de Huaura – 2018”, con la finalidad de reconocer las características biopsicosociales de los actores involucrados y de estas, encontrar aquellas que se encuentran asociadas al hecho violento entre la pareja y la gestante víctima, para luego brindar un aporte para su prevención y control. El objetivo general planteado fue “Identificar las características epidemiológicas de la violencia conyugal contra las gestantes y reconocer cuáles de estas se relacionan con la generación de este problema en la provincia de Huaura”. Metodológicamente se trató de una investigación observacional, analítica y correlacional, nos permitió conocer las p...

Objectives: To determine the association between pregnancy in adolescence and its adverse impact on the mother and her newborn. Design: Non-concurrent cohort study. Setting: Hospital Regional de Huacho, Peru. Patients: Pregnant women 10-19 year-old. Interventions: The adolescent group consisted in 313 pregnant 10-19 year-old women, and the non-adolescent 944 20-34 year-old pregnant women. Data was obtained from the Hospital’s Perinatal Information System (SIP) in the first half of 2005. Relative risk (RR) with confidence interval 95% and chi-square (α = 0.05) were calculated by using SPSS 15.0 for Windows and Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Main outcome measures: Maternal and neonatal complications. Results: The adolescents mean age was 17.5±1.5 years and non-adolescent 25.5±4 years. Pregnant women were mostly cohabiting (65.5% and 67.1% respectively) with high school concluded (82.4% ...

Objetivo. Mostrar la prevalencia de anemia crónica en gestantes según nivel educativo y según procedencia geográfica urbana o rural. Material y métodos. Análisis de una base de datos (Sistema Informático Perinatal, una base de datos proporcionada por el Centro Latinoamericano de Perinatología) de los años 2001 a 2010 que incluye un total de 27 184 embarazos, mediante la elaboración de cuadros y la aplicación de pruebas de significancia estadística. Resultados. La prevalencia de anemia crónica en las gestantes fue 23,7 % como promedio de la década, pero fue 27 %en las gestantes urbanas y 10,1 % en las gestantes de poblaciones rurales recientes (OR 3,28; IC 95%; 2,66-4,04; p =0,0000001). Según nivel de estudios: ninguno 24,1 %; primaria 20,4 %; secundaria 24,6 %; y, superior 22,4 %. Conclusión. Se encontró mayor prevalencia de anemia crónica en las gestantes urbanas que e...

Objectives: To determine the association between pregnancy in adolescence and its adverse impact on the mother and her newborn. Design: Non-concurrent cohort study. Setting: Hospital Regional de Huacho, Peru. Patients: Pregnant women 10-19 year-old. Interventions: The adolescent group consisted in 313 pregnant 10-19 year-old women, and the non-adolescent 944 20-34 year-old pregnant women. Data was obtained from the Hospital’s Perinatal Information System (SIP) in the first half of 2005. Relative risk (RR) with confidence interval 95% and chi-square (α = 0.05) were calculated by using SPSS 15.0 for Windows and Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Main outcome measures: Maternal and neonatal complications. Results: The adolescents mean age was 17.5±1.5 years and non-adolescent 25.5±4 years. Pregnant women were mostly cohabiting (65.5% and 67.1% respectively) with high school concluded (82.4% ...

Objetivo. Mostrar la prevalencia de anemia crónica en gestantes según nivel educativo y según procedencia geográfica urbana o rural. Material y métodos. Análisis de una base de datos (Sistema Informático Perinatal, una base de datos proporcionada por el Centro Latinoamericano de Perinatología) de los años 2001 a 2010 que incluye un total de 27 184 embarazos, mediante la elaboración de cuadros y la aplicación de pruebas de significancia estadística. Resultados. La prevalencia de anemia crónica en las gestantes fue 23,7 % como promedio de la década, pero fue 27 %en las gestantes urbanas y 10,1 % en las gestantes de poblaciones rurales recientes (OR 3,28; IC 95%; 2,66-4,04; p =0,0000001). Según nivel de estudios: ninguno 24,1 %; primaria 20,4 %; secundaria 24,6 %; y, superior 22,4 %. Conclusión. Se encontró mayor prevalencia de anemia crónica en las gestantes urbanas que e...

Public health emergencies such as COVID-19 pandemic could lead to situations of extreme stress, anxiety and depression in women in the perinatal period. Perinatal depression may lead to multiple negative consequences for mothers, newborns, and their relatives. Appropriate use of social media may be a valuable supporting tool for women during this stage of their lives. This paper describes the role of social media in the Internet for supporting pregnant women and mothers with depression, particularly in global public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media may contribute to support health and wellness by facilitating social interaction, building communities, normalizing help-seeking behavior, inspiring healthy lifestyle changes, and promoting medical research. It is essential to adequately instruct women in the perinatal stage in digital health literacy including th...

Public health emergencies such as COVID-19 pandemic could lead to situations of extreme stress, anxiety and depression in women in the perinatal period. Perinatal depression may lead to multiple negative consequences for mothers, newborns, and their relatives. Appropriate use of social media may be a valuable supporting tool for women during this stage of their lives. This paper describes the role of social media in the Internet for supporting pregnant women and mothers with depression, particularly in global public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media may contribute to support health and wellness by facilitating social interaction, building communities, normalizing help-seeking behavior, inspiring healthy lifestyle changes, and promoting medical research. It is essential to adequately instruct women in the perinatal stage in digital health literacy including th...

Objetivo. Determinar el efecto del programa formativo sobre transversalización de la promoción de salud en el currículo de estudios de la Universidad Nacional José Faustino Sánchez Carrión. Materiales y método. Estudio Cuasi-Experimental, longitudinal y prospectivo realizado en una muestra de 61 docentes, en el que se desarrolló un programa formativo sobre promoción de salud; para el análisis de los datos se empleó la prueba T de Student con el programa SPSS versión 17.0. Resultados. El 60% de las carreras profesionales, consideran contenidos sobre promoción de salud en el plan de estudios. Los docentes del grupo control en el pre y post test tienen el conocimiento regular y bajo el 80%; del grupo experimental en el pre test 35 % tienen conocimiento regular y bajo; en el post test el 48% presentan el conocimiento alto. Conclusión: el programa formativo sobre transversalizac...